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anarcho-queer:

Elderly Pakistani Man Stabbed To Death After Leaving Mosque In Birmingham
A 75-year-old man stabbed to death yards from his home may have been targeted in a racially motivated attack, according to police.
Mohammed Saleem, who used a walking stick, was stabbed three times in the back as he returned home from prayers at his local mosque in Small Heath, Birmingham, on Monday night.
The blows were struck with such violence they penetrated to the front of his body.
The father of seven also had no defensive wounds in what has been described as a swift, vicious and cowardly attack by the man leading the murder investigation, Detective Superintendent Mark Payne of West Midlands police.
Officers want to trace a white man, aged 25-32, of medium height and build, spotted on CCTV footage running near the scene of the attack around the time it happened, just before 10.30pm.
Police also want to trace a seven-seat people carrier captured on CCTV, driving near the mosque with the two male occupants, both white and in their 30s, who are considered “significant witnesses”.
In an emotional family appeal on Thursday, two of Saleem’s daughters, Shazia Khan, 45, and Nazia Maqsood, 44, called for the attackers to hand themselves in. They tearfully described their father as a “widely respected member of the community” and “much-loved”. — anarcho-queer:

**Elderly Pakistani Man Stabbed To Death After Leaving Mosque In Birmingham**

A 75-year-old man stabbed to death yards from his home may have been targeted in a racially motivated attack, according to police.

Mohammed Saleem, who used a walking stick, **was stabbed three times in the back as he returned home from prayers at his local mosque** in Small Heath, Birmingham, on Monday night.

The blows were struck with such violence they penetrated to the front of his body.

The father of seven also had no defensive wounds in what has been described as a swift, vicious and cowardly attack by the man leading the murder investigation, Detective Superintendent Mark Payne of West Midlands police.

Officers want to trace a white man, aged 25-32, of medium height and build, spotted on CCTV footage running near the scene of the attack around the time it happened, just before 10.30pm.

Police also want to trace a seven-seat people carrier captured on CCTV, driving near the mosque with the two male occupants, both white and in their 30s, who are considered “significant witnesses”.

In an emotional family appeal on Thursday, two of Saleem’s daughters, Shazia Khan, 45, and Nazia Maqsood, 44, called for the attackers to hand themselves in. They tearfully described their father as a “*widely respected member of the community*” and “*much-loved*”.

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rhamphotheca:

This Indian flying fox, and her baby (clinging underneath) and about 100 of her kin were spotted a week ago near Manu, Dhalai District, Tripura. The photographer got 10 magnificent photos of males and females, including one clinging juvenile breastfeeding in flight. No problem, apparently! To see the whole gallery, visit http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/246445Photo: Dr. Vijay Anand Ismavel via iNaturalist
(via: Encyclopedia of Life) — rhamphotheca:

**This Indian flying fox, and her baby** (clinging underneath) and about 100 of her kin were spotted a week ago near Manu, Dhalai District, Tripura. The photographer got 10 magnificent photos of males and females, including one clinging juvenile breastfeeding in flight. No problem, apparently!

To see the whole gallery, visit http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/246445

*Photo: Dr. Vijay Anand Ismavel via iNaturalist*

(via: Encyclopedia of Life)

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shady-brain-farm:

LOOK AT THIS POOR OPPRESSED WOMAN AND WHAT HER COUNTRY IS MAKING HER DO.

Even in her eyes it says “help me”.

This is why we have to stop these misogynistic societies.

I’m sorry but no. I acknowledg that this is terrible, but don’t you think we should fix our own countries mishaps before we deal in other countries affairs? We have corrupt businesses, crime, poverty, homelessness, and believe it or not starvation.

Does anyone even know the threat that walmart has to this country?!

I hope you’re being ironic ouo

everything about this is horrible tbh

Isn’t that Benedict Cumberbatch?

That’s Benedict Cumberbatch.

Guys that’s obviously Benedict Cumberbatch.

Oh my god I’ve never imagined this situation

Can we all talk about the people looked at this image and went “Oh that’s a woman in niqab, she must he terrible oppressed, we should bring down middle eastern government.”

Lets break down reasons why that’s stupid.

Firstly, that’s not a woman, it’s from a TV show, and the style of face covering is clearly inspired by the Tuareg tribe of Mali.

Secondly, how the hell does wearing an item of clothing make someone oppressed? Women wear niqab (a veil covering the face) for a variety of reasons, cultural and religious, but outside of certain Islamic theocracies, wearing it is a choice. By donning it a woman is *choosing* to make a public statement about her faith and her cultural identity, just the same as when a Christian woman chooses to put on a cross necklace in the mornings. You can’t tell that a woman is unhappy, oppressed or anything else from her niqab. All you can tell is that she’s Muslim. (And Niqab is generally only found in a few schools of Islamic thought - there are sects and schisms in Islam, just like in any other relgion.)

(Oh and by the way, anyone actually attempting to force a woman to wear niqab against her will is going against the teachings in the Qur’an - “Let there be no compulsion in religion” Qur’an 2:256)

As to the second part of that unbelievably stupid comment, what makes you think your country is better than, for example, Iran? What makes you think outside force, even invasion, will in any way improve things?

America (I’m going to assume you’re American, sorry if that’s wrong) is not some holy arbiter of democracy. Frankly your democratic system leaves a lot to be desired - system that hasn’t been significantly updated in hundreds of years, based on a text that’s revered as untouchable and the source of your culture anyone?.

Yes, the treatment of women by the governments of several Islamic Theocracies is problematic, but the choice of some women to wear niqab is not in any way part of that problem, and American intervention sure as hell won’t fix it.

So before you start spouting off about how Muslim women are oppressed and need rescuing by Westerners, how about you go spend some time on tumblr’s hijabista tag. If those beautiful women can’t convince you that Muslim women have autonomy, opinions of their own and really don’t need any help from you, nothing will.

(Sorry for the rant, I wrote my dissertation on why hijab is not anti-feminist. It’s something I feel very strongly about. Shout out to tumblr’s muhijab community x)

We should start a movement called “Save Benny from dumbass feminists”

I’m almost crying from laughter right now. Hey I’m a Hijabi Muslim and when you look into my eyes I’m pretty sure you won’t see “help me” instead you’ll see “fuck you” :)

Best.

› Federal Court Finds Fraud in Six Ridings in Last Election

OTTAWA — Electoral fraud occurred during the last federal election, a federal court judge ruled on Thursday, but there is no proof that it affected the outcomes in six ridings at issue so the elections will not be overturned.

Federal Court Judge Richard Mosley ruled that the calls “struck at the integrity of the electoral process by attempting to dissuade voters from casting ballots for their preferred candidates. This form of ‘voter suppression,’ was, until the 41st General Election, largely unknown in this country.”

The evidence points to “a concerted campaign by persons who had access to a database of voter information maintained by a political party,” Mosley writes, but says there was no allegation that any of the candidates in the six ridings were responsible for the campaign.

“I find that electoral fraud occurred during the 41st General Election but I am not satisfied that it has been established that the fraud affected the outcomes in the subject ridings and I decline to exercise my discretion to annul the results in those districts.”

The decision fails to give the Council of Canadians the result it sought, but may pose a political problem for the Conservatives, who have steadfastly rejected any suggestion that the party mounted a voter suppression campaign beyond the infamous “Pierre Poutine” robocall in Guelph, which the party has blamed on rogue elements.

Mosley does not conclude that the party was involved, but does say the evidence points to the use of the party’s database.

politics-war:

A man holds up the horn of a white rhino, which has been removed by a vet, to help protect the animal by poachers. Despite the fact that rhinoceros horn is illegal worldwide, demand is rising steeply as a newly wealthy Asian middle class is able to afford the prized substance, previously the province of the rich. Authorities are often bribed, or turn a blind eye to illegal trade in, and use of rhino horn. Ground rhino horn is used primarily as an anti-fever and anti-toxin medication, in practices that go back centuries. In Vietnam, where a senior government minister has claimed that rhino horn cured his cancer, it sells for €1,865 per 100g to local customers, and for over €6,340 to foreign buyers. With rhinoceros horn worth more than gold, the animals are the target of poachers. South Africa alone lost over 400 rhinos to illegal poaching in 2011. It is estimated there are only 16,000 rhinos left in the world, and the animal faces extinction.

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whoweretheqajars:

Another example of a 19th century Iranian telegraph, this one from the Presbyterian Historical Society Archives in Philadelphia.

Elderly Pakistani Man Stabbed To Death After Leaving Mosque In Birmingham