'Think Like a Man' Banned in France Due To an All Black Cast -
well… that’s unsurprising of you France….
So, Jerry Ferrara is black now?
or what about that guy who played the Hapily married man?
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Wonder when they are going to also ban the hundreds of movies with all white casts
France everybody.
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LGBT AND MUSLIM? SUBMIT TO I AM NOT HARAAM. -
from the website description:
We’re calling for any Muslim who identifies as part of the LGBTQ spectrum to submit to this blog. Allies and supportive families of LGBTQ Muslims are also welcome and encouraged.
The theme for submissions is quite simply,
“I am not haraam”
(or “my son/daughter/lover/sibling is not haraam”).
We’d like you to share what it means for you to be an LGBTQ Muslim. You can tell us about your struggles, your everyday life, anything that makes you, you!
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all you fashionistas constantly posting shit I can’t buy are killing me.
This woman is acting in a play. IS THIS FEMINIST?
Is she playing a character who is strong and flawless, so as not to allow for any sexist interpretations about the worthiness of all women, but also human and relatable? Until such a role is written, the best way to avoid sexism is not have female roles at all. PROBLEMATIC.
the tumblr I didn’t know I needed and now can’t live without
this blog
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This drawing shows where the sounds should come out from when you pronounce the Arabic letters.
o m g the notes!!! in one day!
I need this on my blog.
Are they assuming the jeem is a geem? I feel like jeem is more near the dental area. Overall pretty cool—coulda used this back in 1A!
I don’t think so, jeem and shin are put right next to each other.
If that was supposed to be a geem, it would have been at the back where kaf/qaf are. There ARE two different Jeem sounds that are used in different dialects though, I think you are thinking of the softer one, which is slight further up.
Two individual rights that are protected by the US Constitution an the French Declaration of the Rights of Man are that when men work hard, they get paid more, but if they don’t work hard, they get the same amount of money as the women.
UK aid helps to fund forced sterilisation of India's poor -
The UK agreed to give India £166m to fund the programme, despite allegations that the money would be used to sterilise the poor in an attempt to curb the country’s burgeoning population of 1.2 billion people.
Sterilisation has been mired in controversy for years. With officials and doctors paid a bonus for every operation, poor and little-educated men and women in rural areas are routinely rounded up and sterilised without having a chance to object. Activists say some are told they are going to health camps for operations that will improve their general wellbeing and only discover the truth after going under the knife.
This is stuff that’s happening within your lifetime. This is not something from the past, something that happened a while ago. Population control is something that still exists.
And if you ever try saying that we need to save women in foreign countries, well maybe you should step back and consider how Western countries are aiding in (and have encouraged) creating these issues.
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To his friend…
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There’s been a bunch of books being published about what the sanctions did to Iraq lately despite a total lack of interest. Since it’s a period that was totally erased out of any discussions about Iraq in the last ten years there really should be, and of those Joy Gordon’s is a really important one. I actually ended up finding this one by al-Jawaheri because it just happened to be shelved right next to another book I was looking for.
Al-Jawaheri opens with a brief overview of the political backdrop of the sanctions, then a history of state gender policy in the 70s and 80s especially and a really critical review of the actual impact it had on women, then it moves onto her fieldwork done in Baghdad in a poor, lower middle class and upper class neighbourhood each. She focuses on the social impact that the sanctions had on women, the pressure they had to wrt work, their relationships with spouses and their families, general attitudes and violence against women as well so this isn’t the book you go to if you want to know X tens of thousands of cholera deaths, but the changes were every bit as devastating. It’s what happens when a country’s economy entirely collapses and I’m not going to lie, parts of this are really hard to read but they should be read because anybody who tries to talk about this country without the 90s just does not know what they’re talking about.
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Bahraini Shiite Muslim women take part in a Labour Day pro-democracy protest in the Manama suburb of Sanabis on May 1, 2012. Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Shiite villages in Bahrain to demand being reinstated in jobs from which they were fired during last year’s uprising, witnesses said. [Getty]
Because there is still news from Bahrain…](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3gw6qP7f01qdtt31o1_500.jpg)
Bahraini Shiite Muslim women take part in a Labour Day pro-democracy protest in the Manama suburb of Sanabis on May 1, 2012. Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Shiite villages in Bahrain to demand being reinstated in jobs from which they were fired during last year’s uprising, witnesses said. [Getty]
Because there is still news from Bahrain…
“I have been stunned by the way Iraq has almost disappeared from public discourse in the US. The way in which the withdrawal narrative was packaged and sold to the American public sealed that fictitious “closure.” The discursive curtain is down (not that it was ever fully up anyway) and there isn’t much to discuss or bother about. The simplistic narrative goes as follows: “We” went there and tried to help build a democracy, but it didn’t work out for x reason. The x, of course, is usually some variation on an Orientalist myth. There is no serious debate about the war and no realization of the extent of its tragic effects on Iraqis and their future. Most importantly, there is no reckoning or recognition of the crime. The collective amnesia is horrendous. The architects of the war publish books and appear on TV shows as if nothing had happened.” — Sinan Antoon, The Barbarian Has to Keep It Real: Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Sinan Antoon (via abudaii)
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i’m torn up about this, guys. :(
Adam.
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