On Monday, more than a billion and a half Muslims worldwide started their fasting month of Ramadan, a month when Muslims unapologetically celebrate their traditions and religion.Through the years, Muslims in America have celebrated their holy month with family and friends, in community gatherings under tents, in restaurants and in mosques. Since the 9/11 tragedy, they’ve been in self-cultural exile. Living in America as a Muslim has been a challenging ride and a constant struggle, every day stumbling over the bumps of the Islamophobia landscape, racism and the MAGA version of domestic terrorism. Even so, Muslims have celebrated the holy month of Ramadan in Times Square in New York, the city most associated with the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Thousands of Muslims proudly descended on the iconic square to celebrate their tradition. They prayed the “Taraweeh” Ramadan evening prayer surrounded by flashy, gigantic Madison Avenue billboard ads. Muslims also have gone mainstream here in Minneapolis, with the call for prayer (adhan) now allowed to be broadcast from speakers from mosques, bringing the community together to pray freely. This Ramadan, however, comes under a cloud — the slaughtering of Palestinians in Gaza. For more than five months now, the people of Gaza have been enduring constant bombing, ethnic cleansing, massacres, disease, hunger and starvation masterminded by the Israeli armies and by its Western allies, especially the Americans, providing the weapons, ammunition and political coverage. The people of Gaza are trapped among a Zionist racist ideology establishing a jewish state that is trying to behead a nation of natives, and a Western world that is accomplice to the slaughter, and an Arab Zionist leaders that are sitting on the sideline waiting for the Israeli to finish the job and finish Hamas. However, these brutalities and human travesty didn’t stop the people in Gaza from celebrating their Ramadan traditions. If the world has abandoned the Palestinians, Ramadan traditions could help them to raise their spirits, to survive.
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THE JEWISH VICTIMHOOD COMPLEX!!
The Jewish Victimization Complex
The Zionist project was built on a genocidal ideology, a
The homeland for the Jews, the native majority of the Palestinians, according to the Zionist founders and leaders, did not exist as invisible refugees. The State of Israel is Jewish and democratic goes the myth spouse for Christian Zionists and snowflakes liberals conversation; as a Palestinian activist explained, Israel is democratic for the Jews and Jewish for the Palestinians. Theodor Herzl (born May 2, 1860, Budapest, Hungary, Austrian Empire (now in Hungary) Founded Zionism, A movement to establish a Jewish homeland. He is the first to look at the Jews as a race and realized early on that the Jewish question was political, not religious; God is not in the real estate business. Zionist leaders started exploring places for the Jews all over places, in South America, Africa, and the American West, looking for vast lands
without people.
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How Football Explains the War Between Israel and Palestinians
The Jewish-Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman says in his brilliant book Modernity and the Holocaust that through history, most of the atrocities have been committed by people who follow orders and law, so what we need now to stop the Israeli genocide in Gaza for some Israeli soldiers to stop following orders, stop playing football and starts playing the beautiful game of Soccer!
How Football Explains the War Between Israel and Palestinians
Since the Israeli attack on Gaza where, in the last four months, a massive, indiscriminate bombing has killed over 30,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children. Destruction of a city of almost 3 million people. Lots of pundits, political analysts, military experts, and historians have been trying to explain the conflict and understand the Israeli Army’s barbarity and the human cruelty of the world that is watching as if it were a football match. If you want to understand the Americans’ fascination with the Zionist state and why so the Palestinian human tragedy story does not move many Americans? Americans’ justifications for their support for the Zionist state, some political, some religious, with millions of Christian Zionists, and getting God in the real estate business and worshiping land is not the way to go. But there is a cultural reason behind American fascination with Israeli aggression and violence:
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