#barbaric christians

[liberalsarecool]

Red State extreme ideology is barbaric.

In good faith, you could tell Tate Reeves how nutrition helps children, you could talk about Jesus feeding the masses with loaves and fishes, and Tate would not care.

Tates' religion is of cruelty and suffering. Tate knows vulnerable children and their parents are not his donors or members of his country club circle. His racism is his design.

His 'welfare state' dog whistle is evidence.

[itsmenefertiti]

Israel bombing mosque’s in Gaza and then hitting Bethlehem in Christmas raids on occupied West Bank means one thing that the so called “israelis” are hypocrites they want “peace and to coexist with the palestinians,” and that they still have an Israeli and palestinian land is but yet they do things like this.

They don’t want peace nor coexistence.

In different Arab speaking countries; Egypt, Yemen, Iraq, Tunisia, and Morocco etc.

Muslims, Christians, and Jews are coexisting peacefully.

Israel doesn’t just have an issue with muslims they also have an issue with christians.

Why would you hit both a mosque and Jesus’s birthplace? and mind you hitting Bethlehem in Christmas. the audacity

Yet you can use anti-semitic lol.

Judaism is not the problem Israel is.

[valcaira]

What the actual fuck is wrong with you? "Martyred?" "MARTYRED??"

So, Gazans are just "noble savages" to you then? Their deaths are not tragic deaths but "glorious martyrdom"?

Fuck you. Fuck you and your shallow "activism". You don't give a shit about Palestinians if THAT'S how you talk about them.

[georgethehooman]

Icons aren't always literal, they can convey a meaning that's deeper

one interprets it because St Christopher came from a race that was considered Barbaric

we know from the story that the saint was a very strong man who worships deities, but he later longed to worship a god that's the strongest

then long story short he met our LORD in the form of a child who is stronger than anything, then he repented

the saint was depicted as dog-headed human, why?

The name Barbarian to describe the uncivilized, is speculated to come from the noises dogs make (the barking dogs make) this can be because

dogs are the creatures closest to man, called man's best friend, dogs aren't foreign, yet foreign at the same time, so perhaps that's why Barbarians really are called Barbarians

the saint also acquired human (Roman) tongue to preached to the civilized and martyred, to make the saint dog-headed might've been used to emphasize how foreign he was and the significance of him acquiring he language used by the civilized, since it did make everyone to contemplate God's majesty

Sancte Christoforus, ora pro nobis

[ciderjacks]

(western) Christians and culturally christian atheists Constantly for some reason: Islam is such a harsh and cruel religion…I’m praying 4 the poor Muslims trapped in this evil cult…be free Muslims of the world, be free from the evil of Islam…

Supposed evil Islam: its haram to force anyone to do something they don’t want to do, its haram to force your beliefs on another person, its haram to discriminate against others, if you find that you’re in an unhappy or abusive marriage you should divorce amicably rather than continue to stay married, helping even just one person holds the same weight as helping all of humanity at once, no one is born with sin it’s unfair to place that kind of thing on a baby.

[starmansdaydreams]

Zionism and Arab History

Zionism existed before the holocaust but gained a larger movement afterward due to the genocide of Jewish people. Its solution was the apartheid nation state that is Israel that pushed out indigenous Palestinians for the sake of making right by the Jews. The problem is that the European countries that persecuted the Jewish people didn’t have to pay the reparations, they instead colonised a pre-existing Arab state as payment. Zionism is fundamentally fucked up and the genocide of Israel is not surprising given its long connection with anti Arab sentiments.

This interview of Ussama Makdisi is much more eloquent in explaining the details of this concept as he is an Arab historian and has a lot of expertise on the subject. Hopefully this helps inform someone about the separation between Zionism and Judaism and why being anti-Israel isn’t anti-Jew but pro-indigenous people and pro Arabic nations.

[rumplestiltrin]

must it take white people to report to you that what we say about our own queer experiences is correct? or will you get your head out of your ass and listen to what poc have to say about their own god damn experiences.

[actuallyyangxiaolong]

Okay so I've seen a lot of non-Arab Americans on here calling Palestinians martyrs in english lately and PLEASE STOP DOING THAT IT DOESN'T MEAN WHAT YOU THINK

Unlike in Christianity, martyr in Islam means more than just dying for religion/a cause. Arabic and the Quran even have 2 words for it! Shaheed (شاحيد), the version that is used to refer to Palestinians, covers a lot of people. To my understanding (I'm not Muslim), it refers to people who get special in honors by God in heaven and are therefore respected in society. Like, it's the most honorable way to die, almost. There are a lot of people in this group is Islam (yes ppl who die for religion but also people who die from plague, childbirth, illnesses like heart disease or organ failure, being crushed, drowning, and basically a bunch of other similar types of deaths). Most natural ways to die seem to be covered by this- other than senseless violence.

So, when calling Palestinians martyrs, arabs and Muslims basically mean that they should be honored. Kind of like, how Christians might say "rest in peace, they're in heaven now", in Islam you can say someone has been martyred. They're shaheed. They'll get an extra nice heaven.

Unless you are literally spouting Hamas propaganda (don't do that. it's a very White thing to do), martyr does NOT mean that they have died to help advance the Palestinian cause. THEY ARE NOT JESUS. They didn't die for Islam or your sins or whatever else Christians think martyr means.

It just means they are going to heaven. Please, Christians (and ex Christians) in the US stop calling Palestine people martyrs it doesn't mean what you think and you are referring to them basically the way Hamas and Israel do- as if they are all trying to advance a cause or Islam or violence

They are just people and it's sad and horrible when they die but they aren't people dying in a jihad battle for religion or freedom they're just dying

Martyr doesn't really work as an English translation of shaheed and I'd say borders on propaganda and misinformation. It also reminds people of jihadists (shaheed people who die in battle for Islam, nowadays largely terrorist groups like ISIS) and flattens all arabs into the terrorist stereotype again. Please stop using it in posts

[urluch-in-dla-nebia]

“Incö la Giöbia la brüsa. Pensa ai màl pasàa, 'l fögh al sa purta via tüscos. ”

The Giubiana is burning tonight. Think about all the past evil, the fire is going to cleanse everything away.

[falinscloaca]

pisses me off so much much that i’m not immune to people arguing about steven universe

[immaculatasknight]

Hang our heads in shame

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

I see that usage of the term "toxic masculinity" has waned in the last 3 years. Thanks God it's finally dying. People just aim that word at anything that isn't some super soft a$$ crap.

[itsmenefertiti]

not people still saying after all this time that anti-zionism = antisemitism.

it’s either ignorance or it’s not the eyes that are are blind but the heart.

lol.

anti-zionism is not antisemitism.

[redshift-13]

https://www.joemygod.com/2022/06/gop-rep-who-once-praised-hitler-thanks-trump-for-roe-ruling-a-history-victory-for-white-life-video/

[heritageposts]

Google-translated, posted October 8th

This piece Manoel wrote in 2020 should also be mandatory reading for all Western "leftists," especially now as the Western illusion of military invincibility is being shattered

[...] Another factor that is very common in the western left is to treat suffering and extreme poverty as elements of superiority. It is very common in Western leftist culture to support martyrs and suffering. Everyone today likes Salvador Allende. Why? Salvador Allende is a victim, a martyr. He was assassinated in Pinochet’s coup d’ etat.

And, on Western leftists support of Palestine (pre Al-Aqsa Flood — Manoel, writing in 2020, was clearly underestimating the military capabilities of the Gazan resistance)

Palestinians are a people who are deeply oppressed, in a situation of extreme poverty, that don’t have a national economy because they don’t have a national state. They don’t have an army or military or economic power. Therefore, Palestine is the total incarnation of the metaphor of David vs Goliath, except that this David doesn’t have a chance of beating Goliath in political and military conflict. Therefore, almost everyone in the international left likes Palestine. People become ecstatic looking at those images -- which I don’t think are very fantastic – of a child or teenager using a sling to launch a rock at a tank. Look, this is a clear example of heroism but it is also a symbol of barbarism. This is a people who do not have the capacity to defend themselves facing an imperialist colonial power that is armed to the teeth. They do not have an equal capacity of resistance, but this is romanticized. Western leftists like this situation of oppression, suffering and martyrdom.

If you're a Westerner, I think it's worth investigating to what extent this image Palestinians as 'defenseless' or 'defeated' (I've seen some of you talk about Palestine in the past tense) factors into your support of Palestine as it is now, under occupation.

Because there will be an after.

Everyone supported Viet Nam when it was under attack, being destroyed and bombed for over 30 years. Viet Nam beat Japan in WW2, then had to fight France, and then had to fight the United States. It passed 30 straight years without being able to build a damn school or hospital because a bomb would drop, first from France and then the United States, and destroy it. When the country was finally able to beat all of the colonial and neocolonial powers and have the opportunity to start planning, to build highways, electrical systems, schools and universities without having bombs land on them the next day and destroy everything that was being done, the country was abandoned by the majority of the left. It lost its charm, it lost its enchantment. There is a fetish for defeat in the western left. It is an idea that defeat is something majestic.

[witchywitchy]

I wanted to share something personal because I don't think a lot of you understand the influence of the West and its atrocities on an Arab child's upbringing. English is not my first language; I learnt it initially due to my interest in the language and Western cultures. However, seeing the true face of the West motivated me to continue learning the language to dismantle the false image of Arabs and Muslims which was portrayed by the West. I also talk about how this impacted my standing with the Palestinian cause. Bear with me as this post is long and a little messy, but I need to try and give everyone a clear and full image as much as I can.

I grew up consuming Western media due to my fascination with the English language. However I noticed the lack of Muslim and Arab representation.

When I started seeing representation later on, it was mostly Arabs and Muslims being depicted as 'terrorists' and 'barbarics'.

When a Muslim woman is depicted, she is depicted as 'oppressed' and in need of 'saving'.

I was on social media starting from a very young age. Seeing people online describe my people as 'terrorists' was not only scary, but also confusing. Why am I as an Arab Muslim child -who's living a normal childhood as everyone else- being labelled as a 'terrorist' by the West? Why are people claiming all Arab and Muslim children are trained to use guns by ISIS or/and Hamas? I remember asking my parents as a kid "Is this a real gun with the police officer?" Because I only saw weapons in movies.

I asked questions such as "Why do they think Arabs = Muslims?" The lack of acknowledgment of Christian and Jewish Arabs and non-Arab Muslims confused me.

Why were Muslim women always 'oppressed' in these movies and TV shows I saw? This is not as common as they make it seem. Why are they using the struggle of some Muslim women to demonize an entire religion? Why are they pretending to be saviours when they're actually contributing to further oppression of Muslim women? Why are they weaponizing the awful struggle of some Muslim women against the vast majority of Muslim women? (White feminism is not saving us. It's actually a form of oppression of Muslim women)

Misrepresentation bothered me and made me angry and disappointed. I couldn't finish watching a movie or an episode of a TV show if I saw any mentions of Muslims or/and Arabs, because I knew what would happen next.

When it comes to the Palestinian cause, every Arab grew up watching endless footage of Palestinians being brutally murdered LIVE. Everything and all the footage all of you are surprised to see during this genocide, were a part of our upbringing.

When I was a kid I stumbled upon a newspaper in the house with a headline about a Palestinian father who returned to his house and found all his children shot. And I remember the image very well. The father was holding a prayer mat with people holding him as he broke down on his knees. His dead children were on the floor next to each other. Seeing this image of children my age murdered by the Israeli occupation shocked me. I remember my parents having to hide the newspaper from me because of the impact this image had on me.

I had to start reading into politics at a young age, and I realized that everything that Western media was trying to portray about the West being 'civilized' was a lie. How can you be civilized if you're a murderer or/and contribute to the murder of the innocent?

When I learnt about the history of imperialism, colonialism, slavery,...etc. growing up, I recognized the pattern that colonialists use and I saw that the colonizers of yesterday, are the same as today, except Western media is doing a great job covering for them nowadays, and a lot of people only started noticing that recently.

The West seemed fascinating to me as a child, but after seeing the horrendous false images that're being portrayed of my people in the West, all of my fascination turned into anger and motivation to fight against it.

The real terrorists in the world are not the brown and bearded men, veiled women, or the innocent children. The real terrorists are the ones who set the stage for the murder of innocent people, the exploitation of their resources, using propaganda and painting an image of the innocent that cannot be more false and racist, and the fascists that put on a 'civilized' mask.

I will forever stand with my Palestinian brothers and sisters. I will forever defend my Arab and Muslim brothers and sisters, and I won't give room to any misrepresentation. Enough is enough.

Edit: I wanted to add that growing up, I was scared of telling people about where I'm from, my religion, and what language I speak due to the microaggression and discrimination I was subjected to. Not to mention the amount of times I saw on the news Arabs or/and Muslims getting killed in Western countries (aka hate crimes).