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interested in economics, politics, history, Middle East, theology, geopolitics, philosophy, ethics, bildung und much more. Don't mind me I'm just an observer.
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@TheFigen_ Is this true @grok and what evolutionary survival value could lie behind this phenomenon?
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Back in 2003, a German film crew filming in the Gobi Desert captured an incredibly moving moment: after a tough two-day birth, a mother camel rejected her newborn.
A nomadic family then performed the ancient Hoos singing ritual passed down for generations.
Once the song ended, the camel shed tears and finally accepted her baby.
This powerful scene became one of the most memorable parts of the Oscar-nominated documentary The Story of the Weeping Camel.
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Last Ottoman Caliph Abdulmejid II (center) with his daughter Princess Dürrüşehvar Sultan (left), and Nawab Azam Jah (Husband of Dürrüşehvar Sultan), Nawab of Hyderabad, India (right).
After the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate in 1924, the Ottoman royal family was exiled and their financial condition became fragile. Despite this, Dürrüşehvar was renowned across Europe and the Muslim world for her beauty, dignity, and modern education.
On the other side stood Mir Osman Ali Khan, the Nizam of Hyderabad, then considered one of the richest men in the world. Seeking a bride of unmatched prestige for his elder son, Nawab Azam Jah, the Nizam proposed an alliance with the Ottoman Caliph’s family.
The marriage took place in Nice, France, where the Ottoman family was living in exile. It was conducted according to Islamic rites but with royal grandeur.
Princess Dürrüşehvar moved to Hyderabad (India) after the wedding and was received with immense respect. Her arrival caused a sensation in the city, and she quickly became a prominent public figure.
Despite the grandeur and symbolism of the union, the marriage itself was not a happy one. Cultural differences, court politics, and Nawab Azam Jah’s personal life strained the relationship.
© Muslim History Chronicles
#drthehistories

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Europe Failed Lebanon. Turkey Contained Cyprus.
Turkey managed the Cyprus crisis by imposing a hard reality: a clear military line, a single deterrent power, and an end to internal war. The island was not solved, but it was stabilized. The conflict became frozen instead of explosive, and society was allowed to function again under a defined order.
Europe did the opposite in Lebanon. Instead of imposing structure, it preserved chaos. It treated militias as political actors, rewarded sectarian leaders as representatives, funded NGOs instead of institutions, and called paralysis pluralism. Lebanon was never frozen, it was left to rot.
Cyprus has borders, security, and a state that works, even if divided. Lebanon has none: no monopoly of force, no fiscal authority, no unified law, and no sovereignty. One conflict was stopped by force; the other was endlessly managed by illusion.
The result is simple. Turkey imposed order without legitimacy. Europe offered legitimacy without order. Only one of these prevents collapse.
Cyprus is divided but stable.
Lebanon is "unified" but destroyed.
That is not diplomacy.
That is strategic negligence.

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Nya besked om lärares undervisningstid 👇️
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📌Ankara's endgame in Syria vs. the SDF/YPG
Turkey, which has recently completed a successful counter-terrorism campaign against the PKK, started negotiations in 2024 to disarm the group and its regional affiliates, including the YPG. The PKK’s jailed leader Ocalan has come on board, calling for the group to disarm, and PKK activity in Turkey has all but ceased. 🧶
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I will never understand why the SDF leadership, or the PKK at this point, couldn’t see that Sharaa was here to stay.
Sharaa bet on diversifying his support base by establishing relations with Russia, the UAE, and most importantly Saudi Arabia.
With the help of Turkey and Riyadh, he secured Trump’s endorsement.
He then moved on to lifting UN sanctions.
And finally, he succeeded in removing the Caesar Sanctions, which is unprecedented in itself, convincing an Islamist-skeptical U.S. Congress to walk back a severe punitive mechanism without any concessions.
The last step of the game was paralyzing possible Israeli intervention in Syria’s domestic politics.
And he kept an open door to reach a deal for a year. He got it.
He then immediately pursued the Aleppo angle, since time was up.
For months, many people analyzed that this was coming.
Maybe not this quickly, but the signs were there.
The tribes, the funds, the diplomats, all have been flocking in.
But the PKK still lives with its pipe dream.
Over and over in history, I see that hubris is the ultimate vice that enables one’s downfall.

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To best explain how Turkish foreign policy is feeling over the past week, I leave you with a Trump quote:
“We’re gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning. And you’ll say, ‘Please, please. It’s too much winning. We can’t take it anymore, Mr. President, it’s too much.’ And I’ll say, ‘No it isn’t. We have to keep winning. We have to win more!’”
Now time to top off this winning with a Türkiye-Saudi-Pakistan defense agreement as a cherry on top of the winner’s cake.
Ragıp Soylu@ragipsoylu
Erdogan right now
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Joakim Lamotte:
I mellandagarna mördades 25-åriga My Blomgren i Rönninge. Ett fruktansvärt brott som skakat Sverige och lämnat en familj i sorg för livet.
Den person som nu är häktad på sannolika skäl misstänkt för mordet är ingen okänd figur.
Det handlar om Robin Andersson, som numera kallar sig Vilma Andersson.
En individ jag, och flera andra, varnat för i åratal. Han är tidigare dömd för försök till kidnappning av en tioårig flicka och för innehav av omfattande och grovt sexuellt övergreppsmaterial mot barn.
Dessutom verkade han ha en förkärlek för bilder av döda kvinnokroppar. Riskbilden var därmed inte oklar. Den var dokumenterad, känd och fullständigt ignorerad av rättsväsendet.
Debattörer som Atilla Yoldas och Nina Rung använder mordet för att moralisera över män som grupp (trots att mördaren identifierar sig som kvinna).
Livstids fängelse för transpersonen Robin/Vilma Andersson hade däremot räddat My Blomgrens liv.
Det verkliga ansvaret ligger därför inte hos ”män” i allmänhet. Det ligger hos politiker, opinionsbildare och ett etablissemang som i decennier drivit på för korta straff, tidig frigivning och en närmast religiös ovilja att tala om livstids inlåsning för extremt farliga individer.
Samma etablissemang som hellre angriper dem som varnar än erkänner att systemet har havererat.
Det mest tragiska är att denna könsretorik ofta applåderas, inte minst av kvinnor. Kvinnor som luras att tro att deras trygghet ökar genom ord, symbolhandlingar och kollektiv skuldbeläggning av män, i stället för genom konkret rättspolitik.
Så sant! Läs hela här: joakimlamotte.se/p/sluta-skuldb…


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Tänk att det bara är specialpedagogerna själva som vill ha kvar sig? De skriver debattartikel efter debattartikel om hur viktiga de själva är. Ingen av dem är intresserad av hur lärarna tycker att specialpedagogiken fungerar.
Deras ord är LAG!
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Hur i HELA FRIDENS NAMN har man låtit förskollärare bli specialpedagoger med rätt att fortbilda lärare i ämnen de inte behärskar eller har utbildning i?
Begriper ni det vansinniga i detta??!!
Jag är oerhört tacksam för att man nu kommer att göra om denna yrkeskategori!
Sara Persson@frksarapersson
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Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić now regrets his accusations against Türkiye yesterday over Kosovo arms deal:
Yesterday, I reacted strongly, some would say sharply, maybe too sharply.
I will always be a good host to the Turkish President Erdogan… he is the greatest Turkish leader after Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
Türkiye’s behavior is of the utmost importance for the stability of this region.
We want the closest relations, the best relations with Türkiye.
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Ranked: Countries With the Largest Muslim Populations (2025) 🕌📊
Islam’s reach goes far beyond the Middle East — most of the world’s largest Muslim communities are actually in South and Southeast Asia.
1. 🇮🇩 Indonesia: 242M (87%)
2. 🇵🇰 Pakistan: 235M (96%)
3. 🇮🇳 India: 213M (15%)
4. 🇧🇩 Bangladesh: 150M (91%)
5. 🇳🇬 Nigeria: 124M (54%)
6. 🇪🇬 Egypt: 104M (95%)
7. 🇮🇷 Iran: 88M (99.8%)
8. 🇹🇷 Türkiye: 84M (97%)
9. 🇸🇩 Sudan: 46M (99%)
10. 🇩🇿 Algeria: 43M (98%)
11. 🇮🇶 Iraq — 40M (98.0%)
12. 🇦🇫 Afghanistan — 39M (99.7%)
13. 🇪🇹 Ethiopia — 37M (31.3%)
14. 🇲🇦 Morocco — 37M (99.0%)
15. 🇾🇪 Yemen — 31M (99.1%)
16. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia — 29M (92.7%)
17. 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan — 28M (88.0%)
18. 🇹🇿 Tanzania — 22M (34.1%)
19. 🇲🇾 Malaysia — 21M (63.5%)
20. 🇸🇾 Syria — 20M (87.0%)
21. 🇲🇱 Mali — 20M (93.9%)
22. 🇨🇳 China — 25M (1.4%)
23. 🇳🇪 Niger — 25M (99.3%)
24. 🇸🇴 Somalia — 13M (99.8%)
📈 Indonesia alone has over 242 million Muslims — more than any other country.
📊 Source: Pew Research Center (2025) | Visual Capitalist

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The Dutch 🇳🇱 ran a global empire and dominated European trade with barely 2 million inhabitants.
In demographic terms the Dutch Republic was a dwarf among giants. Seventeenth-century France counted more than 20 million people, Spain 7–8 million, England 5–6 million, and even Portugal, another maritime empire, had around 1.5–2 million but was tied to Spain after 1580.
The Dutch, with barely two million inhabitants in their United Provinces, sustained a war of independence against Spain, built a global commercial empire stretching from the East Indies to Brazil, and turned Amsterdam into the financial heart of Europe. The disproportion between population and power was unprecedented.
They managed it through density, wealth, and organization. The Republic was one of the most urbanized regions in Europe: over half of its population lived in towns. That meant higher literacy, faster transmission of skills, and a culture of trade and enterprise that dwarfed rural societies.
Dutch shipyards turned out vessels at unmatched speed and low cost, enabling the Republic to dominate bulk trade with fleets that were cheaper and more numerous than those of their rivals. Control of shipping lanes and staple markets gave them leverage that no raw demographic weight could easily counter.
Institutions also mattered. The Dutch developed joint-stock companies like the VOC (1602) and the WIC (1621), which mobilized private capital on a scale governments alone could not achieve. Amsterdam’s Exchange Bank and stock market became the backbone of European finance.
This institutional framework allowed the Republic to project power far beyond its manpower. While Spain relied on bullion and France on land armies, the Dutch system turned credit and capital into weapons of war.
The Republic’s small size forced discipline. With limited manpower it avoided long land wars except when unavoidable, concentrating instead on naval superiority, sieges, and the defense of fortified lines.
Its wars against Spain and later against England and France were sustained not by endless recruits but by money, hired soldiers, and an unmatched maritime infrastructure. France could put 300,000 men in the field; the Dutch fielded smaller armies but kept them paid and supplied through credit and commerce.
While France, Spain, and England were great empires by population and territory, the Dutch Republic achieved imperial reach with only a fraction of their numbers. Its strength lay not in demographic mass but in productivity, financial innovation, and the ability to turn a compact, urban society into a global trading machine. For a century, that was enough to let two million people stand against the giants of Europe and, for a time, prevail.

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Sweden relocates the 113-year-old Kiruna Church, a 672-ton wooden landmark, 5 km away to protect it from the expanding iron ore mine.
[📹 nordlig. photo]
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