A Bandaid cannot help a corpse

21-year-old, Dia'a Al-Talahmeh died today in the village of Khursa, near Hebron.

The Israeli army claims that Al-Talahmeh died while handling a makeshift explosive device. The Palestinian security officials say that he was shot dead by Israeli soldiers.

At Least 70 Dead Refugees Found in Truck on Austria Highway

I just want people on this website to realize what the fuck is happening in europe and the middle east at the moment. I just want things not to be centered around america and dumb ass political jokes. People are getting murdered, raped, assaulted and abducted & even when they try to escape, their chance on a good life is small.

This is fucking disgusting (source).

They literally stopped the whole show to make her leave. They put her in a position where the entire audience would blame her if the show didn’t go on, rather than blaming the islamophobic fuckers who refuse to preform just because a tourist chooses to have her face covered.

But hey, this is totally a “post-racial society!!! everyone is respected regardless of race or religion!!!”

 Non-Muslim Cold Lake citizens are rallying around their Muslim neighbour after the local mosque was vandalized.

Both front windows of the Cold Lake Mosque were broken and the words “go home” and “Canada” were spray-painted in red on the outside of the building sometime Thursday night.

"The writing hurts. This is my home, this is our home. This is the only home we have. Cold Lake is our home. Canada is our home," said mosque member Mahmoud El-Kadri, who discovered the vandalism about 6 a.m. Friday when he arrived to pray.

A steady stream of business leaders and citizens came in through the front door of the mosque Friday offering support. Members of the mosque later gathered posters, flowers and gifts from the community and displayed them by the windows that were smashed.

Why I Hate the Images from Kabul and Syria to Boston.

April 20, 2013 By Grace Biskie 

When is it coming to get me?

When is breast cancer coming for me?

When is someone coming to shoot up my son’s elementary school?

When is a tornado ripping my house from root to roof?

When is a bomb blowing up the next race I’m training for?

It has hit home for me, yes.  But I’m keenly aware that people all over the world are bombarded with these when-am-I-next questions every. single. day.

I hate the image above.  And I hate the ‘To Boston from Kabul with Love’ image too. I hate them because of how ashamed they make me feel at my complete indifference to their vulnerability.  I hate the images because we haven’t sent them back. I hate that we’ve never sent a “From America with Love to Kabul!”

As an African-American I’ve lived with a greater sense of vulnerability for me & my black brothers.  And then I’ve watched some die.  Their vulnerability was not a ploy to misuse government funds.  As disconnected as they were from the surrounding white suburbs they were still every bit as vulnerable even when mistrusted & ignored.  There are gay kids living with this when-am-I-next type of vulnerability.  There are little girls everywhere living with when-am-I-next to be raped?  These realities exist whether we turn a blind eye or not.

As much as I hate the evil and mourn with the victims of the latest atrocities I believe this is a golden opportunity for us Average Joe Americans (and other 1st world citizens) to stand in solidarity not only with places like Syria but also with those who feel perpetually vulnerable in our own country day after day after day.

Growing up a poor kid in the inner city, I’ve felt that vulnerability.  I’ve seen what living as a perpetually vulnerable person or family does.  It’s destructive.  It’s ugly.  It’s hopeless.  I’ve also wrestled those gutted transactions between those who don’t believe in the vulnerability of others who show impatience and disgust.  Distrust of your words and motives and actual needs.

How can we extend greater grace & mercy to people who feel perpetually vulnerable?

Can we harness our current pain to invest in our world’s most vulnerable?

Can we use these horrible events as a catalyst to get off our lazy behinds and help the vulnerable within our immediate vicinity?

Can we pray for Boston and follow it with a prayer for Syria?

Can we stick “God Bless the World” stickers on our bumpers instead of “God Bless America?”

Can we pray for Waco, Texas and follow it with a prayer for all the unemployed & homeless in Detroit, Michigan?

Can we pray for God’s peace and grace to rest heavily on Afghanistan?  On Chechnya?

Can we extend more patience to those on food stamps?

Can we give more grace to people you typically don’t trust for one reason or another?

These tragedies are giving us sheltered Americans & 1st world countries a mutual experience by which to understand more deeply fellow human beings all over the world.

May we steward it well.

And to my brothers & sisters in Syria & Kabul I have a message for you:(last image above)

Join me & my children this morning in praying for Shalom on earth.

The first and the oldest university in the whole world was founded by a Moroccan Muslim woman; Fatima Al-Fihri in 841 CE. University of al-Qarawiyyin Fez, Morocco.

And how many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died?

And how many years can some people exist before they are allowed to be free?