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In 1917, American health officials in El Paso, Texas, launched a campaign to use toxic chemicals, including gasoline baths, to disinfect immigrants seeking to enter the United States through the US-Mexico border.

Only a few days after the alarming practice was launched at the border, one Mexican woman refused to go through it, sparking a protest of thousands of Mexicans at the El Paso border. Her name was Carmelita Torres; she was a 17-year-old maid from Juarez who crossed the border daily for work.

Although Torres and the riots briefly shut down the border, the campaign would continue for decades and even go on to inspire Nazi scientists. In this video, we trace the dangerous policies that lasted well into the 1960s, from the forced kerosene baths to the use of the poisonous gas Zyklon B to the fumigations of migrant workers in the “Bracero program” using the pesticide DDT. Watch the video above to learn more about this long history of toxic chemicals at the border.If you want to learn more about the “Bath Riots,” check out David Dorado Romo’s book Ringside Seat to a Revolution. And for more on the Bracero program, check out the Bracero History Archive.

This is the second installment in Missing Chapter, where we revisit underreported and often overlooked moments of the past to give context to the present. Our first season covers stories of racial injustice, political conflicts, even the hidden history of US medical experimentation. If you have an idea for a topic we should investigate in the series, send it to me via this form!

ALHAMDULILLAH. JAZAAKUMULLOHU KHAIRAN

A graphic video showing two women forced by a baying mob to walk naked in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur has sparked outrage after it emerged on social media and prompted the country’s leader Narendra Modi to break his silence on the months-long inter-ethnic conflict tearing the state apart.

The viral video depicts an incident from May 4, according to the Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum (ITLF) but police only made arrests once the footage went online this week.

Manipur Police described the incident on Twitter as “a case of abduction, gang rape and murder” on Wednesday.

Officials said Thursday that four people have been arrested and that police raids are ongoing. Authorities are interrogating more than three dozen men in relation to the apparent sexual assault, Reuters reported.

The video, which has been seen by CNN, shows two terrified women being forced to walk naked through a crowd of clothed men. The women appear to be being groped and sexually assaulted while surrounded by a mob of men, many brandishing long canes or sticks as weapons.

The horrific footage emerged more than two months after the incident took place; ongoing ethnic violence in Manipur triggered state-wide internet restrictions on May 3.

Modi addressed the situation in the state for the first time on Thursday, saying: “My heart is filled with grief and anger. The incident in Manipur is shameful for any civil society.”

“What happened with the daughters of Manipur can never be forgiven,” Modi continued, adding the “law will take its course with all its might.”As outrage and revulsion built over the attack, India’s Supreme Court on Thursday directed the federal and Manipur state governments to take “immediate steps… to hold perpetrators accountable” and “ensure such incidents are not repeated.”

“Using women as instruments for perpetrating violence is simply unacceptable in a constitutional democracy,” the court said.

Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh condemned the incident Thursday, calling it a “crime against humanity.”

Speaking to reporters in the state capital Imphal, Singh said the Manipur state government, which is headed by Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, would not tolerate crimes against “women and our sisters,” adding that the culprits would receive the highest punishment.

“Even though it is for the court to decide the kind of punishment, the government and its agencies along with the people of Manipur will make efforts so that they [culprits] are given the highest punishment of today: capital punishment,” he said.

Singh, a BJP member has come under fire for his failure to defuse ongoing ethnic violence in Manipur.The ITLF issued a statement on Wednesday, writing: “A video which went viral today shows a large Meitei mob parading two Kuki-Zo tribal women naked toward a paddy field to be gang-raped.”

The statement continued saying the “despicable incident” took place in B. Phainom village in Kangpokpi district and “shows the men constantly molesting the helpless women, who cry and plead with their captors.”

Manipur has grappled with violence in recent months.

Clashes broke out in the state capital Imphal on May 3 after thousands of students, mostly from the Kuki tribe, took part in a rally against the majority Meitei ethnic community, who have petitioned for special tribal status. Among other things, tribal status would enable the Meitei to buy land and provide more opportunities for government jobs.

Over 100 people have been killed and tens of thousands more displaced since then.

The incident on May 4 occurred after the women’s village was burnt down and two men were beaten to death, according to the ITLF.

India’s main opposition Congress party has been a vehement critic towards Modi’s handling of the issue, with the party’s president Mallikarjun Kharge tweeting Thursday, before the opening of Parliament: “Humanity has died in Manipur. Modi Govt and the BJP has changed democracy and the rule of law into Mobocracy by destroying the delicate social fabric of the state.”

Tagging Modi, his tweet continued: “India will never forgive your silence. If there is any conscience or an iota of shame left in your government, then you should speak about Manipur in the Parliament and tell the nation on what happened, without blaming others for your dual incompetence – both at the Centre and the State.”

Soon after, the state’s chief minister, N. Biren Singh, tweeted that an arrest had been made.

“After taking a Suo-moto cognisance of the incident immediately after the video surfaced, the Manipur Police swung to action and made the first arrest this morning,” he wrote. Suo-moto cognisance is a procedure in Indian law allowing the court to take action in a case without a complaint being filed.

He added that “a thorough investigation is currently underway and we will ensure strict action is taken against all the perpetrators, including considering the possibility of capital punishment. Let it be known, there is absolutely no place for such heinous acts in our society.”

Manipur police later said that it had made three more arrests of people accused “of the heinous crime of abduction and gang rape.”

The National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRC) issued notices Thursday to the state’s Chief Secretary and Director General of Police, calling for a detailed report on the case within four weeks.

The report should include the status of the investigation, health updates about female survivors and others injured, as well details about compensation – if any had been granted, NHRC said in a statement.

It also asked for details about steps proposed or taken to “safeguard citizens’ human rights – especially women and vulnerable sections of the society from such barbaric incidents.”

The Indian government has issued an order to Twitter and other social media platforms, instructing them not to share the viral video, a source familiar with the matter told CNN Thursday, adding it is “imperative for social media platforms to adhere to Indian laws as the matter is currently under investigation.”

Christian leaders in Jerusalem say never have Israeli attackers felt more emboldened than under the far-right ruling coalition.It was easy for him to identify many of the perpetrators himself – they went online and gave his restaurant a 1-star review minutes after the attack – but when he went to the police station that night, the officer there scolded him: “Don’t bother me too much.”A couple of days later, Armenians leaving a memorial service in the Armenian Quarter say they were attacked by Israeli settlers carrying sticks. An Armenian was pepper-sprayed as settlers scaled the walls of the Armenian convent, trying to take down its flag, which had a cross on it. When Armenians chased them away, the settlers began shouting: “Terrorist attack,” prompting nearby border police to draw their guns on the Armenians, beating and detaining one of them.
“Instead of [the soldiers] calming or condemning [the settlers], I was looking into the eyes of the soldier and telling him to calm down,” one of the attacked Armenian youth told Al Jazeera.At the Church of the Flagellation, someone attacked a statue of Jesus with a hammer. Last month, an Israeli came to the Church of Gethsemane during Sunday religious services and tried to attack the priest with an iron bar. Being spat and shouted at by Israelis has become, for some Christians, “a daily occurrence”.

ber of worshippers allowed inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre drastically limited, from as many as 11,000 historically during the Holy Fire ceremony to now 1,800 since last year, with authorities citing safety concerns.

But since Israel’s new government – the most right wing and religious in its history – came to power, incidents against Christians in Jerusalem have reportedly become more violent and common. At the beginning of the year, 30 Christian graves at the Protestant Mount Zion Cemetery were desecrated. In the Armenian Quarter, vandals spray-painted “Death to Arabs, Christians and Armenians,” on the walls.Forced to take matters into his own hands, Patton, who is tasked with protecting some 80 sites in Jerusalem, says the Franciscans have reluctantly set up cameras in all corners of their holy sites, which are becoming more closed off from the public due to the persistent attacks.
“This is not the Franciscan spirituality … of welcoming,” he said. “But we have to take care of the [holy] places and people who come to pray and worship.”Ideologically, the primary source for this targeting of Christians and their holy sites comes from the education of certain ultra-religious Jewish groups, according to community and church leaders. Most attacks come from a small minority of teenage yeshiva students, they say.

“Their mind is obsessed with the ‘Messianic syndrome’. They want to take over the whole land,” said Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem. “When you see young people, 15 or 16 years old, and they do all sorts of things and they’re not afraid, someone is behind it.”

The targeting of Christian symbols – especially the cross, with harassers often calling Christians “pagans” or “idol worshippers” – isn’t new either, but never have the attackers felt more emboldened than under the new government. After a recent spitting incident, an argument ensued, and the settler flashed his gun at the Christians. As a friend of theirs put it, the message was clear: “I can do anything I want and claim self-defence.”


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Clothe Having been an instinct of every Living creation including plants, which has a way or form in which, it's fruits or seeds are covered. Animals are also made with natural fur, feather or hair. Animal, having the instinct of clothing himself has always tried to cover himself from leaves, animal skins to the modern civilization of clothes. Clothes has been an essential part of HUMAN society, which is important to cover, adorn and also beatify himself. Clothe is also used as a tool to express culture, civility and wealth. This is a part of man that has been of high repute and has been held strongly important throughout the civilization of man.

If this is the guard through which sanity of man is well kept nad civility of sense are well guarded, Why must you decide to be naked when time, samity and civilization has made clothing an honourable thing..beyond the age of leaves and animal skins which are born out of natural intuition of man to cover himself even in the earliest ages of self awareness. Your clothesness is an intinctual beauty that commands honor, dignity and respect from even an animal whose instinct is least held important.

The civilization of unclothedness just like civilization of Gays, lesbianism and bestiality are man-made madness that is not deserving to species in the animal kingdom not to talk of God-Pleasing Muslimahs .

Animals are created in such a way that their unclothedness is covered with feathers, hairs and fur. Same if not betterment is expected to be applied to man. A Muslim is expected to be an example to every society. In our appearance, behavior and manners. It is only honourable for honored humans and most important Muslims to dress the way Almighty Allah has commanded us [يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ قُل لِّأَزْوَاجِكَ وَبَنَاتِكَ وَنِسَاءِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ يُدْنِينَ عَلَيْهِنَّ مِن جَلَابِيبِهِنَّ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ أَدْنَىٰ أَن يُعْرَفْنَ فَلَا يُؤْذَيْنَ ۗ وَكَانَ اللَّهُ غَفُورًا رَّحِيمًا(59]

O Prophet, tell your wives, daughters, and believing women to draw near their outer garments over themselves. Let them not be harmed, and God is Forgiving, Merciful (59)

Clothesness is one that's unquestionable about in human society, however the insanity of time is revealing the private body of men to the society. Events like the French testing of Nuclear Bomb in bikini island gave rise to naked clothes named after the island, an event which led to contamination of an entire island which it's inhabitants has lived for centuries, an event that led to ethnic displacement of an entire population is what is celebrated today amongst ignorant populace as a matter if shameless civility. The western society in it's sane days, sees clothiness of women in '50s as a honor to them, if this same set of people are telling you to go naked today, you should be able to question this, inability to do so might make you listen even if they tell you moving around without your undies is even a between civilization. One then wonder if really unclothedness is a measure of civilization why then do people like the Fmr. British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, Fmr. German chancellor Angella Merkrel are covering up themselves against the public display of unclothedness they're forcing through our throats.

Dear Muslim women, cover yourself in honor and obedience to the will of your creator and dignity to the personality of your own self.

May Almighty Allah keep guiding us aright and direct our affairs .

ALHAMDULILLAH, JAZAAKUMULLOHU KHAIRAN

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventions_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world

i will give you 100 inventions from wikipedia by the muslims

BitterTruth01:
Lie no 4 : Hospitals were not invented by Islam

These guys are bloody liars

how do those things discredit the invaentions

From the 8th century to around the 14th century, the medieval world witnessed what is known as the Islamic Golden Age. During this time, Muslims across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe pioneered swathes of cultural, social and scientific inventions and innovations.

The lives of human beings around the globe today would be quite different without the contributions of these medieval Muslim thinkers and inventors. Hospitals, universities, coffee and even the predecessors of modern violins and cameras, for example, were all pioneered during the Islamic Golden Age.

Here are 9 Muslim inventions and innovations of the medieval period.

1. Coffee
Yemen is where the ubiquitous dark bean brew has its origins from around the 9th century. In its early days, coffee assisted Sufis and Mullahs to stay up during late nights of religious devotion. It was later brought to Cairo in Egypt by a group of students.


By the 13th century, coffee had reached Turkey, but it wasn’t until 300 years later that the drink, in its various forms, began to be brewed in Europe. It was first brought to Italy, now famously associated with quality coffee, by a Venetian trader.

2. The flying machine
Although Leonardo Da Vinci is associated with early designs for flying machines, it was Andalusian-born astronomer and engineer Abbas ibn Firnas who first constructed a flying device, and technically flew it, in the 9th century. Firnas’ design consisted of a winged apparatus made of silk that fitted around a man like a bird costume.


During a botched flight trial in Cordoba, Spain, Firnas managed to briefly fly upwards before falling back to the ground and partially breaking his back. But his designs may have been an inspiration for Leonardo hundreds of years later.


From Notre-Dame Cathedral to the Houses of Parliament, European architecture is indebted to the Muslim world. Diana Darke joined Dan on the pod to discuss how medieval crusaders, pilgrims and merchants encountered Arab Muslim culture on their way to the Holy Land.

3. Algebra
The word algebra comes from the title of the 9th-century book Kitab al-Jabra, by Persian mathematician and astronomer Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi. The pioneering work translates as a tome of reasoning and balancing by the man who became known as the ‘father of algebra’. Al-Khwarizmi was also the first individual to introduce the mathematical concept of raising a number to a power.


4. Hospitals
What we now view as modern centres of health – providing medical treatments, training and study – first emerged in 9th-century Egypt. The very first medical centre is thought to have been constructed in Cairo in 872 by Ahmad ibn Tulun, the ‘Abbasid governor of Egypt’.

Ahmad ibn Tulun Hospital, as it is known, provided free care for all – a policy based on the Muslim tradition of caring for anyone who was sick. Similar hospitals spread from Cairo around the Muslim world.

5. Modern optics
Around the year 1000, the physicist and mathematician Ibn al-Haytham proved the theory that humans see objects by light reflecting off them and entering the eye. This radical view went against the established theory at the time that light was emitted from the eye itself and pioneered centuries of scientific study into the human eye.
Al-Haytham also invented the ‘camera obscura’, a device that forms the basis of photography and explained how the eye sees images upright due to the connection between the optic nerve and the brain.
Muslim polymath Al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham.

6. Surgery
Born in 936, court physician Al Zahrawi, from southern Spain, published a 1,500 page illustrated encyclopaedia of surgery techniques and tools titled Kitab al Tasrif. The book went on to be used as a medical reference tool in Europe for 500 years. Alongside his surgical investigations, he developed surgical tools for C-sections and cataract surgeries and invented a device to safely crush kidney stones.


Over a 50-year career, he investigated gynaecology issues, performed the first tracheotomy operation and studied eyes, ears and noses in great detail. Zahrawi also discovered the use of dissolving threads to stitch wounds. Such an innovation did away with the need for a second surgery to remove sutures.

7. Universities
The first university in the world was the University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fez, Morocco. It was founded by Fatima al-Fihri, a Muslim woman from Tunisia. The institution first emerged as a mosque in 859, but later grew into the al-Qarawiyyan mosque and university. It still operates 1200 years later and is a reminder that learning is at the core of the Islamic tradition.

For way too long we Westerners have been espying history through the lens of our own success. But truth is, Britain only had its moment because some trade winds blew our sailors in a favourable direction, and America was only discovered because Europeans were seeking the Indies.

8. The crank
The hand-operated crank is thought to have first been used in ancient China. The device led to the emergence, in 1206, of the revolutionary crank and connecting rod system, which converted rotary motion into a reciprocating one. First documented by Ismail al-Jazari, a scholar, inventor and mechanical engineer in what is now Iraq, it assisted with the lifting of heavy objects with relative ease, including the pumping of water up a crankshaft.


9. Bowed instruments
Among many instruments that arrived in Europe through the Middle East are the lute and the Arabian rabab, the first known bowed instrument and an ancestor of the violin, which was played widely in Spain and France in the 15th century. Modern musical skills are also said to have derived from the Arabic alphabet.

A rabab, or Berber ribab, a traditional Arabic instrument.

Christianity is a cancer to the world

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2mch:
France is a Leech country. Once you let them in, it’s hell to get rid of them. Ask Francophone African countries. Without them France will be worse than Italy. As for Tinubu he should focus on Nigeria and Africa first. How we can strengthen as a continent before running everywhere looking for friends. We have too many problems.

God bless you. I love jagaban.

But, I have studied France foreign policy to detail, they see anything Africa as inferior. Same France that want to test coronavirus vaccine on Africa

France is an imperialist, a chop and go country. France will fail any African country. President Tinubu has to understand France, they see Africa as inferior with their colonial mentality. Don't trust France ooo

Johnjustice:
That's why terrorism keeps increasing in the world, everywhere Islamic terrorists.

Including Dubai you've dreamt all your life to go

This war yoore drumming against Muslims hope you survive it when it comes

TakeNigeriaBack:
billions and billions of muslims? God forbid. You want to turn the world into 'bomb blast every minute?'

There is already 2 billion Muslims our if 8billion humans on earth already. There's nothing you can do about this. Okay ?