The 11 Most Powerful Images of 2011

[ZeerosFate]

I really like #4. I like how the mainstream press called it once: "If this picture isn't undeniable proof that Osama Bin Laden is dead, nothing is."

[john1136]

Most surely in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the night and the day, and the ships that run in the sea with that which profits men, and the water that Allah sends down from the cloud, then gives life with it to the earth after its death and spreads in it all (kinds of) animals, and the changing of the winds and the clouds made subservient between the heaven and the earth, there are signs for a people who understand.

Quran[2:164]

[secretus3]

people are worms, but others in that they do not see anything wrong with that more and more of us this is normal after such bacteria as people quickly destroy the world, already half of the forests went to hell on paper, oh and something everyone needs to wipe ass. Wisdom is born of pain, sacrifice, time, understanding, and other things ........ learn to not look, among tch all the fools are wise enough ........

[planetmax83]

Hurricane from space, I love weather and science.

[smartpixelsdotnet]

Photo of my family

[purseturse]

Don't You Think Gabby Giffords shouldve been on here?

[KpopManiacSFL]

@Viktir666- You don't have to use derogatory terms to be racist or prejudice, you suggesting automatically that the internet smilie, which almost every internet user identifies, as an Asian just proves that you assume all Asians have small lines of eyes thus being ignorant of the diversity Asia has. You stereotypically think all Asians look like that. That is racism. That expression was created by English speaking ppl&used by companies like MSN.

[jkt3sc]

i liked number 7 the best cause it shows although in dark times love and peace will not just disappear behind the darkness

[treszsen]

half is from the united states... stupid propaganda

[OneWingSeraphim]

I loved number 7

[roycee24]

@eggnchip you're welcome

[portlanddem]

Awesome video guys! I think the one of bin Laden being caught and the photo with the president looking on, with Hillary Clinton with her hand over her mouth, really stands out for me, because of how long that operation was ( or should have been had the goal of getting bin Laden been #1 priority since 9/11 ) but the most shocking? I'd have to say the tsunami in Japan, because we won't know what effects from leaking radiation, may have caused for another 20-25 yrs. I feel bad for those people.

[PaintKyZR]

I think the rebel holding Colonel Gaddafi's gun is by far the most powerful. There is no better summarizing image of the dynamic seize of power in Libya than that, a genuine symbol that the tables have well and truly turned.

[mzdbnell]

very powerful

[r5n]

I wish I could of been that cop, I'd have pepper sprayed the shit out of even more of those douchebags.

[Marronisince1990]

@r5n Fool

[r5n]

@Marronisince1990

Communists D bag

[ZombieApocalyps]

#4 is fake, they posed for that picture, swine... especially Hilary Clinton, i hate her with a passion!

[HamdanAlRasam]

Understandably some people may like the Tahrir Square image because it sends a message of hope but the Kenyan Baby sends a much stronger message of injustice in the world as a whole that people often ignore !

[Viktir666]

Yeah but would Muslims ever protect Christians? That's the question I wonder.

[thehotsteal]

@Viktir666 who said they were Christians. u cant prove that!!

in islam if there was a danger for people to pray then some of them should protect while the others pray, then after they finish praying they exchange roles. myabe some of them r Christians. but not all of them.

and to answer your question, yes muslims would protect Christians and they actually did in several occasions in that revolution. the entire Egyptian people protected each other regardless of the religion.

[Viktir666]

@thehotsteal WOAH calm down mental case. I'm going by what I'm told about that picture. Holy shit, you're scaring me.

[KpopManiacSFL]

@Viktir666 You made a stupid ass comment that's why he responded to you so "viciously". Why don't you just think before you post? xD

[Viktir666]

@KpopManiacSFL Why don't you stop eating people's pets?

[KpopManiacSFL]

@Viktir666 ? Another stupid ass comment xD

[Viktir666]

@KpopManiacSFL What the fuck is "xD'? Is that an Asian squinting while laughing?

[KpopManiacSFL]

@Viktir666 ? You don't know what "xD" is? Lol, are you 90 or something? Ahh...and racist too you must be old xD

[Viktir666]

@KpopManiacSFL I only speak and write in English, I don't conform to a little kid's idea of what is cool or trendy on the internet. Do you respect English? By the way, I'm not racist, I said "Asian", not "gook" or "chink". Reading comprehension is important, learn it.

[valhala56]

I don't know why anybody thinks #7 is compelling, One nonsense Sect protecting another nonsense sect who months later the Muslims went and killed some Christians. WTF? Go back to the Crusades and non stop Religious war, now we have Israel threatening WW3 with Iran.

Me, I'm sick of Religion and all the needless baggage that brings humanity down, War, Ignorance, Intolerance.....Religion, the world would be a much better place without it.

[valhala56]

To be honest I didn't like any of em except number 2.

[jorgehoty]

hey #4 was faked

[alowfey]

Show have included Norway shootings.

[ElBarto3131]

Number 7 should be apart of the top 10 images we must forget about. The Vancouver rots were just a complete embarrassment.

[Puabond]

It's a tie between Christians protecting Muslims, though as an agnostic non theist, i would have done the same, and sitting protesters getting maced (clearly resisting arrest...).

[hdfailure]

@Puabond please explain me the agnostic non theist. i realy would like to know what stands for. Is it the same as nontheism. i am realy confused. thanks.

[eggnchip]

@hdfailure Agnostic Theist = Believes a God is likely to exist but doesn't follow any religious belief system.

Agnostic Atheist/Non Theist = Believes it is unlikely God exists due to a lack of evidence. Gods existence is unknowable.

Think I got that right.

[roycee24]

@eggnchip Actually a theist can be religious or not. ... Gnosticism pertains to knowledge, Theism = belief. Gnostic Atheist, I know there is no god. Agnostic Atheist, I have no reason to believe in a god. Agnostic Theist. I believe in a god, but admit it's unknowable. Gnostic Theist, there is a god, and I'm 100% sure of it.

[eggnchip]

@roycee24 Ah, good point. Far clearer than what i said. I read up on the definitions after i wrote that comment and came across something saying essentially the same as you(freethinker.co.uk). I shouldn't have mentioned religious beliefs. Thanks for the correction.

[Puabond]

@hdfailure Agnostic is a qualifier true to either a theist or non theist, simply acknowledging that we cannot know, the following word theist, or non theist, the preference of belief or not.

Overly complicated English phrase.

[dangerouslytalented]

The guy with Ghaddaffi's pimp hat was better.

[sailortkhan]

Christians protect praying Muslims in Tahrir Square. That's the most powerful image in my opinion.

[ZombieApocalyps]

@sailortkhan I agree.

[golfplayer93]

@sailortkhan I really like people protecting people...

[TheCliffy007]

I really like the Christians protecting Muslims praying pic, very powerful.

[markduran49]

I liked the third one and the love amid chaos ones the most

[rtrman928]

Very cool video. That pic of Phyllis and Connie still brings a smile to my face.