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04/11/2026

03/20/2026

مفتي عام ليبيا الشيخ الصادق الغرياني حول الحرب الدائرة بين إيران وترامب ونتن ياهو:

♦️ ليس في القرآن شيء اسمه حياد، مادامت الحرب بين مسلمين وكفرة فواجب نصرة المسلمين.

♦️من يسمي موقفه "حيادا" حينما تكون الحرب بين مسلم وكافر يكون ممن قال القرآن فيهم "لا إلى هؤلاء ولا إلى هؤلاء".

♦️من الدروس والعبر التي نراها من الحرب الجارية؛ أن المستكبر لابد أن يدفع الثمن مهما بلغت قوته، فاليوم الرئيس الأمريكي يستنجد بكل دول العالم لفتح مضيق هرمز؛ وقد خُذل.

♦️على المسلمين أن يعتبروا مما حصل في القواعد الأمريكية في الخليج، فوجودها تسبب في استهداف تلك الدول التي ظنت أنها ستكون ناصرة لها، ومن أراد العزة فلله العزة ورسوله والمؤمنين.

02/28/2026

Vilified in life. Sanitized in death.From Malcolm X to Martin Luther King Jr., from Rosa Parks to Nelson Mandela — many who uplifted Black communities were surveilled, criticized, and opposed. When truth challenges power, backlash often follows.
During the Civil Rights era and beyond, many prominent Black leaders, activists, and cultural figures were monitored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Through official programs such as COINTELPRO, federal authorities conducted surveillance on individuals they considered politically influential or capable of organizing large movements.

Figures such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali, James Baldwin, Angela Davis, and others were subject to government monitoring at different points in their lives. In many cases, surveillance was tied to their activism, political affiliations, global connections, or their ability to mobilize communities around issues of civil rights and social change.

This pattern highlights an important historical reality: when movements challenge existing power structures, government scrutiny often follows. Surveillance was not limited to one ideology or one group — it was part of a broader national security strategy during a period marked by Cold War tensions and domestic unrest.

Despite being monitored, investigated, criticized, and sometimes targeted, these individuals continued their work. They organized, wrote, protested, spoke publicly, and influenced laws and public opinion. Their impact extended far beyond any investigation file.

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01/18/2026

African Countries and their Last AFCON Trophy 🏆.

01/17/2026

Top 10 African Countries with the Strongest Men

1️⃣ Nigeria 🇳🇬
• Famous for raw physical strength
• Dominates in wrestling, boxing, weightlifting, labor-intensive jobs
• “Naija strength” is legendary across Africa

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2️⃣ Senegal 🇸🇳
• Home of Laamb (traditional wrestling)
• Fighters train with extreme discipline
• Some of Africa’s most powerful athletes

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3️⃣ Ghana 🇬🇭
• Strong boxing and street-fitness culture
• Dock workers, fishermen, and traders known for endurance

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4️⃣ Cameroon 🇨🇲
• Produces strong footballers and combat athletes
• High representation in strength-demanding sports

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5️⃣ South Africa 🇿🇦
• Elite rugby, bodybuilding, powerlifting culture
• Well-developed strength sports infrastructure

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6️⃣ Ethiopia 🇪🇹
• Known more for endurance, but rural labor builds serious strength
• Farmers and highland workers have exceptional physical resilience

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7️⃣ Kenya 🇰🇪
• Strong in manual labor, military, and athletics
• Lean but powerful physique common

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8️⃣ Ivory Coast 🇨🇮
• Naturally built athletes
• Strong presence in football, boxing, and street fitness

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9️⃣ Morocco 🇲🇦
• Combat sports, wrestling, and boxing tradition
• Military and athletic training culture

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🔟 Egypt 🇪🇬
• Long history of wrestling and weightlifting
• Consistently produces strong Olympic lifters

01/16/2026

🏆 Africa Cup Of Nations 2025 Winner___ ❔

01/16/2026

A bit more diverse nowadays. HT

12/08/2025

This incredible map gives us a powerful visual history lesson that really makes you stop and think about human diversity in a new way. The title, "How Sunlight Shaped Skin Color Worldwide," perfectly explains what we are seeing: a beautiful biological gradient that tells the story of our ancestors' survival. If you trace the colors from the equator outwards, you see a clear pattern where the darkest tones are concentrated in high-sunlight regions like central Africa, southern India, and northern South America, while the lightest tones are found far north in places like Canada, Scandinavia, and Russia. This isn't random; it’s evolution in action over thousands of years. Think of it as Mother Nature's balancing act: near the equator, intense UV radiation required our ancestors to develop a built-in sunblock—melanin—to protect their DNA and crucial nutrients like folate. But as humans migrated north into cloudier, darker climates where the sun is much weaker, having too much melanin became a disadvantage because it blocked the UV light necessary for our bodies to produce Vitamin D, which is vital for bone health and immunity. Over countless generations, skin tones lightened in those regions to act more like efficient solar panels, soaking up every bit of available light. When you look at this map, you realize that skin color isn't about race; it's fundamentally about geography and biology, an ancient evolutionary "uniform" tailored specifically to how much sunshine different populations were exposed to, proving just how adaptable and deeply connected to our planet the human species really is.

11/21/2025