Can we cancel Adam Saleh and basically all Muslim men who think they have the right to tell others what’s haram or not. This goes hand in hand about Dina Tokio taking her hijab off and all the backlash she’s gotten because of it. Yes, she is huge representation for hijabis but she doesn’t owe anyone that. Literally what I learned growing up is that the hijab is to be worn out of PERSONAL CHOICE not for others. So if she CHOOSES not to wear it it doesnt mean she is a bad muslimah. It means she doesn’t think it solely represents her faith or herself, and she’s being honest about it. If she wore it despite how she feels, how is that good for her personal faith between God and mentally. A hijab can represent ur faith but it doesnt solely define ur faith in something. Her faith isnt gone or wavering because she CHOSE to took the hijab off. Dina and many other non hijabis are not less Muslims because they don’t wear the hijab. What’s not Muslim tho is judging others and their faith. And, if a Muslim decides to convert or just lose faith thats not a crime because despite what u do or wear u can lose faith in ur beliefs. Its called being human. However, I think its a crime to judge those people. I don’t recall judgement of another’s actions or faith a Muslim value. So, before u attack someone over their muslimness think is it better to believe in Allah or to live like u believe in Allah (SKAM quote). In other words, attacking a woman who takes off her hijab doesn’t make u a better Muslim, it means ur a shitty human.
The fact that Dina Tokio was able to make 47 MINUTE video of her JUST reading the hate comments she’s been sent by OTHER MUSLIMS simply because she took her scarf/hijab off is absolutely awful, disgusting, and says so much about the state of the community right now.
Controversial Truths About Ancient Egypt Masterpost
The pyramids were built by contemporary workers who received wages and were fed and taken care of during construction
The Dendera “lightbulb” is a representation of the creation myth and has nothing to do with electricity
We didn’t find “““copper wiring””” in the great pyramid either
Hatshepsut wasn’t transgender
The gods didn’t actually have animal heads
Hieroglyphs aren’t mysteriously magical; they’re just a language (seriously we have shopping lists and work rosters and even ancient erotica)
The ancient Egyptian ethnicity wasn’t homogeneous
Noses (and ears, and arms) broke off statues and reliefs for a variety of reasons, none of which are “there is a widespread archaeological conspiracy to hide the Egyptian ethnicity”
The carvings at Abydos aren’t modern machines but recarvings over old carvings. Sure they look like them but if you can read hieroglyphs and know that Ramesses II will even usurp the carvings of his own father just to be a little shit
‘No soot on the ceilings and walls of the Dendera temple!’ is actually because of extensive restoration works and not because Egyptians were in on shit like Baghdad “batteries”
While the Egyptians were fine-ass astronomers they didn’t align any of their enormous and/or important buildings to modern star constellations, because constellations look very different now than they did ~5000 years ago
The pyramid is the simplest, sturdiest shape with which to build and many different cultures discovered this in their own time. There were never any weird fish humans/aliens involved
The sphinx of Gizah is only an approximate 5000 years old; the 10,000 year/rain erosion nonsense is proven hokum
Speaking of that particular sphinx, the Napoleonic expedition is not responsible for its missing nose
Akhenaten was not a “heretic” by contemporary standards
Ramses II appropriated a lot of his predecessors’ buildings/reliefs and isn’t really deserving of the epithet “the Great”
The Battle of Kadesh ended in a stalemate (twice)
While they had feline deities throughout their history, Egyptians didn’t actually worship cats themselves. This was a later Greek/Ptolemaeic addition
It was not, in fact, practice to shave off eyebrows after cats died; Herodotus lied about that
Herodotus lied about a lot of things and many misconceptions about ancient Egypt can be traced back to his Greek ass
I can’t believe I forgot my favourite Hill to Die On
Seth was not the god of “evil”, and despite his chaos providing a foil to order, he wasn’t completely villified until very late in Egyptian history, when he became associated with despised foreign enemies
Hats off to the few of you who’re reblogging this with tags saying you’re going to check my claims later. You make me not entirely despair of this hellhole.
Here are some vetted Egyptological books/sources (that are by and large appropriate for a lay-audience) you can find most, if not all of the above:
Lehner, M., The Complete Pyramids
Wilkinson, R. H., The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt
Hornung, E., The One and the Many: Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt
Dunand, F. & Zivie-Coche, C., Gods and Men in Egypt
Kemp, B., Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization
Bard, K., An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
Stevenson Smith, W., The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt
Kitchen, K. A., The Life and Times of Ramesses II, King of Egypt
Sweeney, D., Sex and Gender (in Ancient Egypt)
McDowell, A. G., Village Life in Ancient Egypt:
Laundry Lists and Love Songs
Te Velde, H., Seth, God of Confusion
Guys do me a solid and reblog this version instead of continuously asking for sources on the other versions thanks
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