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Tankies celebrate terrorism -- "The french deserve a thousand charlie hebdos." (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] archomrade@midwest.social 0 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Had to go looking, but I found the image this comment is in reaction to.

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It's a cartoon from "Liberation" newspaper in france, and the caption is "Ramadan in Gaza" (published just after the hunanitarian aid blockade and famine crisis started in Gaza, for which Israel is now being accused as an act of genocide)

The woman in a hijab is slapping the hand of an emaciated Gazan chasing after a rat, presumably to catch and eat it, and saying "Not before sunset"

It's a pretty openly Islamophobic joke about Gazan's starving during the month of Ramadan where muslims traditionally fast from sunrise to sunset.

I don't think it should need to be said, but even orthodox Muslims recognize exceptions to fasting during ramadan for starvation and bodily injury.

[–] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I see it as a joke on how religious fundamentalists would rather condemn their children to die over their own religious choices (which includes waging religious wars)

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Religion is all these people have left. Can't condemn them for their last semblance of hope in a hostile environment. Nor can you place sole blame on religion for the conflict. It's a lot deeper than that

(They are allowed to eat during Ramadan. that is if Egypt and Israel didn't withhold international aid, such as flour)

[–] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'd suggest they find something better than religion to put their hope in.

Claiming this conflict isn't about religion is like claiming the US civil war wasn't about slavery. In the end it's jews that wanted the territory to be jewish, and muslims that wanted the territory to remain muslim. If judaism and islam hadn't existed, all of the 'deeper' reasons and divisions just fall away.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think you can argue that for every single conflict in history

[–] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

WW1; WW2; Korea; Vietnam; the Gulf Wars; Russian revolution; French revolution; US revolution; US civil war; ...

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[–] archomrade@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago (25 children)

Religious fundamentalists do not encourage or instruct fasting during an ongoing famine (not even Islamic ones).

Thinking that they do (and laughing about it) while they starve at the hands of their colonial occupier is honest-to-god nazi-level genocide apologia.

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