proletarianinstinct:

nbcnews:

At least 51 killed as tornado tears through Oklahoma, leaving miles of debris

A monster tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs and killed at least 51 people Monday, pulverizing block after block of homes, tearing the walls off an elementary school and leaving behind miles of mangled cars and splintered wood.

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• How to help tornado victims
• What you’re seeing: Videos and images from the ground
• Children pulled from rubble at Oklahoma school flattened by tornado
• Time-lapse: Tornado’s path of destruction
• Al Roker: Damage resembles Joplin
• Storm chaser: ‘Worst tornado I’ve seen in my career’

hearts and prayers out to everyone

thereligionofpeace:

A new exhibition aims to celebrate the role Muslims played in saving Jewish lives during the Holocaust.

The Righteous Muslim Exhibition is being launched at the Board of Deputies of British Jews in Bloomsbury, central London.

Photographs of 70 Muslims who sheltered Jews during World War II will be displayed alongside stories detailing their acts of heroism.

The exhibition hopes to inspire new research into instances of collaboration between the Muslim and Jewish communities.

Yad Vashem, Israel’s official memorial to victims of the Holocaust, honours nearly 25,000 so-called “righteous persons” who risked their lives to protect the Jewish community during Nazi Germany’s reign of terror.

Some 70 Muslims have recently been added to the list. The exhibition explores their stories.

‘Empathy and cohesion’

Among the “righteous” are the Hardaga family from Bosnia who provided shelter for the Jewish Kavilio family when German forces occupied Bosnia in 1943.

Half a century later, the Hardagas were themselves saved by the Kavilios during the Bosnian Civil War.

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Photograph: The Bosnian Hardaga family helped shelter a family of Jews