Ira Ali

In my country, there’s very little awareness towards sexual harassment and they don’t take rape seriously.

In the first panel, is the tendency for the authorities (and even guardians) to blame the victim for being raped. Victims are discouraged to go to report the sexual abuse in fear of ‘shaming the family’ and to cover up the rapist bad behaviour. Muslims believe in covering up one’s bad behaviour to not spread ill about others, however, this ‘belief’ tend to get misinterpreted. In Islam, rape is a sin and it’s ironic that we don’t take it as a serious crime.

In the second panel, if a man gets sexually assaulted by a woman, people say he should feel lucky for getting such ‘opportunity’. In addition, if a man gets sexually assaulted by another man, they’d blame him for having a pretty face.

Thirdly, if a child gets raped by an older person, usually someone they know, marriage is their only solution. Again, it to 'cover up the shame’. Why do they approve the idea of victims living the rest of her life with the person who hurt her?

Fourth, our people like to wish death threats as punishment towards outspoken women. It doesn’t matter if she’s a famous figure or an activist, it doesn’t matter if her statement is dumb or not. Rape threats shouldn’t be used as a form of disagreement. It’s worse when a woman is wants it to happen to another woman.

All of these needs to stop.

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Why would you give someone the power to tell you that you can’t go further when they don’t even know how far you’ve come? - #stevemaraboli

Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.

Opia: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.

Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

Énouement: The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.

Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.

Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.

Kenopsia: The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.

Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.

Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.

Chrysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.

Vemödalen: The frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.

Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening

Ellipsism: A sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out.

Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.

Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster – to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.

Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.

Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.

Rückkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.

Nodus Tollens: The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.

Onism: The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.

Liberosis: The desire to care less about things.

Altschmerz: Weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had – the same boring flaws and anxieties that you’ve been gnawing on for years.

Today the Department of Awesomely Good Deeds salutes Mustafa Efe, Imam at the Mahmud Hüdayi Mosque in the historical Üsküdar district of Istanbul, Turkey. In addition to his religious and community leadership work, Efe is a devoted animal lover with a great big heart. Last year he began welcoming the city’s numerous stray cats and their kittens into his mosque. Efe refers to his feline visitors as “guests” and wants them to find safety and warmth within the walls of his historic mosque, particularly during the cold winter months.

One mama cat was observed bringing her newborn kittens into the mosque one by one. She carried them in her mouth up the stairs and over to the safety of the mosque’s pulpit, where she proceeded to groom and feed them:

On Facebook Imam Efe wrote, “The kitty has found the heart of compassion and mercy.” Meanwhile other feline guests are known to sit in on Imam Efe’s sermons alongside human congregation members.