Hydroxide ions are still bases because they accept hydrogen ions from acids and form water. An acid produces hydrogen ions in solution because it reacts with the water molecules by giving a proton to them.ydroxide ions are still bases because they accept hydrogen ions from acids and form water. An acid produces hydrogen ions in solution because it reacts with the water molecules by giving a proton to them.
Warda Naili is a niqab-wearing Muslim woman who lives in Quebec. Courtesy Warda Naili Naili is already a frequent target of discrimination. She has numerous tales of enduring racial slurs and even instances of being spit at and pushed in public.
This is how Minira Abdul Qader remembers the events of March 16, 1988, in Halabja, a small town on Iraq's northeastern border with Iran. She was 10, and a witness to the largest chemical-weapons attack on civilians in history. The civilians happened to be Kurds, Iraqi dictator Saddam Husseinâs enemies. He had ordered his forces to drop gas on the city, then inhabited by 45,000 Kurds. âWe took refuge in the basement,â Qader recalled from her house in Halabja, âbut when jets came again at night we decided to flee the city, like everybody else.