#France is top target rn sorry :\

[chxsemehardandsoft]

thank you for the tag @spencerslibrary ily <3

rules: answer 10 questions and tag 10 people you want to know better

relationship status: single but like theres this girl...

favorite color: aqua, mostly cool tones but specifically aqua/mint green you know

3 favorite foods: food is making me kinda nauseous to think about rn since my blood sugar is high but at this very second like raspberry sorbet and frozen coffee from dunkin and also water

song stuck in my head: I Didn’t Change My Number by Billie Eilish

last thing i listened to: NDA by Billie Eilish

last thing i googled: bikini tops from target (I need new bathing suits lol)

time: 12:33 AM

dream trip: Greece, Italy, and/or France

anything i really want: love

currently reading: I don’t read a lot that isn’t on this website I won’t lie

last movie: no idea. I don’t watch a lot of movies. probably in the heights before I went to camp

currently craving: w a t e r (this is also bc of the high blood sugar)

tea or coffee: coffee I dont like tea very much

sorry if you’ve been tagged and also no pressure: @samuel-de-champagne-problems @tenelvez​ @bxbyjjsupremacy @baureid @allstarsaligned 

[awed-frog]

Waiting for any media to mention the Sri Lankan Muslim community was targeted and infiltrated by Wahhabi Islam like -

On top of everything else, it’s genuinely offensive for them to just sit there and wax poetic about the civil war, and how SADLY, OH SO SADLY, Sri Lanka will never be free of its violent past *cue heartbreaking violin music*. I’ve seen a minumum of fifteen op-eds about this, and wtf? After that nutjob drove his lorry into people in France, nobody actually said “You know what, Marseille’s sort of a shit city and people get murdered there every day, so” (which they maybe should have, btw, because if anyone in the media or government cared about anything happening outside Paris, we wouldn’t be in this mess rn). But somehow, whenever non-white people Do The Thing, all subtlety goes out the window and the conversation becomes Eh, it’s what they’re like.

Anyway: I don’t want to claim I know any profound truth, because we’ll have to wait for an investigation and I may be dead wrong about who’s behind these disgusting and cowardly attacks, anyway, but still - it’d be nice if people stopped pretending Islam is all the same and all equally valid. Wahhabi Islam (which, I’m sorry, is not valid in any way and is propagated by one of the worst regimes the world has ever seen) came to Sri Lanka in the 1970s, piggy-backing on the oil boom and new trade ties between Colombo and Riyadh. There were concerns pretty much immediately, because to Wahhabi Islam, local Sri Lankan Islam (Sufism) is basically worse than anything (Sufis. listen. to. music.), and predictably, the community started to splinter and fight. This included fatwas, murders, intimidation, arson - and even desecration of corpses. And next, the usual playbook we’ve seen in other Asian, African and European countries: the Saudi money raining like Murgo red gold on those communities - the charities, the cultural centres, the scholarships to study in the Middle East, the free mosques. Meanwhile, the UN mostly blabbered on about ‘freedom of religion’ and insisted local authorities should do more to accomodate Wahhabi Muslims - whether they were influenced by Saudi officials or genuinely thought they were doing something decent, it’s hard to know.

Truth is, Saudi Arabia is still the West’s darling because a) oil and b) they oppose Iran. That’s it. Everything else, from their appalling record on human rights to their heavy involvement in terror attacks all over the world, has been swept under the carpet. And now Israeli PM Netanyahu is getting all chummy with them, they will be even harder to oppose. So as a short do and don’t:

please be aware this is a problem

please support Saudi dissidents

please question your government’s friendship and deals with Riyadh 

please vote for candidates who take a stand

please learn to see Islam as a plural community

but also

please don’t drag the Jews into this one (I’ve seen the usual theories that Saudis are actually Jews out to destroy the world and come on)

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