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Rebel

directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, 2022

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Hundreds of Muslim parents at a Ham Lake, Minnesota charter school are threatening to pull their children out of school if the administration does not remove LGBTQ+ children’s books from the age-appropriate K-5 anti-bias curriculum.

Almost 200 Da Vinci Academy students (out of around 1000 total) were already kept home in a four-day attendance strike that executive director Holly Fischer told the Sahan Journal was “assumed due to this issue.”

At a September board meeting, Fischer told parents the anti-bias curriculum came about as a result of the fact that students were struggling with kindness and empathy after returning to school from the pandemic.

Fischer also reminded parents of the Minnesota law that allows parents and legal guardians to opt their child out of school material they object to and work with the school to create “alternative instruction.”

Fischer reportedly emailed parents on October 1 to say that “the curriculum in question” is not on the agenda for several weeks and in the meantime, the administration will be ordering “more replacement curriculum to support students who have opted out.”

The anti-bias curriculum was created by the local nonprofit AmazeWorks. Of the 120 books involved, 24 contain LGBTQ+ characters.

AmazeWorks executive director Rebecca Slaby said the books help the kids “have more empathy for each other because they’re engaging in multiple perspectives, and they’re learning about each other as well.”

“Kids need to see themselves reflected positively in the curriculum,” Slaby said. “And they also need a window into the lives of people who are different from them.”

But several Muslim parents at the school disagree, arguing that teaching LGBTQ+ issues at school violates their parental rights.

At the September board meeting, Aboubakr Mekrami reportedly declared, “We teach our children to basically respect others. However, when the topic of LGBT comes up, we strongly believe that we need to be the ones who approach it and teach it to our children based on our beliefs. This is a fundamental belief for us, and one in which we have no wiggle room. We strongly object to this optional LGBT curriculum being used in the classroom.”

He then claimed it “is not about book banning or excluding anybody.”

“We are not against diversity, equity, and inclusion, but the way this should be presented should ensure that different beliefs are respected. We need to be authentic to our beliefs. And if we don’t feel like we are getting our needs met, families may leave.” 

Another parent, Amna Soussi, claimed the books would cause children stress and anxiety “because it goes against our fundamental beliefs.”

“Why put your school at a risk of losing over 135 students because of this?” she said. “This will affect the school’s enrollment. It’s going to throw a curveball in your funding.”

Hannah Dalske, who teaches gifted and talented classes at the school, spoke in support of the inclusive materials, citing the death of a boy she went to high school with due to the “sheer volume of bullying he endured for being an openly queer male in [a school that] had a no-tolerance policy.”

Dalske added that the AmazeWorks curriculum at Da Vinci is “the school deciding to be part of a solution – a solution we desperately need.”

Fischer is arranging a meeting with Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which is representing the parents.

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By: Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

Underneath the positions of pro-Palestinian progressive Westerners lies a conglomerate of presuppositions and assumptions that are rarely openly discussed or mentioned. One of such major presuppositions is that Palestinian terrorism, the indiscriminate murderous violence /1

targeting mostly defenseless Jewish civilians, is a core part of the Palestinian identity and a normative Palestinian behavior to be expected. As such, this behavior can not be blamed on Palestinian society or institutions but on Israel and Israeli action, which controls the /2

structure of power from which the Palestinian identity emerged. In this position, highly intelligent people discover the most troubling aspect of the conflict but only to dismiss it. This form of humanistic bigotry against the Palestinians came to justify their worst /3

inclination and disregard the lives of Israeli Jews, ending up being one of the most dehumanizing positions towards Israelis and Palestinians. This position is not new but has become a core intellectual habit of the international left since the canonization of the works of /4

Frantz Fanon as a Bible of decolonization. According to Fanon, the murderous rampage of the colonized man against the colonizer is the quintessential act of self-liberation. The blaze of wrath and anger that ends in murder is nothing but the birth pains of freedom. In other /5

words, the struggle, no matter how violent or extreme, is an existential condition and an ontological urgency. These ideas, which started in the circles of the French Left in the 1950s to justify Algerian acts of extreme violence against the French colony, became a solid part /6

of the international left, taught in the most prestigious academic institutions to generations of leftist activists, journalists, professors, politicians, and others. These ideas, the epitome of dehumanization and pathological misanthropy, were not born yesterday and are /7

parts of the major intellectual edifice of leftists' social and political thought. The proliferation of such intellectual pathologies is what ultimately enables armies of American and European journalists, diplomats, aid workers, NGO officials, and others to totally accept /8

the prevalence of violence, icons of death, and the valorization of cruelty in Palestinian culture, both popular and high, and in education. This leads to the interesting simultaneous recognition and dismissal of the most central problem of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, /9

the absolute and final negation of Zionism, by any means necessary, as the central ideological content of the Palestinian identity and its symbols. The final result is an international behemoth made of international institutional structures established and financed to /10

purportedly solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict while, in effect, ignoring its core issue. Palestinian media, religious, political, and educational institutions are left to daily indoctrinate members of the Palestinian society into believing that the meaning of their /11

identity is existential victimhood which could be exited only through the total and complete destruction of Israel done by way of blood, death, and sacrifice. Anyone who dares to examine Palestinian education, media, literature, poetry, music, etc., would not be able to ignore/12

the unsubtle presence of such violent ideas in Palestinian national symbolism and Palestinian self-image. This is ultimately the root cause of the total insolubility of the conflict. Until this conversation becomes a central component of any efforts seeking peace and /13

stability, the problems of terror, violence, the loss of innocent Jewish lives, and the indoctrination of Palestinian youth will continue.

I also would not be honest if I don't address the other side of the coin, the people with whom I stand on most issues, the pro-Israel camp. Many in that camp do see with clearer vision the problem with Palestinian identity and its content of terrorism. Yet, they refuse to make /

any distinction between the Palestinians as humans and the Palestinians as Palestinians. That is, they accept to see the Palestinians exactly the way Palestinian radicalism insists on seeing the Palestinians, walking landmines waiting to explode to totally erase Jewish existence.

They accept the Palestinian self-dehumanization as the ontological truth of the Palestinians: final, exclusive, and irreversible, and not as humans who are trapped into a terrible story made up by generations of mad intellectuals and sadistic tyrants. This leaves nothing but a

a security problem against which Israel must remain strong. No will, no wish, no effort, and no thought are spent about the possibility of helping the Palestinians wake up from their self-imposed nightmare and discover a different way to be Palestinian. Just to reiterate,

I'm not talking here of people who think, feel and talk only in leftist cliches. Those don't see or understand such complex problems anyways. I'm talking about the non-cliche ones who despite understanding the monumental weight of culture and identity refuse to deal with

them seriously.

@HusseinAboubak

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The Liberation of the Arabs From the Global Left

The exploitation of the intellectual and political energies of Arab societies as ammunition in the ideological battles of the left has had disastrous effects on the region

BYHUSSEIN ABOUBAKR MANSOUR

Es ist eigentlich unfassbar, wie eine Linke ganz offenen Zugang zu der historischen Mörderallianz der Nazis mit dem sich sozial-revolutionär als Erneuerungsbewegung formierenden radikalen Islam hatte und diese Einsicht bereits ein knappes Jahrzehnt später wieder zugunsten eines von postkolonialer und anti-imperialistischer French Theory durchdrungenen Antizionismus verdrängt wurde. In der Folge ging es nur noch um den von der globalen Linken vollzogenen Turn zur Befreiung der Dritten Welt mit sein Hang zum bewaffneten Kampf unter der Ägide sozialer Gerechtigkeit für die unterdrückten Völker und “Verdammten dieser Erde” - Franz Fanon, Sayyid Qutb, Fayez Sayegh und auch Edward Said sind hier wohl die grossen “intellektuellen Stichwortgeber”, die diese perfide Fusion überhaupt ermöglicht haben. Gegenwärtig co-existieren also Naziideologie und linker Revolutionskitsch in versöhnter Weise in der arabischen Welt. Vollkommen irre. Ein guter Text zum Zustand linker Theorie des Okzidents im dekolonisierten Orient:

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"I hope all the liberals awakened by the events of the last week, including liberal Jews, now know why it's a very bad idea to ally with Marxist, Marxian, Marxist-light, post-Marxist, meta-Marxist, or Marxist-adjacent, and their Islamist parallel, movements and ideas in any context. Be liberal. Indeed, be very liberal if you want to. Vote Democrat even if the candidate was a lame chicken, but no Marxism/Islamism. Not against the common foes of social reaction, to fight against religious fundamentalism, to fight for more personal freedoms or other social goods. Those are irredeemable ideas and they could, indeed they will, irreversibly corrupt more than help."

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

Yes, what he said. The Social Dems, the Champagne Socialists at MSNBC, all of them are poisonous. The elders always set up the next generation of parasites to take us down. Don't let them, this time.

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The Slogan ‘Free Palestine’ Always Implies Mass Murder of Jews

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour in Tablet Magazine:“Free Palestine”—the slogan, the fantasy, and the policy—has always consciously implied the mass murder of Jews in their towns, streets, shops, and living rooms. Few are willing to say so openly, but in many intellectual, professional, and popular circles in the Middle East and the West, the idea of Palestinian national liberation has long been framed in terms that condone or necessitate the indiscriminate killing of Jews. http://aqurette.blog/SxFhLR

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Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

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The fantasy of liberating and free Palestine always included the idea of the indiscriminate mass murder of Jews in their towns, streets, shops, and living rooms. Living in Egypt for 23 years, I grew up in a general culture in which a good portion of political and religious moral identity and thinking during my upbringing revolved around Palestine. Every Arab and Muslim who is honest with themselves knows this! Those who follow me know I have dedicated a good part of my life to track, understand, and combat this fantasy. Since then, I have located the origins of these murderous fantasies, the antisemitism, and the mass political nightmare in 19th-century German political theory and not in something inherent to Islam itself or Arab culture. Regardless, none of this changes the fact that this way of thinking is too prevalent and too common, systematically legitimated, supported, and defended by Western liberal and leftist academic and political institutions. The images we saw were no doubt a glimpse of how such a fantasy would look in reality. This much is clear from the enthusiastic reactions from far too many people, which is a cruel reminder of how much such antisemitism is widespread spread, particularly among Arab and Muslim societies and communities. Most of the reaction, or the lack thereof, from the Abraham Accord countries was an utter disappointment and helped to solidify a conclusion that has been dawning on me, yet I have been resisting for some time: this was much less about a new Arab internalization of values of human life or human rights, or some new enlightening understanding religion, God, man, or his place in the cosmos than it was about strategy, economy, technology, and prosperity very narrowly and exclusively understood as economic development. These people want to make money and thus most of their concerns currently have to do with the possible strategic and regional fallout, instability, etc. than the continuation of a dehumanizing culture and mass atrocities in the Middle East, "the Europe of the 21st century." These tendencies among the new generation of GCC professional pundits, commentators, officials, etc. were sadly mostly enforced by their Western education and value-free liberal education. In this, I can unironically say they are the last liberals. Where do we go from here? I do not know. But I know one thing: what I wish to see from a lot of my young, multi-lingual, Western-educated Arab and Muslim friends. We, and I'm one of you, made it to the Western middle class. We have prodigious education and good careers, and we genuinely feel that his new cosmopolitan professional class is where we truly belong. But we also know where we came from, and we sometimes, even secretly, we are ashamed of things to which we do not want to look back. We see the chauvinism, the antisemitism, and the insanity, and we cringe. It's easier for us to look forward than backward. It's easier to understand the world, to engage with it, to explain it, or to pretend to explain it, with the symbols and slogans of the social world to which we want to belong, not the one we want to leave. Thus, we dismiss, we explain away, we make moral equivalency, and we pretend, not necessarily because we are deceptive, but because we feel otherwise, we are helpless. I'm not asking you to love Israel. If you are critical of Israel and think there should be a Palestine, please continue to do so. But all I ask you is to be courageous and not pretend that the murder, the abuse of women, and the kidnapping we all saw is not an accurate representation of a catastrophic moral system, which we all know very well is all too common and in need of honest conversations and serious attention. Stop lying to yourself and lets talk about how to change this.

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Friday Releases for September 15

Friday is the busiest day of the week for new releases, so we've decided to collect them all in one place. Friday Releases for September 15 include El Conde, The Outlaw Johnny Black, Magic 3, and more.

El Conde

El Conde, the new movie from Pablo Larraín, is out today.

Pablo Larraín’s new film is a satire that portrays a universe in which Augusto Pinochet, a 250-year-old vampire who, tired of being remembered as a thief, decides to die.

The Outlaw Johnny Black

The Outlaw Johnny Black, the new movie from Michael Jai White, is out today.

Hell bent on avenging the death of his father, Johnny Black vows to gun down Brett Clayton and becomes a wanted man in the process while posing as a preacher in a small mining town that’s been taken over by a notorious Land Baron.

A Haunting In Venice

A Haunting In Venice, the new movie from Kenneth Branagh, is out today.

“A Haunting in Venice” is a terrifying mystery featuring the return of the celebrated sleuth, Hercule Poirot. Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world’s most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.

A Million Miles Away

A Million Miles Away, the new movie from Alejandra Márquez Abella, is out today.

Inspired by the real-life story of NASA flight engineer José Hernández, A Million Miles Away follows him and his devoted family of proud migrant farm workers on a decades-long journey, from a rural village in Michoacán, Mexico, to the fields of the San Joaquin Valley, to more than 200 miles above the Earth in the International Space Station. With the unwavering support of his hard-working parents, relatives and teachers, José’s unrelenting drive & determination culminates in the opportunity to achieve his seemingly impossible goal.

Rebel

Rebel, the new movie from Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, is out today.

“Rebel” the dazzling and audacious new film from Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah (“Bad Boys for Life,” “Batgirl”) tells the story of Kamal (Aboubakr Bensaihi), who resolves to change his life for the better, leaving Belgium to help war victims in Syria. But, having arrived, he is forced to join a militia and is left stranded in Raqqa. Back home, his younger brother Nassim (Amir El Arbi) quickly becomes easy prey for radical recruiters, who promise to reunite him with his brother. Their mother, Leila (Lubna Azabal), fights to protect the only thing she has left: her youngest son.

Wilderness

Wilderness, the new TV series from Marnie Dickens, is out today.

The perfect marriage. The perfect trip. The perfect place for an accident? The dream trip of Liv (Jenna Coleman) & Will (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) is shattered when Liv discovers her husband’s dark secret. What lengths will Liv go to to seek revenge?

Magic 3

Magic 3, the new album from Nas and Hit-Boy, is out today.

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Islam

L'Islam est une religion abrahamique-monothéiste fondée sur les enseignements du Prophète Mohamed (Mahomet, Muhammad ibn Abdullah, 570-632 ap. JC), après le nom duquel les Musulmans ajoutent traditionnellement "que la paix soit sur lui" ou, en abrégé, PSL). Aux côtés du Christianisme et du Judaïs...

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Out of Competition - Midnight Screenings:

Rebel (2022), directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilal Fallah.

Aboubakr Bensaihi as Kamal; Lubna Azaba as Leila; Amir Eil Arbi as Nassim; Tara Abboud as Noor; Younes Bouab as Abu Amar; Fouad Hajji as Idriss; Kamal Moummad as Yusuf.

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During one trip to Jerusalem, I and my cousin played basketball with some Israeli teenagers whom we met in a park. We talked about our experiences, and the obstacles we each faced because our nations’ leaders have not made peace.

Everyone expressed a desire to live without fear of one another. I recognized that the hatred I voiced online had no place in the life I wanted to lead. I did not want to be consumed by anger and resentment because people like me were suffering; I wanted to take action to alleviate that suffering whenever I saw it. I removed all my tweets from my profile because I no longer supported the hateful things that I had said in the past.

A year later, my past anti-Semitic statements were collected and published online. By that time, it felt like I was reading someone else’s words. It filled me with disgust to be associated with words that I saw to be hateful and wrong. I spoke with my college and was advised not to respond to the publication. When these tweets were brought to my dental school’s attention in 2019 and 2020, I was again advised not to respond, and again I followed that advice.

I am truly sorry for the pain my words have caused. I have wanted to publicly apologize for, and disavow, my teenage tweets for years now. Perhaps I should have taken this step earlier, against the advice I received.

I recognize that the things I said years ago were hateful, and for the last six years, I have been committed to making a positive impact in my community and showing that those tweets do not represent who I am. I am someone who had misguided beliefs, who through education and self-reflection has come to recognize that those beliefs were wrong, and who is trying to lead a life that will help others.

Recently, I spoke with Hussein Aboubakr, author of Minority of One: The Unchaining of an Arab Mind, and an educator with StandWithUs. In that autobiography, he discusses how education transformed him from an anti-Semitic extremist in his youth to a vocal advocate for acceptance of Israel and the Jewish people.