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There is currently an online trend where various YouTube channels are posting videos about the numerous mysterious arson attacks on Japanese temples. And the comment section of every single video is full of comments that claim the fires are being started by muslims and they also claim that muslims are doing the same to churches in Europe.
This is a false narrative that is being spread bots all over YouTube.
The idea that muslims have been targeting churches began when the Notre-Dame Cathedral in France caught fire back in 2019. At first the cause of the fire was unknown but the Alt-Right used it as an opportunity to put the blame on muslims.
However, investigators eventually came to the conclusion that the fire was started either by a cigarette or a short-circuit in the electrical system.
This narrative has now been resurrected and is being spread across YouTube by bots.
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🧠 Challenge Time!
Who is considered the first naval ⚓ commander in Islam?
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Scott Pelley’s departure from 60 Minutes yesterday marks the end of an era for many Americans from my generation and those older than me.
For decades, I watched 60 Minutes report from war zones, expose corruption, document the COVID-19 pandemic, and tell stories that mattered. Journalists on the 60 Minutes team represented journalism at its best. They asked the difficult questions …. regardless of who held power.
What concerns me today is what the loss of Pelley symbolizes. Across the country, we are witnessing growing pressure on independent journalism, public institutions, and constitutional norms that many Americans once took for granted.
Outside of science, my favorite subject is history. History teaches us that democratic erosion very rarely happens at once. It occurs gradually. It’s instituted through the normalization of attacks on the press, the weakening of institutional guardrails, and the public’s growing acceptance of actions that would have once been unthinkable.
Whether you identify as a conservative, liberal, or independent…the freedom of the press should never be a partisan issue. As a naturalized citizen, one of the most powerful draws for the US press, was that it existed to hold power accountable, regardless of who is in office.
This is admittedly complex for me. For decades, I have criticized the partisan and often deeply flawed way much of American media has covered Islamophobia, wars in Muslim-majority countries, and the suffering of Muslim communities around the world. Including in the US.
I have unequivocally seen that certain voices, lives, and tragedies were treated as less worthy of empathy, scrutiny, or sustained coverage.
Yet even with those criticisms, I recognize that the answer to imperfect journalism is not weakened journalism. The answer is better journalism. More independent journalism. More investigative journalism. More voices. More accountability. More freedom to challenge those in power.
I am not naive. I fully am aware that a free press will sometimes disappoint us. It will get stories wrong. It will reflect the biases and shortcomings of the society from which it emerges. I do not believe that the remedy for those failures is intimidation, retaliation, and definitely not the erosion of press freedom.
As an adult, an immigrant from a third world country (one with the 5th weakest passport in the world), I wholly think that the remedy is a stronger press. It is one that is more courageous. It must be more rigorous. A journalist is a warrior with a pen, they must be more willing to ask difficult questions of everyone in power.
Never have I envisioned, or thought, that the answer was less.
What troubles me most is that the conversation is no longer confined to journalism. I’m aghast as I read, speak with others, and watch across multiple sectors of American life dissent has become more unwelcome. Criticism has become too costly. The long standing rights and norms I grew up with as a young immigrant girl in Illinois, who now calls Texas home, becoming increasingly fragile.
For a long while now, a question has been clanking around in my mind: if institutions, professions, and communities can be pressured into silence, at what point will ordinary citizens voices be next to be silenced?
As Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1786: “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited is without being lost.”
Google, Airbnb, Microsoft, Booking.com, Open AI, Coca-cola… all these companies support Israel. List on the comments all businesses you know that support the genocide, and let’s cancel them.
One day u will get a news
Iran and israel were working together to destroy Arabs including Palestinians and it's just a drama for them they are close allies with usa ,and they blame uae or Arabs so stupid people u r ?
Also there will be a sudden news of Controlling the Nuclear energy and it's already been made but they won't tell for now 🚨🚨💅💅💅
Reason the patience is running thin in today’s generation and it’s becoming easier to cancel, block, and say thank u next is because of how beautiful and convenient the non halal options the Dajjal system has made.
With credit cards your life is one tap away from getting anything you want that you otherwise would have had to be patient not receiving if you were told no.
Credit cards create more opportunities, those opportunities create more jobs, how do you fill those jobs? We’ll glorify everyone working to capitalist society. How do you do that? Make everyone fight with each other and idealize the you’re better off living alone mindset.
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