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And now this! Welcome to the new #USSR. #snitch on your colleagues.

yahoo.com/news/state-tells-emp

What about anti-#Muslim bias? And anti-#Hindu bias? And anti-#Buddhist bias? These criminals #trash the #constitution daily and the #GOP / #MAGA are ok with it; rather they cheer it on. GOP is now the embodiment of everything anti-#American. Oh, how the party of #Lincoln has #fallen!

Yahoo News · State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’By Robbie Gramer and Nahal Toosi
#government#StateDepartment#USPolitics
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One of topics which is often misunderstood about #Quran is that it encourages war with infidels and killing them in the general case. This misunderstanding is not only among non-Muslims but also among some Muslims.

Quran commands the Muslims to kill and fight the infidels several times.

For instance in 2:191 it says

"And kill them wherever you come upon them. And drive them out out of the places which they drove you out".

If we stop here, it means Quran commands that Muslims should kill an infidel as soon as they find one. However if we continue reading, in the same verse it says to avoid fighting in the Sacred Mosque. Then in the next verse it says

"And if they cease, God is indeed God is all forgiving and merciful.".

Then it continues:

"And fight against them till there is no persecution. And if they stop, there is no hostility except against the aggressors."

So Quran says to fight them and kill the infidels as long as they are fighting Muslims. And if they stop fighting, it commands the Muslims to stop as there is no war against them.

Furthermore, in Surah 60, it starts with commands which prohibit friendship and being kind to the infidels. It talks about this matter till verse 60:8 which says:

"God does not forbid you from being kind and fair to those who didn't fight you and didn't drive you out of your home. And God loves those who are fair. Indeed God only forbids you about those who fight you regarding your faith and drive you out of your homes. Or those who supported others doing so. And whoever takes them as friends, they are indeed the wrongdoers."

#Islam#God#Muslim
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[04:10 PM] Ministry of Social Affairs is ordered to delete all illegally gathered data on Muslims

The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) has ordered the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment to delete all the illegally gathered personal data that the ministry has of members of Muslim comm

nltimes.nl/2025/04/11/ministry

#TheDutchDataProtectionAuthority #AP #SocialAffairsandEmployment #Muslim

NL Times · Ministry of Social Affairs is ordered to delete all illegally gathered data on MuslimsThe Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) has ordered the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment to delete all the illegally gathered personal data that the ministry has of members of Muslim communities. The data was obtained via secret investigations, which the mosques and people were not aware of.
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Farhad

In a searing piece for The New #Arab, #Palestinian #journalist Abubaker Abed, from #Gaza, writes:

“For 538 days, I mistakenly believed that the #Muslim world would come to our aid… I ask you now: How can you rejoice while we are wrapped in shrouds? How can you wear your finest clothes while we are wrapped in shrouds? How can you enjoy sweets while the children in my neighbourhood draw food in the sand?”
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/gaza-is…

#Genocide #Israel #BDS #Shame #Politics #SaveGaza
@palestine @lebanon @israel

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Farhad

Several influential Muslim scholars, led by Ali al-Qaradaghi of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, have released a religious ruling, or #fatwa, urging Muslims and Muslim-majority nations to engage in jihad against Israel. This call comes in response to nearly a year and a half of intense war on Gaza.
Qaradaghi criticized Arab and Islamic governments for their inaction, labeling their silence amid Gaza's devastation as a grave moral and religious failing. The fatwa, consisting of 15 key points, forbids any cooperation with Israel, including arms sales or the use of transport routes like the Suez Canal and Strait of Hormuz for its benefit.

"It is forbidden to sell weapons to it, or to facilitate its transport through ports or international waterways such as the Suez Canal, Bab al-Mandab, the Strait of Hormuz, or any other land, sea, or air means," Qaradaghi said.
"The Committee [IUMS] issues a fatwa requiring an air, land, and sea blockade of the occupying enemy in support of our brothers in Gaza," he added.

The decree demands "to intervene immediately militarily, economically and politically to stop this #genocide and comprehensive destruction, in accordance with their mandate."
It also urges #Muslim nations to reconsider peace agreements with Israel and encourages Muslims in the U.S. to lobby for political action in favor of #Gaza.

@palestine @israel

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