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baytul-iman · 1 year

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Why Quality Education Academy Plays A Vital Role In A Student's Life?

Education is a process that involves learning, teaching, and studying in many ways. The effectiveness with which one applies knowledge depends on the quality of their education. It is also essential for a student to be taught effectively and efficiently to retain what they have studied so far.

Everyone deserves access to a high-quality education academy that is also inexpensive. Students should be able to obtain adequate knowledge and understanding to achieve academic excellence in school.

This blog will discuss why quality education plays a vital role in a student's life.

1. It Improves academic performance.

Access to high-quality education academies will provide students with a better understanding of their schoolwork. Their motivation to learn and study will increase, enhancing their performance in class.

Teachers must provide students with the proper education that will enhance their skills, abilities, and capacity to learn.

Competitive advantage

It is of great benefit to students who have the opportunity to learn in a well-equipped and conducive environment to compete against their peers in society.

This is because they have passed through various rigorous learning processes. They only pass through school without understanding the fundamentals of education, unlike confident kids who need to prepare.

One's future can be secured for a brighter tomorrow by having access to superior education.

Ascertain future

Students will only understand what they are studying in school with a high-quality education academy. They can also tend to give up on their intended future profession.

However, with quality education, students will have the aptitude and capacity to address a range of problems that impact their academic careers. Through the courses they take in school, they will have the opportunity to select their vocations. Additionally, it will clearly indicate the student's future goals.

Adequate knowledge

Through the use of proper instructional techniques, students will be able to learn and understand more. It will support their independence inside and outside of school, regardless of the circumstance. To increase students' knowledge and experience, all educational stakeholders must ensure they have tutors and valuable educators.

Improves students' study skills

The potential to learn and study will increase since the quality of education is reflected in students' academic performance. Education shouldn't be treated lightly. When books are available, students will have a better understanding of reading. When they are in a conducive learning setting, they will be motivated to learn.

It is crucial to offer high-quality instruction and encourage pupils to pursue their studies. Additionally, all instructors must ensure their classrooms are comfortable for learning. For their children or wards to learn, parents and guardians should also enroll them in the best school possible.

Conclusion

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mariacallous · 26 days

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Salman Rushdie has just published Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder. In August 2022, he was giving a talk at the Chautauqua Institution in New York. Hadi Matar, a 24-year-old from New Jersey, rushed the stage and stabbed him 15 times. It was astonishing that Salman survived. He lost the sight in one eye and sustained terrible injuries, but he’s still with us and he’s still writing, and unlike Hadi Matar, he’s still worth hearing.

We think of fanatics as stalkers with an obsessive knowledge of their targets. Like the antisemites who compile lists of Jews in the media or the homophobes who so focus on the details of gay sex they might almost be closet cases

Most terrorists and bigots are not like that. They are like soldiers in an army who kill and hate for no other reason than tradition or men in authority have told them to kill and hate. If we were less fascinated by the pseudo-glamour of violence, we would see them for what they are: dullards and jerks.

In Knife Salman is almost as angered by the sheer lazy stupidity of his wannabee assassin as his violence.

“I do not want to use his name in this account. My Assailant, my would-be Assassin, the Asinine man who made Assumptions about me, and with whom I had a near-lethal Assignation … I have found myself thinking of him, perhaps forgivably, as an Ass.”

The ass “didn’t bother to inform himself about the man he decided to kill. By his own admission he read barely two pages of my writing and watched a couple of YouTube videos”.

That was enough, apparently, along with a little light indoctrination in the Levant.

We know from Matar’s mother that her son changed from a popular young man to a moody religious zealot after visiting her ex-husband in the Hezbollah-controlled town of Yaroun in Lebanon, a mile or so from the Israeli border.

“I was expecting him to come back motivated, to complete school, to get his degree and a job. But instead, he locked himself in the basement. He had changed a lot. He didn't say anything to me or his sisters for months.”

Salman quotes a wonderfully perceptive line from Jodi Picoult

“If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”

Rushdie is openly contemptuous, as he has every right to be.

“I see you now at twenty-four,” he writes, “already disappointed by life, disappointed in your mother, your sisters, your father, your lack of boxing talent, your lack of any talent at all; disappointed in the bleak future you saw stretching ahead of you, for which you refused to blame yourself.”

This has always been the way. Readers old enough to remember 1989 when the Ayatollah Khomeini ordered Salman’s execution for writing a blasphemous satire of Islam’s origin story in the Satanic Verses,will know that Khomeini had not read it. Nor had the furious demonstrators in the streets or the regressive leftists and Tory ministers who upbraided him for the non-crime of causing offence.

Those of us who had read the book pointed out that it was a magical realist fiction which contained sympathetic accounts of the racism Muslim immigrants in the UK suffered. Indeed, the Tories of the day loathed Salman, we continued, because of his confrontations with official racism.

But after a while we fell silent. Pleading with his enemies felt demeaning. It gave them undeserved credit, as if they were reasonable people, who could be swayed by evidence rather than just, well, pillocks.

In Knife Salman attempts an imaginary conversation with his persecutor.

OK, he says, Islam, unlike Judaism and Christianity, holds that man is not made in God’s image. God has no human qualities, it says.

But isn’t language a human quality? To have language, God would have to have a mouth, a tongue, vocal cords and a voice, just like a man. The terrorist’s understanding is that God cannot be like a man, however. So, God could not have spoken to Gabriel in Arabic. Gabriel must have translated his message when he came to the prophet.

The angel made it comprehensible to Muhammed by delivering it in human speech which is not the speech of God.

Thus, the version of Islamic instruction Matar received in his basement when he switched from playing video games to listening to Imams was an interpretation of a translation.

“I’m trying to suggest to you that, even according to your own tradition, there is uncertainty. Some of your own early philosophers have suggested this. They say everything can be interpreted, even the Book. It can be interpreted according to the times in which the interpreter lives. Literalism is a mistake.”

For a while, Rushdie says he wants to meet Matar again at the trial, as if he wants to have the argument in the flesh.

He tells a story about Samuel Beckett, which could only have happened to Samuel Beckett.

Beckett was walking through Paris in 1938 when he was confronted by a pimp named Prudent, who wanted money from him. Beckett pushed Prudent away, whereupon the pimp pulled out a knife and stabbed him in the chest, narrowly missing the left lung and the heart.

Beckett was taken to the nearest hospital, bleeding heavily. He only just survived.

You will never guess who paid for his treatment. James Joyce, of course, he did.

Anyway, Beckett went to the pimp’s trial. He met Prudent in the courtroom, and asked him why he had done it. This was the pimp’s reply: “Je ne sais pas, monsieur. Je m’excuse.” (I don’t know, sir. I’m sorry.)

But the more he thought about it, the less Rushdie had to say to his enemy. The idea that you can have theological arguments with a man who wants to kill you for writing a book he hasn’t even read felt ridiculous.

Although popular culture is full of stories about murderers, and true crime podcasts top the charts, killers and fanatics are nearly always less interesting than their victims. More often than not they are just thick. Nasty and vicious, but thick first of all.

We are about to see the stupidity of fanatics deployed on a mass scale. Two thirds of Republican voters (and nearly 3 in 10 Americans) continue to believe that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump, and that Joe Biden was not lawfully elected. They think it because that is what Trump told them to think.

Islamists told Matar that Salman was an apostate, and that was all he needed to know. Trump told Republicans the election was stolen and ditto.

If Republicans were consistent people, they would not vote for Trump in 2024. What would be the point? They would have every reason to fear that the deep state would rig the 2024 presidential election as it rigged the 2020 presidential election.

But they will vote for him because, once again, that is what he tells them to do.

In the end there is a limit to how much attention you can pay the vicious and the stupid.

They are not interesting enough, as Rushdie concluded with marvellous disdain as he contemplated the life sentence Matar will face.

"Here we stand: the man who failed to kill an unarmed seventy-five-year-old writer, and the now 76-year-old writer. Somewhat to my surprise, I find I have very little to say to you. Our lives touched each other for an instant and then separated. Mine has improved since that day, while yours has deteriorated. You made a bad gamble and lost. I was the one with the luck… Perhaps, in the incarcerated decades that stretch out before you, you will learn introspection, and come to understand that you did something wrong. But you know what? I don’t care. This, I think, is what I have come to this courtroom to say to you. I don’t care about you, or the ideology that you claim to represent, and which you represent so poorly. I have my life, and my work, and there are people who love me. I care about those things.”

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eretzyisrael · 5 months

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By Hamza Howidy

I was born in Gaza Strip in the late 1990s, one of six children. At the time, the Palestinian Authority was the ruling party. My father, like most people in Gaza, was sick of the PA's corruption and was waiting for any alternative. Hamas promised "change and reform" and they won the Palestinian Legislative Council elections in 2006. One year later, I awoke to the sound of gunfire. Hamas gunmen were fighting Fatah, and they ended up killing of more than 600 Palestinians. It became clear very quickly that Hamas was not the "change and reform" that we hoped for.

To silence dissent, Hamas terrorized the citizens of Gaza. On the way to the Dar-Alarqam school I attended in the al-Shujaiya neighborhood near the Israeli border, a group of masked men carrying Kalashnikovs would check each car. At the end of the year, masked men opened offices in our school to promote Hamas's military camps and register students.

I graduated and began my studies at the Islamic University of Gaza, along with future Hamas leaders and current members. All art classes were replaced with radical Islamic teachings, and the elections of the student councils and clubs were only open to Hamas members, who hoarded all the privileges and distributed all the grants between themselves.

Voicing dissent was not an option. Hamas has a no tolerance policy for criticism or objections to any of its policies. Even discussion is forbidden Any journalist who objects or criticizes a policy is suspended and investigated. Demonstrations are strictly prohibited. Freedom of speech in Gaza is a fantasy. The dirtiest tool Hamas uses to silence citizens is character assassination through online campaigns accusing dissenters of working for hostile bodies or committing immoral acts. Hamas also routinely breaks into the homes of people deemed disloyal and humiliates them in front of their family and neighbors.

I observed all this with growing horror as a student. And as Hamas's oppression of the Palestinian citizens of Gaza increased, the quality of life deteriorated. Hamas's aggression toward Israel resulted in fewer and fewer job permits and limits on the electricity in Gaza, which we only got for eight hours a day. The economy cratered. Social and economic conditions collapsed.

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beardedmrbean · 5 months

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Iwas born in Gaza Strip in the late 1990s, one of six children. At the time, the Palestinian Authority was the ruling party. My father, like most people in Gaza, was sick of the PA's corruption and was waiting for any alternative. Hamas promised "change and reform" and they won the Palestinian Legislative Council elections in 2006. One year later, I awoke to the sound of gunfire. Hamas gunmen were fighting Fatah, and they ended up killing of more than 600 Palestinians. It became clear very quickly that Hamas was not the "change and reform" that we hoped for.

A huge social gap opened between the wealthy elite who belong to Hamas and the rest of the population who were increasingly living in driving poverty. Public sector jobs were limited to Hamas members, and taxes were increasing on necessities day by day, even as the cost of living skyrocketed.

Many of us could no longer bear it. I was one of them.

Though we knew dissenters were subject to imprisonment, torture, and even murder, in 2019, a few of us decided to join forces and form a protest to voice our opposition to Hamas. We called it the "We Want to Live" demonstration. Our demonstration elicited an extreme reaction by Hamas. They violently cracked down on the protests and we were all arrested.

I will never forget my first day in jail—walking up the steps listening to screams of my colleagues, most of them fellow students, who had been arrested before me. I was held under arrest for 21 days and subjected to various types of torture. I was beaten with batons and sprayed with cold water in the late winter night hours. My friends didn't fare much better. A Christian friend was in the next cell and I could hear them screaming at him, "You are a Christian and you don't like the situation? Then go to another country!"

After we were released, most of those who participated in the demonstrations emigrated away from Gaza. There was no hope for any change in the current situation. We suffered ongoing harassment by Hamas members. Some died trying to leave, like Tamer Al-Sultan, a pharmacist whose crime was asking for a reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah.

People's living conditions got worse. The wealth gap expanded even further. We protested again in 2023 and were crushed in the same manner as in 2019. I was arrested again by Hamas last year and held for 14 days, this time in a small cell with no bed, no window, and barely enough space to sit down. I was released on bail on the condition that I not take part in any further demonstrations.

I still expressed my opinion occasionally on social media, but the arrest warrants after each post and the continuous threats from Hamas members and accusations of treason made me lose hope that I could make any kind of change. I left Gaza in August to seek a better future for myself and my family.

All this time, Hamas was planning to expand its extremism and intimidation. They knew what would happen as a result of their massacre on October 7, when they attacked Israeli civilians, and Israel responded with a massive war aimed at destroying Hamas, which has obliterated large parts of the Gaza Strip.

Now all the inhabitants of the city are being punished for Hamas' actions.

I think it's hard for Israelis to understand that there are many innocent people in Gaza who have suffered as much from Hamas's evil as they have. I understand those Israelis. During my life as a Gazan, the only thing I believed about Israelis was that they all hate us and want to eliminate us as a Palestinians.

Now I know better. After criticizing Hamas for its horrific actions on Oct. 7, I made friends with Israelis for the first time in my life. It turns out that many of them, like me, just want this conflict to end so they can live in peace. These friendships opened my eyes to their suffering. I now have a better understanding what they are thinking, and have decided never to make judgments before listening to the other side.

I hope my new friends feel the same way about the many Gazans living under the boot of Hamas's oppression.

We Palestinians have a saying: "Hope is born from the womb of suffering." I hope that after the war, that after Hamas been defeated, we can create a real, lasting peace for both the Palestinians and the Israelis. Many Gazans are praying for this, too.

Hamza Howidy is a Palestinian from Gaza City. He is an accountant and a peace advocate.

The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.

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intersectionalpraxis · 6 months

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The fact that Israel has been and continues to target and bomb THE most vulnerable places -hospitals, refugee camps, schools, and places of worship -should be horrifying to us all. Don't let American or any Western media source numb you to ANYTHING that happened or continues to because this is beyond inhumane, immoral, and criminal. And yes, this also includes communities all around the world with whom the media has normalized, ignored, or silenced genocides and imperial/colonial violence (past, and ongoing).

Let me make it clearer for folks who still don't think this is a genocide being concealed by Western media in Palestine by reminding ya'll some of what has happened:

Israel bombed a major academic institution in Gaza recently, Al-Azhar University, and Western news media outlets were neither shocked nor grieved over the deliberate destruction of Gaza's educational space. When Israel bombed the oldest Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza, the Western world barely batted an eyelash; but when Notre Dame went on fire in Paris, the world grieved for over a week.

Israel fighter jets/warplanes bombed 3 refugee camps: Jabalia refugee camp (which was considered THE most devastating strike at the time: killing at least 50 Palestinians and injuring 150; some other reports suggested higher -in the hundreds). Bureij refugee camp, where over a dozen people were killed. And most recently, al-Maghazi refugee camp, where dozens of people were killed. At all these spaces, Palestinian people are SEEKING REFUGE & SHELTER. Some of the many places that should be SAFE, but Israel's defense?? Hamas commanders were potentially there. Based on HUNCHES -not with ANY confirmation whatsoever... and even so, if we're all living in the real world here -why would a space that is keeping tens of thousands of innocent civilians safe be a place any country/power targets unless there were nefarious intentions?

Israel also bombed and continues to bomb hospitals (and near them). The first, and most horrifying we heard of at Al-Ahli, where about 500 people were either killed or injured. It was also the first time we got Israel's start of their ever-failing PR game of 'but it was actually a Hamas rocket,' -of which Israel claimed was a Islamic Jihadist strike -despite ground footage and experts/people who served in the US military DEBUNKING that absurd lie. Israel even tried to EDIT a fake video about the event to evade accountability for this WAR CRIME. And yet, despite all I've mentioned before, on top of video evidence of white phosphorus being air dropped too, THEY'RE NOT BEING INVESTIGATED BY INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURTS. Let's also not forget to talk about how Israel has shelled/devastated al-Shifa hospital -a place of critical care for cancer patients, and one where MANY journalists take refugee to charge their equipment/phones/where they edit their work because it's one of the only places with solar panels --is being targeted.

As a few days ago, the Palestinian health minister said: "55% of health sector partners had to suspend operations" due to lack of fuel, "16 out of 35 hospitals in Gaza had to shut down" due to lack of fuel shortages and/or Israeli bombing. There are around 5000 Palestinian women who will give birth this month/in the coming weeks, and without access to proper care, disasters will be eminent.

Most recently, it was reported that al-Quds Hospital will run out of fuel in less than 48 hours; this specific hospital has equipment used to help babies on incubators, and thus will be rendered useless. Israel bombed/shelled this hospital to the extent where it's going to shut down, and they're now LYING about storage spaces on hospital sites by saying they are tunnels, when they are NOT. Blueprints were even uploaded to prove they're a small space; but, despite being DEBUNKED immediately, western media has made it seem like it's a hiding place for Hamas.

Israel has also bombed ambulances, medical convoys (one most recently in front of al-Shifa hospital, killing 13 people), and has labelled independent Palestinian journalists as terrorists and is intending to DOXX them in the coming days so their information is widely available to the IDF/Israeli military.

And the most terrifying news I heard today from letstalkpalestine's backup account: "The UN estimates there’s only enough food in Gaza for the next 5 days 🚨"

For anyone still saying that Israel is a victim, and they they are just 'defending,' themselves still -have more than some shame, have some more humanity. Israel has been destroying infrastructure in Gaza for a reason, and that should terrify you, not fuel your pro-Israel agenda.

This is a genocide, not a war. I repeat: this is a GENOCIDE not a war.

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 4 months

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The Road To October 7 - Education For Jihad And Martyrdom

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This collection of clips exposes educational materials that encourage Palestinian and Muslim youth to wage jihad and to become martyrs, in the spirit of Islamic fundamentalism. These materials are taught at kindergartens, schools, and other educational settings, as well as by mothers and fathers at home, by religious scholars, in mosques, and by political leaders in various settings.

- Who taught you this poem, Muhammad? - Mama. - Mama. And who discovered your talent for poetry? - Mama. - Mama. May Allah grant long life to such a mother, Muhammad. Okay, Muhammad, let's hear the poem. - Oh Jerusalem, I shall redeem you with my soul and my blood. I shall liberate you from the Jews by means of the Al-Qassam Brigades, of course. I bring glad tidings to our prisoners: Salvation is near. - What do you want to be when you grow up, Muhammad? - (A member of) the Al-Qassam Brigades. - Of the Al-Qassam Brigades? Fine. And you Zakariya, what would you like to be? - An engineer. - An engineer? Why do you want to become an engineer? - So that I can blow up the Jews.

- Did you bring this small child here in order to deliver a message to Hamas that our children support them? - I brought him in order to teach him from infancy to love Hamas and the Al-Qassam Brigades. We bring our small children to teach them to love Hamas. No matter what the Jews or the Arab world do to Hamas, we will support it.

My message to every Palestinian mother is that she should urge her sons to wage Jihad. Jihad for the sake of Allah is our most lofty desire... Is this not Jihad? Is this not martyrdom? Death is inevitable, so why not die as martyrs? I salute every mother of a martyr who urged her children to wage Jihad.

Many women wish to be in the place of martyrdom-seekers, or together with them. Most kindergartens (in Gaza) belong to our sisters in Hamas. Children are raised from a young age on this culture - "Allah is our goal," "(Jihad) for the sake of Allah..." From infancy, children are nurtured to love Jihad, to want to meet Allah, and to love fighting the enemy.

- How are you, Abdallah? - Fine. - Will you complete the path of (your brother) Baraa? - Yes, I will. - Now that Baraa was martyred yesterday, what do you want to do for the sake of the prisoners and the homeland? - I will fight the Jihad and I will be martyred, just like him. - Inshallah. - Muhammad, what are you going to do after Baraa's martyrdom? Are you going to complete Baraa's path and follow in his footsteps on the same path? - Yes, I will do just that and I will be martyred, just like he was martyred, inshallah.

Martyrdom is a badge of honor for the family of the martyr in this world not to mention his status in the Hereafter. We consider (martyrdom) to be a badge of honor for his family in this world.

(I told my eldest son:) I always pray that I, your father, brothers, daughters, and sons... That all of you become martyrs for the sake of Allah, that when death comes for us, we will all be martyrs for the sake of Allah. I am proud of Muhammad, obviously. Allah be praised, all my sons are religious. They are all good. By Allah, if all my children and grandchildren are martyred for the sake of Allah, it will make me happy. Allah be praised, I love this path. I feel that this is the road for salvation.

- Allah be praised, all the young Muslims in Gaza love martyrdom, just as our enemies, the infidel Jewish dogs, love life. We continue on the same path and pray to meet him in Paradise. - This is the martyr's youngest boy. His name is Mash'al. We named him after the great leader Khaled Mash'al. Allah willing, little Mash'al will become like the big Mash'al. We are all moving forward for the sake of Allah. - I want to fire missiles at the Jews and be martyred like my father. - We all hope to become martyrs for the sake of Allah. Even if they kill us all, we will continue to fire missiles. We will not stop the Jihad. - I am following the path of Jihad and want to be martyred like my dad.

The blood of martyrs is what Allah loves most. Martyrs live in a place that is beautiful like no other. Martyrs are the first ones to enter Paradise. Martyrs will not faint when the trumpet is blown (on the Day of Judgment). Martyrs will see the black-eyed virgins even before their blood dries. The best of martyrs is the one whose blood was shed and whose horse was wounded. If we take into account all that I mentioned - Allah's rewards - then we can understand the secret behind the laughter and smiles of the martyrs' family at their funerals.

- Do not forget what the Prophet Muhammad said about martyrs. Allah has given martyrs seven rewards: They see their place in Paradise, their sins are forgiven with the first drop of their blood. - Another reward is that the martyr is spared the torments of the grave. He is also safe from the great horror on Judgment Day, as Allah said (in the Quran): "They will be safe from the terror of that day." Furthermore, he is married to black-eyed virgins, and he pleads on behalf of his family and relatives.

When he is martyred, he sees his seat in Paradise, and he is dressed in the clothes of faith. He is a unique and special person, different from the rest of the people, by the grace of Allah. In addition, he is married to 72 virgins of Paradise. This means that he is granted, in Paradise, some of the things he wished for in life, but they are magnified to a degree that the human mind cannot comprehend. Yes. How can anyone cling to this world after hearing all of these great rewards? You can see that our young people have renounced life in this world and hastened (to become martyrs).

Brother, do you love her? You will be given two wives as you enter Paradise. There will be no menstruation, no childbirth, no saliva, no mucus, no urine and no excrement. If a woman from the dwellers of Paradise were to merely look upon the people of the Earth, she would fill the Earth with light and with a wonderful scent. Therefore, you will be given in Paradise the sexual strength of a few (men). Allah's Messenger was asked: "Will we be able to endure this?" He said that (every man) will be given the strength of a hundred men. (The virgins of Paradise) will be jealous for you and they will sing for you. The Prophet Muhammad said that the virgins shall sing in Paradise.

The Prophet Muhammad informed us that a martyr killed by the People of the Book is equal to two martyrs. In other words, his reward is equal to that of two martyrs. This does not apply to martyrs killed fighting other infidels. The "People of the Book" are the Jews. In addition, Allah tells us that He cursed (the Jews), and that he was angry with them and turned them into apes and pigs.

Why do (the Palestinians) give birth to so many boys and girls? I heard a beautiful answer to this question: "We give birth to so many (children) so that we can push them to death, to martyrdom."

When a martyr is martyred... It is written in the Quran that martyrdom is sweet. (The martyr) doesn't feel anything, even when he blows himself up or even when he's shot at or anything. On the contrary, he feels very happy and wishes to return (to the world) in order to fight them (i.e. the enemy) because he wants to be martyred once more. If I'm asked (to be martyred), and there's no other choice, then why not? It is not a loss for my land or for Allah that I become a martyr. It's an honor for me of course. Not everyone attains martyrdom, I wish to become a martyr. I will die, and if I have to die, I'll die as a martyr. There's nothing sweeter than martyrdom.

We are promised eternal life in Paradise. Life with no death, life with honor and beauty.

We need to lie 40 nights and even more inside of a real grave in order to remove fear in order to be a Shaheed. Muhammad the prophet said a lot about Shaheeds. The grave has become a part of my life nowadays. The grave has become my friend, I visit every day and lie inside. I think of death all of the time, remembering the honorable who have dedicated themselves to Allah.

It is enough for me to be a Shaheed and stand up for 70 of my family members [all granted paradise], my children, my wife, my mother & father, my sisters & brothers, and my friends will all be with me [in paradise]. 70 people will go to paradise on my virtue, this is a huge honor for me. The moment I get the mission [to blow up] inside the Green Line, between [Israel] citizens, it doesn't matter if it's in a house, a home, in a room even with children inside it - I will blow myself up. I will not feel regret for any Israeli child, and no remorse even if it's a kindergarten full of kids.

In paradise all what you'll do is pick fruit from trees, penetrate virgins, and walk by the rivers and sit with Muhammad, the chosen prophet. With the help of Allah, when you press on the button of the explosive belt, your body will fly and your soul will fly to paradise. And all of the seven doors to paradise will open for you.

I swear by Allah, we will chase the Jews, remove them from Palestine and Jerusalem and if they don't convert to Islam, even if they go to the end of the world, we'll chase them and call them to Islam. And then also the Christians will need to convert to Islam. This is the only religion that really has compassion.

We are the generation of the upcoming victory! We will never recognize Israel!

We asked Hitler why he left some of you alive. He did so in order to show us how wicked you are. We will come to you from under the ground and hammer fear into your hearts, and above the ground we will tear your bodies apart with our rockets.

Let's return to Abd Al-Rahim Abu Ubeida. Please give us your message to the enemy, by reciting the poem: "I do not fear the gun." I do not fear the gun. I do not fear the gun. You are all nothing but herds of deluded idiots. Jerusalem is my land, Jerusalem is my honor, Jerusalem is my life and my dew-covered dreams. Oh you slayers of Allah's pious prophets, you who have been raised on the shedding of blood - humiliation and suffering have been decreed upon you. Oh sons of Zion, oh the most evil of creatures, oh barbaric apes, Jerusalem rejects you and vomits your filth.

Everyone needs to attack Jews until there will not be a single Jew on this land.

We need to run them [the Jews] over [with cars] and go on stabbing missions and use weaponry.

These missions of running over [Jews] and stabbing them brings honor to Palestine.

What can possibly taste better than martyrdom? What can be more beautiful than ending your life by dying for the sake of Allah? Oh Allah, bring annihilation upon the Jews. Oh Allah, bring annihilation upon the Jews. Paralyze them, destroy their entity, tear them apart, bring upon them a terrible punishment. Oh Allah, enable us to get to the necks of the Jews. Oh Allah, enable us to get to the necks of the Jews. Oh Allah, enable us to get to the necks of the Jews. Oh Allah, bring annihilation upon the infidels, atheists and polytheists. Count them, kill them one by one and do not leave a single one of them alive.

Those Jews are the vilest and most despicable nation in history. They never command good or forbid evil.

There is no race that people hate as much as the Jewish race. In the modern era, when Hitler emerged - even though he was a criminal and a tyrant - the people he hated the most were the Jews. Why did he hate the Jews? Because they are a people of treachery and betrayal. Therefore, we can never accept the Jews, even if it costs us our blood and souls. Anyone who accept the Jews should prepare for the Day of Gathering (Judgment Day).

Just think about this for a moment. There's sometimes some Xian crazy who claims they heard "god" tell them to do something awful, to kill and die for him. Islam asserts for itself that all two billion Muslims are commanded, not by voices in their own crazy heads but by the holy, divine, perfect scripture, to jihad and martyr themselves for their god.

And if anyone wants to pretend that "this isn't true Islam," hold my beer. This is the reality of what Islam is.

Once and for all, stop saying that Islam is "just like every religion."

You can't reason with insane fanatics. They want to die. The moth wants to burn up in the flame.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: "pro-Palestine" is just "pro-Hamas" which means "pro-terrorism" and "pro-jihad." Western idiots have no damn clue what they're supporting, what Islam is actually about, or that they're marching in the street for these murderous religious lunatics.

Fuck Hamas and Islam.

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My third graders has been learning about Flower, parts of flower, and what are the labels on each plant used for. She memorized all the parts of the flowers and labeled them and gave information on what part of the flower does what. She researched all the information on her own and labeled all the parts. He art work and creativity is all hers. She’s very precise and sure about her information. She acknowledged all the steps in the correct order and how the steps occur. She achieved 20 points on this project and I’m extremely grateful for all her hard work❤️

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Jamea al Kauthar is an independent academic girls’ establishment aiming to educate Muslim girls over the age of 11 in a safe, secure, happy and Islamic environment. Jamea started with 60 girls in September 1996 and now caters for up to approximately 450 residential girls. We provide an opportunity to study the traditional sciences concurrently with secondary and further education. Jamea al Kauthar also offers a two year abridged version of the Alimiyyah program in the English medium.

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Can you guys comprehend sarcasm - that was the atheism comment. Like I hundred percent did not take it as a completely serious thing... it's like man, religious people get offended when you discuss abortions with them near but when is it my turn?

Some of these Matty things could be resolved if you all actually were not hell-bent on interpreting stuff in a way that "offends" you.

Same goes for emasculating comment about Taylor which was said yeeaaarsss ago.

Similar can be applied to this interview where he clearly means to say criticizing big religions is a bit of a problem and islam as such is a good example because critcising that religion is actually closely intertwined with actual racism towards people who participate in that religion. But you all have not had a single debate or reading comprehension class idk mate it's becoming more difficult to understand people.

And so when you are going headfirst through the wall on these issues, NO ONE can take you seriously if you want to actually address smth of value regarding him being an idiot asshole.

Not you saying that I’ve never had a single debate or reading comprehension class when I was literally a finalist in a national debate competition in high school and I read 50+ classics a year ahskshsjsjsj.

1. First of all, in his interview he made the specific example of Islam. He could’ve chosen Christianity and we likely wouldn’t be having this conversation, but he didn’t! He said those things as an atheist who lives in a country where the majority of people are Christian, and Muslim people are a minority. Do you realize that this context matters? I’m in the same condition as he is: I’m an atheist living in a Catholic country. You realize that, since I live in a country where there are 100.000 churches and only 12 Mosques (unfortunately a true story), because the construction of new Mosques is opposed by so many people, a country where Muslim people are still discriminated against, it’s not the same for me to criticize Catholicism or to criticize Islam?

2. He said “Nowadays, I think if you’re like piously religious, if you’re dogmatically faithful, you should be kind of ashamed of yourself”. How is that not offensive? How is that not ignorant? Why should you offend so many people instead of talking about SPECIFIC things and specific behaviors and specific acts? In Italian we say “fare di tutta l’erba un fascio”, which means “to bundle all the grass together”. You can translate it as “mixing apples with oranges”. Well, why is he doing that? Has he personally met every single pious person on the planet? What gives him the right to say that they should be ashamed of themselves? There’s plenty to criticize about the misinterpretation of religion (like the protests by Christians outside of abortion clinics or what’s happening in Iran). So, why on earth is he attacking PEOPLE instead of condemning specific ACTIONS or GOVERNMENTS? People who follow a religion dogmatically and don’t hurt others have nothing to be ashamed of, are you kidding me? I don’t think he understands the difference between criticizing a religion and being racist towards its members, or he wouldn’t have said something that has such strong racist undertones.

And I’m the FIRST to criticize Catholicism. Hell, I talk shit about Catholicism (which is the religion practiced by the majority in my country) every single day. You know what I don’t do, though? I don’t criticize the people who believe in a religion, especially not those who are also minorities.

3. The funny thing is that atheists have plenty of rights. Our right not to be “offended” by religion or not to have to deal with religion is protected. I can only speak for my own country, but we’ve had tons of sentences from the constitutional court about the rights of atheist not to be subject to religion (like a beautifully reasoned sentence about the right of students not to attend religion classes, which were inserted as mandatory during the fascist period). There are limits to this, obviously. For example, because of the influence of Catholicism, Italy is still the only country in Western Europe to only grant a civil union, and not also marriage, to people of the same sex. But that has everything to do with the influence of Catholicism and nothing to do with the rights of atheists, because there are also tons of same-sex Christian couples who would wanna marry. Atheists per se have all the rights they (we) want.

So yeah.

1. Can you really call it sarcasm if it falls flat and it’s stupid and it’s intertwined with racism?

2. He talked specifically about Islam, which is a minority. And again, context matters: you can’t come here and make the example of abortion clinics to defend his case when he was SPECIFICALLY talking about Islam and falling into stereotypes.

3. He talked about people when the problem isn’t single people who practice a religion.

Hope that helps!

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ok. rrr is the first and only indian movie i have seen in my life. do you have any recs for movies like it? or just movies you like? i trust your taste and my summer is long.

Ofc! Here's a list of some of my favorites:

Telugu

Magadheera (2009)

One of SS Rajamouli's older works and Ram Charan and Kajal absolutely stole my heart in this one. The music is still the loml and it actually also had MM Keeravani directing music

Harsha is falsely implicated for killing Indu's father and she too is kidnapped. But Harsha and Indu share a bond from a previous life, and when he realises this, he sets out to set things straight.

Jai Lava Kusa (2017)

This is one of my all time favorite NTR Jr. movies and he actually plays a triple role (identical triplets)

Identical triplets, Jai, Lava and Kusa, get separated at a young age and follow different paths in life. Jai becomes an evil criminal, Kusa becomes a small-time crook and Lava becomes a bank manager.

Dear Comrade (2019)

TW: sexual assault

This is a movie I hold rly rly close to my heart A) cuz Vijay Deverakonda and Rashmika are love and B) the plot was so important especially near the climax.

A hot-headed student union leader falls in love with a state-level cricketer; but soon, his anger issues become a roadblock on his way to unite with her.

Shyam Singha Roy (2021)

If I were ever to marry anyone, Shyam is my template for that person. I absolutely loved Nani's depiction of Shyam and Sai Pallavi's Rosie. Also reincarnation but there's a twist

Vasu is a director who left his former job to make films. His girlfriend is set to play the lead role, but when she is molested and Vasu is accused of committing plagiarism, the young couple's fortunes take a turn for the worse.

EDIT: I'm dumb. I forgot to add Baahubali 1 and 2 (2015 and 2017) which is a must watch and one of the first major modern Pan-India movies

Hindi

The Kashmir Files (2022)

If you're going to watch a Hindi movie, make it this one. This tells the unheard story of the genocide of millions of Kashmiri Pandits by Islamic Terrorists and this genocide has taken place time and time again with absolutely zero media attention.

Shush Mangal Zyaada Saavdhan (2020)

I couldn't have left a list of Indian movies I made in Pride Month without mentioning this movie could I? Ayushmann Khurrana is one of my favorite Hindi actors and the representation in this movie was solid imo. Tbh I live for the song Mere Liye Tum Kaafi Ho in this movie

When two men, Kartik and Aman, fall in love with each other, they face opposition from Aman's family but they attempt to win them over.

3 Idiots (2009)

This one is a classic and works to reverse the mindset a lot of Indian students have to deal with where life = studying and parents' expectations without real time for themselves. As a student it was relatable to me and again, it was fucking hilarious.

In college, Farhan and Raju form a great bond with Rancho due to his positive and refreshing outlook to life. Years later, a bet gives them a chance to look for their long-lost friend whose existence seems rather elusive.

Shershaah (2021)

A biopic of the real life Vikram Batra, I absolutely fell in love with this movie and rediscovered my love for Siddharth Malhotra (the main actor). The music for this movie >>>>

The life of Indian army captain Vikram Batra, awarded with the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest award for valour for his actions during the 1999 Kargil War.

Tamil

Heads up: I don't actually speak Tamil (not well anyways) so I'm just listing movies I saw and liked but I haven't actually seen as many as w telugu/hindi

3 (2012)

I think this intensified my love for Dhanush by about 10000. The music is why Anirudh Ravichander is one of my absolute favorite Indian singers

Ram and Janani are high school sweethearts who eventually get married; however, Janani is mystified when Ram commits suicide all of a sudden and she tries to find out the truth behind his death.

Theri (2016)

And the other love of my life, Vijay Thalapathy. I think this is the first movie of his that I saw with my friend and I honestly got pissed at her for gatekeeping him for so long so that should tell you a lot

When his daughter's life is endangered by a local gang, a man will do whatever it takes to stop them; however, at the same time, his dangerous past slowly resurfaces.

Wow ok this is a lot longer than I intended and I was just getting started lmao but hopefully you find something interesting. If anyone else wants to add other movies feel free to rb, comment and obv feel free to add more languages.

#asks #telugu movies #hindi movies #tamil movies #indian movies #south indian movies #desiblr #bollywood #tollywood #shri's posts #shri answers

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The Architects of Islam: Mimar Sinan

Architecture created in the Islamic style was brought to fruition not on its own, but by some of the most outstanding architects to date (in my opinion).

In accordance to this blog, this following post will be dedicated three architects that paved the way to the present ideas and characteristics of Islamic architecture displayed across the world.

To begin this blog, I'll start with Mimar Sinan - who is arguably the most famous architect to build in the Islamic style.

(I apologise for spelling mistakes when it comes to the names of people and locations, through research, there have been several spellings of the same things, and so I used the most common spelling. Please correct me if it is wrong! This applies to all previous and future blog posts.)

Mimar Sinan

Mimar Sinan (1488/1490-1588) was the son of a Greek or Armenian convert to Islam, Abd al-Mannan. He joined the elite corps of the Ottoman army, the janissaries as a young man, like his father before him. During this time of Sinan's life, his talent as an engineer became known - he rose through the ranks in the military becoming an officer in the army who participated in several military campaigns under sultans Selim and Suleiman. As the Ottoman armies marched to new extents in Europe, Africa, and Persia - Sinan accompanied them and organised the engineering corps for the military as well as building mosques and other civil buildings in newly Ottoman cities. In 1539, Sinan was given the position of head architect of the sultan's government in Istanbul (Archive: Islam., 2023).

Mimar Sinan's career saw him undertake a number of projects; 79 mosques, 34 palaces, 33 public baths, 19 tombs, 55 schools, 16 poorhouses, 7 madrasahs, and 12 caravansaries - with the Şehzade Mosque, the Mosque of Süleiman I the Magnificent and the Selim Mosque being his most famous works (the latter was discussed in the previous blog post) - with all three residing in Turkey (Britannica., 1998).

The Ottoman mosques were largely inspired by the architecture of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey (537 AD). Originally built as a Christian church in 537 by the Byzantines, the Hagia Sophia was converted to a mosque to to serve the new Muslim population after Mehmed II's conquest of the city in 1453 - and ever since, Ottoman architects such as Mimar Sinan used the Hagia Sophia's giant dome as a template for the design of Muslim mosques. Due to the grandness in scale and design of the Hagia Sophia, many architects made it their career mission to design something to top the it - including Mimar Sinan as he made it his goal to build a monument to Islam that was more magnificent than the Hagia Sophia.

This led to the one of the inspirations behind the construction of the Suleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. In 1543, one of the Sultan Suleiman's sons, Prince Mehmed, died of smallpox - and in turn Suleyman insisted on building a large mosque in his honour that would serve the local community. Mimar Sinan was tasked with this project, and over four years he worked on what would transition into what is now known as the Şehzade Camii (the Prince's Mosque).

The Sehzade Mosque

Upon completion, the mosque became a landmark of the city, and included not only a mosque but a complex that included a soup kitchen for the poor, a place for travellers to sleep, and a tomb for Prince Mehmed. Sultan Suleiman was extremely pleased with it but Sinan was not satisfied - and insisted he would do better - which leads us back to the inspiration behind the Suleymaniye Mosque.

Sultan Suleiman wanted another giant mosque in Istanbul, with this one being named after himself so he can accumulate the good deeds of Muslims who pray in it after he dies. He wanted it to be a central part of Istanbul's skyline to show the supremacy and glory of Islam (Archive Islam., 2023), this led to the decision of placing the mosque on top of a hill near the Golden Horn - meaning it could be seen for miles around.

There is a rumour that once the foundation was laid, Mimar Sinan went missing for five years! Suleiman was furious with the missing Sinan, and demanded to know where his favourite architect had gone, once the five years had passed, Sinan returned with the explanation that because the building would be so massive, he needed to let the foundations to settle in the soil before above ground building could commence.

The Suleymaniye Mosque was completed in 1557, and the reveal of what is now one of the most significant pieces of Islamic architecture not only to Mimar Sinan's career, but to the architectural world as a whole. Like the Sehzade Mosque, the building did not only serve as a place of worship, but also a kulliye (complex) which held a hospital, public baths, a library - which is still used today - a soup kitchen, numerous schools teaching Quran, a school for Hadith, and a primary school for children. The cemetery in which Sultan Suleiman is buried is also in this location.

Like other mosques in Istanbul, the entrance to the mosque holds a forecourt and a central fountain, and the exterior of the building is decorated with rectangular blue coloured Iznik tile window lunettes. To the south of the mosque is where the madrassa housing a library containing 110,000 manuscripts. There are minarets at all four of the corners of the courtyard, half short and half tall, which is a sign that the mosque was endowed by a sultan, as princes and princesses could only construct two minarets and others could only construct one minaret. Unfortunately, in 1660 the mosque was ravaged by a fire and then restored by Sultan Mehmed IV, then in 1766 part of the dome collapsed during an earthquake, and due to repairs, what was left of the original decoration by Sinan was damaged (Islamic Landmarks., 2023).

And yet, even after Sinan created this masterpiece, which was received incredibly, he still believed he could do much better.

This then transitioned into the commissioning of the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, which rivalled Hagia Sophia after Suleiman died in 1566. This left his son and successor Selim II in charge and wanting a mosque built in his name, despite being much older when construction began for the Selimiye Mosque, Sinan was determined to make his masterpiece.

The architecture for his masterpiece was discussed in depth in the previous blog.

The Selimiye Mosque

Mimar Sinan died in 1588 at age 98 or 100 (his birth year is unknown) and was buried in the cemetery of the Suleymaniye mosque, near Sultan Suleiman. During life, Sinan built some of the greatest examples of Islamic architecture ever - and is as of 2023, one of the most successful and acclaimed Muslim architects to grace the planet - and the impact on the Muslim world being not limited to just mosques supports his reputation. His apprentices went on to build other major landmarks such as The Blue Mosque (discussed in the previous blog) and notably the Taj Mahal in Agra, India.

His works remain some of the greatest symbols of Islam, centuries after his death and impressive career.

Thank you for reading the first half of this blog - the following blog will discuss my second chosen architect.

Thank you for reading, and hopefully you enjoyed! Please like and share if you did!

Summer Marshall-Miller

Bibliography:

Archive: Islam (2023) The Greatest Architect was a Muslim. Available at:

https://archiveislam.com/the-greatest-architect-was-a-muslim.html (Accessed: March 1, 2023).

Britannica (1998) Sinan. Available at: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sinan (Accessed: March 1, 2023).

Islamic Landmarks (2023) Süleymaniye Mosque. Available at: https://www.islamiclandmarks.com/turkey/suleymaniye-mosque (Accessed: March 1 2023).

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ARRAS, France —

A man of Chechen origin who was under surveillance by French security services over suspected Islamic radicalization stabbed a teacher to death at his former high school and wounded three other people Friday in northern France, authorities said.

France raised its threat alert to its highest level, and the attack was being investigated by anti-terrorism prosecutors amid soaring global tensions over the war between Israel and Hamas. It also happened almost three years after another teacher, Samuel Paty, was beheaded by a radicalized Chechen near a Paris area school.

The suspected attacker had been under surveillance since the summer on suspicion of Islamic radicalization, French intelligence services told The Associated Press. He was detained Thursday for questioning based on the monitoring of his phone calls in recent days, but investigators found no sign that he was preparing an attack, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.

"There was a race against the clock. But there was no threat, no weapon, no indication. We did our our job seriously," Darmanin said on TF1 television. French intelligence suggested a link between the war in the Middle East and the suspect's decision to attack, the minister said.

The suspect, identified by prosecutors as Mohamed M., was reportedly refusing to speak to investigators. Several others also were in custody Friday, national counterterrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said. Police said the suspect's younger brother was among those held for questioning.

President Emmanuel Macron said France had been "hit once again by the barbarity of Islamist terrorism."

"Nearly three years to the day after the assassination of Samuel Paty, terrorism has hit a school again and in a context that we're all aware of," Macron said at the site of the attack in Arras, a city 185 kilometers north of Paris.

A colleague and a fellow teacher identified the dead educator as Dominique Bernard, a French language teacher at the Gambetta-Carnot school, which enrolls students ages 11-18. The victim "stepped in and probably saved many lives" but two of the wounded — another teacher and a security guard — were fighting for theirs, according to Macron.

Authorities said the third person wounded worked as a cleaner at the school. The prosecutor said the alleged assailant was a former student there and repeatedly shouted "Allahu akbar," or "God is great" in Arabic during the attack.

Police officer Sliman Hamzi was one of the first on the scene. Hamzi said he was alerted by another officer, rushed to the school and saw a male victim lying on the ground outside the school and the attacker being taken away. He said the victim had his throat slit.

"I'm extremely shocked by what I saw," the officer said. "It was a horrible thing to see this poor man who was killed on the job by a lunatic."

The National Police force identified the suspect in the attack as a Russian national of Chechen origin who was born in 2003. The French intelligence services told the AP he had been closely watched since the summer with tails and telephone surveillance and was stopped as recently as Thursday for a police check that found no wrongdoing.

Friday's attack had echoes of Paty's slaying on Oct 16, 2020 — also a Friday — by an 18-year-old who had become radicalized. Like the suspect in Friday's stabbings, the earlier attacker had a Chechen background; police shot and killed him.

Martin Doussau, a philosophy teacher at Gambetta-Carnot, said the assailant was armed with two knives and appeared to be hunting specifically for a history teacher. Paty taught history and geography.

"I was chased by the attacker, who ... asked me if I teach history,'" said Doussau, who recounted how he barricaded himself behind a door until police used a stun gun to subdue the attacker. "When he turned around and asked me if I am a history teacher, I immediately thought of Samuel Paty."

The school went into lockdown, and some children were held inside classrooms for hours while distraught parents gathered outside.

"My husband was in tears. There were a lot of people crying, a lot in a state of panic," said Céline Bourgeois, whose 15-year-old son, Louis, was inside.

Prosecutors said they were considering charges of terror-related murder and attempted murder against the suspect.

Macron visited the school, stopping for a moment before the blanket-covered body of the teacher, which was in the parking lot in front of the school, then met with students.

He said police thwarted an "attempted attack" in another region of France after the teacher's fatal stabbing. He did not provide details, but the Interior Ministry said he was referring to a man armed with a knife arrested coming out of a prayer hall in the Yvelines region west of Paris. The man's motives weren't immediately clear, police said.

School attacks are rare in France, and the government asked authorities to heighten vigilance at all schools across the country.

The government also increased its threat alert to its highest level Friday, allowing for larger police and military deployments to protect the country. Darmanin said there was no specific threat that prompted the move, but cited calls by extremists to attack amid the Mideast war.

He said authorities have detained 12 people near schools or places of worship since the Hamas attack on Israel last Saturday, some of whom were armed and were preparing to attack. France has heightened security at hundreds of Jewish sites around the country this week.

The suspect's telephone conversations in recent days gave no indication of an impending attack, leading intelligence officers to conclude that the assailant decided suddenly on Friday to act, intelligence services told the AP.

The suspect's father was expelled from France in 2018 for radicalism, the interior minister said.

An older brother is serving a 5-year prison term for terror offences. He was convicted this year of involvement in a plot for an armed attack around the presidential Elysee Palace in Paris that was thwarted by the intelligence services. Other members of the radical Islamist group were also jailed for up to 15 years. He was the group's only Chechen.

The older brother also was a former pupil at the high school targeted Friday, according to legal records from his trial earlier this year on terror-related charges. Investigation records show that during a school class in 2016 about freedom of expression, the older brother defended a terror attack in 2015 that killed 12 cartoonists at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

Friday's attack came amid heightened tensions around the world over Hamas' attack on southern Israel and Israel's blistering military response, which have killed hundreds of civilians on both sides.

Darmanin on Thursday ordered local authorities to ban all pro-Palestinian demonstrations amid a rise in antisemitic acts.

France is estimated to have the world's third-largest Jewish population after Israel and the U.S., as well as the largest Muslim population in Western Europe.

A moment of silence was held at the opening of a France-Netherlands soccer match Friday night to honor victims of the Israel-Hamas fighting and the slain teacher.

Macron said the school in Arras would reopen as soon as Saturday morning, and he urged the people of France to "stay united."

"The choice has been made not to give in to terror," he said. "We must not let anything divide us, and we must remember that schools and the transmission of knowledge are at the heart of this fight against ignorance."

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I graduated three years ago from my master’s program. I finished with a straight-A average, got the best grade on the scale from my thesis, and got picked to a research group for a multidisciplinary project from a bunch of qualified candidates. I was told by my supervisor and by the person who graded my thesis that I should continue my studies on PhD level. I wanted to continue my studies on PhD level. So what did I do when I arrived back from Rome?

Started teaching in middle school.

The reasons were (mostly) financial: COVID shut me the opportunity to return to my old place of work, and I got offered a teaching position after sending applications to practically anywhere I could imagine working. The idea of having a job that I had an education for was alluring, too, even though I never really wanted to teach for a long term.

I have now taught in middle school for 2,5 years. I don’t particularly like the job - I like to teach, yes, and both religion and history are lovely subjects with many opportunities - as the everyday demands with cramped classrooms, students who need more individual support that it is possible for one person to offer (while still teaching all the other kids in the classroom), and the angry parents are quite a lot to deal with. They also create the kind of challenges I don’t particularly want to solve, nor have the resources to solve. On a personal level, I don’t feel like I’m moving forward or learning to be a better teacher, and so, with all this cynicism that is just increasing every day, the entire purpose of my job is to survive for a day, a week, a month, until the next vacay. Which I need to use to gather my strength and rest. The sheer noise of school/classroom makes me want to go directly to sleep after each workday.

In short, I’m working in a job that could be interesting, but isn’t that for me. I need to find an out before I get even more burnt out than I already am.

The obvious choice, the dream choice, would be going back to the academia. But, as we all know, it isn’t that easy. PhD applications are a challenging project, where you need to stand out as both an excellent scholar and a person that is agreeable enough to work with. And trying to stand out as a middle school teacher who just *wants* to return to academia because she can’t tolerate the idea of staying in the classroom for any more time is... difficult.

I always feel like I’m not enough to apply anywhere. I might have a curious mind, but my imagination is lacking and it has always been very difficult to me to find a fresh angle to any given topic - which, to me, sounds like an essential skill to a PhD student. My English is better than it has been, but I’m still not anywhere near native speaker level, and I have little other language skills to compensate for that. I read French, Italian, and German all to some degree, but I’m not capable of writing or conversing in them. As a historian, my knowledge of ancient languages is lacking, too. My Latin isn’t as good as it should be. My Greek is barely there, as are my Hebrew and Arabic. I know I can study more, I know I *have to* study more, but still, the feeling of being just too incapable of doing anything with these skills lingers.

I know I can write. The problem is I hate writing. After graduating, I have participated in two different article collections, and it's been an honor, but I still enjoy reading other people’s thoughts far more than I enjoy vocalizing my own. So, this has lead me to think that perhaps I don’t want a PhD, perhaps I just miss the academia - getting to read and converse and enjoy being surrounded by curious people who love the same sticks and stones I do? Maybe academia in itself is my happy place, but taking the next step there isn’t for me?

So maybe I should leave my job and apply for another master’s. I could do history, as I already have a strong background there, or Islamic studies, psychology or philosophy, as I used to minor in those. I could expand my expertise and study something like gender/intersectionality studies. Or I could just try to apply to some prestigious school and see if the grass is greener in there, if that would make me feel like I was able to conduct original research sometime in the future.

At the same time, I feel like doing a new master’s would not only be a financial suicide but also taking a step back - a step I have already taken and completed relatively successfully. I have ideas that I love, I have willingness to pursue these ideas and see where they would take me, but taking the next step and trying to sell these ideas feels so terrifying that it’s debilitating. I have spent so many days lying in my bed reading fanfiction when I could have sent emails to some professors I know could help me (or ignore me, which probably is the more realistic worst case scenario in comparison to the imaginary derision and laughter I’m expecting in my head).

I feel so tired and confused and alone with all these thoughts and dreams and hopes and fears. Some days, they just hurt me more than they usually do, and today is just one of those days.

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I think part of the challenge of "comparative" philosophy is that there are two competing definitions for "philosophy" and that both are ultimately insufficient - each one generates uncomfortable or incompatible conclusions if you mistake them for each other and so you need to be careful to always distinguish them and clarify which one you're thinking about.

Definition 1 is "everything that follows from the tradition developed in Ancient Greece, which is called philosophy" A clear advantage to this definition is that it's easy to apply - If you could ask most or all people who fit this definition whether they were "philosophers" they would say "yes" because "philosophy" is the word they used to describe their activities. For practical purposes, this definition includes all of what's typically called "Western" philosophy along with philosophers from the Islamic world, and any more contemporary schools from other non-western cultures that have incorporated these traditions into their own work.

Definition 2 is "anything that can be related to the tradition developed in Ancient Greece, which is called philosophy" This definition is considerably more expansive, and therefore harder to apply consistently, but it has the benefit of including important thinkers like Adi Shankara or Nagarjuna who may or may not have actually been influenced by the Greeks but can easily be related to them, as well as thinkers who certainly were not influenced by the Greeks but still independently derived very similar ideas, such as Zhuangzi or Mozi. This also has the benefit of including other thinkers in the Ancient Near East or Ancient India who predate the Greeks, and often even may have influenced what came to be called "philosophy" in Ancient Greece.

There's an obvious motivation here to avoid chauvinism - by the first definition, this thing that we call philosophy and that many people place a lot of value on ends up looking like a "Western" invention, and that can make it look like any attempts to assert the importance of philosophy are attempts to assert the superiority of "the West." But there are certainly elements of what the first definition refers to that are present in non-Western cultures, and it strengthens the legitimacy of philosophy as a discipline if it is seen as a universal activity that all humans do, which also allows us to extend our understanding of it further, by investigating the traditions of e.g. sub-Saharan African and indigenous American cultures for philosophical themes, which can also be a means for understanding them better.

But this approach can lead us directly back to the chauvinism that we're trying to avoid if we become too enthusiastic about the more expansive definition of philosophy; our lens for understanding other cultures can also end up distorting them - despite our best efforts, whatever concepts of "philosophy" we have all ultimately do still relate back to the Ancient Greeks, they have been both massively influential and very well preserved and defined the scope and rules of engagement for millennia, they will crowd out the conversation if we let them. And so if we want to expand the definition of philosophy to mean "something all humans do" we need to simultaneously acknowledge how something unfamiliar that looks like philosophy relates to the other components of its own culture, in addition to how it relates to what we currently consider philosophy. Otherwise, we will end up missing important details for understanding those cultures and end up erroneously concluding that philosophy, the "thing all humans do" is something miraculously identical to... Ancient Greek philosophy.

I strongly believe this is a tractable problem, however. It's axiomatic to me that any comparative work that aims at understanding other cultures provides some value, even shoddy scholarship that falls victim to the pitfalls I've outlined here can still be useful to more cautious interpreters who come later. So I personally have no time for people who talk about how indigenous or other non-Western "ontologies" are fundamentally incommensurable with Western ones. I suspect most of those people are only interested in shouting, and it seems that beyond what I've just summarized in the preceding sentence they have little or nothing to say. Fortunately, despite their loudest attempts, many of their contemporaries and colleagues who are the targets of this ire are doing important work, and those who proceed more carefully seem like they will uncover both parallels and differences to what we consider philosophy that tell us quite a lot about those other cultures and also additionally enrich our understanding of philosophy and humanity as a whole.

#tw amateur sociology #i hope there's prior art though

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