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A ruling by Quebec’s highest court upholding the law banning religious symbols to be worn by public sector employees in the workplace is “dangerous” and a “fascistic approach to human rights”, a Canadian anti-hate organisation said Friday, Anadolu Agency reports.
The secularism law, known as Bill 21, bans employees, such as teachers and police officers, from wearing religious symbols at work. Included are Muslim hijabs, Christian crosses, Sikh turbans and Jewish kippahs.
In a 200-page decision made public Thursday, the court upheld Bill 21 and also extended it to cover English school boards that had previously been exempt.
“Clearly the judges on the panel care little about the human rights of the communities primarily affected by the law who all happen to be racialised religious communities or the bigotry and racism that the law enables,” Canadians United Against Hate founder, Fareed Khan, said in a news release.
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If you think supporting a middle eastern country who's going through traumatic events is beneath you because "They're homophobic" let me remind you that:
LGBT people exist and live in those countries. And they're struggling with oppression more than anyone else there.
A society that is under the flames of war or is ruled by a radical oppressive government wouldn't grow and evolve culturally. If those nations are going to stop being homophobic, the way western countries did over the last century, they should be set free first.
So please do not keep quiet towards inhuman acts and cruelty. Be a voice to voiceless. We need your support more than ever now.
#mahsa amini#iran#oppression#radicalism#religious oppression#lgbt#lgbtq+#queer#homophobia#transphobia#muslim countries#asexual#gay#lesbian#bi#pan#middle east#politics
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do not only like posts that post about what's going on in iran. reblog them, spread the word, use the hashtags — make it so that it keeps trending.
iranians are fighting for freedom, for their rights that every human being deserves — freedom. expression. choice.
it doesn't require much to just — reblog, use the hashtags, and post it.
the government is shutting the internet off — they're killing people, they're trying to shun the voices of everyone who's protesting. they're killing anyone that comes in their way.
speak about it, spread the word.
use the voice that you have the privilege of — to spread what's happening with the protesters. do it, because that's the least you can do towards humanity.
do not, let the voices of these people ever be shunned, speak for them.
#help iran#iran protests#mahsa amini#religious oppression#islamic republic of iran#iran#freedom of choice#tw killing#tw: violence#tw
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" ... “See You at the Library,” the Brave Books campaign was aimed to promote children’s books with conservative values under the guise of protecting free speech. More than three dozen events of varying sizes were organized by local sponsors across the state of Texas. The largest of the gatherings occurred at Taylor Public Library in Williamson County, where they were sponsored by the Williamson County chapter of Citizens Defending Freedom, a national group that is simultaneously pushing to ban books elsewhere in Texas. State Representative Caroline Harris, a supporter of the recently passed bill banning transgender athletes in college sports, attended the event in Taylor. ..."
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Yup, it happened again! Third times the charm? May 23rd. 2023
The mural of Bettie Page on the side of Jessica Baxter’s house is one of the few works of art you can see from Interstate 5 in Seattle. But it seems not everyone is happy about it: Earlier this week, vandals used red paint to deface the mural, which features the 1950s pinup model, with her signature black bangs, and John Waters’ drag queen muse Divine. Also severely damage was the unprotected Britney Spears/Laura Palmer mural by Two Thangs that was destroyed.
The mural, located at the intersection of Seventh Avenue Northeast and Northeast 59th Street, was attacked at 2 a.m. Sunday, Baxter said. The vandal wore a compressed air tank which was filled filled with a red oil-based paint, she reported, “slowly walking around the house, soaking the mural as well as coating a separate kitchen that helps feed the homeless, leaving a mess behind”.
She said the vandals also made off with a “Black Lives Matter” sign.
The attack happened so quickly, Baxter said, that by the time she’d woken up and gotten to the window, whoever had targeted Bettie and Divine was gone.
Baxter said she had no idea who was behind the nocturnal attack. They “didn’t leave a calling card or manifesto,” she said wryly. She reported the attack to the police.
The mural has been more positively received by others. This is also the third time the Baxter home was targeted.
A GoFundMe page set up to cover the expenses of the repainting had already exceeded its $4,000 fundraising goal as of Thursday afternoon. “That mural is tied to many good summer memories and it is a beautiful piece of art!” wrote one donor.
Originally painted in 2005 by artist John Green, the mural was previously attacked in 2016. Also in late June of that year, vandals threw gray paint on the mural and, reported The Seattle Times at the time, left a message — “Stop exploiting women’s bodies” — signed only “some feminists.”
Contemporaneous accounts and comments from those who knew or engaged with Page’s work would suggest this is a misreading.
As artist Olivia De Berardinis told the Los Angeles Times in a 2008 obituary of the model: “[I]t took me years to understand what I was looking at in the old photographs of her. Now I get it. There was a passion play unfolding in her mind. What some see as a bad-girl image was in fact a certain sensual freedom and playacting — it was part of the fun of being a woman.”
After the 2016 vandalism, artist Two Thangs repaired the damage to Page and added the second image, this one of drag queen Divine.
“The ladies became fast friends and we were so proud to have such incredible and unique art on our house to share with the I-5 passersby,” wrote Baxter on the GoFundMe page. “People tell us all the time that they love the painting and it makes us so happy to contribute to a sense of community that was once [a] hallmark in Seattle but has been on the decline.”
Baxter said Two Thangs would be returning this month to repair the work again. “We’re gonna keep putting it back up,” she said.
On her GoFundMe page, Baxter said that house painters she’d already hired for a different project “sprung into action” the morning the mural was defaced, using a pressure washer and paint thinner on a historically hot day to clean up most of the “oil-based red glop.” But Bettie and Divine “will still need touch ups.”
For that, Two Thangs will be flown in from Rhode Island to work his magic on the icons. “We just want our girls back and we want him to be well compensated for it,” said Baxter. Any donations over the goal will go to support the LGBTQ Youth organisation at Lambert House.
If you with to contribute i have added the link to the Baxters Go Fund Me page which includes further information on the destruction.
#bettie page#bettiepage#sexy#long hair#beautiful smile#long legs#betty page#beautiful face#beautiful eyes#bettie page house#vandalism#religious oppression#God squad
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#quotes#susan b. anthony#feminist quotes#critical thinking#thoughts#systemic oppression#religious oppression#religious misogyny
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By: Yasmine Mohammed
Published: Sep 23, 2022
I am grateful that Mahsa Amini's name is making headlines.
Mahsa is the 22 year old Kurdish girl from Iran who was beaten to death by the morality police—a morality police devoid of any morality—for not covering her hair to their satisfaction.
I am grateful that people are paying attention to this young woman who was killed because of a few strands of hair. But I am also incredibly angry, frustrated, and infuriated that our screams have been ignored for so long. I am so sorry that it had to take a young woman losing her life by being brutally beaten until she was brain dead for the world to finally notice our screams.
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It's not for lack of trying on our part.
We screamed when Aqsa Parvaz, a sixteen year old girl in Ontario, Canada was strangled to death by her father and brother over hijab.
We screamed when two sisters from Texas, Amina and Sarah Said, were shot and killed by their father as well.
We screamed when Banaz Mahmod was killed by her family in the United Kingdom, chopped up and stuffed into a suitcase and buried in her family's backyard.
We screamed every time women in Pakistan, Algeria, and Egypt were killed over hijab.
But no one heard our screams.
Instead, people in the West continued to regurgitate the Islamist propaganda, insisting to we who know better that that wearing hijab is simply "an empowering choice."
What are our choices? Wear it or suffer the consequences? The word "choice" is a lie in this context.
We watched major corporations like Nike and Lululemon endorse this tool of misogyny by putting their insignia on hijabs.
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We watched politicians, journalists, and other female leaders choose to subjugate themselves by wearing the hijab and covering their shame when they stood to address a religious extremist man.
You continued to parade the hijab on the cover of your magazines and books as if it was nothing more than benign cultural dress.
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You not only ignored our screams, but you actively supported our oppressors. You actively supported extremists who encouraged you to make child-size hijabs in the name of inclusion and diversity.
Endorsing hijab on children is endorsing child abuse and gender segregation. Those are not cultural values; those are toxic misogynist ideals.
As Masih Alinejad, the fearless campaigner for Iranian women, has said, "It is an insult to a nation to tell us that hijab is our culture, that gender segregation and misogyny is our culture."
Iranian women and their supporters are not interested in upholding misogynist traditions that demand we cover our shameful bodies, shameful hair, and even shameful faces. We are interested in the same bodily autonomy and personal freedoms that you enjoy.
We are not aliens from a subspecies. We are human beings too. We are fighting for our lives and the lives of our sisters and our daughters and all the women and girls who will come after us.
We are not even asking you to support us. We are just asking you to stop supporting our oppressors. We are asking you to hear our screams.
Yasmine Mohammed is the author of Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam and the Founder and President of not for profit human rights organization Free Hearts Free Minds.
#Yasmine Mohammed#Mahsa Amini#Iran#Islam#hijab#hijabi#Islamic Republic of Iran#Islamic Repubic#religious oppression#oppression#actual patriarchy#hijab is oppressive#islamic misogyny#misogyny#religion of oppression#religion of misogyny#religion#religious extremism#religion is a mental illness
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𝙸 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝙴𝚅𝙸𝙻 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚔 𝚘𝚏..
#show yourselves#divine woman#practice what you preach#carrie#carrie white#chloe grace moretz#blood is sacred#horror icons#2013 nostalgia#as above so below#religious oppression#1976#do unto others as you will do yourself#walk with me
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“You got your life from a woman so you can take the lives of other women. How ungrateful you are”
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Christian Zionist fail
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WHEN IS OPERATION AMERICAN WOMEN AND YOUNG GIRLS FREEDOM GOING TO START?
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Delusion 2 - Liberty in Chains
Galatians 5:1 – Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
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In Delusion 1, we discussed the violent and angry roots of Christianity, and by default Judaism. Now let us look at one of the core tenants of mainstream and fundamentalist Christianity, the delusion of freedom in their chains. As seen in…
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#arguments against christianity#Christian Nationalism#christianty#delusional beliefs#featured#religious freedom#religious oppression#theocracy
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#religious fascism#religious oppression#separation of church and state#us constitution#womens rights#human rights
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On Freedom From Religion
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BELIEVE AND YE SHALL BE SAVED?
Do parents have the right to indoctrinate their children?
For millennia, most cultures have acted as if the answer is ‘yes’ — using everything from physical violence to threats of damnation to ensure each successive generation followed like sheep.
Now, finally, someone, somewhere has said, ‘no’.
In December 2022, Japan…
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#autonomy#child development#Cila Warncke#education#fundamentalist religion#Japan religion law#mental health#religious freedom#religious oppression
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