TRUTH UNTOLD

“I could hug you! If you were corporeal and okay with physical acts of affection, of course.”

hi ~

hello frends (✿◕‿◕) hope u are all doing well. it is time for a mutual appreciation post as i haven’t done one in a while. im literally moving back to school on saturday so this seems like an opportune time. some of u guys have been my moots for a v long time, so much so that the content of my blog has changed drastically. thank u for supporting my messy multifandom blog. 

Check me out! I’m Robin, the boy wonder!

It absolutely breaks my heart to see so little acknowledgment of how the actions of the US devastated the lives of these people. To this day, there is still so much fear about being seen as Muslim or Arab or South Asian (Pakistani specifically). Some of these people still don’t wear head-coverings or even mention their practice, which is a huge part of their daily life. Airport security scrutinizes them and the media vilifies them. Where’s the sympathy and the empathy for their pain, for their suffering, for their loss? Their entire world was turned upside down on that day, yet rarely is there any mention of how our military, our nation, invaded their homes and their countries, and made them homogenous with the people who attacked the Twin Towers, just because they happened to have the same skin color and wore similar garb and spoke the common vernacular. 

The action of a marginal few should not define an entire population. Islam is not about violence. It’s about peace and love and acceptance. “Jihad” means “struggle”. The struggle in daily life just to exist as people, and the larger struggle to be a good person in the eyes of God/Allah and society. It does not mean “holy war”. There is no word for “holy war” in Islam, and that concept does not exist in Islamic theology. 

Anakin was a good friend. When I first met him, your father was already a great pilot. But I was amazed how strongly the Force was with him. I took it upon myself to train him as a Jedi. I thought that I could instruct him just as well as Yoda. I was wrong.