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LordReed:I guess you've never heard about inflation ,or money losing value over time,I won't indulge you in that. I enjoy watching Muslims twist themselves into a pretzel explaining how merciful Allah was to ban riba. While it's his prophet who didn't want to pay back his loans with interest They still have interest ,they call it a contract , paying back and reimbursing the costs associated with the loan. Without interest there'd be no banks. How banks handle loans and repayments is another matter,banks are critical to any economy. |
DeepSight:The pope you mean? The pope is not the Bible. I don't know many areas that the Pope's blocked. The earth being flat is not in the Bible. It's however in the hadeeths. |
DeepSight:He asked a stewpid question. I've discussed Islam religions practices that stiffle innovation like having half their population locked up in homes, Christians invented a lot of stuff without being hindered by the biblical teachings. Unlike Muslims who are forbidden to go into some areas. |
I'll mention riba Riba in Arabic is interest on loans. The prophet needed money to run his raiding caravans. He borrowed money from some people including Jewish traders. He didn't want to pay back with interest, ( I doubt he even repaid his loans). Allah to the rescue. He got one or more revelations that interest on loans was exploitative. After which interest on loans in Islam was banned till today. (If you look carefully at Islam, you see Allah conveniently coming to the rescue of his prophet many times). There are PhD programs in Islamic bankng with specific emphasis on interest free loans. Banks have Sharia compliant loans in their products to Muslims. I am told that you need a lot of money to invent or innovate almost everything. Ban on riba is a huge stumbling block. I don't like talking about Islam, so I'll switch back to bashing liberals. Supporting Trump and hating Obama for his sympathies to Muslim terrorists. |
LordReed:The Bible doesn't have prohibitions for dogma or studies that conflicts with it. Islam through the Quran has prohibitions that inhibit innovation. Example riba (usury) , stem cell research, evolution .. |
LordReed:The bible is not a science journal. |
LordReed:Electromagnetism. |
GloriousGbola:Belgium was an exception not the norm. So the Muslim Invasions were better? Where would you have rather lived. I never said the western brought milk and honey to the conquered . You complain about the whites then you want to live in their countries . |
Back to regular programming. California front runner for Governor in focus. Swallwell hit with explosive claims of rape and abuse of and including his staffers. Swallwell who was intimate with Chinese spy Fang Fang denies the accusations. He sat on the house intelligence committee once. Hakeem Jeffries, Adam Schiff, Labour unions withdraw their support but they are not calling on him to resign. They went after Matt Gaetz over far much less widely but widely exaggerated claims. |
DeepSight:If we talk colonialism, the west was after raw materials. The colonialists developed their territories including building railways that still stand today. After direct colonization, they embarked on neo colonization which is not 100% exploitation. Muslim hordes on the other hand took the wealth, captured and sold slaves , took over the land , spread Islam by force and exacted heavy tolls on the conquered. Would you rather live under Spanish or Portuguese conquerors or Muslim ? |
I've belaboured to point out that Islam education doesn't promote innovation. Ive cast doubts about their achievements of their golden age. One day their prophet told a few followers to drink camel urine yo relieve a sickness they had. Today. https://gulfnews.com/world/gulf/saudi/saudi-arabia-video-clip-of-cafe-offering-camel-urine-goes-viral-sparks-controversy-1.76981543 That's the inherent ptoblem in Islam. I won't mention the origins of the zam zam water. Which is sold in Mecca today. Islam practices replay what their prophet said and did,no matter how absurd it is. DeepSight: |
Indians invented the zero. Indian mathematicians, such as Brahmagupta (around 628 CE), were the first to treat zero (shunya) as a number in its own right, not just a placeholder. They developed the rules for adding, subtracting, and multiplying with it. 2. The Preservation & Expansion (The Islamic World)In the 9th century, Persian and Arab scholars—most famously Al-Khwarizmi—studied these Indian texts.They adopted the Indian system because it was much more efficient than their own systems or the Roman ones.Al-Khwarizmi wrote a famous book explaining how to use these "Hindu numerals." |
JC societies were not hell bent on expropriation of wealth others had created. Islam tenets todate disagree with modern science in many areas ,but the science is proven so they have to adopt or live in the stone ages. I have a lot of reservation on the Islamic golden age. Many Muslims believe Neil Armstrong heard the adhan ( Islamic call to prayer) on the moon. When he returned he converted to Islam. It's a debunked hoax still widely believed by muslim world. An example of Islam taking credit from others. DeepSight:Romans knew about geometry and arithmetic.
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DeepSight:Hamas and Boko Haram are living Islam in exactly the way of the prophet and the early Caliphates. That's my misgivings about their golden age. Muslim territorial capture in India began in the 8th century and reached its peak between the 12th and 16th centuries. Long before these conquests, India was a world-renowned center for higher education, home to some of the world's first residential universities. I am of the opinion that many Indians were forced to convert and became symbols of Islamic innovation. Appropriation in other words. I have no proof of that for now Long and short,out of Islamic education ,you don't expect anything substantial. Refer to ISIS, Al Shabab, Taliban as modern day examples of a pure Islamic society. |
DeepSight:Me and TV01 are stating that no worthwhile innovation can come out of a society whose core tenets are anti education. ISIS is the perfect example of how life was in that Islamic golden age, the perfect system advocated by the extreme groups of Sunni Islam ie the Wahabbis and Salafists. What do you expect from a society that has instructions of how a man can divorce his wife before she has her very first menstrual period. Israel is a functioning society ,well established .If they plan to expand territory it will be out of security. Hezbollah can't hold territory which they use to fire rockets and missiles to Israel . Hamas too. Every neighbor wants to exterminate them to the last man, what the Quran tells them. I don't know much about the Greater Israel Project though ,I doubt there's any plan for it apart from securing Judea and Samaria. If Muslim nations recognized and stopped funding the destruction of Israel there would be no iron dome or whatever you call the Greater Israel Project. |
DeepSight:I added this map after you posted. What innovation would you have expected from ISIS. This is how leadership in that Islam golden age aspired for.
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DeepSight:I'll refer to ISIS. Living Islam the way it's described in the hadeeths. Using walkie talkies , Twitter , Photoshop and every other modern invention . What you think they would have invented. You can claim they were being bombed right left centre ,hence couldn't build a stable society. If the were not being attacked they had global expansions . Divides the world into wilayats ( provinces or districts) they intended to capture. If the world had not ganged up against them, their efforts were geared towards conquering territory , implementing Sharia law. They were charging jizzya, a tax on mom Muslims living among them. So when I say the Islamic system is retrogressive look no further than ISIS. Or Boko Haram. Nothing world changing can come out of them. Years later they would claim to have invented stuff like Artificial Intelligence . (Maybe for kamikaze drones). This is the world map in documents seized from ISIS. Their end goal was capture all these territories.
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Deepsight. Tell me how an expansionist civilization will innovate stuff on its own. In the early days wealth came from looting the wealth of other societies and forcible conversion to Islam. Those who refused were put to death. After some time the army needed money and food. So conquered communities were forced to go ahead with their lives so long as they paid exorbitant fines to the Emir. This becomes a main source of wealth to the Islamic empire. Capture ,loot and fine your subjects, undesirable subjects,sell them as slaves. Half the population of Islam, women could not hold any job , work the fields or go to school. This still applies in some muslim hellholes . The children, straight from reciting the Quran to joining the army . Dying in jihad for Allah is the highest cause one can achieve,straight to heaven😀 Tell me what innovation that society will bring . If an inventor has to check with Islamic teachings to validate his discovery what you expect? The ideal Islamic society was presented to you recently by ISIS.That was how the Islamic society was in that so called golden age. Expand and implement sharia. If ISIS had lasted 100 years what innovation you think would have come out of them? ISIS follows the hadeeths to the decimal point. Pure Islam ,what's exactly in their books including the Sunna of the prophet. That's the reason why I doubt their golden age. |
DeepSight:You are getting it wrong. Every society had to innovate in order to survive. Islam itself is regressive, it discourages anything not in their books. Boko Haram literally means western education is forbidden. Haram in Arabic also means corrupted or illegal. What reasons does Boko Haram give that western education is corrupt. Any significant innovation came from need not advancements from Islamic education. A society where a male doctor cannot treat a woman who's not his wife,what do you expect? A system that still claims babies come from am 'congealed clots' ,how you expect it to progress in medicine . Any scientific writing they found that went against their revelations was burnt and forbidden. Today their children go school to get western education,in their free time they are sent to mosques madrassas where they learn to recite the Quran spending years learning Arabic ..if not for schools and modern networks they would all be going to the mosques ,then joining the army to look for territory and booty. Usually those who emerge victors are the ones who write history. The golden age is written by Muslims ,. After the "golden age" nothing substantial has emerged from them. How am I to believe they had anything significant for a start. 24% of the global population has received only 8 out of 527 Nobel prizes for science and literature. Jews have 212 . |
THEDEEPSIGHT:This is how arguments go here Cataract surgery had been invented by an Indian. A Muslim used a hollow needle to remove the cataract. Go bring me better examples Which inventions came directly from Islamic study? |
DeepSight:Why would you be shocked at a summary conclusion. My conjecture is that Islamic net contribution to humanity is likely in the negative. Muslims appropriated quite a number of inventions by others I know Chinese invented gunpowder for instance. A Hungarian provided the Ottoman Muslims with technology to break down Constantinople walls using cannons for instance. The same way many here view Trump as the vile human being that can produce nothing positive ? |
DeepSight:I'm hoping you didn't want to take me down the muslim way of shutting critics of Islam I have a wealth of experience debating Muslims here on nairaland. I was also quite active on topix.net those days where a good number of Iranians who hated the Ayatollahs were in my groups. One source I quoted Ali Sina is an Iranian ex Muslim. So my understanding of stuff like Islam,Obama , Iran and Trump didn't just come with Trump's election. |
Obrigardo:What's not true about those anti HIV pills in Obamacare mandates. Google Gemini. Under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) is classified as a Grade A preventive service, meaning it must be covered at $0 out-of-pocket cost for almost all private insurance plans. This mandate includes the medication itself (such as generic Truvada), as well Obamacare is a godsend to ashawos and rapists. That was my final straw hoping to find anything ever positive from Obama. |
THEDEEPSIGHT:Don't get me wrong. Every society invented something. Many societies conducted trade and acquired new inventions. Islam I am obviously biased against it . They invented something like the use of janissaries to fight for them. They also invented some specific form of torture that I won't mention. They had swords, bayonets , sheaths, etc Now that you have produced a list, I'll look up and revert in a manner of minutes . At the end of it all , what Muslim invention was really out of Islam education? Learning Arabic ,the language of the Quran takes up most of Muslim education in madrassas Taliban leadership is composed of highly learned and brilliant individuals. They ban a lot of subjects and schools . ISIS led by a PhD banned education. The core of Islamic teaching is nothing but retrogressive. Flat earth for instance. Belief in the jinn. Using your hands instead of tissue paper. Entering the toilet with your left foot first. Polygamy. I hope you can see where I'm coming from. Count the number of muslims who have ever won a Nobel prize also (exclude Yasser Arafat) |
Obrigardo:Please answer me. Why should Obama demand every Obamacare mandate should include free $20,000 annual worth of PrEP pills or injections to stop you getting AIDS/ HIV. Doesn't it encourage rapists to go on without fear of contracting HIV? Or encourage prostitution. I support Trump because I hate Obama the terrorist sympathiser and enabler. Today I've brought my receipts as to why I support Trump and pointed out exactly how Obama enabled debauchery and moral depravity. |
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Deepsight. My very first post here as basilico is me asking Muslims if We should use the hadeeths or the Quran when debating them. If you quoted the hadeeths they would say oh it's not saheeh ( authentic ) you need to know Arabic ,you need to understand classical Arabic if you do ,then finally only the Quran is true ,.... They had like a list of 19 ways to shut you down. They all chickened out after I showed them that Islam without hadeeths is incomplete. That was in 2013 By then quite a number of muslims used to post a lot on the Christian section,it was a very lively debate sub forum , until they decided to push all Islam debate questions into the Islam section Then made you literally recite the shahada before posting there . We would post topics in the Christian section ,a mod would move it to the Islam section and kill it . |
DeepSight:He is 100% correct. If he said all inventions were by by Judeo Xtianity cultures he is wrong on the inventions of suicide vests and suicide kamikaze drones for example . Those are pure Muslim inventions. |
DeepSight:I've read relevant parts and quotes , mostly where authors made a claim, were challenged by the likes of Dr Zakir Naik and any prominent Muslim. The best debates are with that Prince of Peace YouTube channel who is a native Quran speaker ,thus can't be written off by the usual excuses of "Oh you don't understand classical Arabic, the Commands were abrogated , etc. I've preferred quotations on what's in those sahih hadeeths and especially what Muslims say when infidels are not listening. I can guess where you are leading to........ Do you know the 5 prayers curse non Muslims every day? |
Deepsight is well answered. Subjugation is what led to grand mosques built on top of other shrines. Don't forget they was built with slave labour who were treated in the most degrading way possible. Defining Retrospective Appropriation as the process where a dominant power rebrands the existing achievements of a conquered people as "theirs" to justify their superiority or "civilizing" mission. This best explains most Muslim golden age achievements. TV01: |
So those who think I follow Trump blindly , I have listened to and read articles by all the following They made me hate Obama and liberals who side with Muslim terrorists. Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Apostate)I bn Warraq (Apostate) Hamed Abdel-Samad (Apostate) Taslima Nasrin (Apostate) Salman Rushdie (Apostate) Wafa Sultan (Apostate) Yasmine Mohammed (Apostate) Nonie Darwish (Apostate) Sarah Haider (Apostate) Douglas Murray Robert Spencer Pameka Geller David Woods Amir an-Nour ( Prince of Peace YouTube channel) I can add quite a number of other authorities. So I've learnt Islam from those who left it and also from other scholars . When I'm Interested in a subject I delve deep into it's heart. |
TV01:Haha haha. Assault vehicles, assault trucks , assault knives, assault folks 9/11 ![]() |
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. The only care of ee.slam is to conquer and subjugate the whole world. At which point they will casually re-label all advances as ee.slam.meek in origin. But ultimately regress back to it's inherent savagery. Same 'ole, same 'ole.