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Violent Islamism: Our amazing disgrace

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A tourist reads messages left at a makeshift memorial at the beach near the Imperial Marhaba resort, which was attacked by a gunman in Sousse, Tunisia, June 29, 2015. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra A tourist reads messages left at a makeshift memorial at the beach near the Imperial Marhaba resort, which was attacked by a gunman in Sousse, Tunisia, June 29, 2015. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

Initially published in Egypt’s Ahram

Friday’s carnage on three continents, in which scores of people died in Tunisia, Kuwait, and France has appalled the global community and reinforced international condemnation of the Islamic State (IS), which has claimed responsibility for them.

Yet in spite of the global horror over the sheer brutality and senselessness of these murders, deep differences exist among intellectuals concerning the causes of such terror and how to confront it. There is even disagreement over whether the term “Islamism” can be ascribed to the context of such acts of terror.

This lack of global consensus is one reason why such acts prevail, and is the simplest explanation for why groups like the Islamic State continue to…

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June 2015

It’s difficult to wake up in the mornings. I don’t allow myself to sleep for twelve hours straight, but trust me when I say that’s all I feel like doing, day after day. I can’t find meaningful reasons to get up, but I force myself to do it for motives I find to be meaningless, cause it’s the “rational” and “grown-up” thing to do. 
I’m in a perpetual state of apathy and cannot find joy in things that used to light me up. I go to the cinema with family and I feel dead inside. I can’t sit down to update this blog because I get a really painful feeling in my entire body and I want to throw up. I don’t want to spend time with my family anymore. I find human beings except C extremely irritating, and I try to socialize and force myself to be exposed to new situations (the whole ‘rewiring the hippocampus’ thing, “it’s scientific” they say) but I just hate people’s guts and can’t help how I feel. I’ve also developed a terror of yoga because I always end up crying, specially with bowing. Every time the instructor goes “And now we bow” I become a waterfall. So nowadays I’m in a state of wanting to do yoga but forbidding myself from it because my mind says I can’t afford to get puffy and sound sick when I must go be social immediately after a session. I find myself in a position where I have no choice; I feel like I’m always in survival mode. This means that I’m bathing in anxiety all day and all night. 
I cling to the very few things that keep me connected to myself, such as taking photos here and there, reading Anne of Green Gables (I cannot stand any other books, they give me nausea), spending time with C & going to the beach.  
Things I Loved in June:
✿ The beach ✿ Making up with C after a fight He stayed in the stairs ✿ Harry Potter party with my sister ✿ Went to see Jurassic World with J and M ✿ My new gorgeous panties with roses on them ✿ Cuddling in C’s bed and being in possession of his glorious ass ✿ Insterstellar. OMG. Best film I’ve seen in years ✿ Making bouquets of fake flowers ✿ Crafting ✿ Watching travel documentaries on tv with my parents. I want to travel so baaaaad! ✿ Daydreaming about traveling ✿ Spells that work ✿ The magpie feather I found on my way home from C’s ✿ Naomi Von Monsta launched her new blog! I’ve been following her since livejournal days, and she’s amazing ✿ 2-hour hike to Montserrat mountain with C & the stairs of despair ✿ 

Peabody Coal Crashes and Burns Financially

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

Peabody Coal is crashing and burning financially. The CEO resigned.
So, now that Peabody may not be buying off the media in Indian country with its ads, maybe there will be headline news stories on how Peabody Coal/Navajo Generating Station has long been one of the most polluting, dirty, coal-fired power plants in the world. 
Is southern Arizona scrambling to

Peabody Coal Crashes and Burns Financially

By Brenda NorrellCensored NewsPeabody Coal is crashing and burning financially. The CEO resigned.So, now that Peabody may not be buying off the media in Indian country with its ads, maybe there will be headline news stories on how Peabody Coal/Navajo Generating Station has long been one of the most polluting, dirty, coal-fired power plants in the world.

via Peabody Coal Crashes and Burns Financially.