Zahra Q

The stabbing of two Jewish men is horrifying. So too is the attack on a Muslim man the same day, ignored by much of our media. All human lives are equal — and we should oppose all hatred and violence wherever it appears. That’s how we build a safe & peaceful society for all.

#Pointless Quiz @XanderArmstrong @GethincJones #GethinJones Copernicus did not "discover" that the Earth rotates around the sun. He learned and based his proposal on teachings by the 14thC Syrian astronomer #IbnAlShatir. Ibn Al-Shatir who came up with the model 200yrs earlier.

The ‘antisemitic terrorism’ narrative around the Golders Green incident on Wednesday has now collapsed. The alleged assailant was mentally unwell with previous convictions for stabbing, dating back years, and he had left psychiatric care in recent days. One of his three victims (yes three, not two!) was a Muslim. While suffering an apparent mental health crisis, two Met officers kicked his head in IDF-style and then the Met justified it like a Netanyahu press conference. We’re supposed to believe this man was an ‘antisemitic terrorist’ in the pay of Iran, motivated to attack Jews because of pro-Palestine protests and chants. This is a total sham and deeply insidious. The mainstream media, politicians, and the Metropolitan Police are colluding with Zionists to exploit this attack to further erode freedom of expression and assembly, and to expand Jewish militias in London. Welcome to the complete Zionisation of British politics!

Reza Pahlavi Monarchists are some of the WORST humans on earth. This video made me so mad. They attack this man in the UK with his two children for loving Iran while holding the Israeli flag. Even the kids are telling the attacker to LEAVE. They are saying some of the most vulgar curses in farsi. The UK should DEPORT THEM ALL to Israel. They dont deserve the UK or Iran.

@MayorofLondon @sarahsackman @anne_clarke last week Brit-Iranian father was stabbed by opposition supporters outside Downing St. Not in the news. Not condemned by the PM or ministers. The suspects (presumably had a knife) not tasered or kicked in the head by @metpoliceuk .

One last thing before I go to bed. This is the guy that stabbed him. He’s only been in London for two months. He’s staying at a hostel in Heathrow Airport area. What a coincidence that these supposed to refugees get hired by the Palhavi people to take to the streets on behalf of Reza Pahlavi and stab people who support their country.

🚨JUST IN🚨 A British-Iranian man was stabbed in the stomach on Downing Street, U.K., in an attack involving pro-Reza Pahlavi monarchists. Police detained 2 of the 3 suspects. The suspects were taunting bystanders even after being cuffed. The image added is of the man who was attacked. Source: @RyanRozbiani

“As a star, I had a voice, and I knew I had to speak out on certain things. If I posted, I knew I would get in trouble [with Arsenal].” Mesut Özil has opened up about what led to the end of his career at Arsenal FC, saying that speaking out about the persecution of Uyghur Turks in China’s Xinjiang province led to him eventually parting ways with the club. “It was difficult, because I was enjoying playing football and they just took it away from me. I thank God that I had my wife and kids with me.”

A man arrested after a stabbing attack against Jews in north-west London that has been declared a terrorist incident had a known history of serious violence and mental health issues, according to the head of the Metropolitan Police. 5pillarsuk.com/2026/04/29/gol…

Every time the State of Israel escalates, Jews worldwide become targets. When tensions drop, so do attacks. That’s reality, not “mysterious hate.” Spare us your speeches and prayers. You don’t get to act in the name of the Jews while your Zionism state put Jewish communities at risk across the globe. Call it what it is: Zionist exploitation of Judaism that endangers Jews everywhere. Source @authenttorahjew @TorahJudaism

Repeated kicks to the head. Meanwhile, the Met used kid gloves against the Zionist Pahlavi monarchist who stabbed an Iranian man in Whitehall just last week.

A Persian scholar finished a single math book in 9th century Baghdad that quietly became the foundation for every line of code running on Earth today. I started reading about him at midnight and could not believe how many things in my daily life trace back to one man. His name was Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi. The book is called The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing. Every time you say the word algebra, you are saying his book title. Every time someone says the word algorithm, they are saying his name. Both English words come from him. Both are Latin transliterations of Arabic and of his own identity. The man did not just contribute to mathematics. He named it. Here is the part almost nobody tells you. Al-Khwarizmi was born around 780 CE in Khwarazm, in what is now Uzbekistan. He moved to Baghdad and worked at a research institution called the House of Wisdom, which during the Islamic Golden Age was the single most important center of learning on the planet. The caliph al-Mamun hired the best mathematicians, astronomers, and philosophers from across three continents and put them in one building with one job. Translate, study, and produce new knowledge. Al-Khwarizmi finished his book on algebra around 820 CE. The Arabic title contained the word al-jabr, which referred to one of the two operations he used to solve equations. When the book was translated into Latin in the 12th century, the Latin world did not have a word for what he had built. So they kept his Arabic word. Al-jabr became algebra. The discipline was named after a single Arabic word in the title of a single book by a single man. The deeper insight is what he actually changed about how humans think. Before al-Khwarizmi, mathematical problems were solved geometrically. You drew shapes. You measured them. You compared areas. The Greeks had built an entire mathematical tradition on visual proofs and physical constructions. It was beautiful and limited. You could not solve a problem you could not draw. Al-Khwarizmi did something nobody had done before him at this scale. He said you could solve any problem using abstract symbols and rules. You did not need a shape. You needed a procedure. You moved terms across the equation. You cancelled like terms on both sides. You isolated the unknown. He invented the idea that mathematics is a manipulation of symbols according to rules, not a study of physical figures. That single shift made everything that came afterward possible. Calculus. Differential equations. Linear algebra. Quantum mechanics. None of it works if math is locked inside geometry. He pulled it out. The second thing he did is the one that changed how the world counted forever. He took the Hindu numeral system from Indian mathematics, refined it, and wrote a book introducing it to the Arab world. That system included the concept of zero as a placeholder, and a positional notation where the value of a digit depends on its location. Roman numerals could not do complex calculation. Hindu-Arabic numerals could. When his book on numerals was translated into Latin as Algoritmi de numero Indorum, the word Algoritmi was just the Latin spelling of his own name. Europeans started calling the new method "doing algorism," then "running an algorithm." The word for the most important concept in computer science is literally his name in Latin. The third thing he did is the part that should haunt anyone who works in tech. His method of solving problems was systematic. Step one, do this. Step two, check that. Step three, if condition A, then do X, otherwise do Y. He wrote down procedures that could be followed by anyone, anywhere, who knew how to read. The procedure did not depend on intuition or genius. It worked because the steps worked. That is exactly what an algorithm is. A finite, deterministic procedure for solving a problem. He did not just give us the word. He gave us the entire concept of programming a thousand years before there was anything to program. When Alan Turing built the first abstract model of computation in 1936, when John von Neumann designed the first stored-program computer in 1945, when every engineer at Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind writes code in 2026, they are working in a paradigm that started with one man in Baghdad twelve centuries ago. The strangest part is what happens when you walk into any tech office in San Francisco or Bangalore or Lahore today. Engineers say the words algebra and algorithm hundreds of times a day. They do not know whose name they are saying. Almost nobody can spell al-Khwarizmi correctly on the first try. His original Arabic manuscript is preserved at Oxford. His book on Hindu numerals survives only in Latin translation. The Latin version was the textbook that taught medieval Europe how to count. The man who built the foundation of the AI revolution did not live to see a calculator. He died around 850 CE, a thousand years before the first electric current was sent through a wire. The civilization he built mathematics for collapsed. The library he wrote in burned. His own grave is unmarked. But every algorithm running on every machine on Earth right now still answers to his name.

@KP24 @ICC @KP24 how can you support a franchise league which discriminates against Pakistani players not only in Ind but SA #CSA and the UAE. Propagating the ideas of the BJP and the RSS. #BoycottTheIPL

@KP24 No player should play in the IPL #BoycottTheIPL. The BJP is a far right extremist fascist party. The IPL propogates this fascism and discrimination. The home minister Amit Shah is racist, Islamophobic. His son Jay Shah is head of the @ICC.

Alastair Cook has absolutely NO IDEA what it's like to be in the IPL. What's it's like to always be around the best players in the world. So his opinion on Jacob Bethell doesn't matter at all. Stay in India, Jacob. I know, even though you're not playing, you're learning and will be a way better player. 👍🏻

"Males who may be children" is a new one.

Just came home. Used the #dlr and #NorthernLine. Changed at #BankStation. No problems. In fact much quieter and less busy than usual. @tfl #tubestrike

@homesecretaryuk @YvetteCooperMP @ukhomeoffice will you condemn this?

BREAKING: Over 1,000 musicians & cultural workers call on artists, broadcasters & fans to boycott Eurovision until genocidal Israel is banned Signatories include Macklemore, Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno, Massive Attack, Primal Scream, Kneecap, Idles, Paloma Faith, Charlotte Church…

This is John Ashby, the racist monster who raped a Sikh woman because he believed her to be Muslim. This image should be on the front page of every newspaper and online platform. His actions will have been fuelled by the hateful rhetoric pumped out online and normalised by hard right politicians. Damn you and your sick views. My heart is broken for the survivor of this attack. She will suffer the psychological scars of this misogynistic violence for the rest of her life. I hope he is imprisoned for the rest of his days.

The Home Office has told a grieving man he must leave the UK after his wife and two-year-old daughter died in last year’s Air India plane crash. Mohammad Shethwala applied to extend his visa on humanitarian grounds after the tragedy, but on 9 April had his request rejected and was placed on immigration bail – an alternative to being detained for people without the legal right to be in the UK. He moved to the UK from India in March 2022 with his wife, Sadikabanu, who was on a student visa studying at Ulster University’s London campus, Metro reported. Their daughter Fatima was born in the UK. Sadikabanu had just started a new job in Rugby and was about to apply for a skilled worker visa when her plane from Ahmedabad to London crashed seconds after takeoff on 12 June 2025, killing 260 people. Her death meant Mohammad lost not just his family but his path to staying in the UK. “If his wife had survived, he would still be allowed in the UK,” his friend Musab Taherwala told Metro. “If his daughter had survived, he would have been granted indefinite leave to remain when she turned seven.” Mohammad’s lawyers argued he was dependent on his support network in the UK as he struggled with grief and mental health problems. He briefly returned to India after the crash but found the intense media coverage of the crash difficult to cope with. Being on immigration bail in the UK means he cannot work or apply for a new visa. His lawyers will challenge the Home Office’s decision in court and he will be allowed to stay during that process. “We are horrified at the callousness of the Home Office separating a grieving father and husband from his support network, who are caring for him and his mental wellbeing at this tragic time,” Fizza Qureshi, CEO of the Migrants’ Rights Network, told Metro. The Labour government has adopted increasingly harsh and draconian anti-immigrant policies in recent years. Last year home secretary Shabana Mahmood announced plans to double the length of time it would take for migrants to be granted indefinite leave to remain. She also unveiled a proposal to seize asylum seekers’ valuables, including their jewellery, to fund their accommodation costs.