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🧠 Challenge Time!
Who is considered the first naval ⚓ commander in Islam?
A shocking case has emerged from Pune, where a 27-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly kidnapping a 29-year-old man after he refused to marry her. According to police, the accused, along with several accomplices, planned and executed the abduction by forcibly taking the victim in a vehicle and moving him to another location. Acting swiftly on information received, law enforcement officials launched a search operation and successfully rescued the victim within hours. Multiple suspects have been taken into custody, and a case has been registered under relevant legal provisions. Further investigation into the incident is ongoing.
🗽The word 'government' literally means 'mind control or rule over mind'..🏛️govern is rule over, or control..right? ..and -ment- is from the Latin -mente- which means mind..and is also root of the word 'mental'💡...🧠think about it🏦
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.”
WE MUST NEVER FORGET
Imran Khan has SACRIFICED 1033 DAYS of HIS LIBERTY, HIS COMFORT, and FOUR YEARS of HIS LIFE for the RIGHTS and FUTURE of PAKISTANIS and PAKISTAN.
Imran Khan is an ENIGMA.
Imran Khan’s RESILIENCE in the face of RELENTLESS PRESSURE is extraordinary.
PEOPLE LOVE HIM FOR WHO HE IS.
THIS LEVEL of POPULARITY SCARES THE ESTABLISHMENT AND FAKE GOVERNMENT.
#Chalo_Chalo_Adiyalah_Chalo
#ReleaseLeaderOfPakistan #ComeToStreetsForKhan #NoDealNoSurrender
I wonder when America was ever a red strawberry in the first place!! It's always been rotten, just like Israel.
WATCH: Footage shows four consecutive Iskander-M ballistic missile strikes on Kyiv last night
More than 20 missiles have targeted the Ukrainian capital.
Hanzala 2 ship resumes its movement to break the blockade of Gaza
The ship "Hanzale 2" resumed its journey from the capital of Sweden, following the series of international actions to break the sea blockade of the Gaza Strip.
The ship, which carries a message of solidarity with the Palestinian people, continues its journey as part of an ongoing campaign to counter the blockade of Gaza.