I also thought of the famous atheists who (while claiming to be anti religion) insist that religion has got one thing right, that is, their favorite bigotry.

I have a particular example in mind, but there are many.

Can these two things be neatly separated?!

I might be misunderstanding something, but religious leaders employ 'secular' reasoning sometimes to lend extra legitimacy to whatever they advocate for. I mean, it is not all about the religious text.

Hear it from me, a citizen of a from a previously colonized and then sanctioned/blacklisted by US country:

YOU WILL LIVE.

Being hated is nothing. Try collective punishment through wide-ranging sanctions and (effective) travel bans .. then come back to me.

Cooking in normal days is one thing .. in Ramadan, the demands are much higher. Strict meal times, required variety, difficult traditional dishes .. etc.

Add the dishwashing, and it is a whole nightmare.

"Our culture is famous for hospitality," .. you mean for working women to the bone.

I keep thinking that they don't *need* to be this awful. Surely they can do a few good things here and there .. why cower in front of El*n M*sk?!

But no. They are nothing if not consistent with their actual goals.

I said 'anywhere else,' but I won't be moving to facebook or any none text-centeric social media app.

- Sudan Doctors Network: 3 main hospitals in Dilling (black) now out of service due to deliberate shelling by RSF/SPLM-N (Alhilu); 4 medical staff reported killed in attack, and 3 others injured.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

But I also think the boundary between state and private violence tends to break down in gender violence cases—eg in police and prosecutors’ famous indifference to sexual violence cases, an indifference which in practice gives state sanction to so-called private male sexual violence against women.