Media including social media is a very powerful tool that can play a role in revolutions and wars, teach you how to make bread, start up a small business, keep people loved and connected, spreads misinformation like wildfire and so much more. But most importantly any material can be used as evidence in court.
If you’ve had the time and interest to read any of my lengthy posts, you know now how generally I don’t believe there are free media.
Especially coming from those who tend to polish like literally “all good here folks, look elsewhere, we’re perfect our side is immaculate”.
Many use media as a reference when it’s supporting their narrative, and would throw the opposing side under the bus when they use the same media! contradicting? cherry-picking? absolutely, I’ve seen this over and over (war, revolution, social and health issues you name it).
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It’s human nature in some to vilify a group to show up as heroes and heroines. Are they right? are these ways fair? So they label people corner them and tell others how terribly (insert adj) depending on the narrative they are. That’s how the ground is gained to follow on, that’s how people are manipulated in many situations (wars are good examples, all the religious cults in the world as well).
Are we being true to ourselves though? in front of god us normal loving to live people that have nothing to gain? do we sleep well or do some things we aren’t specifically affected by make us turn at night? do we all have a living conscience you know that compass we are born with? that we either grow or kill by time?
I remember my father would tell me the classic answer of why our world looks like it does, “it has been like this since Habeel was killed by his brother and that’s why we have heaven and hellfire” good and bad will always exist. I also remember seeing my mother upset watching the famine in Somalia early 90’s when I asked why?
What’s the price of our silence? Where do we draw a line?
Are we still there standing on that same rug I’ve seen for a long time, looking at the problems swept under? As long as I’m untouched I shall not care أخطى رأسي وقص ومن بعديالطوفان 🎈
I’ve always wondered do we really look into our selves being fair? decent? unbiased? fair-minded. I know we’re very different and our lives are lived differently.!
But would we stand up and say, I think that’s wrong? even to the people or cause, we’re fighting for and the message we lead by?
This has been one of the most important questions I realised years ago, I’ve often questioned myself with. You know the one god talked about times in his book. Told us to stand firm against injustice even if it were to be against our own blood?
This characteristic gives you labels 🏷 you’re not “loyal” for instance. But are we seeing this in our world? Do we stand with it often?
يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ كُونُواْ قَوَّٰمِينَ بِٱلْقِسْطِ شُهَدَآءَ لِلَّهِ وَلَوْ عَلَىٰٓ أَنفُسِكُمْ أَوِ ٱلْوَٰلِدَيْنِ وَٱلْأَقْرَبِينَ ۚ إِن يَكُنْ غَنِيًّا أَوْ فَقِيرًا فَٱللَّهُ أَوْلَىٰ بِهِمَا ۖ فَلَا تَتَّبِعُواْ ٱلْهَوَىٰٓ أَن تَعْدِلُواْ ۚ وَإِن تَلْوُۥٓاْ أَوْ تُعْرِضُواْ فَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ كَانَ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ خَبِيرًا
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People would use every single straw left to say “I’m right” not often we’d see someone say “I might be wrong” “this is not the end” “I need to report someone in my family” “we need further research” well the latter is very often in the science field the one (that doesn’t kill people or let them die on purpose) the side that I stand by.
Who is to blame for the injustice that happens to the fragile little children in this world? more fragile than butterfly wings, any damage can potentially last a long time, longer than we would live to see.
What happened to (it takes a village to raise a child).
This one conversation between Allah and angles high above, always made me ask my parents why are we here then?
The angles questioned god why are you creating a new being that will corrupt and (shed blood) kill?
أتجعل فيها من يفسد فيها ويسفك الدماء؟
ونحن نسبح بحمدك ونقدس لك
قال إني أعلم ما لاتعلمون.
و فسدنا فيها ...
وسفكنا الدماء...
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A couple of days ago many of us may have seen a terrible video circulating some videos had the little child’s face blurred in others it wasn’t. The perpetrators three men were shown to sexually abuse a 13 yr old child. The Arab media was blown with this story.
The usual reaction went on, I was disgusted, cried, I prayed the child is well, I tried looking into how was he doing? were those criminals arrested? one was told to be (politically immune), I was thinking of the mother that was mentioned many times.
I talked to myself, why were his first cries ignored? or never taken seriously? weren’t there signs? emotional and physical.
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Mind you priests, sheikhs, and the (honoured and trusted men) and women have done this before, just last year a nursery worker near Edinburgh was caught in this same act (I couldn’t sleep for nights).
Some were prosecuted others were flown out to another continent, especially those who use faith as their cover.
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I was asking myself who is to blame for what happened to this child? as reported (yes by the same media I’m often questioning) he was working with them in a shop. But there was a video that went viral? a grown man was assaulting a child! then were more.
Were there no channels to protect him?
There must’ve been signs? does he go to school? what school he’s working to provide for his family, he’s a refugee, his father left them and lives in another country! family members? neighbours? anything? Why has no one protected him? as reported on media this has been going on for years.
Who is to blame? is it just the perpetrators? or the circumstances and people that led the child to be a worker at a very young age?
Are we still building our lives over hidden problems that we swept long ago under the rug? Are we willfully ignorant?
