Ismail Y Syed إسماعيل. ي. سيد

Today idols arise and demand our worship: success at any cost, money, an obsession with appearance, popularity, or the unrestrained pursuit of pleasure. Sometimes, in order to win the approval of others, we may go so far as to lie, betray, or humiliate someone on social media. Do not bow down before anything that cannot give you life. And if you have ever fallen, get back up. Do not allow anything or anyone to take away the freedom God has given you. #ApostolicJourney #Argentina

☎️ De invloed van de moslims op de Duitse politiek is schrikbarend“

The US government spent decades building language courses to train its diplomats, and you can download them for free. They come from the Foreign Service Institute, the school that trains American diplomats. It's the same place behind that "world's hardest languages" chart going around this week. By their numbers, Spanish or French takes about 24 to 30 weeks of full-time study. Japanese, Mandarin, Arabic and Korean take 88. The old FSI courses were made by the government, so they're public domain. Full textbooks plus the audio, for around 50 languages. Swahili, Hungarian, Korean, Yoruba, Tagalog, Turkish, Thai. Diplomats learned from these before they were sent abroad. The same material costs you nothing. Link in the comments.

Which Arabic book have you always wanted to read in English? This is the AI-assisted translation workspace i made - purpose built for professionals but can be used by anyone :) Passage by passage, the Arabic sits beside the English with the original printed page next to it. A glossary keeps the key terms right and you approve every change. 
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رسالة لبعض الأشخاص الزعلانين الحساسيين بزيادة، مايحتاي ابرر واشرح واوضح اسباب زيارتي للمعبد الهندوسي الجميل في عاصمتنا الأجمل ابوظبي 🇦🇪، هل شتمتك وتعديت عليك بالقول او الفعل من خلال زيارتي؟ بما أن الإجابة لا، التزم الأدب في اختلافك معاي، راح اتحاسب يوم القيامة بروحي لاتحاتي 🤝🤍

I was delighted to visit the BAPS Hindu Mandir in Abu Dhabi and share in the joy of Diwali, the Festival of Lights, with our Indian friends. From the UAE, a land of tolerance, coexistence, and love, I extend my warmest wishes to the people of India and everyone celebrating this beautiful occasion. May peace, happiness, and prosperity shine upon all. Happy Diwali! 🪔❤️🇦🇪🇮🇳🕊️

A Moroccan Jew who moved to Israel in the early period of statehood wrote in a letter back home telling his family that antisemitism was worse in Israel than it was in Poland. The antisemites were the Ashkenazi Jews, who were more racist towards Moroccan Jews that whites were racist towards blacks in 1950s in the United States.haaretz.com/israel-news/2021…

LIC PRESS STATEMENT - LIC REJECTS THE CHARITY COMMISSION’S INTERFERENCE IN RELIGIOUS WORSHIP For the Press Statement, click on the link: lewishamislamiccentre.com/20… @ChtyCommission @AJEnglish @MiddleEastEye @5Pillarsuk @MABOnline1 @MuslimCouncil @mendcommunity @Islam21c

Sagal Abdi-Wali has just filed her first register of interest in Parliament, revealing who funded her election campaign in the Holborn & St Pancras by-election where she defeated Zack Polanski. And they stink. They are from sources with strong historical ties to Labour Together. And through one of her key donors, Sagal is linked to investments in companies like Palantir and Elbit Systems and Boeing. There is something completely broken about how the reporting regime for donations works that we're only finding this out now, after the election. The returns show that Abdi-Wali had two big donors: Daniel Luhde-Thompson and his wife Cressida Pollock who donated jointly, and Green Britain Group Ltd, the holding company of Dale Vince's Ecotricity. Both donated £50k to the campaign. Daniel Luhde-Thompson is mega-wealthy. He is one of the co-founders of the quant-trading hedge fund Quadrature Capital. Quadrature, whose holding company is registered in the Caymans, donated £4m to the Labour Party during the 2024 General Election. It was the single largest donation Labour had ever received. But nobody knew this fact during the election itself, as the donation was only declared after the election as it was made in a specific week-long window that was exempt from immediate reporting. As I revealed in OpenDemocracy in October 2024, Quadrature had held shares in companies connected to the genocide in Gaza in late 2023 and early 2024. It held an average of $121m in shares in companies linked to the genocide in Gaza between December 2023 and July 2024. This included shareholdings in arms companies like the lead contractor on the F-35, Lockheed Martin. I've just checked Quadrature's most recent SEC filings submitted at the end of June 2026. They show that Quadrature still has investments in arms companies like Boeing and Lockheed. The June fillings show it held $9m in Elbit shares and an astonishing $117m in Palantir. What is it with the Labour Party and connections to Palantir? Luhde-Thompson also donated to Labour Together. He donated £50k at the end of November 2023: smack-bang in the middle of the period when Labour Together hired APCO to investigate journalists (including me and my family) who had exposed Morgan McSweeney's failure to report donations in violation of the law between 2018 and 2020 (of course there is no indication Luhde-Thompson knew about this). Dale Vince, Sagal's other donor, was also a big donor to Labour Together. He has, most recently, strongly supported approving drilling at Jackdaw and Rosebank oilfields. We found out about Dale Vince donating to Sagal during the campaign because it was leaked to the Independent. But voters in Holborn & St Pancras had no idea that she was also being funded by Daniel Luhde-Thompson, linking her to Quadrature and, through that, investments in companies complicit in genocide. There is really something deeply wrong here. Voters were deprived of key information before they cast their vote. Our electoral laws around donations, which allow the mega-rich to dominate our politics, have to be reformed.

The special issue of the Journal of International Criminal Justice on "Genocide in War," edited by Paola Gaeta and @giulia_pinzauti, has just been published. My article on IHL-compliant genocide is part of the issue. You can find all the articles here: academic.oup.com/jicj/issue/…

Disarming Hamas is not enough. Hamas must be totally dissolved and banned from reforming by the Palestinian Authority. This should be the first step in making peace

Happy Diwali to all our Indian friends celebrating, and best wishes to those welcoming the New Year! 🪔✨ @AbuDhabiMandir

Celebrated the festive spirit of Diwali at a dinner hosted by Shri Fahad Suri, Consul General of India in Jeddah, at his residence in Jeddah, KSA. The gathering brought together members of the Indian diaspora & distinguished local guests, reflecting the warmth of our community & the enduring friendship between India & Saudi Arabia. Wishing everyone a very #HappyDiwali! @MEAIndia @MOMAIndia @CGIJeddah @IndianEmbRiyadh @hcoi_official #IndiaSaudiRelations #Haj2027

📚 Open Access (free) Altanian, M. (2024). The Epistemic Injustice of Genocide Denialism. Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/978100320215…

“The Israelis have some manners… They opened universities for them (Palestinians). Gave them newspapers. Allowed them freedom in their mosques and universities.” — Rabi al-Madkhalī

التحديث الشامل لتطبيق الموسوعة التاريخة على موقع الدرر السنية onelink.to/history أكثر من 6000 حدث تاريخي تغطي أكثر من 1400 عام هجري أكثر من 1300 ترجمة لشخصيات تاريخية أكثر من 14 تصنيفا رئيسيا و500 تنصيف فرعي 7 حقب تاريخية منذ مولد النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وحتى وقتنا الحاضر

Hope Syedna raised the issue of demolition of a portion of the historic 600-year-old Shahi Masjid in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh in late September 2026 as part of a road-widening project and other similar issues with the state chief minister.