#Europe and Africa

[seoul-bros]

More recognition for the maknae line at the Hanteo Music Awards

Jimin, V and Jungkook all picked up Artist of the Year nods

Jimin and V also won global artist awards for South America and Oceania and Europe and Africa respectively. TXT won the equivalent award for Asia and North America.

Post Date: 18/02/2024

[herpsandbirds]

Provence Hairstreak (Tomares ballus), family Lycaenidae, found in northern Africa and SW Europe

photograph by @yaylalperen

[karemandohan1999]

🙏😔Stop, please 😔🙏

Don't ignore me, listen to our sad story💔🥹🍉

My name is Kariman Dohan, I am 25 years old. I was a committed and diligent teacher, and my husband, Ayman Olwan, 30 years old, is a business administration graduate, but due to unemployment and difficult conditions in Gaza, he was forced to work as a fisherman. We have a wonderful son named Hamoud, who is one and a half years old. We live in Gaza, specifically Khan Yunis, where the fishing boat, fishing equipment and the school where I worked were damaged🥹🫂💔😭😭😭😭

We have been displaced several times, and our tragedy has reached the point that we now live in a tent that is unfit for living. We desperately need your help, I have launched a donation campaign but I cannot get the funds so I can get $50000 to get through this current crisis.

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Before the war and after the war, this is what happened to us😔💔

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[nevzatboyraz44]

mechanical tools have been replaced by artificial intelligence digital tools.

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mekanik aletler yerini, yapay zeka dijital aletlere bıraktı.

Soru Detayı

- Dünya imtihan yeridir. Peki her imtihanın zor ve sıkıntılı olması mı gerekir, kolay bir imtihan olamaz mı?

- Yoksa hep sıkıntı ile de mi imtihan olunur?

Cevap

Değerli kardeşimiz,

Darlıkla, sıkıntıyla, fakirlikle, hastalıkla ve ölümlerle imtihan olunduğumuz gibi bolluk, ferah, sağlık, geniş aile çoluk-çocuk gibi nice nimetlerle de imtihan olunuruz.

Bizden istenen asgari hâl; sıkıntıda sabır, varlıkta şükürdür.

Bizden beklenen ideal hâl ise; her şartta şükürdür. Çünkü her hâl geçicidir ve her hâl Allah’ın bize takdiridir.

Şunu da unutmayalım ki varlığın imtihanı yokluğun imtihanından daha çetindir. Çünkü az olan veya olmayan bir şeyin hesabı da nisbeten kolay olur, ama verilen her nimetin hesabı pek çetin olacaktır.

Yani şöyle bir sorgulama tahayyül edebiliriz;

“Kulum!

Sana para verdim, onunla ne yaptın?

Sana sağlık verdim, onunla ne yaptın?

Sana evlat verdim, onları nasıl yetiştirdin?

Sana ilim verdim, onu nasıl kullandın?

Sana cesaret verdim, onu kimin yolunda kullandın?..”

Nitekim ayet-i kerimede mealen şöyle buyurulur:

“Sonra da elbette ki dünyada size verilmiş nimetlerden, bunları nasıl ve nerede kullandığınızdan sual edilecek, hesaba çekileceksiniz.” (Tekasür, 102/8)

Selam ve dua ile...

Sorularla İslamiyet

[gemsofgreece]

👀 Mediterranean solidarity ✊

[tumbler-polls]

[loveisinthebat]

Wee Lad

[mammalianmammals]

[illustratus]

The Storming of Bizerte (Orlando Furioso) by Gustave Doré

[whitewomendreams]

[mysharona1987]

[kemetic-dreams]

[herpsandbirds]

Common or Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra), family Rallidae, order Gruiformes, found across much of Eurasia, northern Africa, and Oceania, Australia and New Zealand

The remarkable feet of coots are fissipalmate (lobed/partially webbed), which help them swim and walk across soft mud (without sinking).

Coots are not ducks, but are more closely related to rails and gallinules/swamphens (and more distantly, cranes).

photograph by Pat L. on flickr

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

May I suggest the humble Eurasian Kingfisher?

Absolutely! I've always had a soft-spot for these because we dress the same way.

[nevzatboyraz44]

Kaçın geliyor ha geliyor 😃

[missmayhemvr]

Like halfway through "how Europe underdeveloped Africa" cause I decided I'd read/listen to it after I had a strong base on knowledge on African history and just holy fuck is he right about nearly everything so far.

Having learned about how extensive African trade was prior to the 18th century and how heavily most African kingdoms shifted in the 16th it's very clear that what he points out in the way the slave trade and the need to aquire firearms grew the European economies while near completely emptying out African economies and how the hard shift to European import goods after Europe had grow through the use of African slave labor and monopoly of trade routes is still a largely still at play in the era of neocolonialism.

The way that Walter Rodney not just points out that this is true, but the depth to which he covers a variety of African kingdoms, their economies, and cultural practices puts even some college level courses to shame while also showcasing the exact ways in which some of these stronger or more expansive kingdoms like the Ashanti, oyo, borno, Kongo, and Benin kingdoms had explicitly tried everything to get guns through any other trade and how the Ashanti, merina, Ethiopian, Burundi Benin kingdoms sought our education and scholars to begin industrialization and the systematic way in which Europeans and Americans prevented that is just, well it's damming.

It's a continuing reminder how from the first stage of European expansion and control they had precisely zero good intentions for the peoples of Africa. That Europe saw Africa as nothing more than a way to grow itself, it's institutions and improve its economies by depriving Africa of labor, materials and freedom which is true to this day, most starkly in the Congo but true across the whole region.

But while the book shows the crimes of Europeans without sugar coating, it also doesn't glorify the African leaders and more importantly those that became collaborative with European despitism. It also does not abide by the word games the European powers like to play and goes in depth to the way Europeans had no actual interest in ending slavery, and that while invading the various kingdoms and communities to "end slavery" the created some of the most brutal slave conditions on this side of the globe, not just in Leopolds Congo but in French forced labor camps and British controlled regions, with the Portuguese being particularly up front about it.

Truly a shame that like most other black radicals Rodney was murdered so young. The rarity to which black radicals even get to 40 shows how desperately capitalist and white supremist try to prevent even the slightest push back from black voices. It also makes clear how much we all need to know this stuff, from debois's black reconstruction to nkrumah's neoimperialism these books give a great understanding of the past and the precise way in which we arrived to the current situation.

I pray that with the new scramble for Africa that is unfolding in front of our very faces, the genocides in the Congo, and Sudan, and the way in which these interlock with the genocide of Palestinians, that we all take the time to properly read and reflect so that we may properly organize and fight back for a fully free and sovereign Africa and Palestine and a world free from white supremacy.