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Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:03pm On Apr 11
LordReed:
Actual interest is a trap which is why it has to be regulated or else all the money would belong to the banks. I think the ban on interest is the right way to proceed. You want money to be working not just sitting in a bank acquiring exorbitant interest.
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.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
DeepSight:
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Stop lying okay?

And why by the way do you ignore the repression of science and scientists by the church which is history?
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.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:51pm On Apr 11
DeepSight:
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I feel like tearing my hair out. So you know this but then demand examples of inventions arising from Islamic study?
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.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
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.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:25am On Apr 11
LordReed:
LoLz. The Quran is not a science journal either but you want us to present you inventions that came directly from Islamic study.

Anyway, thanks for conceding that no invention came from Christianity study.
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 ..
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:16am On Apr 11
LordReed:
That is not an invention but even at that, it did not come about by Christianity study.
The bible is not a science journal.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:11am On Apr 11
LordReed:
Which inventions came directly from Christianity study?
Electromagnetism.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:04am On Apr 11
GloriousGbola:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_State

belgium were the OG short sleeve crew

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943



in the age of information you insist on remaining ignorant
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 .
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:58am On Apr 11
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.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:14am On Apr 11
DeepSight:
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That you can say this is dumbfounding . . . . . well not any more. You turn out just as bad a benalvino3 and the rest. Who can take this joke of a statement seriously in light of the history of colonialism and western empire in general. No one. Not a single literate person can take this statement without laughing himself to tears.


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Again, one of your difficulties is a failure to understand that many inventions or ideas were thought of by different people in different cultures at different times without interaction, and sometimes even simultaneously (such as with the Theory of Evolution).
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 ?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:02am On Apr 11
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:
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Same point as in post above - many cultures invent the same things separately and originally. This is a known fact.

Besides I gave you a list of one hundred things. You can only weakly try to mention a few. Do you want me to increase the list to one thousand? Because as I said, what I extracted and posted for your benefit is only the tip of an ice berg.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:41am On Apr 11
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."

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
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:
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This discussion was about the golden age of Islam which no one says was at the time of the prophets or the earliest Caliphs.


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Except in the golden age of Islam which is the reference point for this discussion.
Romans knew about geometry and arithmetic.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:23am On Apr 11
DeepSight:
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Unlike Isis/ Boko Haram, etc - in the golden age of Islam, Education was prized. So there is a difference.


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This is tiresome. The map of the land they plan to seize is on the uniforms of the IDF.
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.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:01am On Apr 11
DeepSight:
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I also added to my post above clarifying that expansion is actually one of the catalysts of development -


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Nonetheless I am not sure it is fair for you to use ISIS as the benchmark.
You would make no mention of the Greater Israel Project would you, notwithstanding that its map is on the uniforms of the IDF and covers parts of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia?
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.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:37am On Apr 11
DeepSight:
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I have shouted myself hoarse on this thread and elsewhere that Islam is backward. This doesnt mean there was no time when Muslim nations were doing very well in scholarship and led the world in much forward thought and education, not least in medicine, mathematics and other sciences. That is what is referred to as the golden age of Islam and I have been particular that its not a matter of those developments leaping out of the Quran.
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.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:29am On Apr 11
DeepSight:
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This here is one of the problems you have. No society does the bold. History and development are the result of a massive interaction and fluid flow of ideas, innovations and developments which build one piece upon the other and from one society to another in one season after another through travel, trade, wars etc.

So both you and TV01 are wasting my time when you point out that very interaction and fluid flow as grounds to claim Muslims invented nothing.
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.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
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.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
DeepSight:
TV01, basilico, contd...

Sub-Saharan Africa
Ancient African civilizations pioneered metalworking and astronomy.

91. Iron Smelting (Nok and Central Africa)
92. The Dogon Star Charts (Astronomy)
93. The Lebombo Bone (Mathematical tally stick)
94. The Ishango Bone (Early calculator)
95. Great Zimbabwe Architecture (Dry stone masonry)
96. Inoculation (Practiced by the Akan and others before the West)
97. Deep-Sea Vessels (Mali Empire exploration)
98. Fractional Math (Rhind Papyrus roots in Nubia/Egypt)
99. Ancient Metallurgy (Haya people’s high-temperature furnaces)
100. Complex Urban Planning (The Walls of Benin)[/color]
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 .
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:47am On Apr 11
THEDEEPSIGHT:
TV01 and basilico, confidently argue here that only Judeo-Christian cultures ever invented anything.

cc: budaatum. Ijebos. cococandy. LordReed. I figure this must be somehow tied into their Caucasian worship.

I feel weird extracting the below list, but I will just do it for posterity.

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The Islamic Golden Age (Middle East & North Africa)
During the Middle Ages, Islamic scholars revolutionized science, medicine, and engineering.

21. Algebra (Al-Khwarizmi)
22. The Camera Obscura (Ibn al-Haytham)
23. The Syringe (Ammar ibn Ali al-Mawsili)
24. Surgical Catgut (Al-Zahrawi)
25. The Astrolabe (Perfected for navigation)
26. The Crankshaft (Al-Jazari)
27. The Suction Pump
28. The Windmill (Vertical-axis, Sistan)
29. Soap (Solid bars with scents)
30. The Fountain Pen (For the Caliph of Maghreb)
31. Coffee (Ethiopian origin, popularized in Yemen/Arabia)
32. The Cheque (Sakk)
33. Universities as Degree-Granting Institutions (University of Al-Quaraouiyine)
34. Modern Chemistry (Jabir ibn Hayyan/Geber)
35. The Distillation Flask (Alembic)
36. Flying Machine Prototypes (Abbas ibn Firnas)
37. The Oud (Predecessor to the Lute/Guitar)
38. The First Public Hospital (Bimaristan)
39. Inoculation (Early smallpox prevention)
40. Magnifying Glass (Convex lenses)

cc: TV01, basilico
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?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:20am On Apr 11
DeepSight:
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You and TV01 truly succeeded in numbing me and giving me a cold shock. I truly had goose pimples reading what you both asserted. Nothing could have prepared me for such statements.

I still got banned, I am not even through with the lists I extracted, I still have to post inventions from the pre-Colombus Americas and Africa.

Sad I should have to produce these lists - which are only the tip of an ice berg. Because anyone should know that the whole of human learning is a process where one thing is built upon from previous knowledge of another thing, a pyramid from the base to the pinnacle in which we stand on the shoulders of giants and all of humanity has been involved.
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 ?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
DeepSight:
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Omo, Budaatum, this one shock me die.

I have learnt a huge lesson from this one.

One should not devote or assign any serious time or thought to what they post. Its a true waste of the mind and spirit.
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.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:56pm On Apr 10
Obrigardo:
I still seriously think you are not well and not in your right mind.
I think the disaster all round the tyrant child sexual predator and the failure is getting to you.

Look how crazy you sound.
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.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:38pm On Apr 10
THEDEEPSIGHT:
TV01 and basilico, confidently argue here that only Judeo-Christian cultures ever invented anything.

cc: budaatum. Ijebos. cococandy. LordReed. I figure this must be somehow tied into their Caucasian worship.

I feel weird extracting the below list, but I will just do it for posterity.

Contd -

________________________________________
The Islamic Golden Age (Middle East & North Africa)
During the Middle Ages, Islamic scholars revolutionized science, medicine, and engineering.

21. Algebra (Al-Khwarizmi)
22. The Camera Obscura (Ibn al-Haytham)
23. The Syringe (Ammar ibn Ali al-Mawsili)
24. Surgical Catgut (Al-Zahrawi)
25. The Astrolabe (Perfected for navigation)
26. The Crankshaft (Al-Jazari)
27. The Suction Pump
28. The Windmill (Vertical-axis, Sistan)
29. Soap (Solid bars with scents)
30. The Fountain Pen (For the Caliph of Maghreb)
31. Coffee (Ethiopian origin, popularized in Yemen/Arabia)
32. The Cheque (Sakk)
33. Universities as Degree-Granting Institutions (University of Al-Quaraouiyine)
34. Modern Chemistry (Jabir ibn Hayyan/Geber)
35. The Distillation Flask (Alembic)
36. Flying Machine Prototypes (Abbas ibn Firnas)
37. The Oud (Predecessor to the Lute/Guitar)
38. The First Public Hospital (Bimaristan)
39. Inoculation (Early smallpox prevention)
40. Magnifying Glass (Convex lenses)

cc: TV01, basilico
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)
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:19pm On Apr 10
Obrigardo:
I found her, Amanda Ungaro

https://x.com/AmandaUngaroA/status/2042713424233206099?s=20

Oboy this tyrant trump family is one disgusting self-serving evils, all of them, no one is in their right mind, down to kai, the gran daughter who is now looking like laura loomer
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.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:13pm On Apr 10
budaatum:
I learned from my father and my mother, and from friends and the people we engaged with and their thoughts about them which they shared with me being we were that close, and at those who were around me like my uncles and aunties and neighbours and their opinions and conduct and even of those I read about in books and watched on telly.

I'd sit with my father and others and listen to news and read the paper and we'd state our opinions of what we read and heard and watched, and I can just about imagine what he'd teach child me watching today by his own behaviour and conduct and opinions.

Some 'fathers' behaved in ways I have trained myself to behave even on forums where even my gender confuses some not to talk of knowing whom I am, and from some I learnt most definitely not to emulate because my father and mother were not emulating or voting for such people.

Sum of it is, children learn from what their parents condone. And you condone dump a lot then excuse his bad behaviour as "not your morality compass", ignoring the fact your own morals might compass others or you don't care where it compasses or can't compass anywhere else.

I'm wondering.
Like and share every raumdeuter post so he can start agreeing with you😀😀😀😀
Or if you have money you can bribe him the way prideofLincoln wa accused of😀😀😀

You called me a cretin. Remember.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:58pm On Apr 10
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

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Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:43pm On Apr 10
DeepSight:
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What he wrote was lamentable ignorant gibberish.

Do you support his position that only people of Judeo Christian backgrounds ever invented anything?
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.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:38pm On Apr 10
DeepSight:
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Therefore I can assume you have read the Quran and the Hadiths?
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?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:31pm On Apr 10
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:
I read the links. The first is essentially meaningless - building a mosque is not evidence of scientific or technological advancement.

Extract from the second

Many cultures and societies contributed to the flowering of Islam’s Golden Age. Central among them were the Persians, the predecessor people of modern Iran. Persians were the main force behind the creation of the Abbasid Dynasty (750 CE-1258 CE), one of the most culturally sophisticated societies that gave birth to the Golden Age. The Berbers of North Africa, a non-Arabic population, played a major role in the emergence of the Golden Age as did the Fatimid Dynasty (909 CE –1171 CE ) which were contemporaneous with the Abbasids. The Andalusian Dynasties (711 CE to 1492 CE) of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) also played a prominent role in the emergence of the Golden Age. Indeed, the architectural achievements of the Andalusian dynasties made some of the most remarkable, longest lasting, and internationally recognized Islamic contributions even today

Islam’s Golden Age, however, was not just the outcome of Islamic achievements. Indeed, the Islamic empires of the period included large numbers of Jews, Christians, Hindus, and even Chinese who made significant and lasting contributions to Islamic socio-cultural-scientific achievements. All worked together in relative harmony to realize the enormous intellectual, scientific, technological, architectural, and other contributions that formed the basis of the what now is called the Islamic Golden Age. The work of the ancients, but especially that of the Greeks and Romans, also were respected during the dynasties of the Golden Age and contributed, too, to Islamic philosophy and scientific achievements. Muslims, in turn, preserved the ancient texts of these scholars and in doing so made an enormous contribution to both Islamic and world intellectual heritage. Greek and Roman contributions to Islamic development were made possible through the translation of Greek, Roman, Aramaic, and other texts in Arabic—the functioning Lingua Franca of the period.

Islam conquers, converts and claims the historical progress and ongoing achievements of conquered peoples and territories as its own.


This from what is a certain sponsored piece. Another excerpt.

Many scholars believe that, even today, Muslims are awaiting the rebirth of its Golden Age and, through it, the resurgence of Islam as one of the world’s renewed cultural and religious influences. Such a hoped for outcome is a collective aspiration of Muslims and transcends linguistic, cultural, and even ethnic differences

Please tell me in which reality grin. 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.



All advanced scientific discovery and technological innovation came from and continues to come from historically JC nations - the phone, TV, computers, satellites, motor vehicles, planes etc.

The JC ethos see's all men as created in the image of God. Fostering equality and individual liberties. This drives the pursuit of learning and research, leading to advancement and progress. It demonstrates Gods order and rationality in creation, engendering the pursuit rational inquiry and scientific discovery. Only the culture that arises out of this this ethos has proven capable of doing that. Nothng from the MAW or SSA.


Nope. Christianity was never any f those things. Christianity was abused, or at best misinterpreted by some, but when practised in truth delivers prosperity and well-being.

Till date, there are some incorrectly exegeted texts and downright non-scriptural practices. Tithing for example. But that is not Christianity.

It's interesting how the one thing no historically JC country or contemporary community practices or makes a case for slavery. It's always been the opposite when the text is read and applied as intended. Christianity which you dishonestly claim advocates slavery, has it nowhere in view.
Unlike the MAW and SSA.

Kiss the truth baybay kiss


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Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:20pm On Apr 10
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.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:51pm On Apr 10
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My bad. I sould have noted the ee.sla.meek skill of re-invention. Cars as weapons, planes as instruments of demolition etc.


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Haha haha.
Assault vehicles, assault trucks , assault knives, assault folks 9/11 smiley smiley

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