Chinese Hui Muslim boys study the Qur'ān together.

Nobody ever talk to me about the catholics going off with stained glass again because not one window of jesus has ANYTHING on the Nasir al-Mulk Mosque

Click through this link i’m losing my mind its gorgeous

i absolutely love seeing people’s reactions to the pink mosque 😂

the style is called “orsi” and is unique to iran

and stained glass traces its roots to south west and west asia, developed in ancient times and well before the europeans and the roman empire saw it and said “hey i like that, i’ll be leaving with it”

and while we’re talking about mosques in iran, may i present persian mirror work?

yes, these are real places! it’s a different mosque in the same city as the first picture (the shah cheragh mosque in shiraz)

every time someone tries to talk to me about western churches and architecture and their superiority to that of “third world countries” i have to laugh a little at the ignorance, especially when our mosques look like this

Y’all forest is being raided I don’t have Twitter, can other folks that do start posting updates please!

Two things:

-Cops in Atlanta have already killed one Forest Defender, Tortuguita. They won’t hesitate to do it again. They know their cause is unpopular - even among non-anarchists in the area, but we all know how much cops care about public opinion.

-Those who have been arrested are being held on domestic terrorism charges and are being treated as such. Bail for some is set in the hundreds of thousands, while others have been denied bail entirely. If you can donate, do so here. If you can’t donate, you can still help! If you’re on Twitter, you can go to @jail_support to write to incarcerated Forest Defenders. These folks are being treated with all the vitriol this country has drummed up around terrorism in the last 20 years - they need friends.

Settlers had a pogrom against Palestinians last night, in the town of Huwara in Nablus.

"Dozens of Israeli settlers rampaged violently for hours in the West Bank town of Huwara on Sunday evening, setting fire to Palestinian homes and cars, hours after two Israeli brothers were shot dead in a terror attack there.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said one man was shot dead by Israeli fire during the riots in the town of Za’tara, south of Huwara and close to the settlement of Kfar Tapuah. The Palestinian Red Crescent medical service said two other people were shot and wounded, a third person was stabbed and a fourth was beaten with an iron bar. Some 95 others were being treated for tear gas inhalation." -- TOI

part of the violence of the police is that they have a monopoly on force. communities have traditionally had the means to deal with situations like domestic violence, raucous parties spilling into the middle of the night, someone being ripshit drunk and rowdy as hell, etc; these means are not even especially violent for the most part. But the cops arrogated the power to deal with these situations to themselves, and if they aren't inclined to solve it by putting two in the back of the offender's head, they're not inclined to solve it at all. But the monopoly on force has to be maintained, so if someone is drunk and smashing windshields and you and your friends get together and tie him to a tree until he cools down enough to untie himself, you all just committed A Crime and he didn't.

there are problems with relying completely on the community's spontaneous ability to deliver justice, but if anything the state's monopoly on violence is relaxed in exactly the most problematic cases, because the monopoly on force serves the aims of the state and those aims are racist/misogynist/homophobic/etc

Life is a storm but salah is your shelter.

you’re not a 14 year old terf you’re a child in danger and one day you will be an adult and if you are very lucky you will be full of regret, or you will become an adult so vile and broken that the only people who can stand you will be just as vile and broken as you. you do not have to do this.

Like, for all teens in hate groups, the actual ‘danger’ are the adults dragging you into foolish ideologies by taking advantage of your vulnerabilities and fears. This is 'being groomed’.

If the people you’re surrounded with post discourse of far-fetched 'dangers’ of a minority group of people’s mere existence, run. If they start talking about how everyone else is trying to hide such absurd 'truths’ from you. That only them as a hate group actually care about these dangers and about protecting you. Run. Block. Never search similar tags again.

the fact that thousands of other people wept for daniel, learned about daniel, helps only a little, but it does

daniel davis aston you were a light in this world that can never be extinguished because you passed the torch onto everyone who you touched, and you touched everyone

he was a cancer. he loved 80s music and drag and karaoke and forgave people like it was a natural reflex. he loved his mom who loved him fiercely, and had a tattoo dedicated her. he threw the best halloween parties. he loved the lost boys. loved star trek. he loved his friends and community so much, and we all love him to the ends of this earth and beyond. he cared so much about the lgbt community and did so much for tulsa’s and colorado springs’, just to name a couple

I have a hard time talking about American law enforcement, because I have ptsd (like a therapist told me this and everything) from my own experiences with cops and because it's so balls quaking insane.

Like, a cop in the United States can pull you over for any reason. Which is a nice way of saying no reason, because literally anything can be used after the fact as justification. A cop can say its cuz you looked at him, or didnt look at him, or it looked like you were holding something, or looked like you were driving too perfectly for it to be natural. It's insane.

There are apparently no circumstances where a cop can't just kill you. The line the courts have applied is "reasonably believed" you were a threat, but that's such a nebulous nothing limit that people get shot for reaching for their license, having their phone in their hand, you're running away with no weapon, not being able to follow conflicting commands, like anything. And cops are almost never charged, because every court is going to believe he could "reasonably believe" he was threatened. Fuck, if you give me enough time, I can make any situation seem juuuuust plausibly threatening enough to pass that bar. It's insane.

A cop can just rob you. Like tell you to give him your wallet, take all the cash out, and just walk away with it. Exactly like you would imagine getting robbed in an alley would go, except no one can help. And he doesn't even have to hide it, he just drops it in a box at the station and they put it in their bank account. It's legal. You can't prove it wasn't drug money. I can't prove any money wasn't at some point drug money. It's insane.

If a cop just walks in your front door and says "I'm here to kill you and your entire family" YOU ARE GOING TO PRISON IF YOU STOP HIM. There is no positive defense for assaulting a police officer in the United States, and doubly so if you kill him. You have effectively no defense against a homicidal cop, which happens same as any other job. Unless for some reason you have cameras all thru your house and clearly caught the audio of him saying that he's there just to kill you, you have zero chance of not going to prison, probably for life. And that's assuming you aren't killed "resisting arrest" while being taken into custody. It is a crime, in this country, for you to defend yourself under any circumstances if the person you're defending yourself from is a cop. That's insane.

You don't have civil rights if a cop says so. You have the right to have a gun, right? A lot of states have open carry. A cop can shoot you if he sees you have a gun. Doesn't matter if you have a license and everything. So you effectively don't have the right to bear arms if a cop can shoot you for exercising it. You have the right to protest. Unless a cop tells you to stop. He doesn't need a real reason to tell you to stop. And if you don't stop, you can be arrested or shot. So you don't really have the right to protest, do you? A cop cant just search your car or house, right? Unless he claims he heard something, or smelled something, neither of which can be proven. So a cop can search whatever he wants, as long as he pretends there was a "reason". So you dont have protection from unreasonable search and seizure, do you? These are no longer rights- they're things the cops allow.. for now. But legally, those rights have already been found to not actually be rights, because any random cop can decide to take that right from you, for any reason. It's insane.

These aren't like crazy things that I'm just making up, these aren't some weird twisted way I'm looking at something, these are all very real things that we all just.. ignore? Police abolitionists and the media bring these things up all the time, and the overwhelming response to it is: so what? Don't break the law and it won't matter. Blue lives matter. More police funding. Cops should have tanks. It's insane. And I always feel like im just rambling and sound insane when I say this kind of stuff because if you wrote a book and had the dystopian government doing the stuff that the police in this country do every single day, those same people who "back the blue" would line up to say stuff like "*Books government* wouldnt have a chance before us real americans stopped them" on twitter and not even get a hint of the irony.

SOURCE : IG: EMAN BOOST

Ashura Hussaini Kerbela Hussaina What is Zainab’s fault Ya Zahra Hussaini

— Erwin W. Lutzer, Getting closer to God

How beautifully does Surah Ad-Duha fit this quote as it was revealed when the Prophet savs. thought ALLAH swt. was angry with him and had forsaken him, which he thought was the reason for the long period of no revelations 🤍 in this period of “silence” this Surah was revealed to him because ALLAH swt wanted to comfort him:

By the morning sunlight,

And [by] the night when it covers with darkness,

Your Lord [O Prophet] has not abandoned you, nor has He become hateful [of you].

And the next life is certainly far better for you than this one.

And your Lord is going to give you, and you will be satisfied.

Did He not find you as an orphan then sheltered you?

And He found you lost and guided [you],

And He found you poor and made [you] self-sufficient.

So as for the orphan, do not oppress [him].

And as for the beggar, do not repel [him].

And proclaim the blessings of your Lord.

[“The children rode trains to farm towns as near as New Jersey and as far as the frontier territories of the Great Plains and, later, the West Coast. As they arrived at each destination they were displayed at church meetinghouses, where families looking variously for a new son or daughter or a cheap source of labor for the emerging agricultural industry looked them over and made their pick. “The main goal of the Emigration Plan was to remove children from slums, where opportunities were scant and ‘immoral influences’ plentiful, and to place them in ‘good Christian homes,’” wrote Stephen O’Connor in the seminal history of the movement, Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed.

As many as 25 percent of the “orphans” had two living parents, and fewer than half were orphans with two dead parents. But this wasn’t an accident. Among the immoral influences that CAS founder Charles Loring Brace saw waiting for children in New York City were the children’s parents themselves. Brace, an abolitionist and a nineteenth-century progressive, also authored a book called The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years’ Work Among Them, which described Brace’s appraisal of his era’s urban poor. His orphan train efforts were driven in part by a fear that the children of the poor were “growing up almost sure to be prostitutes and rogues!” as he wrote his sister in one letter. His orphan trains were sometimes filled after CAS representatives went into New York’s tenement neighborhoods to recruit “orphans” from immigrant families. As for those families, O’Connor wrote that Brace “dismissed contemptuously those parents who stood in the way of what he thought were a child’s best interests, including the removal of the child to a ‘better’ home.”

This in itself was not without precedent. In the 1830s to 1850s devout Congregationalist missionaries from abolitionist churches in the Northeast—the same background Brace hailed from—began adopting children from the mission field in Jamaica, where slavery became illegal in 1838, said Gale Kenny, a religion scholar at Barnard College. Frustrated with the persistent influence of Baptist practices among the Jamaican adults they were evangelizing, the missionaries decided that “the only way they can have a real impact is if they focus on converting children, separating them from their parents and their culture to bring them up in their own homes,” explains Kenny. The movement treated adoption as a civilizing project, assimilating Jamaican children who were born of freed slaves who had labored on sugar estates, into white, Christian culture. In one instance children were separated from their families to be raised at a missionary school built on a converted sugar plantation, where they farmed sugar cane in exchange for their tuition—perhaps a dubious improvement over the past.”]

kathryn joyce, the child catchers: rescue, trafficking, and the new gospel of adoption

“Speak to your Lord about what causes you pain, for who can mend hearts apart from Him?”