Please if you’re Muslim today especially if you’re a woman and you wear hijab please please please be careful they are out here with something called attack a Muslim day it’s ugly it’s racist it’s islamophobic just Please be aware of your surroundings if you can stay out of majority white areas stay away if you can just chill out today inside the do so because today is going to be very ugly cuz people are very ugly please stay safe
Also if you’re a Sikh please be safe because racists have no discernment and they might try to snatch your turban too and scarves as well, also if you see any Sikh or any Muslim people and you see someone being menacing towards them stick up for them because it’s rough out here
The headscarf, created as part of a campaign to push for same-sex marriage in Australia, sold out days after it was launched in October, Australian-Sri Lankan Azahn Munas told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone.
The designer said he was relaunching it for the Australian city’s famous festival on March 3 to“celebrate life and love”, and highlight the struggles of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
“We have had such a great response including from countries in the Middle East and East Asia. People were so happy that we acknowledged their identity but not in a negative way,” said Munas, who founded the Melbourne-based label MOGA in 2016.
“They live in fear and persecution, they can’t live a free life because of where they live – we want to do this as a way to support them.”
Australia legalized same-sex unions in December after a national postal survey overwhelmingly endorsed marriage equality.
“Americans are arguing over whether Trump or president Barack Obama is responsible for the victory.
It is a self-absorbed and shameful debate, as though the whole world revolves around America’s broken two-party system. As for Trump’s egomania of the three-year-old sort, where everything that happens while he is alive derives from him, surely we need not take it seriously enough to argue with it.
ISIL was defeated by local Muslims, with air support and strategic advice from the United States and from Iran. But literally thousands of local Muslim troops died for this victory, and it is their’s.”
The Jedi and the Force of the Church are space Muslims. Order 66, the destruction of Jedha, and the massacre of Tuanul were all parts of the Empire and later First Order’s genocidal campaign against Muslims.
Their priesthood, the al-Jeddi (masters of the mystic warrior way in Sufi Islam) were systematcally slaughtered, their holy city desecrated, stripped of its much-coveted resources, then leveled without a trace. Even lay adherents were considered fair game to be hunted down and killed if they got in the way of a campaign of expansion and imperialism.
I can see Jedha as being an allegory of the War on Terror, but Jedi are primarily Buddhist and other eastern religions. If you’re looking for a real-world allegory for them, you might see it in South Vietnam’s anti-Buddhist sentiment early in the Vietnam War.
Interesting.
Keep in mind, that last comparison may be heavily colored by me watching that episode of Ken Burns’s The Vietnam War, LOL.
I mean obviously the fictional elements in Star Wars are open to a lot of different interpretations and when I say the Jedi are space Muslims I don’t rule out other influences/allegories. The tags in the OP and especially @sithchirrut’s comments discuss parallels to the repression of Judaism and the history of the Jewish people, too.
“South Vietname’s anti-Buddhist sentiment” is a bit misleading, I think, because it sounds like the populace of South Vietnam had an anti-Buddhist bias. This would be odd given that South Vietnam was 70-80% Buddhist at the time. A more accurate way to put it would be “the South Vietnamese government’s policy of anti-Buddhist repression.“ Which wasn’t a smart thing to do given demographics, but this is the same government that managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory so…
Certainly, as I mentioned in the meta about Chirrut, his final walk had echoes of peaceful monks protesting in the face of gunfire. I also remember looking at the palm trees and the beach at Scarif, not to mention the stealth tactics of the Rebels, and being reminded of the Vietnam War.
The Jedi and the Force of the Church are space Muslims. Order 66, the destruction of Jedha, and the massacre of Tuanul were all parts of the Empire and later First Order’s genocidal campaign against Muslims.
Their priesthood, the al-Jeddi (masters of the mystic warrior way in Sufi Islam) were systematcally slaughtered, their holy city desecrated, stripped of its much-coveted resources, then leveled without a trace. Even lay adherents were considered fair game to be hunted down and killed if they got in the way of a campaign of expansion and imperialism.
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