alima. she/her. 15. india. don't beg for sympathy from a cruel world, rise and resist!
Sending my love and support to neurodivergent/disabled Muslims this Ramadan.
Muslims who can’t fast for health reasons. Your health always comes first. If you need to eat due to medication, diabetes, ED recovery, or any other reason, it’s good that you’re doing that. There’s so much more to Ramadan than just fasting.
Muslims who struggle with remembering salah or reciting Quran. Disabled Muslims who can’t perform the movements of salah the way that other Muslims do. Nonverbal Muslims who can’t pray or recite with mouth words at all.
Muslims who are immunocompromised and can’t go to things like taraweeh or iftar or praying in the masjid. I know that it’s isolating, I hope you’re able to still enjoy Ramadan and find community. Please keep yourself safe this month and always.
Muslimahs who can’t wear hijab due to sensory issues.
Muslims with sleep disorders who struggle to wake up for Fajr.
Muslims who struggle with addiction to alcohol, drugs, substances in general. Your addiction is not your fault and having addictions is not haram.
Muslims who are told that mental illness isn’t real, whose issues are swept aside.
I also want to give a special shout-out to queer Muslims. Muslims who are not able to present as the gender that they are. Muslims who don’t know which side of the mosque to go to. Muslims being pressured to find straight relationships, who have to hide their real relationships or the fact that they don’t want a relationship at all. Muslims who are out and proud, Muslims who are closeted. It goes the other way too. Muslims who face Islamophobia within the Queer community. Allah SWT made you just the way you’re supposed to be, you are not haram.
Shoutout to reverts as well, especially reverts who don’t have a Muslim community. Maybe no one around you even knows you’re Muslim at all. Maybe you’re eating and fasting and praying alone all month, but that won’t be forever. You’ll find your community.
Remember: “With hardship comes ease.” It’s okay if Ramadan is not an easy time for you, things will get better. Allah SWT tests those that He loves the most. You are not alone this month, you are never alone.
Reblogging again now that Ramadan is upon us. Queer, ND, Disabled Muslims will always have all of my heart and all of my support. Ramadan Mubarak, I hope everyone has a peaceful month.
And as always, free Palestine 🇵🇸
This is from a few days ago ⤵️
Mona, my contact in Rafah right now, has just survived an air strike while distributing food parcels that were created thanks to your donations. She and her brothers who were also distributing the food were very nearly hit. Alhamdulillah for everything.
When I asked her if anyone was killed by this air strike, she told me Alhamdulillah no one was hit. It's possible she just meant from her relatives present there, but I'm going to take it to mean no one was killed at all, until we hear more news. She's very tired and works very hard to distribute our donations. If you want to send her a kind message, letting her know you care - in English or in Arabic - leave it as a reply or as a reblog comment or as a bunch of tags or in my inbox (if inbox, specify that it's for Mona) and I will send it to her. Our donations are important but they're nothing without her work, and most importantly her well-being and safety.
Please reblog this version instead! I fixed the second link.
no cause some of the shit y'all are saying has me genuinely worried that you don't understand the difference between immigration and SETTLER COLONIALISM. y'all do realize that if jewish people just mass migrated to palestine and lived peacefully among palestinians as neighbors and countrymen, then none of this would be a problem. right? you get that, right? you get that our issue was never "there's too many jews here" but rather "why am i getting kicked out of my house." RIGHT?
guy who's never met a levantine person in his life:
anyway can you guys not do scientific racism in my notes please
cant believe you unironically support hamas.
“No Shamrocks for Genocide Joe”: thousands descend upon Belfast to march to the U.S. consulate and protest the co-optation of Irish identity while facilitating a genocide. Belfast 16.03.2024
18 March 2024
Multiple sources report that the IOF, while simultaneously bombarding with planes and drones, is storming Al-Shifa Hospital Complex with ground troops and tanks. They are shooting into the hospital and at least one building is on fire. The situation is still developing and I will update as I get more information.
What we know so far:
The IOF launched a new, aggressive wave of aerial, sea, and ground attacks on north Gaza last night, and they continue into today. The attacks have been constant all throughout Gaza City and other parts of north Gaza since 2.30 am Gaza time, over five hours now.
The occupation surrounded Al-Shifa Hospital on all sides, attacked with aerial bombardment, snipers, and heavy artillery, and ordered everyone in the complex to evacuate. They then shot anyone who tried to move. A bomb caused a vital building to catch on fire, and several injuries and deaths by fire are being reported.
Eventually IOF tanks and ground troops stormed the complex, shooting anyone in their path. Martyrs are scattered in the streets around the hospital and in the complex itself. The IOF invaded all the buildings, firing with machine guns inside.
They then forced many displaced people and patients out at gunpoint. They marched them out into complete darkness and under fire of snipers, tanks, and drones. As far as I can tell, we do not know where these people are right now. People in the area can still hear screams from inside the complex, it is not fully evacuated yet.
Bombing and shooting continues even at this moment in and around the hospital. I have seen no significant updates from anyone in the area for about two hours now, except for one person, Emmy Shaheen, a few blocks away. Moments ago, she reported that the situation is getting worse.
I will stay awake as long as I can to look for updates
Journalist Mahmoud Ziad Aliwa reports live for Al-Jazeera Arabic from inside Al-Shifa and describes the conrinued assault on the complex by troops and tanks. Other sources report that tanks, bulldozers, and explosions continue throughout the complex.
Multiple sources report that the IOF claim to have detained over 80 Gazans from inside Al-Shifa Hospital complex. They have done this every time they attacked a hospital, and usually the people detained are medical personnel who are then abused and/or tortured, usually for a period of several days or even weeks. Some are released, some are not. The identities of the people taken this morning are, to my knowledge, not yet clear.
The IOF are bulldozing important structures in the hospital complex
Assaults by troops, tanks, artillery, and bombs continue in the vicinity of Al-Shifa and throughout Gaza City, including several schools serving as shelters for displaced people. They are firing at anyone in the streets around the schools they are besieging. Men in these centers are being arrested
The people being evacuated are told to go to Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza via Al-Rashid Street
Sources say there are still over 30,000 people inside Al-Shifa, and their lives are in immediate danger. 5,000 patients are at increased danger due to the complete and deliberate sabotage of the facility’s medical capacity.
LGBTQ Muslims Call for Permanent Ceasefire in Front of Stonewall
One-hundred LGBTQ Muslims gathered for a jummah prayer for Palestine in front of the Stonewall National Monument on Friday to demonstrate that there is “no pride in genocide.” “Queer Muslim New Yorkers are rising up in solidarity with Palestinians, and through a queer Muslim-led interfaith prayer, they will stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people who are facing genocide, starvation, and ethnic cleansing at the hands of the Israeli government backed by the United States,” organizers said in a statement. “Queer communities face historical discrimination, prejudice, violence, criminalization, lack of proper healthcare and/or gender affirming care, and more — and here in the U.S. queer activists have been rising up against increased LGBTQ+ attacks, yet their struggles are being exploited in a dangerous narrative war to suggest that there would be no place for queer people in Palestine,”
[ 📷 Stonewall Park, NYC, Dec 15, 2023. © Graham MacIndoe ]
Dec 15 2023
Since Wael El Dahdouh, Motaz Azaiza, Plestia Al Aqad have all left Ghazzah in a brain drain, and the ongoing killing of 100+ Palestinian journalists, I want to link all the Palestinian journalists still on the ground documenting. The number is shrinking but they're still there.
translating_gaza (while they're not journalists, they translate what journalists who only post in Arabic have to say)
Hafez M. Abu Samra (Arabic only).
Hala BenAsfour (Arabic only).
Anas Jamal (Arabic only).
Awny Abu Hasira (Arabic only).
Amer Sultan (Arabic only).
Abd Elrahman Al Shareef (Arabic only).
Mahmoud Abu Ajjour (Arabic only).
If you care about the situation on the ground, go follow them. It's a situation of genocide, I advise you to think about whether you have the energy and mental space to handle it when you open your Instagram.
Her name is Taylor, and she’ll be your host ✨ a few hours earlier ✨ than expected! Join us March 14 at 9pm ET to watch Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour (Taylor's Version) on Disney+. 🦋🫶💜🧣🏙️🐍💘🌿🌳🕰️
Experience the ENTIRE concert film, beginning to end, including “cardigan” and 4 additional songs from the acoustic set (pssst: watch to the end of the trailer).
That’s so cool. Just a reminder that Disney donated $2 million to Israel to fund the brutal genocide of the Palestinian people. No one asked for a 3rd version of this movie in general but to release it on a platform that is actively funding a genocide is such an interesting choice!
Jerusalem Waqf Department, March 14 2024: "70,000 worshippers performed Taraweeh prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque tonight, despite the restrictions and obstacles imposed by the Israeli occupation."
in india, more houses belonging to muslims bulldozed (x, x). shrines and madrasas demolished (x,x,x). kashmiris forced to attend modi’s speech during his visit there (x,x,x). caa bill passed (x,x). muslim students attacked during friday congregational (x,x) and taraweeh prayers (x,x,x). all in the last month.
As Israel continues to pound Gaza into dust, MintPress compiles some of the most genocidal statements made by senior Israeli officials, proving that their intent is to ethnically cleanse Gaza of its population.