Being a Muslim, Afghan woman wasn't marginalizing enough so I became a vegetarian.
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Alina 🔥 الينا retweeted
This is some of the worst acting I've ever watched, and I've seen Wonder Woman.
"Syria is free."
Extraordinary moment as @clarissaward and her team witness a Syrian prisoner freed from a secret prison in Damascus.
Left alone for days without food, water or light, the man was unaware Bashar al-Assad's regime had fallen.
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Verify-Sy, a Syrian fact checking group, now says that this man is Air Force Intelligence First Lieutenant Salama Mohammad Salama, notorious for extortion and theft in Homs, who had been arrested due to disputes with his colleagues about profit sharing.
verify-sy.com/en/details/105…
Alina 🔥 الينا retweeted
🧵 I often wonder about ways that the Middle East and Islam can play a more prominent part in middle and high school history courses. The story of Muhammad Kahn, who was born in Persia, grew up in Afghanistan, and fought for the Union Army in the Civil War, is one way to do so.
ALT Fighting for Freedom: The Little-Known Story of Muslims and the Civil War
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Take a look, Really. It’s an inspiring story of the power of music and what afghanistan has become.
In defiance of the Taliban’s ban on music, a group of young Afghan musicians from @OfficialANIM risked it all to keep their country’s music alive. Now, they’re taking their message to the world stage as an orchestra in exile.
NBC News’ @RichardEngel tells their story – Notes of Protest: Afghanistan’s Orchestra in Exile airs Friday 13th of December, 1030 PM ET on @NBCNewsNow
Alina 🔥 الينا retweeted
folks will be inclined to ignore this because it’s “ancient” history but important to note just how ill fated american military intervention in Afghanistan was: hubris, empire and deep anger
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Alina 🔥 الينا retweeted
Funny how the ‘most extraordinary moments’ in journalism keep happening to the same white woman at CNN
In nearly twenty years as a journalist, this was one of the most extraordinary moments I have witnessed.
cnn.com/2024/12/11/world/vid…
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Gharbal's real name is Salama Muhammad Salama, and he is a non-commissioned officer with the rank of first assistant in the Air Force Intelligence Branch, one of the worst security branches of the ousted Bashar al-Assad regime.
verify-sy.com/ar/details/105…هل-لفقت-CNN-قصة--تحرير-معتقل-سوري-من-سجن-سري-؟
Alina 🔥 الينا retweeted
No doubt the US will attack the ICC but will US mainstream media actually do its job and scrutinize how the Biden admin is deliberately unraveling international legal institutions to protect war criminals (including Americans past and present)
Alina 🔥 الينا retweeted
The ICC just issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant. Watch this ICC prosecutor exposing how US officials lectured him that the institution was “built for thugs like Putin” back in May 2024. Before, no US ally has ever been targeted by the ICC in its entire history.
Alina 🔥 الينا retweeted
After a historic vote in the U.S. Senate, in which nearly a fifth of the chamber voted against arms shipments to Israel, the Biden administration is wrong to believe "people will get over this," says @AkbarSAhmed.
Alina 🔥 الينا retweeted
BREAKING: The "nonprofit killer" bill is back on track.
H.R. 9495 has been set for a hearing MONDAY before the House Rules Committee, which could tee it up for a floor vote next week.
The bill was largely designed to target pro-Palestine groups
theintercept.com/2024/11/15/…
Alina 🔥 الينا retweeted
Pas une seule mesure de restriction de la liberté d’expression ne peut faire oublier le massacre de civils en cours à Gaza @BrunoRetailleau. Même au Stade de France, #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 !
#FRAISR
Alina 🔥 الينا retweeted
The moment Māori members of Aotearoa NZ parliament, opposition MPs, and the public in gallery disrupt the vote on an anti-Māori bill introduced by the rightwing coalition government 🔥🔥
Someday in the future someone is going to ask 'How did you stand up to genocide and fascism" and most people's response is going to be "I moved to Bluesky".
Alina 🔥 الينا retweeted
Bluesky is apparently deleting the accounts of Palestinians in Gaza under the guise of “spam.” Requests to correct this have so far gone unanswered.
Alina 🔥 الينا retweeted
Glad to learn that @CheveningFCDO applications are now open for Afghanistan. Anyone residing in Afghanistan can apply. I would be happy to advise anyone who wishes to apply. My DMs are open. Link in comments
Alina 🔥 الينا retweeted
I asked President Biden if he thinks that he can get a hostage deal done by the end of his term. He answered, commenting on the number of cameramen in the room: “do you think that you can get hit in the head by the camera behind you?”
