#prayforbaghdad

[aminshahmoradi]

‌ روند رخدادهای جهان خیلی های‌مان را خسته و دلزده کرده. جنگ و خشونت، نابرابری‌های اجتماعی و فقر، بحران‌های زیست محیطی و بی اعتمادی شهروندان به یکدیگر و به حکومت‌ها تمام این سیاره را فرا گرفته. دوران غول‌های هنر و ادبیات و فلسفه هم گذشته که با جنبشی فراگیر به قول مشهور طرحی نو در اندازند. جهان امروز مثل این اتاق تاریک و خاک گرفته است که هر آن ممکن است زیر خاطرات شیرین گذشته خود دفن شود. از ما اما چه کاری بر می آید؟ بنشینیم و افسوس روزهای خوش گذشته را بخوریم و منتظر خراب شدن این خانه نیمه ویران باشیم یا می‌توانیم تغیر را از خودمان آغاز کنیم؟ فاجعه تروریستی دیروز بغداد به من درس بزرگی داد. در سکوت خبری رسانه‌های جهان که کشتار در #خاورمیانه حتا در ابعاد بمب گذاری بغداد برای‌شان جذابیت خبری و تبلیغاتی ندارد، طوفان مجازی با هشتگ #prayforbaghdad از اروپا و آمریکا تا آسیا را در نوردید. همدردی فرانسوی‌ها به ویژه در توییتر برایم تاثیرگذار بود. می‌توانیم بادی به غبغب بیاندازیم و از بی تاثیر بودن این حرکت‌ها و همدردی‌ها در جنگ قدرت بین‌المللی سخن پراکنی کنیم یا باور کنیم قدرت از آن مردم است. فضای مجازی بی هیچ مرز و محدودیتی برای ماست و می‌توانیم به جز نمایش سلفی و غذا و لحظه‌های شخصی‌مان از آن استفاده‌های بهتری کنیم. #مابیشماریم و باور داشتن و پرداختن به انسانیت فارغ از رنگ و نژاد و زبان و مذهب و طبقه اجتماعی می‌تواند جهان را از وضع لعنتی کنونی رها کند. (at Shahrestanak, Alborz) https://www.instagram.com/p/BHcAcMUjp2A/?igshid=ycngsdkt75f0

[the-blueberrymuffin-blog]

I am crying of disturbance.

Yesterday, a Ice cream bar in the capital city of Iraq got bombed in the holy month of Ramadan. Why did I not hear about this on the news like the Manchester bombing? I am so upset that ISIS did the most unhumanly thing possible. Bombing a Ice cream bar full of children, while everybody, children and parents, was there for their Iftar (breaking their fast for the day).  More than 25 people got killed. After this, they also bombed, within 24 hours, they also bombed near a government building, wcih killed more than 15 people.

Please reblog so people can KNOW that these things happen ALL THE TIME EVERYWHERE, even when the media doesn’t tell them.

[madd-utopia]

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[safwaanparaze]

Stand together, stay strong! Oh Baghdad!💙 #prayforbaghdad

[news-mashable-yahoopartner-blog]

Every time the Kardashian/Jenner clan actually got political

Picturing Kendall Jenner stopping a fashion shoot to join a protest IRL like in that terrible Pepsi ad requires a bit of imagination considering you can count the number of times she’s spoken out about causes on one hand. The same goes for other members of the Kardashian/Jenner clan.

Kendall and Pepsi were rightfully dragged over the ad that dropped Tuesday that showed her joining a vague protest filled with diverse young people and suggested Pepsi just might be the thing to save us from all our problems.

Despite whatever intentions Kendall may have had when agreeing to take a bunch of money to star in the tone-deaf ad, being political isn’t part of her family’s brand. We did some digging and rounded up the times any of the sisters (and momager Kris) have used their platforms to support political movements in recent years. It’s a small showing, really, minus Kim Kardashian’s pro-Hillary Clinton and anti-police violence tweets.

SEE ALSO: Here are the funniest reactions to Kendall Jenner's terrible 'woke' Pepsi ad

Kim K

Kim Kardashian has by far been the most politically active family member on social media. She, alongside most of the family, supported Clinton during the presidential campaign. 

So proud of the women & men who stood up for what is right & are determined to make this world a better place for our children pic.twitter.com/c8XvfdMGpW

— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) January 22, 2017

But as far the rest of the clan goes (excluding Caitlyn Jenner who supported Donald Trump), Kim has been the only one to take things a step further than the presidential election. 

So sad! The senate voted against background checks being needed to buy guns. So terrorists on fbi's wanted lists can legally still buy guns

— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) June 21, 2016

After Orlando, Congress hasn't done anything and now they're going on vacation. I say #NoBillNoBreak pic.twitter.com/WNdeZIUaqr

— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) June 22, 2016

Whether retweeting tweets about transgender rights, police brutality, supporting gun control legislation or throwing shade at President Donald Trump's travel ban, Kim has participated in national conversations on social media. 

Statistics pic.twitter.com/aSpyFuabct

— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) January 29, 2017

Additionally, the media mogul has gone beyond a mere 140 characters or Instagram post to share more information about other issues. To bring awareness to Armenian genocide denial, Kim wrote on her website extensively criticizing the Wall Street Journal for running an ad denying the genocide. Her post eventually appeared in a full page ad in The New York Times, paid for by supporters of the Armenian Educational Foundation. 

Kim's epic post where she called out Armenian Genocide denial was printed by the NYtimes!!! Proud @KimKardashian 💛✊🏼 pic.twitter.com/PrarlgPKdA

— FELIPE (@MolestMeKardash) September 18, 2016

Kim wrote a similar letter in a blog post about #BlackLivesMatter following the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile in 2016. 

"I want my children to grow up knowing that their lives matter. I do not ever want to have to teach my son to be scared of the police, or tell him that he has to watch his back because the people we are told to trust—the people who "protect and serve"—may not be protecting and serving him because of the color of his skin," she wrote. "We must peacefully use the power of our voices and the strength of our numbers to demand changes in the judicial system so that brutality doesn't ever go unpunished."

Kourtney and Khloé

The oldest Kardashian sister, Kourtney, stays away from speaking up politically, spare a post in support of Clinton. Khloé, has said she doesn't think it's her place to speak up about political issues. 

“With politics I’ve learned to keep my opinions to myself, for once in my life. It’s not that I would never talk about it, but it’s that nobody cares about what I have to say about that," she told New York Magazine. 

All of this in the news today breaks my heart 💔

— Khloé (@khloekardashian) January 29, 2017

"It’s not going to sway anybody in any direction, and if so, they’re probably young kids that should do their own research about who they want to vote for," she explained.

Kendall

Despite her interest in supporting gun control laws, the closest Kendall has come to anything overtly political online recently was also her support for Clinton as well as calling on people to register to vote. 

her her her her pic.twitter.com/jDu8UIU1Wn

— Kendall (@KendallJenner) November 7, 2016

Beyond Clinton, the 21-year-old's foray into any politics talk was limited to support of Black Eyed Peas' "Where Is The Love?" campaign, and tweets that call upon prayers for places including Brussels, Paris,  Lebanon and Baghdad.

#PrayForLebanon #PrayForBaghdad#PrayForJapan#PrayForParis#PrayForMexico

— Kendall (@KendallJenner) November 14, 2015

Kylie

Nineteen-year-old Kylie, on the other hand, is still realizing things and has stuck with spreading the word about ... chemtrails. Maybe Kylie is trying to make tin hats fashionable? 

pic.twitter.com/wea59X0CTk

— Kylie Jenner (@KylieJenner) May 26, 2015

Kris

As far as what the head of the household has to say, it's been relatively mild. In case you hadn't spotted a trend of Clinton-spurred commentary, Kris had something to say after the elections in 2016. 

"Today we must continue to stand for what we believe in: love, acceptance, equality, fairness and respect for all," she tweeted. "We mustn't be divided. We must reach out & hold on to each other ... To our friends, families, communities who share our common goals of unity, compassion & faith."

I will continue to #spreadlove and fight hate at all costs.

— Kris Jenner (@KrisJenner) November 9, 2016

Additionally, the matriarch has spoken up about conflicts around the world including Syria. 

We must not ignore this crisis of humanity. My heart breaks for the people for Aleppo... 💔 pic.twitter.com/LyPSYmo8RS

— Kris Jenner (@KrisJenner) December 15, 2016

"My heart breaks for the families torn apart, the millions of children who deserve safety + peace, but are surrounded by death + destruction," she tweeted before dropping links to places to donate. 

But what about 2020?

When it comes to the 2020 presidential race, it's safe to say most of them are on board with discussing possible candidates. 

Mr West!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/NuLlx9MnYT

— Khloé (@khloekardashian) August 31, 2015

A post shared by Kylie (@kyliejenner) on Aug 30, 2015 at 8:00pm PDT

pic.twitter.com/OdPQ9JlfYD

— Kourtney Kardashian (@kourtneykardash) August 31, 2015

Who knows what 2020 will bring, but if anything, we can pray for no more "political" Pepsi ads until then.

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[lucieanh]

on the urgency of brotherhood

Yesterday, at least 143 people, including 15 children, have been killed, and 187 have been wounded in two Muslim-targeted suicide bomb attacks launched by IS in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. The victims were out shopping and celebrating the end of Ramadan in a central district lined with clothing and jewellery stores, restaurants, and cafés, much akin to those of the bustling cities of the West with which we are so familiar. At the sudden strike of multiple thunderous bombings, dozens of innocent civilians suffocated, burst apart, or violently burnt to death. At its wake, groups of women were left crying over the burnt wreckage and charred bodies of their loved ones, once teeming with life, love, and endless promise.

This is one among far too many stories of violence, loss, and suffering that are happening in our shared home today. Yet, though painting as violently sensationalist as possible of an image, it goes unheard of in social media and otherwise, with no mention of the destroyed lives of the innocent victims or of the cruelty of the violence enacted upon them. The 143 people — each with a long and complex life as vivid as our own, with all the things they have accomplished, the dreams they have dreamt, the lives they have touched and loved, and hearts they have broken in their passing, multiplied by 143 — were tragically and violently lost. All the while, they will be fleetingly remembered in our media narrative as nothing more than the number 143, only to be quickly forgotten once again.

While it is understandable that we naturally feel much more for those with whom we share geographical, racial, and cultural similarities, that we are shaken more by incidents that happen on familiar soil, the whole enterprise of human accomplishment and progress had never been from the basis of easy, instinctive reactions. It is only when we rise above our vices — when we work to overcome our bad habits and inertia, our biased cognitive distortions and prejudices, that we progress and evolve as human beings and as a collective species. It is only by rejecting our instinctual selfishness through hard spiritual and mental work that we can live up to our virtues of compassion and justice for all, and evolve towards a fairer, more peaceful society. The harder this work is, the more necessary it is.

We do this by stepping up to cognise the incredibly damaging effects that such a biased and tribalistic Western media coverage has on the state of the world. Firstly, by viscerally erasing the fact that Muslim-targeted violence is being enacted by IS overwhelmingly more so than Western-targeted violence (up to 97% of terror victims are Muslims), it feeds into the Islamophobic narrative that IS is motivated by Islamic justifications, and that Islam must therefore be held accountable, further contributing to the slew of Islamophobic terrorism enacted by Westerners all across the globe. But moreover, and perhaps even more damaging, by endlessly focusing on Western victims while erasing Middle Eastern victims of terror, creating a gap between the way we treat the two, we bolster the distortive image that the world is made up of “Westerners” and “the other, Brown-skinned people,” who apparently do not deserve as much mention as, or are not of equal worth to, Western victims. It further divides us psychologically and politically, insidiously perpetrating violence against innocent civilians on all sides. It turns us into passive observers, ultimately desensitising us and diminishing our ability to empathise with people who are different from us. This is very, very dangerous.

As consumers of an inevitably biased and propagandistic mainstream media, as messengers and perpetuators of its psychological, cultural, and political effects (including the engendering of further violent attacks), we each have the responsibility to fight back against this bias, to rewrite the ways in which we collectively respond to such stories; ultimately, to restructure the problematically euro-centric narrative into one that tells the story of one human family, with equal love, empathy and respect for all of our fellow beings, no matter where we come from. The power of the people to do this, through social media, is now greater than ever. And as with great power comes great responsibility, it is critical that we use this power for the greatest good that we can manage.

Share and consume stories that matter, speak of the victims of unimaginable violence so they may be remembered and honoured for who they were, speak up against injustice far and wide, use social media to spread awareness to one another of the sufferings of our brothers and sisters in faraway lands. If we treat them like family, as we do our Western fellows, “they” will begin to feel like “us.” Little by little, we can bring them that much closer to us at heart, so we can all begin to shift our collective worldview into one where we will one day instinctively and intuitively empathise with them as much as we do with those who share the same skin tone or speak the same language. We will naturally be as horrified about Middle Eastern suffering as we are about Western suffering; our cognitive distinctions between “us” and “them” will disappear, and the destructive powers of division will no longer engender violence and war. In a time where hatred and xenophobia seems to be truly poisoning our lives, we need to learn to take the effort to love each other that much harder more than ever. After all, each other is all we’ve got.

Today we mourn the more than 330 human individuals who have died or been traumatically injured in ways we cannot begin to comprehend. Today we hold them in our loving thoughts, and extend the greatest possible condolences to the families and friends of those affected. Today we#PrayForBaghdad. May the world one day know peace.

[hejdie]

// Me uskomme, että on olemassa voima, joka voi muuttaa kenen tahansa sydämen - ja se on armo. // Kuuntelen tätä junassa ja koska oon vaan niin innoissani et kuin kauniilta tää kuulostaa, kysyin jos mun vieressä istuva haluis kuunnella myös ja hän TYKKÄS sanoista vaik kuvaili et oma tyyli on sellainen heavympi musa 💛💛 Mitä ajatuksii sulla nousee? #lethopearise #prayfornizza #prayforbaghdad

[rulenta]

Nice VS Baghdad

[aurestiium]

What can i do, what can I say about this? It's too horrible for me to say something meaningful... Except give my condolences to anyone who knew victims of these attacks #prayforpeace #prayfornice #prayforbaghdad #prayfortheworld

[pursuitofblisss]

1:06 am on my bed

[azrealini]

Some Things I've Learned about Recent Events

Paris: OH WTF FUCK YOU ISIS FUCK YOU MUSLIMS PRAY FOR PARIS WE'LL SEND AS MUCH HELP AND DONATIONS AS WE CAN

Pulse: Oh yeah... uh... this is a crime against us all

Baghdad: ...

Istanbul: ...

Madinah: ...

Dallas: OH FUCK THE BLACK CROWD FUCK BLACK LIVES MATTER CAN'T YOU SEE YOU'RE TEARING THIS COUNTRY APART FUCK YALL

[addison85a]

PRAY FOR BAGHDAD Suicide bombers in Baghdad, where more than 260 people were killed. It was the deadliest single incident in Iraq’s war-weary capital in years Photos By: Ziyad Matti

[coollifetouch]

#RIP to every unremembered soul that's been taken in Iraq since violence ever started 💔😔 #تحقيق_دولي_للكرادة #international_investigation_karada #PrayForIraq #PrayForBaghdad #PrayForKarada (at بغداد_حي التجار)

[nanaboa]

Not feeling so hot today. Usually take things day by day but since the Orlando tragedy major shit from around the world keeps hitting the fan. And to top it all off the last 24 hours was another reminder of the violence systemic racism in America can wrought. I’m tired. 

[chloecollyer]

Vigil for Baghdad held by Seattle Iraqi Community // Last day of Ramadan