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Aftab Mallick
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Aftab Mallick
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DPhil in Oriental Studies @UniofOxford, Social history of Mughal India. Interested in ethnicity, identity and status culture in Early Modern Asia.
Oxford, England Katılım Ağustos 2021
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This is horrendous
Lorraine Norton@LorraineNorton
I am against the Assisted Dying Bill. The reason is, in November 2018 my Mother was in hospital recovering from pneumonia. No sooner than she was moved from the A&E ward to a general ward my family we was called to a meeting informing us that Mum was dying and saying it would cause a lot of harm to her if she had heart failure and was resuscitated. What we were told was heavily weighted to a Do Not Resuscitate order. After this numerous meetings were called heavily weighted towards Mum being put on an end of life pathway. Every time I visited I dreaded being called to yet another meeting. I began to feel hounded. In a meeting around 7th November a doctor informed us Mum had recovered well and was fit for discharge. His words “She’s in good shape”, so there was no need for further treatment and if we agreed he could fast track Mum to any place of our choice. Why would you not agree to that? Mum had told us she wanted us to “Get me out of this place” and the doctor was telling us her infection was now negligible and she was in good shape and fit for discharge… However, on my next visit, one and a half days later, I found Mum in a comatose state. I checked at intervals if she knew I was there. All Mum could do was flicker her eyelids and raise her brows in reply. I found, after her death, she had been given morphine and Midazolam. I stayed at the hospital overnight and Mum’s breathing was heavy, but I was twice assured it was normal… As I tended her next morning I saw frothy liquid coming from her mouth. She died as I was wiping her mouth and talking to her. At some point I realised Mum must have died from drowning, with fluid filled lungs. I cannot imagine how awful this must be for someone who was severely claustrophobic and often felt as though she couldn’t breath. Absolute torture I imagine. When I got the medical records I realised Mum had actually been started on the outlawed Liverpool Care Plan by someone who wasn’t even an elderly care doctor. He was a rheumatology registrar. The notes said two doctors were present, but he was the only one who spoke with four of us (Mum’s close family). The notes said we had requested that Mum’s life be ended. In retrospect I think through all this the family were baffled by all the suddenness and what felt like harassment, and in a state of shock. The medical records show a TEP form stating the hospital did not expect to die in the next twelve months, just around the time they told my sister and I Mum was dying!!! This happened in November 2018. Since then I have been fighting for Justice. Mum did not want to die. The family had definitely not requested for her to be commenced on end of life “care”, and our Power of Attorney was ignored… The hospital PALS team, the PHSO, and the GMC, refuse to investigate the doctor. They say he followed end of life NICE guidelines and therefore did nothing wrong. My MP ignores my communications about the matter. After this happened I did some online research to see if others had had a similar experience. To my surprise I found The People’s Care Watchdog, with numerous cases. I then Co-founded EoL Watch “FAIME” [Families Against Involuntary Euthanasia], with a few others who had similar experiences. Then I heard of Jacqui Deevoy, who has made several films, and written a book covering people’s experiences of this. I also found other support and campaign sites, and found there were numerous people going through the same trauma. You see, none of us can trust an Assisted Dying Bill when we have encountered deceit, lies, collusion…. Our loved ones put on end of life before their time, our wishes and their wishes ignored, and Powers of Attorney not worth the paper they are written on… You want to safeguard doctors? I think you should also look into safeguarding patients, and their loved ones, because from what many of us have experienced we wouldn’t trust the Assisted Dying Bill any further than we could throw it. In our opinion it would be an easier path for unscrupulous doctors to end people’s lives with little to nothing done about any malpractice. A total disgrace. @Fox_Claire @LordCFalconer @CareWatchdog @JacquiDeevoy1 @EoLWatch @CompassnInCare @EOLCampaigner @SpotlightJustiz @factukorguk @DearCoroner @patientslives_m @Amanda_M_Hunter @JulieJa24986365 @TopPsychCoach @KD_UK1 @AshTFE
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@Joyce_Karam Great, I’m sure it’ll harm them just as much as this “anger” has harmed the Israelis and Americans for the last 70 years
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No matter how this war ends, the level of Arab Gulf mistrust/public anger at Iran regime is a new reality for Tehran to reckon with. Arabic social media tells a very different story than English posts. There is no going back to pre-Feb. 28.
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The only Lord this swine worships is Baal
ابن ابراهيم@_ibnNuh
UAE political advisor Abdul Khaliq Abdullah says, “Even the Lord of the worlds cannot affect Netanyahu.” Exalted is Allah from such repugnant Kufr.
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Most *aren’t* pretending, they do believe it
Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs)@agraybee
It's common in third world countries for the Ivy/Oxbridge-educated elites to pretend they believe in peasant folklore.
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There is something very sinister afoot here, and we have to be able to criticize it honestly. For someone to advocate that the universities in the country she grew up in be bombed - this would be a war crime in any war, much less a completely stupid and immoral and doomed war of aggression - is not normal behavior.
This is a cult. Social scientists need to study the role of Iran International and other Intelligence-backed media in all this. Trauma cannot explain denying and/or justifying the far worse trauma Iranians in Iran are dealing with now. Nor can a bad experience with Islam. I have more than one Copt in my extended family who absolutely despise Islam but they wouldn't want to see Egyptian universities bombed much less in a war of aggression. Wtf is this?
It's literally the equivalent of Americans supporting the bombing of MIT (which is also connected to the military, much closer connection by the way than those of Iranian universities).
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Mvllah PhD thesis : "The Ontological Catastrophe of Latinate Metaphysics: A Polemical Refutation of Post-Socratic Deviance from the Muhammadan Reality Through a Neo-Heideggerian Lense"
Pahlavist : "How can the SAME people be in two DIFFERENT places... in two DIFFERENT pictures?"
Neo@Realneo101
Same guy, same shirt, different scenes. straight Islamic Republic propaganda. Nobody buys your pathetic lies anymore.
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I also have a theory that downwardly mobile recent diaspora are disproportionately (highly) represented among hardcore neo-Pahlavist.
E.g., the engineer who moved to Canada in his 40s for his kids and wasn’t able to continue in his field
YIMBY Tehran 🏗️🏙️@TehranYimby
Maintaining my position that neo-Pahavism is embarrassing b/c it’s a movement of middle/lower class LARPers who were commoners in Pahlavi Iran. This is the closest anyone in this lady’s bloodline has ever been to an Iranian royal and it’s a fake royal of a 54-year dynasty
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@bnaibrithcanada @WabKinew If someone calling Trump the Epstein class offends you, you should seek help. Nobody needs to apologize for that comment.
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😭🤬💔
Just got a message from a relative in Iran: ”I never thought I’d see these things I’ve seen in Tehran. It feels like living in a nightmare. There seems to be no end in sight & those who suffer the most are ordinary civilians.
I don’t understand the diaspora Iranians who say ”thank you USA & thank you Israel.”
I wish they could be here for just one second, if they were in our shoes I don’t think they would have said the same thing.”
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She looks like an evil demon with black holes for eyes. Allah protect us from these subhuman monsters
Shadow of Ezra@ShadowofEzra
White House spiritual advisor Paula White is urging Christians in America to donate their hard-earned money to Israel this Holy Week, saying it will help rebuild homes destroyed by ongoing wars and attacks. She claims those who give will, in return, receive God’s tithe and His blessing.
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Do you wish you could pour your heart out in a corner of the shrine?
Write "Ya Imam Reza!"
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1. Barbary captives weren't necessarily condemned to a life of servitude. Many were emancipated and along with their descendants were actually overrepresented in the governing and administrative circles of Tunis and Algiers in the Ottoman period. One modern example: Beji Caid Essebsi, the first democratically elected president in Tunisia, was the grandson of a Sardinian captive. This is obviously not to say it was a benevolent or praiseworthy practice or institution. And I'm glad we live in a period of history where these barbaric practices are long gone. But this factoid is unlikely to be true at the scale implied.
2. It went both ways. During the same period, the Knights of Malta were essentially state-sanctioned pirates. They specifically targeted North African coastal populations, including villages, and even Orthodox Christians from Greece.
3. European states had ransom institutions dedicated to repurchasing captives. The Trinitarian and Mercedarian orders were essentially institutionalized ransom machines. It was an almost bureaucratized form of prisoner exchange.
TL;DR: Studying the Barbary/Mediterranean slave trade through the lens of the Transatlantic slave trade is one of the most stupid things one could do. Thomas Sowell
(an idiot's idea of a genius) wants to relativize the latter or play the game of America's racial dynamics by mentioning the former (just to be able to say Whites were also enslaved).
The circumstances of the Transatlantic slave trade and its racial dimensions were unique to it.
Its equivalent in the Islamic World is not the Barbary slave trade. The Trans-Saharan slave trade could have been a better example.
bone@boneGPT
The Barbary pirates would kidnap European sailors and chain them to an oar FOR LIFE. They didn't even get up to go to the bathroom.
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Here's a challenge: find a large account who thinks the Iran war is a good idea and also thinks the Epstein files are important and they have not received sufficient investigation by the authorities.
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