Israeli soldier photographed beheading a statue of Jesus with a hammer: IDF immediately posts multiple English-language condemnations and "we will investigate" "this is not who we are" etc
Israeli soldiers videotaped throwing a tied up and blindfolded Palestinian prisoner off a roof: 🦗🦗🦗🦗
Daisy Ridley’s Instagram Story: “The death sentences of 12,000 Palestinian prisoners have been approved. 4,000 of them are children. For wanting to live in their homeland and for defending their occupied territories, a total of 400,000 Palestinians have been martyred over the past 78 years. Now, 12,000 more people will be executed in full view of the world. The executions will take place within 90 days. Please don't be silent. If humanity doesn't rise up today, when will it? If we don't show our humanity today, when will we? Please don't stay silent. Share. Oppose these executions...”
Daisy Ridley 🫡🫡🫡🫡
GWOT related media made by people from the regions that the GWOT affected. Far more challenging and thought provoking than some IP franchise blockbusters, and as for flawed as it is, still able to unpack the many layers and ripple affects of 9/11 on Muslim identity:
James Gunn Superman described as War on Terror “dissent art” is fucking hilarious. I’m sorry but words mean things!
There’s barely any, but actual GWoT dissent art 👇👇👇
An Oxford World Classics’ copy of The Monk, by Matthew Lewis
I’m nearly 100 pages into this and it’s so trashy in the best way, very gothic and supremely entertaining. You can tell it was written by a 19 year old. I love it lol.
Has this site been broken all day lol
This is one of the worst things I have ever read and I study frontier genocide as a profession.
‘I wished for death’: Sexual violence in Israel’s prisons is an ‘organised state policy’ Palestinian testimonies reveal how sexual violence, including rape using objects and dogs, is approved by 'highest levels' of Israeli leadership
The testimony here about sexual violence by Israel against Palestinian prisoners is so beyond the pale everyone must see it.
It is so bad I can’t in good conscience share a quote other than the headline, which somehow manages to understate the horror within.
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they were unfamiliar with the names. So it’s not just me! Lol
Tbf it originated from the book Farhat Ishtiaq wrote first, not the show, but it got me thinking about the etymology of Desi names
And yes, this is something I’ve always loved about Urdu/Farsi/Arabic. The emphasis on the q sound 🤌
Mahira Khan and Fawad Khan for a Humsafar photoshoot.
Something that occurred to me when I was rewatching Humsafar earlier this year is that Ashar and Khirad are pretty rare, unique names? I’ve never come across or heard of Pakistanis with those names before. Looked it up out of curiosity and came across other posts from Pakistanis remarking on how
Many things were being blocked by Orban in the end
What we'll now discover is how many of those instances will stay stuck because other countries were just hiding behind the Hungarian veto and letting Orban take the flak
female musicians having that type of longevity in the Anglo/Euro sphere.
Asha Boshle sang 12,000+ songs, in multiple languages. Perhaps her defining quality was the husky sensuality she was able to project for her female leads as a playback singer, juxtaposed against her sister’s (the also iconic Lata Mangeshkar) chaste renditions. It’s simply unfathomable to think of
All the South Asian music legends are slowly leaving us…
interesting to think how the past 40 or so days could have an impact for centuries.
Also ‘political Hinduism’ has similar roots with the defeat of the Ghadar and passing of direct rule to the Crown.
No answers obviously but something I have been thinking of for the past weeks.
If modern “political Islam” rose out of political and military defeats inflicted by European empires in West and South in 18th and 19th century, how will Iran’s (and wider AoR’s) action impact the region (and beyond)?
I realise this is a long arc of time question but…
Legendary Bollywood singer Asha Bhosle dies aged 92
Legendary Bollywood singer Asha Bhosle dies aged 92 https://aje.news/2z9yjt
The greatest to ever do it, next to her sister Lata Mangeshkar. These two were the voices of Bollywood for generations.
confusion as to why it’s Pakistan that has taken the mediator role with the ceasefire talks (the Irani delegation is in Islamabad right now). You know Iran is on Pakistan’s doorstep right? An Iraq type situation in Iran would be fucking disastrous and existential for Pakisan.
#lrp A lot of countries who were silent on Israel for years are now speaking up because the oil/energy crisis is really spiralling (which Asia is REALLY being hit by) and also in South Korea’s case, the US rerouted weapon systems from there recently to Israel. It’s existential
I’ve also seen some
The President of South Korea shared a video from a couple years ago of an IDF occupation soldier throwing a Palestinian child from a roof in Jenin and the Israeli foreign ministry is calling him an antisemite. South Koreans are very mad at this accusation.
A lot of South Koreans are currently attacking the Israeli foreign ministry on Twitter
Spain? Don’t you mean الاندلس
At a certain point, we will have to confront the fact that Spain has become an enemy state and an ally of the Iranian axis. Rate this translation: B
Lol
gold-tinted wide shot of The Boys™ (Roy Cheung's Cat, Francis Ng's Tai, Anthony Wong's Blaze, & Suet Lam's Fat) lined up along a riverbank
deeply dark Caravaggio-esque wide shot of the boys (plus Nick Cheung's Wo) sitting around a table, smoking and drinking
Simon Yam's Boss Fay grinning at the camera, wearing a coat over his shoulders, a pinstripe jacket, and a big white flower on his lapel, two goons lined up behind him on a balcony
three of the Boys lined up diagonally on the right side of the frame, firing their guns at something out of frame, toward the upper left corner. guns smoking against a black sky.
on top of being one of the coolest movies ever made, Exiled has some of the best blocking & staging I've ever seen
So Tommy Robinson is tweeting "make Pakistan India again" ... Cool cool cool. Love that all the fascists of the world think everything is up for grabs now.
Iran has told Pakistan mediators that it will officially withdraw from ceasefire.
Hormuz is now shut back down. Iran and Hezbollah will respond to Israeli aggression on Lebanon, with Yemen & Iraq now joining in the response saying they will not commit to a ceasefire that doesnt include Lebanon.
The other important thing as well is that the oil supply shocks are baked in at this point. It’s already hitting in various places (mostly poorer and in Asia) but it will start hitting globally in about a couple of weeks.
Just unbelievably stupid. No US president had bombed Iran in the past not because out of the goodness of their hearts, but because it’s impossible to invade a country that is basically an impenetrable fortress geographically (and air bombing alone has never worked).