“I could hug you! If you were corporeal and okay with physical acts of affection, of course.”
Daphne Walters in Ghosted in L.A. #1
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you both get a gun. let’s see who shoots who first.
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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.
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It’s been 18 years since 9/11 and the sad truth is that I find it harder and harder each year to care about posts talking about memorials and people who died as a result of the attacks. Yes, of course it’s sad, and yes, we lost a lot of lives that day, but we’re also outright just blatantly ignoring the fact that an entire population became the target afterward due to propaganda. The president at the time, George W. Bush, called the nation’s retaliation against Arabs, Muslims, and others from the Eastern Mediterranean and parts of South Asia, (“Middle East” being a somewhat controversial term due to it being coined by the West, furthering the concept of an “other”) a crusade. (Need I remind you all what happened during the actual Crusades? It was a fucking massacre.)
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.
I beg of all of you, please don’t fall into this propaganda/nationalist crap that the US has been perpetuating ever since 9/11, and give these poor people the acknowledgment that you give those (Americans) who died on this day. Everyone deserves a chance at healing and forgiveness.
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while still a decision that has me kinda conflicted bc maintaining three blogs sounds ...... Exhausting ... im thinking of moving all my kpop content over to @henderyten 👉🏼👈🏼
its still very under construction and its possible i’ll prove to be an indecisive gemini and just come back here but for now thats the plan. i’d appreciate if you followed me there! 🥰
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