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Kulsoom + Hadi - Next/Same Day Edit (by Film Style Weddings)

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:37:27 -0600

Kulsoom + Hadi - Next/Same Day Edit (by Film Style Weddings)

fuckyeahhetaliay: whoren-y: HUGE VALENTINES DAY...

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:33:07 -0600

whoren-y:

HUGE VALENTINES DAY GIVEAWAYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hello beautiful followers, since it’s valentines day soon, i decided to do a huuuuge giveaway of an IPhone 4S & a Mac laptop.

the story is, i got a new iphone 4S for my bday from my mom & stepdad. but my grandma who lives in Europe sent me one in the mail too ‘cause she didnt know i got one. i also got a mac from my dad:) i decided to giveaway my old mac & one of the phones to my amazing followers for valentines day:)

here are the rules:

~REBLOG THIS POST! MAX. 3 TIMES

~LIKES DO NOT COUNT!

~MUST REACH AT LEAST 1,000 NOTES!

~DONT MESSAGE ME TRYING TO BRIBE ME, YOU’LL GET DISQUALIFIED!

if you win, you’ll get:

~A NEW IPHONE 4S, TAKEN OUT OF IT’S BOX ONCE! (FOR THIS PICTURE)

~MACBOOK AIR

GET REBLOGGING QUICKKK! THIS GIVEAWAY ENDS ON FEBRUARY 17TH

Just some spam here xD

fuckyeahhetaliay: whoren-y: HUGE VALENTINES DAY...

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:33:01 -0600

fuckyeahhetaliay:

whoren-y:

HUGE VALENTINES DAY GIVEAWAYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hello beautiful followers, since it’s valentines day soon, i decided to do a huuuuge giveaway of an IPhone 4S & a Mac laptop.

the story is, i got a new iphone 4S for my bday from my mom & stepdad. but my grandma who lives in Europe sent me one in the mail too ‘cause she didnt know i got one. i also got a mac from my dad:) i decided to giveaway my old mac & one of the phones to my amazing followers for valentines day:)

here are the rules:

~REBLOG THIS POST! MAX. 3 TIMES

~LIKES DO NOT COUNT!

~MUST REACH AT LEAST 1,000 NOTES!

~DONT MESSAGE ME TRYING TO BRIBE ME, YOU’LL GET DISQUALIFIED!

if you win, you’ll get:

~A NEW IPHONE 4S, TAKEN OUT OF IT’S BOX ONCE! (FOR THIS PICTURE)

~MACBOOK AIR

GET REBLOGGING QUICKKK! THIS GIVEAWAY ENDS ON FEBRUARY 17TH

Just some spam here xD

fuckyeahhetaliay: whoren-y: HUGE VALENTINES DAY...

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:32:55 -0600

fuckyeahhetaliay:

whoren-y:

HUGE VALENTINES DAY GIVEAWAYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hello beautiful followers, since it’s valentines day soon, i decided to do a huuuuge giveaway of an IPhone 4S & a Mac laptop.

the story is, i got a new iphone 4S for my bday from my mom & stepdad. but my grandma who lives in Europe sent me one in the mail too ‘cause she didnt know i got one. i also got a mac from my dad:) i decided to giveaway my old mac & one of the phones to my amazing followers for valentines day:)

here are the rules:

~REBLOG THIS POST! MAX. 3 TIMES

~LIKES DO NOT COUNT!

~MUST REACH AT LEAST 1,000 NOTES!

~DONT MESSAGE ME TRYING TO BRIBE ME, YOU’LL GET DISQUALIFIED!

if you win, you’ll get:

~A NEW IPHONE 4S, TAKEN OUT OF IT’S BOX ONCE! (FOR THIS PICTURE)

~MACBOOK AIR

GET REBLOGGING QUICKKK! THIS GIVEAWAY ENDS ON FEBRUARY 17TH

Just some spam here xD

Tears Manjaca concentration camp near Prijedor, north-west...

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:36:11 -0600

Tears

Manjaca concentration camp near Prijedor, north-west Bosnia in August 1992. Thousands of civilians, mostly Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) were tortured and killed there.

nashoquelikecoke: lifegoeson96: He deserves a million...

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:21:52 -0600

nashoquelikecoke:

lifegoeson96:

He deserves a million reblogs<3

I can’t help but lol at the last frame. It’s so inspiring that he can keep a smile on his face, and even crack jokes about his disabilities. This man deserves all of the awards.

I remember this guy when we saw one of his videos.
I just wanted to marry this guy! How can he have no wife?
He’s flibben amazing.

inspiring <3

eskione:

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:58:19 -0600

eskione:

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13 steps to memorize the Qur’an by Yasir Qadhi | MuslimMatters.org

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:37:11 -0500

13 steps to memorize the Qur’an by Yasir Qadhi | MuslimMatters.org:

insha’Allah, I need to make a plan so I can start this.

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Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:33:50 -0500

UPDATE: #Jerusalem. 1500 Palestinians are locked inside Al Aqsa mosque right now and what's going on outside is unknown so far.

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:20:06 -0500

subhanallah:

I don’t know why…but they are. Ya Allah.

People are so poor, all they have left is money.

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:23:00 -0500

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Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:22:48 -0500

"Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born..."

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:22:36 -0500

“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.”

- Ray Bradbury (Dandelion Wine)

politicaldove: The photo speaks louder than any caption ever...

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:22:16 -0500

politicaldove:

The photo speaks louder than any caption ever could.

Background to the photo: It was taken on the 2009 Cast Lead protest outside the Houses of Parliament in London. The gentleman was just stood by the side of the road as hordes of protesters went by, speaking to anyone who had anything to say.

"I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I’ve tried to..."

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:21:50 -0500

“I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I’ve tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied.”

- Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man)

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Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:21:41 -0500

Academic claims Israeli school textbooks contain bias

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:20:00 -0500

Academic claims Israeli school textbooks contain bias:

l-woww:

Nurit Peled-Elhanan of Hebrew University says textbooks depict Palestinians as ‘terrorists, refugees and primitive farmers’

Nurit Peled-Elhanan, an Israeli academic, mother and political radical, summons up an image of rows of Jewish schoolchildren, bent over their books, learning about their neighbours, the Palestinians. But, she says, they are never referred to as Palestinians unless the context is terrorism.

They are called Arabs. “The Arab with a camel, in an Ali Baba dress. They describe them as vile and deviant and criminal, people who don’t pay taxes, people who live off the state, people who don’t want to develop,” she says. “The only representation is as refugees, primitive farmers and terrorists. You never see a Palestinian child or doctor or teacher or engineer or modern farmer.”

Peled-Elhanan, a professor of language and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has studied the content of Israeli school books for the past five years, and her account, Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education, is to be published in the UK this month. She describes what she found as racism– but, more than that, a racism that prepares young Israelis for their compulsory military service.

“People don’t really know what their children are reading in textbooks,” she said. “One question that bothers many people is how do you explain the cruel behaviour of Israeli soldiers towards Palestinians, an indifference to human suffering, the inflicting of suffering. People ask how can these nice Jewish boys and girls become monsters once they put on a uniform. I think the major reason for that is education. So I wanted to see how school books represent Palestinians.”

In “hundreds and hundreds” of books, she claims she did not find one photograph that depicted an Arab as a “normal person”. The most important finding in the books she studied – all authorised by the ministry of education – concerned the historical narrative of events in 1948, the year in which Israel fought a war to establish itself as an independent state, and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled the ensuing conflict.

The killing of Palestinians is depicted as something that was necessary for the survival of the nascent Jewish state, she claims. “It’s not that the massacres are denied, they are represented in Israeli school books as something that in the long run was good for the Jewish state. For example, Deir Yassin [a pre-1948 Palestinian village close to Jerusalem] was a terrible slaughter by Israeli soldiers. In school books they tell you that this massacre initiated the massive flight of Arabs from Israel and enabled the establishment of a Jewish state with a Jewish majority. So it was for the best. Maybe it was unfortunate, but in the long run the consequences for us were good.”

Children, she says, grow up to serve in the army and internalise the message that Palestinians are “people whose life is dispensable with impunity. And not only that, but people whose number has to be diminished.”

Peled-Elhanan approaches her subject from a radical political background. She is the daughter of a famous general, Matti Peled, who became convinced that Israel’s future lay in a dignified peace with the Palestinians. After leaving the army, he became active in the peace movement.

When Peled-Alhanon’s only daughter, Smadar, was two, her face appeared on billboards in a political poster for Labour. Its message was that all children deserve a better future.

Then, in 1997, Smadar was killed by a Palestinian suicide bomber while shopping in Jerusalem. She was 13. Peled-Elhanan declines to talk about her daughter’s death apart from once or twice referring to “the tragedy”.

At the time, she said that it would strengthen her belief that, without a settlement to the conflict and peaceful coexistence with Palestinians, more children would die. “Terrorist attacks like this are the direct consequence of the oppression, slavery, humiliation and state of siege imposed on the Palestinians,” she told TV reporters in the aftermath of Smadar’s death.

Her radical views have exacted a professional cost. “University professors stopped inviting me to conferences. And when I do speak, the most common reaction is, ‘you are anti-Zionist’.” Anybody who challenges the dominant narrative in today’s Israel, she says, is similarly accused.

She hopes her book will be published in Hebrew, but is resigned to it being dismissed by many in the political mainstream.

Asked if Palestinian school books also reflect a certain dogma, Peled-Elhanan claims that they distinguish between Zionists and Jews. “They make this distinction all the time. They are against Zionists, not against Jews.”

But she concedes that teaching about the Holocaust in Palestinian schools is “a problem, an issue”. “Some [Palestinian] teachers refuse to teach the Holocaust as long as Israelis don’t teach the Nakba [the Palestinian “catastrophe” of 1948].”

Perhaps not surprisingly for someone of such radical views, Peled-Elhanan is deeply pessimistic about her country’s future. Change, she says, will only come “when the Americans stop providing us with $1m a day to maintain this regime of occupation and racism and supremacy”.

She said that within Israel, “I only see the path to fascism. You have 5.5 million Palestinians controlled by Israel who live in a horrible apartheid with no civil and no human rights. And you have the other half who are Jews who are also losing their rights by the minute,” she says, in reference to a series of attempts to restrict Israelis’ right to protest and criticise their government.

She dismisses the Israeli left as always small and timid, but especially now. “There has never been a real left in this country.” She believes that the education system helps to perpetuate an unjust, undemocratic and unsustainable state.

“Everything they do, from kindergarten to 12th grade, they are fed in all kinds of ways, through literature and songs and holidays and recreation, with these chauvinistic patriotic notions.”

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Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:19:48 -0500