#criminalization of religion

[xieyaohuan]

"Books once held sacred have become dangerous. Sholpan Amirkhan, Pioner’s sister-in-law, told me that after Pioner was taken along with his books, people in her community began purging their households of all objects that could possibly be construed as Islamic. “We did not know which books were considered bad, so we just burned all of our Uyghur and Kazakh books page by page in the stove in our house,” she said. “We were too afraid to throw them away because we worried they could be traced back to us.” Contacts from Southern Xinjiang told me that irrigation canals were clogged with masses of soggy books that villagers threw away in the middle of the night. In his memoir, the Uyghur poet Tahir Hamut Izgil describes the way his panicked neighbors dumped religious articles into the sewer in their Ürümchi apartment complex in the middle of the night. They did not trust the local authorities to protect them, so they avoided handing them in in person.

"One of the books Pioner possessed that was mentioned in his case was Garden of the Righteous, a collection of hadiths, or sayings of the Prophet Mohammad, translated from Arabic to Uyghur by the Uyghur scholar Muhemmed Salih Hajim and his daughter, Nezire Muhemmed Salih, who had studied Arabic as an international student in Qatar. After it was published through the Xinjiang People’s Publishing House in 2005, for the next decade this collection of hadiths was the standard edition used by nearly all state-sponsored imams and mollas throughout the region. Because the Uyghur translation was censored by the Ministry of Culture and excluded numerous passages the government read as problematic, it was much shorter than the original Arabic. Until Salih Hajim and Nezire Muhemmed Salih were arrested in 2017, likely on charges of “propagating terrorism and extremism, and inciting terrorist activities,” Uyghurs generally did not view this text as politically dangerous. It was only when Salih Hajim, who was 82 at the time of his detention, died less than 40 days after his arrest—one of the first known casualties of the mass internment campaign—that it became widely known that possession of his translation could result in arrest."

[politijohn]

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This should never have been a thing

[spencerslover-blog]

I wanna love you but something's pulling me away from you. Jesus is my virtue and Judas is the demon I cling to. I'm just a holy fool, oh, baby, it's so cruel but I'm still in love with Judas.

[beangirl73047]

Btw, “love your enemies” applies to the people you dislike too

[masterwords]

not me waking up and thinking about hotch's intimate knowledge of the bible and his complete silence when morgan and rossi duke it out over religion. and when morgan is asked about it, he looks at hotch and they share this moment.

the only time we really get close to hotch's own feelings is at the end of demonology, but that's only a glimpse. it's noncommittal. and it's derek asking because he's always searching his own soul and looking to hotch for clarity. (we do also get that look in "epilogue" when morgan, prentiss and reid talk about seeing the light when you die. the one that says so much without a single word because he never shares. because he died too, but he won't make this about him and what he saw and how it affected his faith or lack thereof. we get these glimpses but never anything to sink our teeth into.)

in conclusion: he's fascinating, and i want to put him on a little tray and poke at him with tweezers to see what makes him tick.

[frankiebirds]

i think there are a few reasons reid is so particularly hostile towards emily post-2x15:

most simply, she was the newest member of the team, and therefore the one he knew the least and could most easily project onto. he doesn't know her well, so it's easiest to construe her actions as whatever he wants them to be in order to have someone to direct his anger at. he'd also feel less bad about attacking her over the other members of the team, who he knows far better (this is not calculated. im saying he needs someone to be angry at and he latches onto the closest person who he knows the least)

she replaced elle. i do ship spencelle (as a tragedy) but even if you take shipping goggles off, i do think they were quite close platonically. and even if you don't think he was close with elle, he definitely feels particularly guilty about her leaving. (he says so out loud with his mouth at the end of 2x6, when he's talking to morgan about the conversation he had with elle shortly before the case took a turn, and starts to obsess over what-ifs until morgan shuts that down). so not only is emily the newest member of the team, she's also replacing someone whose departure he explicitly feels particularly guilty about

she's calling him out on his obvious issues when none of the rest of the team are. ironically, i think its her newness that makes her feel like she can, and her newness that makes him respond so irately. i think the rest of the team feels uncomfortable and unsure of how to act—they know they need to confront him, but they worry about how to go about that without the friendship imploding. i'm not saying "well emily is new and doesn't gaf about him, so she doesn't care if confronting him makes him hate her." she wouldnt confront him if she didn't care about him, but she has less to lose. tying back to the first point, i also think emily being the one to confront him while also being so new to the team lets reid project whatever motivation he wants to onto her in a way he couldn't with the rest of the team. he can pretend she has an ulterior motive and therefor disregard her concern, while that would be a lot harder to do if someone he knew very well did the same. (again—this is not calculated).

i hope this makes sense 😭 i have a Lot of feelings on their friendship (as you can probably tell from my fics about them) and its rocky start. final thing: step 8 and 9 of NA concern making amends with the people you've hurt as a result of your addiction, and i think sometimes about the conversation he probably had with emily when he got to those.

[sugarmarbles21]

Respecting the house-rules

This is a bit of old news, but since it’s still happening I think it’s still relevant. I think there has been some misunderstanding about the status quo in Al-Aqsa mosque and how the zionists calls it racist when I think it’s the opposite.

The mosque is supposed to be a place to practice Islamic faith and I believe that it is the reason for the status quo, to protect the worshippers from interruptions in the mosque.

The WAQF probably have these rules in place to remind non-Muslims that they are guests of this house and that they should be respectful towards the Muslims who doesn’t want to be bothered when they’re in the middle of praying.

While I am against any rule that encourages discrimination(not saying that it’s the case here), I have to remind myself that different cultures have different rules and norms and I have to respect them too as I am a guest and not the resident.

So what I’m trying to say is that Israel are forgetting the fact that they are just guests and not the landlords of the Al-Aqsa so they have no right to barge into the mosque and defile it with animal-blood! Wouldn’t you be upset if someone did that to your house?

The right to practice your religion is a human right and it must be protected from people like the Israeli government, who have no respect for anything sacred!

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

On this day in 1944, heartless Winston Churchill refused a ceasefire and continued the genocidal attack on Nazi Germany.

As we well know now, far more German civilians have died in the war, which makes them the victims and Britain the war criminal.

The best time for a ceasefire is before you launch a barbaric, sadistic terrorist attack. Those who instigate wars aren't entitled to a "time out."

[reid-supremacist]

Garcia: hey reid, random question…

Reid: Yeah, what’s up?

Garcia: Are you religious by any chance?

Reid: oh um I mean I use to be…I was raised Christian

Derek: Why don’t you believe anymore?

Reid: Well, i use to pray when I was younger that dad would come back or that moms “sickness” would go away or at least improve…I mean I know god can’t “intervene” as such but at least make it get better, it never did…

Emily: oh reid I’m so sorry

[nando161mando]

[loomiseater]

I’m only on season 7 but I like how even though Spencer doesn’t believe in God, he doesn’t disrespect people who believe in Him, which is something very rare u see now days

How can anyone hate this cutie? He’s so sweet🥹💗.

[gothprentiss]

derek morgan, 3x09 penelope

What does it mean? ... What are the odds that, the first time I pray in 20 years, she's on the table?

[eyesontheskyline]

So, we know that Rossi is a practicing catholic and Emily is a lapsed one, but the resident bible scholar on the team aside from Reid tends to be Hotch. I don’t see him as practicing, but what are your thoughts on where he falls? Virginia’s largest denomination is Southern Baptist I think.

I’ve always found the fact that the writers made Emily a lapsed catholic interesting. Do you think Elizabeth Prentiss was devout? Or did she take Emily to church so they could keep up appearances?

Ahh this is so interesting. So I'm Scottish and US media is so pervasive that most of the time I don't really notice that I'm writing characters from a different culture (except I need to continually remind myself which side of the car they're supposed to be on)... But US religious culture is probably the one thing I have a really hard time imagining my way into.

Like, every time a show wants to leave me with the idea 'maybe god is real, actually' when it's a show that's basically logical and not at all supernatural, I'm a bit like... wat? For example, that scene in Epilogue where they're talking about their experiences when they 'died' and Reid is like "It was something I couldn't explain" that felt so weird to me because there are a lot of non-religious explanations for those experiences out there, people write papers about them, and I think Reid would go to those first.

The kind of... pervasive religiousness of the US is very very hard for me to imagine my way into. And all the different denominations are very foreign to me too. Where I am, if you're a white Christian then you're almost definitely Catholic or Church of Scotland - I've seen an Episcopal church but I've never met someone who goes to one. In fact, I don't think I know anyone who genuinely believes in god in the literal sense, definitely not anyone who makes it a thing they talk about in general life. I know about 3 people who go to church. Morgan figuring out that he at least kinda believes in in god / the devil feels weird to me, but I'm super aware that's my cultural bias that I have a hard time looking past.

That said, I am a lapsed Catholic, so that aspect is easy enough for me... I would think Catholic would be the thing to be to keep up appearances in Rome, specifically, but not in all the places she was posted, and you either do the sacraments or you don't, so I would guess Elizabeth grew up Catholic. How much she literally believes is tough for me, but it seems like teen Emily believed to some extent, and her friends definitely did... So I would guess Elizabeth was / is devout.

Hotch seems like he grew up in an old school traditional household. I think if Virginia's biggest denomination is Southern Baptist then probably that's what was at home. And I would guess his dad found all kinds of Bible-related justifications for his abusive behaviour and baby Hotch studied the Bible to see if that's what was really in there.

But yeah I'm very interested in all this because (apart from the Catholics) it's the one aspect of the characters that feels really foreign to me. So tell me more, friends.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

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