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Eid Mubarak

Eid mubarak to all those celebrating! May Allah accept all our good deeds and keep us on the straight path In Sha Allah

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Ramadan Mubarak to all those celebrating, for the first timers and to the fiftieth timers, may Allah have mercy upon us all in this blessed month.

Please remember all those who are oppressed in your duas and want for your brother what you would want for yourself. Do not let this month full of blessings and mercy go by without making sincere prayers for the freedom of the oppressed.

May Allah free Palestine, Syria, Congo, Sudan, Kashmir, Armenia, Uighur, and all those who are suffering under tyranny at this moment.

Verily, with hardship comes ease

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Listen up

Can we please stop talking about Palestine as if Palestine doesn't exist anymore?

Can we please stop talking about Palestinians as if they aren't alive anymore?

Can we please stop talking to Palestinians as if they're frail and innocent human beings incapable of speaking for themselves?

Can we just realize that this isn't our fight to give up on, that Palestinians are not fictional characters, that Palestinians feel anger and hatred and sadness and grief much more than us non-Palestinians could ever understand?

Can we just realize that we are not better than other people because we support Palestine, that we are not heroes for supporting Palestine, that we are normal human beings perfectly capable of thinking that by supporting Palestine it somehow makes us morally correct when in fact all supporting Palestine does is supporting the idea that EVERYONE deserves rights?

The reality is that Palestine STILL exists, Palestinians are STILL alive, this fight for their freedom doesn't end until THEY ARE FREE and your support does NOT make you a better person. Stop thinking that Palestinians exist on this realm that is free from human emotion and that they're perfect people when they're just normal humans beings trying to live normal human lives.

Accept that.

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The days leading to Ramadan doesn't feel like the days leading to Ramadan. Maybe it's a personal experience, maybe others can sympathize, regardless this Ramadan do not forget to keep the oppressed in your duas.

Pray for Sudan, Congo, Armenia, Kashmir, Uyghur, and every other oppressed group of people as much as you would for Palestine. Do not let this month where all prayers are accepted go by without praying every single day for the freedom of the oppressed.

Remember that when we fast, there are others who fast involuntarily. Remember that when we break our fasts, others cannot. Remember that every drop of water, every bite of food, every breath of fresh air, and every day that we wake up without a threat to our life is a blessing that not everyone has.

Please donate to organizations that aim to provide those who are deserving of aid. Please donate to those who are needy in your own neighborhood. Please do not lose hope that the oppressed will be victorious because we do not have that right to grieve for a fight that is being fought every single day by people are have been stripped of their basic human rights.

Even if you are not Muslim or believe in a higher power, please do not forget about those who are suffering. Let us continue to elevate the voices of those under oppression until freedom is achieved.

Remember that we are not free until we are all free

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Ramadan is tomorrow. Now is the best time to make dua. Remember that this is the month of blessings and mercy - wish for your brother what you would wish for yourself.

With Ramadan less than a month away...I can only pray that Allah makes it easy for the Muslims in Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Congo, Kashmir, and every country where people are oppressed.

In Sha Allah this Ramadan, things will change for the better. In Sha Allah this Ramadan, the Israeli Apartheid Regime will fall and Palestinians will have their land back.

Please keep those who are oppressed in your duas and please don't stop talking about oppression

[naartjie-hijabi]

The days leading to Ramadan doesn't feel like the days leading to Ramadan. Maybe it's a personal experience, maybe others can sympathize, regardless this Ramadan do not forget to keep the oppressed in your duas.

Pray for Sudan, Congo, Armenia, Kashmir, Uyghur, and every other oppressed group of people as much as you would for Palestine. Do not let this month where all prayers are accepted go by without praying every single day for the freedom of the oppressed.

Remember that when we fast, there are others who fast involuntarily. Remember that when we break our fasts, others cannot. Remember that every drop of water, every bite of food, every breath of fresh air, and every day that we wake up without a threat to our life is a blessing that not everyone has.

Please donate to organizations that aim to provide those who are deserving of aid. Please donate to those who are needy in your own neighborhood. Please do not lose hope that the oppressed will be victorious because we do not have that right to grieve for a fight that is being fought every single day by people are have been stripped of their basic human rights.

Even if you are not Muslim or believe in a higher power, please do not forget about those who are suffering. Let us continue to elevate the voices of those under oppression until freedom is achieved.

Remember that we are not free until we are all free

[naartjie-hijabi]

Listen up

Can we please stop talking about Palestine as if Palestine doesn't exist anymore?

Can we please stop talking about Palestinians as if they aren't alive anymore?

Can we please stop talking to Palestinians as if they're frail and innocent human beings incapable of speaking for themselves?

Can we just realize that this isn't our fight to give up on, that Palestinians are not fictional characters, that Palestinians feel anger and hatred and sadness and grief much more than us non-Palestinians could ever understand?

Can we just realize that we are not better than other people because we support Palestine, that we are not heroes for supporting Palestine, that we are normal human beings perfectly capable of thinking that by supporting Palestine it somehow makes us morally correct when in fact all supporting Palestine does is supporting the idea that EVERYONE deserves rights?

The reality is that Palestine STILL exists, Palestinians are STILL alive, this fight for their freedom doesn't end until THEY ARE FREE and your support does NOT make you a better person. Stop thinking that Palestinians exist on this realm that is free from human emotion and that they're perfect people when they're just normal humans beings trying to live normal human lives.

Accept that.

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I hope you have a wonderful Ramadan!

I'll take the chance to make as much dua as I can, thats for sure!

Shukran and I hope you have a wonderful Ramadan as well In Sha Allah ❤️

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Going to be logging off once Ramadan starts in an attempt to clear my head and focus on things.

It's only March, yet it feels like a year and I'm so incredibly exhausted. Not because of Palestine, God, I'll die before I give up protesting for their freedom, but because of life in general.

I started uni this year and it's been difficult to say the least. Lost my high school friends and had to make new ones, got scammed out of money because people took advantage of me, moved out of my home only to be out in residence where people party every day, wrote my first test and probably failed...and that's not even mentioning the health issues I've been having since February started.

It's been tough but I'll get through it eventually. I'll probably be back once Ramadan ends or my first semester ends, depending on how everything goes but since this will probably be my last post for a while, I sincerely hope that Palestine will be free soon.

Do not stop talking about Palestine and do not stop talking about oppression. You can limit the amount of media you consume, but you cannot limit the amount that you care. A single post or reblog might not mean much to you but spreading awareness and speaking out against oppression is the least you can do.

Ramadan Mubarak and happy Easter to everyone who will celebrating. Please do not forget to keep those who are oppressed in your prayers.

[naartjie-hijabi]

The days leading to Ramadan doesn't feel like the days leading to Ramadan. Maybe it's a personal experience, maybe others can sympathize, regardless this Ramadan do not forget to keep the oppressed in your duas.

Pray for Sudan, Congo, Armenia, Kashmir, Uyghur, and every other oppressed group of people as much as you would for Palestine. Do not let this month where all prayers are accepted go by without praying every single day for the freedom of the oppressed.

Remember that when we fast, there are others who fast involuntarily. Remember that when we break our fasts, others cannot. Remember that every drop of water, every bite of food, every breath of fresh air, and every day that we wake up without a threat to our life is a blessing that not everyone has.

Please donate to organizations that aim to provide those who are deserving of aid. Please donate to those who are needy in your own neighborhood. Please do not lose hope that the oppressed will be victorious because we do not have that right to grieve for a fight that is being fought every single day by people are have been stripped of their basic human rights.

Even if you are not Muslim or believe in a higher power, please do not forget about those who are suffering. Let us continue to elevate the voices of those under oppression until freedom is achieved.

Remember that we are not free until we are all free

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Source: @joshmayfieldartist on Instagram

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As an Indian from Durban I *totally* get you with that anon ask, and ugh, I’m sorry that you’re getting that sort of thing even online. Like… sure, whilst BEE and such aren’t perfect (most black people in our country still live in the country, people on top profit), they’re not white discrimination. I went to private school and I can tell anon that while on paper things like BEE seem like they’re ’against whites’ or smth, white people here in general still have an INSANE amount of money, connections, and assets from the Apartheid era, often built on the human rights abuses of that time, and most don’t care about helping disadvantaged people in the country now. My parents saved for decades for our house, which is fairly large and built on part of the LAWN of our neighbour’s house (a several story house owned by an older white guy). His kid went to my private school, and so I found out that this wasn’t even the only house he owned. My family only paid off our house last year, since my dad had to drop out of uni as he couldn’t afford it and opted to get a job to support his family instead. He broke his leg at that job and it still hurts him because he couldn’t afford time off to get it fixed. All that inequality from Aparthied, a lot of it and a lot of its echoes are still here. To say that it’s not is… you know?

honestly, I'm just hoping that the previous anon was asking out of good faith and nothing more.

BEE and BBEEE in practice aren't great but these systems that were implemented to ensure that POC have an equal footing with white people are being abused by white people. My dad worked in a company where he was the ONLY person of colour in a management position and getting paid a basic salary whereas his white colleagues got paid more for the same job or even less but he was there for "points" - not that he was unqualified but he wasn't being treated equally.

One of my friends is white and while she is by no means rich, she's fairly middle class altho in SA that's barely anything, but she's slightly more well-off than I am. Even still, her skin colour grants her privilege in walking in places where I as a coloured person would feel so uncomfortable. In 2024, people still stare when your skin colour is different and it's so disgustingly backwards.

But I totally understand how you feel anon. my dad couldn't finish uni cause he dropped out to fight against Apartheid, my mom was friends with Ashley Kriel, a coloured freedom fighter who was killed by the Apartheid regime, my uncle and aunt had to flee the country, meanwhile my aunt back home played white because she has pale skin and my dad who's incredibly dark for a coloured man was called derogatory names growing up because of his skin colour.

I'm also so incredibly sorry for your dad and pray that things will only get better for you and your family and you're totally right, denying the realities of Apartheid and the consequences thereof is a slap in the face to everyone who suffered. The people who complain are the people who benefitted and are more worried about losing what they gained through others' losses than helping or caring about anyone that's not part of their community.

The denial of white privilege and the idea that white people are being discriminated against is ludicrous. I live in CAPE TOWN, opposite every affluent white neighborhood is informal settlements. Hell, the neighborhood I currently live in is a white area and people own FERRARIS whereas my family's car breaks down every 5 minutes.

But anyways, I truly do believe that South Africa will gey better. I love this country wholeheartedly and I just want everyone to experience the same level of privilege and have access to all that is needed to succeed in life.

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Hey, I hope it's okay to ask. You have mentioned in an ask to another person about the situation with racism and inequality in South Africa, that white Afrikaans still have more privilege and more economically secure. Could you elaborate on that or maybe suggest some resources? Personally I have seen a lot of info about how black South Africans have regained all the societal and economic power and white South Africans aren't privileged and are even sometimes discriminated against in applying for jobs for example, so I wanted to know what is the actual case in there. Sorry for disturbing.

Sorry about only replying to this now - it completely slipped my mind.

Before getting into this, Anon, I genuinely do not know where you even got that idea because as a South African, more specifically a coloured South African...that statement of white South Africans not being privileged or being discriminated against is simply false.

In 2023 (source: worldometers.info) South Africa had a population of approximately 60,414,495 people. Of these 60,414,495 people, black South Africans are the dominant population group at 81.4%, followed by the coloured population at 8.2% and the white population having decreased from 8.9% in 2011 to 7.3% in 2022 (source: SA census 2022)

Now since you have that picture in mind, let's move on to the statistics that will disprove the so-called "white discrimination"

As of third quarter of 2023, SA had an unemployment rate of 31.9% (source: tradingeconomics.com). In the second quarter of 2023, black people amounted to being the highest unemployed race with 36% while white people made up 8% (source:businesstech.com) - statistically, black people would have made the most unemployed group because of the difference in population size, but this does speak volumes when attempting to answer your question of black people regaining their economical power.

Moving on to education:

In 2022, black South Africans only had 5.5% of individuals enrolled in a higher education institution and fully participated. White South Africans amounted to 17.7% (source: statista.com) now remember the difference in population size when comparing these two groups. Black South Africans remains proportionately low in comparison to other race groups in SA

Access to health:

It's important to note that public healthcare in SA is a far cry to what it should be and that private healthcare is the most reliable. However, it's near impossible to afford access to private healthcare without medical aid.

In 2022, 71.9% of white South Africans had access to medical aid whereas 9.7% of black South Africans had access to medical aid. (source: SA census 2022)

This is only a brief insight to what SA is like and I can dedicate a post solely on the housing issue in SA. Anon, I'm sincerely hoping your ask wasn't a troll because white people have an insane amount of privilege that never left, their crying about "white genocide" and "white discrimination" is pure BS because as a coloured girl who grew up in Cape Town, I can assure you that I've seen so much more privilege experienced by white people than I have ever seen by any other race group.

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Palestinian women and girls matter

Sudanese women and girls matter

Congolese women and girls matter

Yemeni women and girls matter

Don't forget about them this national woman's day

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And just who is giving them permission because i know damn well it isn't the people who legally live there

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The days leading to Ramadan doesn't feel like the days leading to Ramadan. Maybe it's a personal experience, maybe others can sympathize, regardless this Ramadan do not forget to keep the oppressed in your duas.

Pray for Sudan, Congo, Armenia, Kashmir, Uyghur, and every other oppressed group of people as much as you would for Palestine. Do not let this month where all prayers are accepted go by without praying every single day for the freedom of the oppressed.

Remember that when we fast, there are others who fast involuntarily. Remember that when we break our fasts, others cannot. Remember that every drop of water, every bite of food, every breath of fresh air, and every day that we wake up without a threat to our life is a blessing that not everyone has.

Please donate to organizations that aim to provide those who are deserving of aid. Please donate to those who are needy in your own neighborhood. Please do not lose hope that the oppressed will be victorious because we do not have that right to grieve for a fight that is being fought every single day by people are have been stripped of their basic human rights.

Even if you are not Muslim or believe in a higher power, please do not forget about those who are suffering. Let us continue to elevate the voices of those under oppression until freedom is achieved.

Remember that we are not free until we are all free