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@Lunar108
islam is an evil cult , muslims are just victims of this evil cult, it's teachings and Ideologies  , sharea law is the law that caused the destruction of many muslim countries.
it's exactly the same  .
they have done it to the arabs and now they are trying to apply this to the west with Islamophobia 
but I would like to say Islam have a fear of everything that's not islam 
look you just mentioned how reading the hadith and quran should make one realize how bad islam is but they are accusing you of being an racist
- Instead of saying all this nonsense, why don't you prove your beliefs in a formal debate. 

 
if christianity had half the shit mentioned in islam those people wouldn't shut the f*** up about how evil christianity is 
- Islam doesn't have 1 in a 1000 the shit mentioned in Christianity, yet here you are. We all know you're just a hater. You got nothing intelligent to say.


yet fatima his daughter was too young for his friend abu baker to marry despite being older than aisha ?
- & his other daughters (Ruqaya, Zaynab & Um-Khulthum) married between 8 & 11. This does not help your case whatsoever. 


he also had no children with her , -note that muhammad had children with all of his wives other than 2 , one was too old to bear any while the other aisha too young to bear any , most of them died -
- First of all, no. The beloved Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) had children only with Khadijah, & with *NONE* of his other wives. So that's a lie. Second of all, I'm sure you think you got a clever argument, but it's just so dumb. I CAN'T! Even if Aisha was 2 years old initially, she would've eventually gotten pregnant in those 10 years together (if she had any ability to). But you got one thing right, Muhammed (pbuh) did not have children with any of his wives -except Khadijah, indeed because most were too old to bear any, combined with the fact that some were probably barren & the relatively short amount of time these marriages lasted (most in the last 5 years of his life).


it's mentioned in the quran just read the verse
- You're beating a dead horse. Moving on.


his first wife was hell rich and why didn't he built a harem back then ? while he is with her ? because she was his sugar mama , she was 40 back when you people are claiming that it's ok to marry a 9 years old kid you sickos 
- Is this supposed to be English?!


is this a new thing ? where incest is invented ? 
- What's your education level?


just read the text dude
- Dead horse. Moving on.


you're forgetting to mention a very important part here , they were his direct relatives , he also wouldn't want to distribute the females of his own clan and direct relatives as s*x toys,,,,,, cough right hand possessions for his followers now would he ?
- Your nastiness is ghastly, & your response is dumb.


only because I'm anonymous 
- You must be real nasty in rl.


would love to hear when did anyone was ever killed for insulting america
- Yet 20 million innocent people killed for not even doing that... Murica is too callous & vicious to care about such trivial things! Now, imagine Murica doing what the beloved Prophet (pbuh) did to Quraysh... like forgiving al-Qaeda or the Japanese Navy in WWII, or the Nazis, or the Cubans... wouldn't that be the joke of the century!


my morality stems from my belief that god do exist it's just not the god/gods from organized religion and unlike you my morality comes from wanting to be a good person and not from fear of hell or whatever
- So far, all I've seen is the most foul nastiness in this Forum from you. Case in point, Mr. Moral Abyss.


how many people died for no other crime than criticizing/satire islam ?
- I'm guessing probably 0.00000001% of those done in by Christians or your beloved atheists? This does not save your case from ignoring the horrible US did & is doing to those who criticized Liberal Capitalism then, or those who criticize the Liberal tyranny in the country today


why not the issue is in the language we shall debate in arabic
- You don't know Arabic. This is an English debate website. Debates are in English.


this is annoying I'm talking about the importance of "الحركات "  in the meaning of arabic words 
- You're free to embarrass yourself further...  


we are not discussing about the USA nor are we discussing conspiracy theories
- Yeah, life means nothing to you. Hate is a b*tch ain't it! Sad!


islam have the death penalty for homosexuality and mentioned the story of the people of lut/lot where allah punish those people for their sexual orientation mentioned in the holy quran
would love it if you could provide evidence supporting those claims especially the one about that no death penalty for homosexuality 
- Stop lying! There is no penalty for "homosexuality" or "sexual orientation" in Islam. 


how about the story of lot/lut the holy quran?
- Yes, public sodomy.


"Whoever you find doing as the people of Lot did (i.e. homosexuality), kill the one who does it and the one to whom it is done
- No, public sodomy*. 


why did allah punished the people of lot/lut , I would love to hear that it wasn't for their homosexuality and why ?
- For public sodomy.



















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@Lunar108
the middle east was ruled by the roman empire before islam ever existed in case you didn't know
- Only a third* of the Middle East. How old are you?! 


muhammad freeing the people of Banu al-Mustaliq totally doesn't sound like marry me or your entire clan will remain slaves -totally not blackmail-
- The very link you're sourcing contradicts what you're saying!!!
She said: Messenger of Allah, I am Juwayriyyah daughter of [the chief] [...]. I have fallen to the lot of Thabit and I have entered into an agreement to purchase of my freedom. I have come to you to seek assistance for the purchase of my freedom.
The Messenger of Allah said: Are you inclined to that which is better? She asked: What is that, Messenger of Allah? He replied: I shall pay the price of your freedom on your behalf, and I shall marry you. She said: I shall do this. [...] The people then heard that the Messenger of Allah had married Juwayriyyah. They released the captives in their possession and set them free...

- Just imagine the USA doing what the Prophet (pbuh) did to the POWs they're holding; Give them the option to buy their freedom, & even assist them in that transaction, & then go as far as to release all POWs with a marriage alliance! LOL! I'm just kidding, as if that's ever gunna happen! Fortunately for Banu Mustalaq they did not attempt to attack the West, lest they'd be wiped or rotten underground. We all know the terrible things the West does to POWs of other countries; 700k German POWs enslaved in forced-labour to death, dozens of thousands held in Guantanamo bay & dozens of other prisons under the most gruesome torture & abuse... Appalling! 


muhammad freeing the people of mecca?
they are his direct relatives , even muhammad wouldn't let his antes and uncles end up becoming sex slaves to his followers
- I don't blame you, having such a sick mentality must be hard to live with. Maybe you see everything that moves as a sexual adventure, IDK! Maybe it's just that deep of hate. The people of Mecca abused, tortured, maimed, burned, pillaged, blockaded, chained, starved, killed... the Prophet (pbuh) & his companions. Despite all that, when the praised Muhammed (pbuh) took Mecca & had them in his hands & the best opportunity to enact the perfect justice, instead he showed the most divine mercy & said: 'There is no blame on you today. Go, for you are free'.

- Just imagine -in a parallel universe- a leader of a Western country, say the US, doing what the Prophet (pbuh) did to their enemies, say pardoning the Japanese for attacking & killing their people... Wouldn't that be a wonderful world! Sadly, we know in reality the US used Japanese internment camps to cage their own innocent civilians for committing the unforgivable crime of sharing the same race with the people they are bombing...


and please enlighten me to what those your right hands possess(slaves/war captives) means ?
- I think the author of the link you just sent me does an OK job:
"One thing is clear: the phrase conveys a conception of slavery that is not seen in any of the other slave systems in existence at the time the Qurʾan was revealed. Its use in the Qurʾan expresses a recognition that slavery, and the welfare of the enslaved, are among God’s primary concerns about humanity and a special problem in Islam—a problem requiring special solutions. Just as significantly, historical accounts show that the Prophet Muhammad also used the phrase regularly in his pronouncements and discourse concerning slaves and slavery. One instance of his use of the phrase predominates, however, over all the others. Presciently, he raised the issue of slavery when he was on his deathbed, surrounded by many of those who were very close to him. There are conflicting accounts concerning the cause of his last illness but there is no doubt that, at the time he spoke, he was gravely ill and knew he was dying. He was 63 years old and had lived a very full, very satisfying, and amazingly exemplary life. He was certainly aware that the revelations of the Qurʾan and his selection by God to be His last prophet would profoundly change the world. People, even prophets of God, generally do not engage in idle chit-chat when they know they are about to die. What were the Prophet Muhammad’s last words before he passed away? There is no unanimity on this issue either but, according to several very reliable accounts, his last words were: “Prayer, prayer; fear Allah about those whom your right hands possess.”1 This statement shows that the enslaved, their condition, and their treatment by Muslims were of the greatest concern to the Prophet as he lay dying. His counsel that Muslims “fear Allah” in their relationships with “those whom your right hands possess” must have been a weighty and important admonition to those who surrounded him."


let me guess , Islam is a faction of Catholics that was created by the catholic church to destroy Judaism ? right Yassine ?
since we're mentioning conspiracy theories  I thought I should mention this one since I kept hearing it a lot 
nearly from every non catholic Christian I ever argued with , they usually think I'm a muslim because of my name
- It's not too far fetched for a Christian to believe this absurdity, given all the other absurdities they have to suffer just to keep their faith.

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@Lunar108
1.I'm pretty sure that you're aware that homosexuality is punished by the death penalty in islam 
if you deny that then please tell me that allah didn't punish the people of lut/lot for homosexuality and why were they punished ? in the story mentioned in the quran ?
- Red herring. Answer my objections, don't run.


2.Liberal Capitalism WTF is that , feel free to name any Capitalist/liberalist you want and I'll write an entire novel of satire about them
you know what, I'll write a novel where Liberalism/Capitalism raping them in the @55/having an@l s*x with them  and I'll share it on the internet
give me the name of any Liberal Capitalist and I'll write you a trilogy of gay erotica , I'll include even bestiality , if you commission me too I'll pay an artist to draw some illustrations and include them in the book too
- Eww, please keep your nastiness to yourself!! Disgusting! I'm sure there are thousands of even worse books written against Islam! It's quite a profitable business...

- You haven't addressed anything I said. Care to explain why thousands of Americans in the 50s & 60s were incarcerated & persecuted -up to death penalty, just for the thought crime of expressing disapproval of Liberal Capitalism? Why hundreds of American citizens are now in prison just for protesting Liberal tyranny? If you're so brave & mighty, succeed in introducing a course challenging Secular Liberal Capitalism in any Western academia or a law undermining Secular Liberal Capitalism in any Western code of law? I'll believe then that the West is not afraid of criticism & challenge...


would you bear it if I did the same to your prophet and god ,?
- What is a nasty person like you got on the greatest & most beloved human who ever lived? Muhammed (pbuh)'s legacy will persist long after you're dead & forgotten. LOL! Is nastiness the only thing you have to offer..?! Sad!
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@zedvictor4

How to deal with a "Vile Wife"......Islamospeak.
- You mean USAspeak*, 1 in 4 men in the US suffer domestic physical abuse. Maybe they should convert & follow Quranic guidelines to deal with the issue. 


Treat a woman with equal respect.
- Keyword here being "equal"! We are talking about abusive women here, as in those who don't treat their husbands with respect among other things. If you believe in respecting women, maybe you should become Muslim & follow our beloved Prophet (pbuh). Upon his death bed he insisted on reminding us be kind to women, "the last of his advice of Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) three things he kept repeating until his tongue stammered and his speech faded, he kept saying, [...] for God for your women [...]". He (pbuh) also honored women by honoring those who honor them, saying: "The most perfect man in his faith among the believers is the one whose behavior is most excellent; and the best of you are those who are the best to their wives.". Emphasizing the equity between men & women, he said: “Verily, women are but the equivalent of men. Those honorable among men will honor them, and those ignoble among men will dishonor them”. Even in the small things, the Prophet (pbuh) enjoined Muslim to be kind to their wives, saying: “There is a reward for a man who offers his wife a drink”,  &: “The act of putting a bite into your wife’s mouth is a charitable deed”. Among his advices to believers is to show forebearance  & fairness ”A believer must not hate his wife ; if he dislikes one of her qualities, he will be pleased with another”, & respect their privacy : "[he] forbade that a man should come to his family like (an unexpected) night visitor doubting their fidelity and spying into their lapses."


And you might find that she is not so vile after all.
- What do you do when she still is? Or are you perhaps among those who believe women are all angels with white wings & musical voices??? 


And the husband is never bad?
- I should ask you that, you seem to be implying the wife is never bad. 


And Yassine is seemingly someone who would separate and silence the female sub-species.
- You are 14 centuries too early to tell me something like that, 1400 years ago Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) was the first person to elevate women's rights, he was to first to:
1. Explicitly state the equitability of Men & Women.
2. Grant property rights to women equally as men, regardless of status or origin. This only attained in the West very recently, by 1939 in France for example.
3. Guarantee inheritance rights to women, not by virtue of nobility or testament, but an entitlement for all.
4. Establish mutual consent in marriage, from both the man & the woman, on the basis of 'offer & acceptance' – hence the adoption by the West later.
5. Grant divorce initiative to the woman, not just the man -as was the case in ancient times, & up till very recently in the West (just decades ago).
6. Prohibit the killing of women in war in any circumstance (along with children, elderly, monks, peasants, slaves...etc). This is still not the case in any Western Law, unfortunately.
7. Enjoined education on women along with men, "seeking knowledge is an obligation on every Muslim -and Muslimah". Just over a century ago,  women were barred from attending university in Europe...
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@Lunar108
are you comparing " science , logic , and morality " to unreliable feelings 
then tell me , what parameters are you going to  use to judge religion ?
I'm very interested in knowin
- Truth can be attained through empirical or demonstrative ways, through the various reasoning modes, deductive or inductive. For instance, structural statements (such as mathematics or philosophical conclusions) require deductive demonstration; scientific hypotheses require abductive validation; historical events require probabilistic evaluation (of testimonies for example); moral claims require defeasible reasoning or analogical analysis...etc.
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@RationalMadman
So, 'bad wife' huh?
- Yes, indeed. Unless you believe women are fairies on unicorns who shit rainbows... I don't know what you feminists believe! Regardless, I do hope you don't meet a selfish manipulative controlling vile wife, that would be a terrible fate.


And what is a good wife to do with a terrible husband in your fine religion?
"And in case a woman fears ill-treatment or veering away in her husband, then there is no fault in both of them if they make a righteous reconciliation between them; and reconciliation is most charitable" (5:128) – Same... reconciliation comes first, if that fails, then separation.


Let's skip the part where you downplayed what strike meant
- No skipping, it is as intended. The Prophet (pbuh) said: "and the best among you will not strike", he also forbade hitting the face & leaving marks. When his companion Ibn Abbas was asked about the manner of striking he said "in a manner which does not leave marks, such as with a siwak" (siwak is a wooden toothbrush). 


or the amount of completely crap spousal treatment and emotional neglect involved in the 'silent treatment' stage, oh and refusing to sleep with her and talk to her as punishment?
- You're doing it again... Why are you siding with the aggressor?!! The one inflicting crap spousal treatment & emotional neglect in this case is the *wife*. A vile woman should not deserve any good treatment, yet the verse is aimed at reconciliation & salvation of marriage, hence the gradual process.


Can the wife do that to the man too if he is a bad husband, in your religion?
- Not the striking part, no. But the rest, yeah.


How did Muhammad treat women?
- Refer back to: The beloved Prophet (pbuh) honored women more than any other in history. Upon his death bed he insisted on reminding us be kind to women, "the last of his advice of Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) three things he kept repeating until his tongue stammered and his speech faded, he kept saying, [...] for God for your women [...]". He (pbuh) also honored women by honoring those who honor them, saying: "The most perfect man in his faith among the believers is the one whose behavior is most excellent; and the best of you are those who are the best to their wives.". Emphasizing the equity between men & women, he said: “Verily, women are but the equivalent of men. Those honorable among men will honor them, and those ignoble among men will dishonor them”. Even in the small things, the Prophet (pbuh) enjoined Muslim to be kind to their wives, saying: “There is a reward for a man who offers his wife a drink”,  &: “The act of putting a bite into your wife’s mouth is a charitable deed”. Among his advices to believers is to show forebearance  & fairness ”A believer must not hate his wife ; if he dislikes one of her qualities, he will be pleased with another”, & respect their privacy : "[he] forbade that a man should come to his family like (an unexpected) night visitor doubting their fidelity and spying into their lapses."

– I would add, Prophet Muhammed (pbuh)'s the first person to elevate women's rights, he was to first to:
1. Explicitly state the equitability of Men & Women.
2. Grant property rights to women equally as men, regardless of status or origin. This only attained in the West very recently, by 1939 in France for example.
3. Guarantee inheritance rights to women, not by virtue of nobility or testament, but an entitlement for all.
4. Establish mutual consent in marriage, from both the man & the woman, on the basis of 'offer & acceptance' – hence the adoption by the West later.
5. Grant divorce initiative to the woman, not just the man -as was the case in ancient times, & up till very recently in the West (just decades ago).
6. Prohibit the killing of women in war in any circumstance (along with children, elderly, monks, peasants, slaves...etc). This is still not the case in any Western Law, unfortunately.
7. Enjoined education on women along with men, "seeking knowledge is an obligation on every Muslim -and Muslimah". Just over a century ago,  women were barred from attending university in Europe...
...etc.

How did his fine sidekick Khalid treat them?
- Are you implying something...? Don't be shy.

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@Stephen
This smacks of those well rehearsed  sayings "not all Muslims" and "only a tiny minority," which I have covered on this forum sometime ago, Vic lad.

Where does all this radicalism come from—including the 8% of Muslims worldwide who now support ISIS?


Considering this is  8% of 1.6 Billion Muslims "worldwide" which sound very tiny until it is converted into figures and words, this then amounts to 128000000 or One Hundred & Twenty Eight Million Muslims or "ideological nutcases" who support Islamic State which is by no means a "tiny minority".  And I am sure anyone running for government office wouldn't turn their noses up to this "tiny minority" on election day.
- Aside from this fake news nonsense you're spouting, the US literally caused the deaths of 1000 times more people than ISIS across the globe, yet here you are supporting it... Are you insane?! By the way, ISIS is a CIA faction, always there to do their bidding... 



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@RationalMadman

Don't these 'rights' sound like they're sexist against men too then?
- Maybe... Though, in the same token, Men are considered materially efficient albeit morally deficient. Hence, granted material responsibility. 


Of course I am a feminist. I am an egalitarian, also support Men's Rights Activism.
- Dang! You're the first feminist I talk to. I thought Feminism was on its way out? You can't expect the exact same rights for Men & Women, for they are, by definition, different. In reality, Feminism does not seek equality, rather it assumes a superior intrinsic nature of Men to Women. Value is always measured from a male perspective, that women must climb to the masculine plain & abandon their femininity to find fulfillment. 
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@RationalMadman
5. Women who are otherwise -disloyal & disobedient- then advise & remind them [the period prescribed by the jurists is up to 1 month], if they persist:
6. Leave their beds (silent treatment, hoping they may have some time to think & come back), if they persist in their rebellion:
7. Strike them lightly [with a pen or such, & the Prophet (pbuh) said "and the best among you will not hit"], once they relent (at any point):
so basically be a narcissistic sociopath of a husband
- Here your psychopathic tendencies are showing again, how come you always defending the aggressors?! We are talking about how to deal with a bad wife, through communication, then separation & silent treatment, then discipline - In order to salvage the marriage. & In case all fails, seeking outside help... But I'm curious, how do you personally deal with a vile wife? 

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@Castin
There's no such thing as religious plagiarism, really. The contents of all our religions go into the cultural mixing pot and everyone dips into it.
- Maybe, but the objecting argument here is aimed at proving human provenance, thus undermining divine inspiration.
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@RationalMadman

Which ones are these, please enlighten us?
- "Women have rights similar to those of men equitably" (2:228). Islam grants women equitable rights to men as inviolable human beings guaranteed the six sacred rights (faith, self, reason, family, property & honor). Women, complementarily to Men, are considered morally (ma'nawi) efficient albeit materially (madi) deficient, thus granted material endowment by Sharia [the contrary for Men]. A woman is assured material security by Sharia, mandated on her father or husband or brother or son (even if she is wealthy), allowed 8/10 shares of inheritance, & granted twice as the man from blood-money... As a subject she does not pay any Zakat (tax) on her jewelry, gold or silver - contrary to the man. She has a right to alimony - while the man doesn't. As a mother she has priority rights over the father -including custody. She is exempt from participating in defense... etc. No such privileges are accorded to women in the West! 

- The beloved Prophet (pbuh) honored women more than any other in history. Upon his death bed he insisted on reminding us be kind to women, "the last of his advice of Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) three things he kept repeating until his tongue stammered and his speech faded, he kept saying, [...] for God for your women [...]". He (pbuh) also honored women by honoring those who honor them, saying: "The most perfect man in his faith among the believers is the one whose behavior is most excellent; and the best of you are those who are the best to their wives.". Emphasizing the equity between men & women, he said: “Verily, women are but the equivalent of men. Those honorable among men will honor them, and those ignoble among men will dishonor them”. Even in the small things, the Prophet (pbuh) enjoined Muslim to be kind to their wives, saying: “There is a reward for a man who offers his wife a drink”,  &: “The act of putting a bite into your wife’s mouth is a charitable deed”. Among his advices to believers is to show forebearance  & fairness ”A believer must not hate his wife ; if he dislikes one of her qualities, he will be pleased with another”, & respect their privacy : "[he] forbade that a man should come to his family like (an unexpected) night visitor doubting their fidelity and spying into their lapses."


I can give you plenty of the opposite kinds of Islamic teachings regarding women if you want.
Here's one
- If I had a dime for every time I had to respond to this... Here we go again:

"Men are the caretakers of women [1], as men have been provisioned by Allah over women [2] and tasked with supporting them financially [3]. And righteous women are devoutly obedient and, when alone, protective of what Allah has entrusted them with [4]. And if you sense disloyalty and ill-conduct from your women, advise them ˹first˺ [5], ˹if they persist,˺ do not share their beds [6], ˹but if they still persist,˺ then discipline them ˹gently˺ [7]. But if they change their ways, seek no means against them [8]. Surely Allah is Most High, All-Great. And if you fear dissension between the two [9], send an arbitrator from his people and an arbitrator from her people [10]. If they both desire reconciliation, Allah will cause it between them [11]. Indeed, Allah is ever Knowing and Aware.." (4:34-35)

- Let's see.. The verse plainly says the following (in this order):
1. Men are the protectors & maintainers of women, by virtue of:
2. Men are made to excel more in that regard (due to physical advantages), & on account of:
3. Men financially supporting women from their wealth, therefore:
4. Women who are pious are those devoutly obedient (to Allah), who guard what Allah has entrusted them with (faithful to their husbands), however:
5. Women who are otherwise -disloyal & disobedient- then advise & remind them [the period prescribed by the jurists is up to 1 month], if they persist:
6. Leave their beds (silent treatment, hoping they may have some time to think & come back), if they persist in their rebellion:
7. Strike them lightly [with a pen or such, & the Prophet (pbuh) said "and the best among you will not hit"], once they relent (at any point):
8. Men have no more right to recourse against them, but if nothing works, then:
9. Striking (lesser harm) is no more sufficient to prevent dissension or divorce (greater harm), therefore:
10. Couples should seek external help, arbitration: one from her side & another from his to intercede between them, so that:
11. Couples may achieve reconciliation.

> Any part of this you find objectionable?


Shall I show some more?
- Have at it...


Wow, according to you it's so evil to want Islam to adapt to being merciful and respectful to women?
You even believe it's so much so that they deserve to end up with nothing for seeking it?
- You have it backwards. Feminism is the objectification, sexualization & capitalization of women. Don't tell me you are a feminist?


What a peculiar world of moral standards must one live in to believe in that?
- I know it's too high up here for you to see from your moral abyss.
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@Lunar108

all crusades were defensive wars , I'm an agnostic and yet I acknowledge this since all the crusades were fought to restore the lands that muslims took from christians to begin with
- This is a joke right?! I didn't know you could do worse, yet here you are proving me wrong. You just hit rock bottom into your moral abyss.
ONE, the majority of crusades were actually carried out against fellow Christians, many sects of which massacred in the process (such as the Catharists). How defensive of them... 
TWO, the middle eastern Crusades were largely instigated by Franks (& Brits), who have nothing to do with the Middle East & had minimal contact with Muslims. They can't restore lands which they never had in the first place!!! How beautifully defensive.
THREE, a third of the population of the Middle East then was Christian, & another quarter descendant from native Christians who converted. So, according to you Franks invading lands across the continent & taking it from its natives is defensive restoration...?! What a psycho!
FOUR, for allegedly coming to save Christians, the crusaders massacred them without discrimination: Muslim, Christian, Jew, man, woman & child – all massacred. Not even Orthodox Christians of Byzantine were spared. The Fourth Crusade saw the sack of Constantinople & the massacre of its people.
FIVE, the evil of the Crusades is not so much in the invasion itself, rather in its brutality & atrociousness. 3 million people were massacred in the region, a quarter of its population, in the most cruel & barbaric ways. Genocide, cannibalism, torture, pillage, impalement, rape...etc.

- Here are some snippets of how that went, enjoy:
".... On the morning of December 12, the garrison negotiated with Bohemond, who promised them safe conduct if they surrendered. The Muslims surrendered, but the crusaders immediately began to massacre the population..... I shudder to tell that many of our people, harassed by the madness of excessive hunger, cut pieces from the buttocks of the Saracens already dead there, which they cooked, but when it was not yet roasted enough by the fire, they devoured it with savage mouth.... Albert of Aix remarked that "the Christians did not shrink from eating not only killed Turks or Saracens, but even creeping dogs..."
"[our men] were killing and slaying even to the Temple of Solomon, where the slaughter was so great that our men waded in blood up to their ankles..." " in the Temple and porch of Solomon men rode in blood up to their knees and bridle reins." "In this temple 10,000 were killed. Indeed, if you had been there you would have seen our feet coloured to our ankles with the blood of the slain. But what more shall I relate? None of them were left alive; neither women nor children were spared."
"the Crusaders systematically violated the city's [Constantinople] holy sanctuaries, destroying or stealing all they could lay hands on; nothing was spared, not even the tombs of the emperors inside the St Apostles church. The civilian population of Constantinople were subject to the Crusaders' ruthless lust for spoils and glory; thousands of them were killed in cold blood. Women, including nuns, were raped by the Crusader army, which also sacked churches, monasteries and convents. The very altars of these churches were smashed and torn to pieces for their gold and marble by the warriors."
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@Lunar108
wow , the only time he did it it was a betrothal gift , to his wife
- Dude, have some shame! Your western secular system is so disgustingly horrible when dealing with POWs, only internment to the worst possible torture & rape, & often death awaits them. POWs have no rights. Yet, here you are attempting to express disdain towards our beloved Prophet's mercy towards POWs. Get back down to your moral abyss please.

- As to what you said, I feel like I have to explain everything to you. That is how alliances are made mate. Bani Mustalaq just few months prior were fighting alongside Quraysh in their invasion of Medina, they were again on their way to launch another attack. They were staunch enemies to Muslims, & yet, by the end of that day they became friends instead. How could that possibly happen? Because the Prophet (pbuh) showed them justice & mercy, by marrying the daughter of their leader & granting general amnesty to everyone. – Contrary to your wishful thinking, the same happens literally every time, such as in the other incident you mentioned in Autas. They brought their armies to attack the Muslims, they lost the battle, they were taken as prisoners too. Then the Prophet (pbuh) grants them amnesty, thereafter become his allies. This level of justice & compassion is nonexistent in your Western system & your History. Anything else?


and it all started with a muslim merchant introducing the entire black people as slaves and selling them on the silk road
- Let me ask again, have you ever opened a History book? Say, no. Have you heard of Portuguese colonial Africa? It started there.


- Let's see... 'Sources: The Legacy of Arab-Islam In Africa by Azumah John Alembillah & Race and Slavery in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis' – one is a some random Islamophobic pastor, the other is a Jewish critic of Islam. The guy couldn't find a single academic or reliable source to resort to these? LOL!

. Literally 90% of the video is fake news from the very start: "In 1842, the British Consul General in Morocco wrote a letter to the Sultan to ask him if he had taken any measures to stop slavery or at least, slave trade. The sultan replied that he will not do anything about it because it has been the norm since the time of the sons of Adam and no sects of Islam are against it. Hence, he will not permit anything the Qur’an forbids and will not make unlawful anything that the Qur’an has allowed". – First of all, this is coming from a nation which is known to have enslaved & massacred more people than any other in Human History! LOL! Second of all, the missing factor here is that Back slaves in Morocco (called 'Abid Bukhari') constituted the backbone of the Sultan's military power, hence Europe's interest in the matter – analogous to Slavic slaves in the Ottoman Empire. Black slaves in Morocco made up the officers, royal guards, generals, & sometimes even most court officials. This is unlike the status of Black slaves in Europe (or the US). Third of all, same as in the Ottoman Empire, a slave under Alawit Morocco could seek emancipation in court, either by Zakat or by ransoming his freedom; though that rarely happened. You know why? No slave is dumb enough to lose his post of authority & privilege just to be a free man with none. Fourth of all, even after the abolishment of slavery, freedman & workers in Europe & America still had it much worse than the worse "slave" in the Muslim world. In fact, the status of American soldiers today is worse than that of 'Abid Bukhari' slaves back then in Morocco, at least they had the option to opt out, whereas soldiers in the US Military have none.

- Since you have so much to say about this why are you refusing to have a debate?


- Interesting. A sight I might've seen too often in the US & Europe, though not as bad. I don't need to send you links right? This is pretty much normalized in your culture, I don't get why you sending me these links.


would they hand such position to any non-muslim black person ?
- I don't see any Muslim prime minister or admiral in Europe or the US, do you? It has been only a couple of decades since free Black people could even hold official positions in the US... that's not something to be proud of.


how many other slaves died due to torture ? he was being tortured for being a muslim , if I recall ? yet muhammad only saved this one .
- He saved eleven, though many died indeed, among the free as well. How terrible of our beloved Prophet (pbuh)... But let me get this straight, you are blaming the Prophet (pbuh) for the torture these slaves were subjected to because he couldn't free all of them instead of the masters performing these tortures...? Honestly, are you a psychopath? 


thank you . attacking the person rather than the ideas shows your character .
- Sounds like you're talking to a mirror. That's what you've been doing all along...

muhammad and allah allowed his followers to sleep with the female war captives and the evidence have been mentioned in my post before
- No such thing. That's zina (adultery), & it's punishable in Sharia.
 

muhammad himself would divide those female war captives along with battle spoils among his followers that fought with him.
- You keep running in circles. Those are called PRISONERS OF WAR, as in enemy combatants who were just moments ago in a death match with your people... who by the way, in your amazing western laws, have no right except being at the mercy of their captors in internment, torture, or death. Contrast that with our beloved Prophet (pbuh)'s treatment. No Creed or Law has honored humans, even POWs as our beloved has. He (pbuh) categorically prohibited killing female POWs, instead granting them many options for repentance & opportunity, to insure both their security & that of the state, he (pbuh) commanded that they be:
1. Cared for, well treated, fed & clothed while in captivity & no harm shall come to them, unless in penalty (for committing crime), "'In pursuance of Mahomet’s commands, the citizens of Medîna, and such of the Refugees as possessed houses, received the prisoners, and treated them with much consideration. “Blessings be on the men of Medina!” said one of these prisoners in later days; “they made us ride, while they themselves walked, they gave us wheaten bread to eat when there was little of it, contenting themselves with dates.”
2. Exchanged with Muslim POWs held in enemy camp. This option is the sole path to freedom available to POWs captured in the great Western system; & only because it is for the sake of their own, not for the sake of the POWs they took.
3. Granted amnesty for purpose of allegiance & alliance with prior enemies, which is what the Prophet (pbuh) did with the overwhelming majority of captives.
4. Released, under security conditions. As inconceivable as it is in Western systems to just set POWs free, for the obvious reason of becoming a security threat to the state, nevertheless, Muhammed (pbuh) did indeed offer freedom for captives who pledged never to fight against him & those who taught illiterate Muslims literacy...etc. That shows his ideal sense of mercy.
5. Ransomed, in accordance with the Quran: "bind captives [of war] firmly, then release them later either by grace or by ransom –until the toils of war have ended." (47:4). You might find this shocking, but not even ransom is granted in Western treatment of POWs. How horrible must your system be then, huh!
6. Integrated into Muslim society into a guardianship bondage, for the POWs who have not being exchanged, freed or ransomed by their people, "Women who are neither freed nor ransomed by their people were to be kept in bondage... to give them their rights to survive peacefully, and they could not be left astray." Contrary to Western practices of keeping them in dungeons or in best case scenario abandoning them to starve to death. Praise be to our compassionate & just Prophet (pbuh).
7. Freed through several paths of emancipation. Freeing slaves is one of the greatest deeds in Islam, & also an atonement for pretty much everything one can atone for. One of the 8 expenses of Zakat is emancipation, i.e. 1/8th of Islamic tax goes towards freeing slaves. Slaves have the right to buy their freedom back by signing the Mukataba contract. Female slaves can also gain freedom by giving birth...etc. Tell me where I can find this in Western treatment of POWs. LOL! I'm kidding, no such thing.


When the slave runs away from his master, his prayer is not accepted.
- What's your point? If I recall correctly, the fate of runway slaves in America was along the line of death or amputation... Even today, runaway soldiers or workers get jail sentences. If your moral standard is so high, then you should quit being a secular agnostic & become Muslim.



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@Lunar108
"Autas captives"
the reason muslims go to jihad is to take the female captives of the countries they conquer
- Aren't you something! How very convenient of you to ignore the part that said, "A league of mountain tribes hostile to Muhammad formed an alliance to attack him."... How come you always siding with the aggressors? You can't possibly have that much hate against our beloved Prophet (pbuh) that you'd side with the oppressors against him?


 Muhammad allowed his followers to have sex with the female captives taken from the defeated enemies of muslims or should I call them slaves since they can even sell them ,, they are given as a reward to his followers
- Ah, no. Pal, those are called PRISONERS OF WAR! Those in your moral system you keep in dungeons for torture & rape. Let's see... The men came with their women to attack the Muslims, they lost the battle, hence prisoners. What a shock! Why are you so concerned with the aggressors again?! – As for the aftermath, the leaders of the attacking tribes will come to plead with the Prophet (pbuh) for freedom, which he indeed grants them. Another example of compassion from our beloved Prophet (pbuh). Thank you for showing everyone the mercy of Prophet Muhammed (pbuh).


a religious leader comes to you after the battle and tells you to pick whichever slave girl you want , and you claim that he is doing that to let him pick one slave girl to protect her ?
- POW, by Sharia, are to be released is by grace or ransom: "bind captives [of war] firmly, then release them later either by grace or by ransom –until the toils of war have ended." (47:4). The Prophet (pbuh) has also exercised a third option: turning POW to bondage -based on the principle of reciprocity (i.e. if the enemy takes Muslim POW as slaves, Muslims reciprocate). However, this reciprocation only extends in name; in practice Muslims must treat slaves effectively as family -with all rights that entails (i.e. take them in & guarantee financial & social security for them, as they would their children). POW who convert to Islam before bondage are automatically free. Those among the POW who do not wish to stay in bondage must seek Mukataba (contract of emancipation): "If any of your slaves wish to pay for their freedom, make a contract with them accordingly" (24:33), upon signing such contract the slave becomes a mukatab -a freedom- until they fulfill their installments (or ransom themselves). In effect, Islamic bondage is release from internment into social guardianship.

- Let's compare this with your Western practices towards POW, there isn't much to show for. Sharia allows POW only in legitimate warfare (Just War, i.e. defensive warfare); Western system couldn't care less (all their warfare is seldom non-offensive). Sharia grants essential rights to POW in grace, ransom or guardianship; the Western system grants none, except by way of extra-national conventions mostly used to compel other nations into submission. Sharia offers on hand freedom from internment (prison) by way of repatriation (grace or ransom) or integration (into Muslim families) or even emancipation (by contract or conversion); Western system offers none, POW are perpetually at the mercy of their captors in confinement or torture. This can only make sense in a defensive warfare -where it's in the state's interest to keep enemy's POW in confinement for self-preservation, which is contrary to Western practices. Sharia, in contrast, shows mercy even to the POW enemy who came with the intent to massacre your people & pillage your wealth. That is the greatness of Islam & out beloved Prophet (pbuh).


do you think everybody else is an idiot ?
- Just you.


he is sending a message 
1 muslim slave = 2 non-muslim slaves
- I know you'd rather he left the slave to die under torture. Stick to your moral abyss.


provide evidence , you've yet to list where does your stories come from ? you've mentioned your claims but forgot to place your sources feel free to check mine though
- Bruh, are you insane?! You bring up a story, cut it from its context, then ask me for sources?! Either, you're disingenuous you don't want admit it, or ignorant. If you're ignorant, then why are you spreading all these lies? Regardless: "One hundred families of Banu al-Mustaliq were set free".


- The Prophet (pbuh) freed over 60 slaves, of all faiths & races, with the little money that he had. His companions freed hundreds of thousands. Abd-Rahman Ibn Awf, becoming a rich merchant during the early Islamic conquests, is known to have freed over 30,000 slaves.
where are your sources again ?
- Where are yours?! Wikislam is not a source... You can find the list of freed slaves by the beloved Prophet (pbuh) in 'Subul Huda Wa Rashad' or 'Imta Asmaa' (though not available in English). As for Abd-Rahman Ibn Awf's deeds, Here.


I recall the story of muhammad freeing bilal a black man since he was a muslim , yet he didn't free the other slaves under Umayyah ibn Khalaf
- He did not free him for being Muslim, he freed him for being tortured to death... 


provide evidence , show me where did the quran or any hadith from sahih bukhari or muslim prohibiting slavery ?
- What the Quran & the Hadith enjoin is Riqq, not chattel slavery. Raqeed, "slave" in the Sharia sense, has nothing to do a slave in the western sense. While Black slaves in plantations were being treated as cattle in 19th century US, their counterparts in the Ottoman Empire were being selected for next Grand Vizier (prime minister) or admiral or officer. Do you understand the difference? In fact, the standing of a slave in Islam is better -legally & historically- than many types of laborers in the West.


I would love to see the evidence supporting this claim , I am myself invested against christianity as much as I am against islam  you know what I hate the most? claims that lack any supportive evidence  , those are dismissed as nonsense 
- Dude, aren't you embarrassed enough? It's like I'm telling someone about the centuries of European colonialism of the Americas, & they boastfully ask for evidence?! Have you ever opened a History book? Maybe an article?

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Yeah I didn’t want to go there because it does seem like TFR’s are falling everywhere, including in the Islamic world and Africa, but clearly any society that manages to hold onto a decent birth rate is going to have a huge advantage in the future. Right now I have my eyes on Central Asia, especially the “Stans”. Kazakhstan bottomed out at 1.8 twenty years ago and is now back  to 2.9….hard to see that happening in a western country 
- FR are indeed falling everywhere, but the case is different in the Islamic world. We do see birth rates falling with urbanization & industrialization, but only to a point -well above replacement rate, for Family values are still retained. Also, recently trends have been rebounding thanks to the traditional backlash -such as in Turkey & Central Asia- with diminishing  western influence in the region. 


I do think you are onto something with the highlighted bit. Fertility rates crashed in Latin America almost on a dime once smart phones (and therefore social media) became affordable. And my pet theory is that some of the countries with the worst fertility rates are ones that have huge amounts of western influence but also vestiges of traditional culture. For example,  in South Korea there is feminism, women are doing just as well as men economically etc, but the man/his family is still expected to provide the house when there’s a marriage. No wonder people are having difficulty starting families 
- Indeed. The collapse of fertility rates came about with the breakdown of Family. The feminist forsaking of traditional roles had a two-fold impact on Family. On one hand, the ease of access to  contraception, abortion, baby hatches, adoption... created a culture of sexual impunity, rendering family obsolete. A maiden who, otherwise faced with imminent pregnancy, without access to these means (contraception & so on...) would find it very hard to sexually engage with another man (or boy), for the weight of responsibility that might follow. The consequences would be too hard to bear, thus conditioning her to seek a family instead. To find a husband first, the stability in which sexual engagement can be safely performed. Hence, the lost culture of sexual chastity. On the other hand, sexual impunity leads to a culture of promiscuity, for absence of consequences. The promiscuous woman competing for men, thus without a stable husband who would provide her with financial & moral security, is inevitably even more incentivized to seek financial & moral security herself to afford that competition. She has to look good, dress good & live good, without the support of a man, just to afford her lifestyle. Workforce participation, as burdensome as it is, is thereafter a matter of course. A nail in the coffin for Family.


Another aspect of this people don’t think about it warfare. I know there have been relatively few wars in the past decades due to Pax Americana but that’s going to eventually end at SOME point. I know there will be further increases in technology, robots, drones, etc but fighting men being totally obsolete is a “I’ll believe it when I see it” thing for me 
- 'Man is capital' – Ibn Khaldun. That will not change. Even with your suggested premise of obsolete soldiers, the need for manpower -to innovate, engineer, build, run, lead... those drones- will not subside. More people, more engineers, more innovation & more everything... Plus, warfare is less about combat than it is about control. A victory in battle followed by a failure to control the territory or govern the people is a loss. Control can not be performed by robots!


A society with low birth rates would get rolled by one with high birth rates. Pretty much no matter how the war is going, there’s going to be massive political pressure to sue for peace pretty much immediately when you have tons of families with four grandparents, two parents, and one son losing their progeny
- That hit the nail on the head. Europeans were successful in colonizing much of the World largely owing to population size. Europe experienced an unprecedented & interrupted population explosion in the 18th & 19th century. In fact, up to early or mid 18th century, the Ottoman Empire was on a stalemate with European powers, boasting a comparable GDP to the rest of Europe combined, & -along with vassal states- also a similar population. By the 19th century, however, single European countries (such as France, Germany, UK...) had each a larger population than the entire Ottoman Empire. Contest became untenable. This is exactly what is happening to the Western world. Today, the Muslim world has more than twice the population of the West, & 4 times by 2060. The only conceivable way the West could retain back their population in the future is if they purge the Liberal virus & go back to faith.
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@Lunar108
at the time of certain islamic Caliphate muslims faced a very big problem
due to the jihad in Africa the number of black slaves was very high
making their market value very low , you could buy two black slaves for the meat of 1 chicken .
- & 10 Black slaves for a unicorn... You have a wild imagination, fueled by your hate of course... There was no slavery in Islamic Caliphate! We just concede calling it that because of convention. There is nothing in common between Western chattel slavery & Islamic slave except the name.  The worst slave status in Islam (Qin) was far better than the best serf in Europe, in terms of rights & social standing & opportunity. They had the right to own property, marry, practice their own faith, & participate in all aspects of social & political life, as long as they fulfill their duties to their masters, wether be it at home or plantation or factory or regiment or elsewhere -unlike serfs & peasants, who had no such opportunities. Historically, some Qins even rose to the highest level of government, such as Abu Misk Kafur as a ruler of Egypt in the 10th century, or Mudhafar Qutuz, the mighty conqueror & founder of the Mamluk dynasty. The former, a Black slave from Nubia, & the latter a Circassian slave from the Caucasus. Qins also constituted the small minority of slaves in the Muslim world, the majority were Mawali. The other types of slaves (namely: Mudabbar, Mukatab, Um-Walad, & Mawla) could not be sold or bought, & were essential freeman, except in allegiance & indemnity to the master. In case you did not know, 3 fo the 4 rulings factions in the Ottoman Empire were made up of slaves. The Court (Divan) led by the Grand Vizier (generally a slave), the Harem led by the Sultanah (generally a slave), & the Military (Janissaries) led by slave generals.


so the caliphate gathered his advisors and asked them about what he should do , and one of them had the answer .
"let us sell them to Europe"
- Cute story. I have a better one. It's called History. Most slaves taken by Muslims were either Whites or Turks. Black slaves were rarely a thing, for a good reason. The only source of slaves in Islam is POWs (prisoners of war); since much of Black Africa joined the faith through trade & preaching (by Sufis), there was little chance to acquire such slaves. That said, some important Black slave communities in the MENA region (Middle East North Africa) were: the Ikhshidi slaves from Nubia (from early conquests into Abyssinia) – among them the famous ruler of Egypt Abu Misk Kafus who ruled Egypt during the 10th century (YES, he was a Black slave) – The Bukhari slaves (from the conquest of Saadi dynasty of the Songhai empire & later), they constituted the noble class in Morrocan Alawi dynasty under the Sultan, & the officers of the Royal Guards (they still do) – The Black eunuchs of Arabia who generally managed the holy mosques.... etc.


the entire race of black people was introduced to Europe as slaves thanks to islam
#there were no crusades in africa#
- Except the centuries of crusades by Europeans in Africa, which led to 25 millions African deaths. You can't possibly be this ignorant?! 


.- you are allowed to f*ck the slaves/war captives -
- Bruh... You literally added those words in the verse & thereafter concluded their lawfulness. Genius! While you're at it, why don't you add "homosexuals" or even "aliens" to the verse & boom! it's allowed. 


....Prophet (ﷺ) saw her, he said to Dihya, 'Take any slave girl other than her from the captives.' ...
- I know you can't handle the justice & compassion shown by Islam to POWs, because in your moral system POWs deserve to rot in prison & be tortured & raped in there instead. Even for an agnostic, this is some pretty dark moral abyss.

- For those who don't know the background. Safyah's father, Huyay, was a staunch enemy to the Prophet (pbuh). He belonged to Bun Nadir, a Jewish tribe in Medina which was under covenant with Muslims. Unlike his brother who converted to Islam, Huyay chose rebellion. Thus, he set up an assassination attempt against the beloved Prophet (pbuh) in Medina, for which he was expelled from the city. Normally, he would have been executed for High Treason, but he had too many supporters from his tribe, it would've created an uproar. Huyay then goes to Khaybar, then rallies up an anti-Muslim coalition made up of Quraysh, Hawazin & many other tribes, called Ahzab (leagues). They siege the Muslims for weeks, which fails. The beloved Prophet (pbuh) could not retaliate against Khaybar, for if he marches to the North to meet them, the Quraysh would attack Medina from the South. So he makes a truce with Quraysh first, then moves towards Khaybar in the North. The Muslims win the battle, they take POWs & deal with them according to Sharia. POWs in Islam are to be integrated back into Muslim society if ransom or exchange could not be met. To that effect, the Prophet (pbuh) took our beloved mother Safyah, she asked for freedom, he proposed marriage, to which she agreed. & the rest is as they say history.
 

The Prophet (ﷺ) bought a slave for two slaves.
- He saved a Muslim slave who was being tortured by offering his master two... Yes. The compassion! The horror! 


I was among the captives of Banu Qurayzah. They (the Companions) examined us, and those who had begun to grow hair (pubes) were killed, and those who had not were not killed. I was among those who had not grown hair.
- Another story where the greatness of our beloved Prophet (pbuh) shines. They were executed for High Treason, for aiding enemy camp & attacking Muslims while under siege. Very few recorded incident in History come close to the level of treason of Banu Quraydhah. They not only broke their covenant with the Prophet (pbuh) in protecting the city's rear to allowed the enemy to come into Medina for the purpose of annihilating Muslims while under siege, they also supported the invaders with sustenance & weapons. On top of that, they themselves attacked the wives & children of Muslims while their husbands were out fighting by the trench against the coalition. After the siege, Banu Quraydha's ambitions in annihilating the Muslims were exposed. The Prophet (pbuh) -a paramount example of compassion- pardoned those among them who wished to convert, those who declared disapproval against the treason, & those who sought refuge with Muslims -despite the seriousness of their crime. As for the rest of adult male traitors who did not repent, justice was served as should. Treason is the most capital of all capital crimes, or are you suggesting the law does not apply to treasonous Jews?! 


Nafi' (RAA) narrated, ‘The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) made an attack on Bani al-Mustaliq when they were unaware. He killed the men who were lighting and took the women and children as captives.
- Yet another story that shows the mercy of our beloved Prophet (pbuh). Where do you even get this stuff?! You try very hard to take stories out of any context, obviously to support your hateful narrative. Bani Mustaliq were literally in their military camp which they set up to invade the Muslims in Medina, before the Prophet (pbuh) intercepted them & caught them off guard. They quickly lost the battle, hence they became POWs, which then Muhammed (pbuh) pardoned & released shortly after. That is our beloved Prophet (pbuh), a prophet of compassion & forgiveness.


muhammad did free a black slave because he was a muslim , he didn't care about the other slaves when he freed the muslim slave
- The Prophet (pbuh) freed over 60 slaves, of all faiths & races, with the little money that he had. His companions freed hundreds of thousands. Abd-Rahman Ibn Awf, becoming a rich merchant during the early Islamic conquests, is known to have freed over 30,000 slaves.


muhammad/islam was totally ok with slavery as long as the slave is not a muslim .
- Drivel! Most slaves in Islamic history were Muslim!!! Slavery, as in chattel slavery, is categorically prohibited in Sharia. What we call slavery in Sharia is analogous to indefinite contract in Western Law.

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- Interesting! Add to wildcards Muslims as well, maybe Hindus too. It's sad how by the onset of the 20th century, Whites constituted almost 40% the global population -that's China & India combined, with a global majority of urban population. Yet, in a couple of decades they won't even amount to 10%, & even less further into the future. Then, there were 6-7 times more Whites than Blacks, by 2070 the ratio will literally reverse. All thanks to the great & magnificent Western Values. 
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I'm going to say one thing
do you think that I an ex-muslim wouldn't know the stories about the religion I left  .
- If anything the article confirms what I said... Your point...? This does not address anything I said. 

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@Lunar108
Let us begin with one of my favorite  :
1."The quran provides that the length of a normal gestation (pregnancy) is six months (Luqman 31:14; al-Baqarah 2:233; al-Ahqaf 46:15). Luqman 31:14 and al-Baqarah 2:233 provide a nursing period of 24 months. Al-Ahqaf 46:15 provides a total of 30 months for both gestation and nursing combined. This leaves only six months for the period of gestation. We know that this is not true. Normal gestation lasts nine months.
- What is this?! Who even comes up with this cosmic dumb sh*t! Like the Arabs back then did not know normal gestation is 9 months?! The verses are referring a Hukm (ruling), not a medical advice! The point is, 30 months is the max recognized duration for pregnancy & nursing, & 24 months is the maximum allowable duration of nursing; for cases such as alimony, child-care, divorce, penalties...etc.


Tafsir At-Tabari
At-Tabari mentions several interpretations. One of them is this:
هو الحوت الذي عليه الأرَضُون
It is a whale (الحوت), which on it the Earths.
<Nun> - the whale (الحوت), which is under the Earth the seventh.

Tafsir Al-Qurtubi on 68:1 [9]
From his use of the word "tahat" or "under" it can be surmised that in Al-Qurtubi's cosmology the earth is seen as flat.
ِTafsir Al-Kabir (by Ar-Razi)
بالحوت الذي على ظهره الأرض وهو في بحر تحت الأرض السفلى
..with the whale (بالحوت) which over its back is the Earth and it is in the sea under the Earth (الأرض) the lowest.

Tafsir Al-Kabir on 68:1[10]
Al-Kabir here repeates the idea that there are multiple flat earths balanced on the back of the whale.
ِTafsir Fath Al-Qadir (by Shawkani)
This tafsir is from the 18th century and it mentions several interpretations. One of them is the idea that the world is carried on the back of a whale:
هو الحوت الذي يحمل الأرض
It is a whale which carries the Earth.
- You do realize that these scholars are quoting Jewish traditions here right...? Especially Tabari, he references more than 350 Biblical & Jewish tradition in his commentary. It's called higher criticism. That does not mean he promotes those beliefs or adheres to them himself!

- What you're implying here is a bunch of drivel. Muslims have always known about the roundness of the Earth, as mentioned in the Quran & the Hadith. Also, by the consensus of Muslim scholars, reported by Ibn Munadi from the 9th century, or Ibn Hazm from the 11th century, or Fakhr Razi from the 12th century & many others... In fact, Muslims have attempted quite accurate measurements of the Earth & its distance from the Moon as early as the 8th century. For instance, al-Marwazi, who lived a century before Tabari, estimated the Earth's diameter at 6.5k miles (7.9 miles actual), the Moon's diameter at 1.9k miles (2.1 miles actual), the distance Earth-Moon at 215k miles (225k miles actual), & even estimate the sun to be 170 times larger than the Earth...


There is thus attestation of Nun the whale in both the Sunni and Shi'ite tradition.
- You mean to say "in both the Jewish & Shite tradition"... 


hadith :
a).Abu Dharr said: I was sitting behind the Apostle of Allah who was riding a donkey while the sun was setting. He asked: Do you know where this sets? I replied: Allah and his Apostle know best. He said: It sets in a spring of warm water. - Sunan Abu Dawud 3991
b).The Prophet (ﷺ) asked me at sunset, "Do you know where the sun goes (at the time of sunset)?" "And the sun Runs its fixed course For a term (decreed). that is The Decree of (Allah) The Exalted in Might, The All- Knowing." (36.38) sahih bukhari
- Cognitive dissonance much friend? You just refuted yourself. You mention two different accounts of the same exact incident, one reported by al-Bukhari (& also the other 6 canonical collections), & the other a weak narration in Sunan Abu Dawud. They can't both be true, one must therefore necessarily be false. Evidently the first account is false, for it is simply an aberration from all the other accounts. The narrator must have mistaken "the sun appeared to him to be setting in a warm spring" with "the sun travels its fixed course"... The first account is false.

- That said, the Prophet (pbuh) telling the companion that the sun goes to prostrate to Allah is very obviously metaphorical! That's also a verse in the Quran "And to Allah prostrates whoever is within the heavens and the earth" (13:15). The Heavens & the Earth do not literally prostrate to Allah... it's a metaphor for the absolute dominion of God. Also in the Quran, the sun travels in its orbit: "And it is He who created the night and the day and the sun and the moon; all [heavenly bodies] in an orbit are swimming." (21:33).


quran 18:86
the sun sets in muddy water spring 
- You're going too far with your mistranslations. Literally every thing you cite is grossly mistranslated & distorted. What are you trying to prove? That you're dishonest?! Where does it say the sun sets in muddy waters??  – The verse, speaking of Dhul-Qarnayn journey says: "So he travelled a course, Until, when he reached the setting of the sun [i.e., the west], *he* found it [as if] setting in a body of dark water". It is describing the scene witnessed by the king at that moment, a sunset at the end of his journey to the west, at a lake/sea which is dark or murky (often interpreted as the Caspian Sea for its large oil contaminations). 


Quran 18:90:
Until, when he came to the rising-place of the sun, he found it rising on a people for whom We had not made against it any shield. 
- Again with the terrible translations... 'Matla Shams' literally means Sunrise or East. You're trying too hard & not succeeding much. Is that all?!

- The great irony here, you don't stop talking about how Muslims "misinterpret" the words to fit a narrative, yet that's what you're doing in full force, on top of gross mistranslations & stretched distortions.

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@Lunar108
If you looked at the stories mentioned in the holy quran you'll find that most of them if not all of them came from both the bible and the talmud with few edits here and there to make them seem different .
- About 6% of the stories do indeed have parallels in the Bible. Another half have parallels in Biblical Apocrypha, the Talmud, Zoroastrian traditions & Arab pagan traditions, few in the Vedas, plus some ancient Sumerian & Egyptian sources. The rest of the stories & the rest of the Quran has nothing to do with all of that.


The cause of that is muhammad went every year with merchant caravan together with Waraqah Ibn Nawfal which is the maternal uncle of Muhammad via Khadijah, Muhammad's first wife.
- Never happened, & he wasn't his maternal uncle! They belonged to the same tribe though. 


His presence in the story of Muhammad is so problematic. Most people who believe in Islam never heard about him. Those few who did, are just given a "quick" passing by mentioning in their Islamic classes. Yet, even by Islamic standards, he was a very important figure. Some see him as the first person to believe in Muhammad even before the first message had arrived.
- None of this is true. Waraqa appears very briefly in the story. Khadija calls for him when the Prophet (pbuh) tells her about what he saw at the cave, for she knows he studied scripture & wrote down prayers. He dies shortly after -with the only revealed Quran is the 96th Surah (Alaq), which has nothing to do with any Biblical or other tradition! 


Who is this man? Waraqah was a priest in Christianity and Judaism. He is Nestorian priest. Waraqah lived a long life and died of old age shortly after Muhammad got his first message also muhammad went with him as he would go with merchant caravan.
- Waraqa was not a priest, there were none in Mecca. He was Hanifi (follower of Abraham's religion inherited from Ismail). Though he met a Nestorian priest in his journey to Iraq. Plus, there is no such thing as priest in Christianity & Judaism!!! Like WT*?! 


His story throws big concerns to the claim that Muhammad's message came from Allah or via his angel Gabriel - especially when Islam ended up near carbon copy of Nestorian faith (a mixture of Christianity and Judaism). It shows Muhammad had access to the knowledge.
- Waraqa died shortly after the first revelation. What knowledge? Even if we suppose Waraqa was the greatest Christian scholar of his time & did not die & was with the Prophet (pbuh) until death, this would explain probably 1% or 2% of the Quran. This stupid argument was first defended by John of Damascus 14 centuries ago. It has been discarded since with the advancement of modern Quranic studies & Biblical criticism in the West. Get updated.


On top of that it shows even more that the Kuffar of Mecca tolerated all faiths, including having a priest among their ranks (Waraqah would have been a Quraishi). It proves what Islamic text sort of admit, that the Kabaa was open liberal place for all people to practice whatever faith they have in peace by the fact many gods were allowed on display. It proves that the Kuffar never harmed those who did not follow their gods
- What part of 'polytheist' do you not understand? They were pagan polytheists. The Prophet (pbuh) preached monotheism, that was obviously not tolerable to them. The Romans allowed many gods, but persecuted Christians too.


Khadijah, a very successful business women in her own right, was a monotheist and most probably Christian Nestorian like her uncle - some Islamic scholars may disagree this shows the feminist view of those Kuffar and place any nonsense about how women were treated back then into the trash -like islamic claims of women being oppressed back then- .
- Despite her status, Khadija could not use her own money at her own discretion to participate in trade. She had to find a trustworthy *man* to do that on her behalf. Women were indeed treated very badly. Women were literally property, the wives of a man get inherited by his sons upon death, the wife never has the choice to marry herself or consent to marriage, women who are killed do not warrant blood revenge or blood money (unless the killer is another woman), little girls would be buried alive if born first (bad omen), a man can marry or divorce at whim as much as he wants without recourse, women could not participate in any commercial or political capacity at all, a man can share his own wife with others at his will, or give her away. One of the only ways a woman could find stature was poetry. Great poetry was cherished by the Arabs regardless of origin or gender.


When did the people of Mecca have issues with Muhammad? When Muhammad started to insult their gods, when they would wake up in the morning and find the statues of the gods dessicated and damaged, when Muhammad mock them that their gods are useless! Talk about tolerance??
- The Prophet (pbuh) did not desecrate their gods, what are you talking about! But you're right, they got really mad they were told the Truth, that rocks are just rocks. They reacted by persecuting, torturing, killing, blockading & dispossessing his followers. Sumaya was killed by a spear through her vagina, Talha was tortured hanged down with his head on fire, Bilal was tortured on sand dunes at noon with a bolder over his chest while his skin dries & falls exposing his flesh... with countless other Muslims. The Prophet (pbuh) himself was bludgeoned almost to death until he fainted with blood all over his body, he was chocked until he turned blue when one of the "nobles" of Quraysh put his foot on his neck, he often got a full belly of literal cow dung thrown at him when he prostrates in prayer... Yes, very liberal civilized people indeed...


But for me, this hadith throws the doors wide open on the story of Waraqah. The hadith suggest that shortly after Muhammad started getting the revelations "....But a short while later Waraqa died and the Divine Inspiration was paused (stopped) for a while so that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was very much grieved." Sahih al-Bukhari 4953
This proves Muhammad knew the man very well, and likely behind his inspiration!
- WT* are you even talking about?! You just disproved yourself. If Waraqa was the inspiration for Muhammed (pbuh) then he died, then we won't have a Quran now would we?!


islam plagiarized stories from Christianity and Judaism  
here is few that are mentioned in both the quran and the talmud/torah :
  • Gideon/Saul (Tālūt)
  • Saul, David and Goliath (Tālūt, Dāwūd and Jalut)
  • The Queen of Sheba
  • Jonah (Yūnus) and the big fish
  • Haman
- Similar names, different stories. Particularly, prophets in the Quran are portrayed as pious infallible & virtuous saints, unlike the Bible where they are portrayed as murderous villains capable of every evil known to Man, from massacre to idol worship to rape & incest & murder & infanticide & adultery & betrayal & intoxication....etc. Where is the "plagiarism"? The Quran literally states it is from the same tradition as the Torah & the Gospels... Plus, the Quranic version of the stories discard the inaccuracies & lies, while telling things the Prophet (pbuh) could not have possibly known, such as: the existence of Egyptian mummies (not in Bible), the deification of Egyptian rulers (not in Bible), the accurate description of the Egyptian ruler as "king" in the Joseph (pbuh) story & as "Pharaoh" in the Moses (pbuh) story after the title was adopted in the New Kingdom (no distinction in Bible), the eastward wind in Egypt, the accurate portrayal of Mesopotamian gods (Shamash, Sin & Ishtar) in the story of Abraham (pbuh) (Persian gods in Biblical tradition), the Ezra authorship of the Torah...etc.  


here is few stories that are mentioned in both the bible and the quran :
  • Zechariah (Zakariya) and John (Yahya)
  • Mary (Maryam)
  • Jesus (ʿIsa, Yeshuaʿ)
  • Moses (Mosa)
  • Abraham (ibraham)
  • Lot (Lut)
  • AntiChrist
  • Adam and Eve
  • Noah the ark and the flood
- Again, similar names. VERY different stories. You do not actually realize how little of the Bible is in the Quran. Quite! The Prophet (pbuh) needn't know the Bible to know these characters... You do realize he is a descendant of Abraham (pbuh) as well?! 

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@Lunar108
- Feminism is anti-religion in essence. Feminism is not about justice & rights for women, it's a secular atheistic paradigm, a worldview built on anti-tradition & anti-family. It is more like some Muslim women either confuse Islamic teachings which honor women & give them divine rights with Feminist dogmas, or wish to change the religion to adapt  to those dogmas. & they usually end up with nothing.

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@Lunar108
- Those are not parameters of Truth in any sense whatsoever, more like tastes or feelings. Sorry!
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@Lunar108
1. muhammad was a child rapist :
- Nonsense. Marriage =/= Rape. Aisha was not a child. Someone (Jubair) came to propose to her parents, her father Abu Bakr -then bestfriend to Muhammed (pbuh) since childhood- sought another. The Prophet (pbuh) learns of this so he proposes instead, & the betrothal is set. When Aisha comes of age, she is informed & is quite pleased. Thereafter, the wedding is organized, the Prophet (pbuh) builds her a home -albeit modest, & gives her her dower to finalize the marriage (a little over $5k in today's money). Where is the rape? Seriously, what is wrong with you!!!


2. he lusted after his adopted son's wife -zinab bit jahsh- , Qur'an 33:37
- Stop spreading lies. No such thing! Zaynab grew up with the Prophet (pbuh) in the same house. What "lust"?! He (pbuh) was the one to marry her off to Zayd in the first place. The two just happen to have marital issues, to the point where Zayd would complain to the Prophet (pbuh) about his wife (Zaynab) & the latter would enjoin him to keep her. Eventually they divorce. Then later the Prophet (pbuh) sends Zayd to propose to her on his behalf, to which she agrees. She was a +40 year old divorced woman! I know in your culture you can't handle honest chaste marriages, it's all about sex & promiscuity. Keep it to yourself. Icky!


3. he was a male gold digger -used the money from his first wife after her death to marry 12 more and built his own theocracy -(she was his sugar mummy)  NOTHING can say I love you more than using all your money to marry 12 more woman after you especially that muhammad didn't dare to marry any other wife back when she was alive.
- This bit is more funny than anything. Who is telling you these fantastic lies?! What money?! First, with the onset of the Prophet's (pbuh) mission, the Quraysh tribes cut all commercial ties with him. There was no money. Second, shortly before Khadija's death, the Prophet (pbuh) & his clan & supporters were under a 3-year blockade, with no access to commodities or food. They ate dried grass & bugs to survive, while many died. Third, of course he needed to marry again, for companionship & someone to take care of his children. The next woman he married (Sawda) was 30 years older than he was! With the exception of Aisha, all the others were divorcees or widows -some older than he was, who advanced tribal alliances or lost their husbands in war. He (pbuh) lived in a square mud hut 10 feet wide for the rest of his life. It's where he is buried now.

- Instead of projecting your sick mind into everything that moves, maybe you should actually do the effort & read the Prophet (pbuh)'s biography. Get a prayer mat & beads beforehand though for future imminent use.


4. he was incestuous - his adopted son's wife was also his own cousin "zinab bit jahsh "-
- Probably most your ancestors married their cousins. This cousin-phobia thing is a very recent European invention. 


5.he took over 100000 slaves and distribute them among his followers and the believers in his religion over multiple wars and battles with the disbelievers of the tribes around him , muhammad cared about ending the slavery of muslims as for non-muslims their slavery is totally fine in islam.
muhammad did free many slaves but all of them happen to be muslims
- Back to lies again. The bigger the lie the more believable, right?! I guess you *have* to lie to score any points against our beloved Prophet (pbuh). What you actually meant is, he (pbuh) freed a 100000 slaves. Indeed, the Prophet (pbuh) abolished slavery & reduced it to only POWs (prisoners of war), to upgrade their lifestyle & integrate them in national life & join families & society, instead of spending the rest of their lives rotting in dungeons & torture, like you do.


6. encouraged child marriage :
Narrated Jabir bin `Abdullah:
....
- Damn! You really do have a sick mind! The Prophet (pbuh) recommended Jabir, a 19 years old young man, to marry a maiden instead of a divorcee or a widow, & somehow your lewd mind found a way to twist this?! Keep them coming. By the way, he (pbuh) suggested to buy that camel from Jabir, he gave him the money then the camel with it, to support his marriage. Later he went to Jabir's house, planted trees to help with his expenses, for he had many little sisters after they lost their father. Another time, he set up baskets of dates at Jabir's house to pay off hi debt. That's our beloved Prophet (pbuh).


7.anyone that insult islam/ muhammad must die :
A blind man had a slave-mother who used to abuse -insult- the Prophet (ﷺ) and disparage -insult- him. He forbade her but she did not stop. He rebuked her but....
- Let's see... thousands of people from Quraysh not just insulted him, but they also tortured him & his companions, blockaded him, took his property & his followers', expelled them or imprisoned them or killed them, attacked him in his refuge multiple times, besieged him there to the brink of annihilation, attempt to assassinate him many times... etc. I wonder what happened to them...? He forgave all of them. The accounts of him forgiving the people who insulted or hurt him are countless; to mention a few: Ibn Aswad, the man who attempted to kill his pregnant daughter (she survived but miscarried her baby) – Utbah, he broke the Prophet's (pbuh) jaw & skull, yet he (pbuh) prayed for him & forgave him – Safwan, insulted him, helped throw shit on him & spit on him, even attempted to assassinate him, yet he forgave him... etc.

- As for the story you mentioned. The issue is simple, in contrast to Western Law where inviolability does not extend to foreigners outside borders. In Sharia, inviolability extends to all who are under covenant with Muslims. The inviolability is lifted the moment the covenant is broken. Take for example, the Americans killed a million Iraqis (& some other 19 million elsewhere). Since Iraqis (or else) are inviolable under American Law, these killers are not subject to penalty in an American court. Not because these Iraqis did anything wrong, rather it's only because they are not American. Sharia, thus a far superior alternative, does, however, grant such inviolability, even to foreigners, unless otherwise violable (due to hostility). The Jew slave you mentioned was under covenant with Muslims, & included in that covenant was the stipulation of non-hostility. She broke it, thus she was no longer inviolable, thus deemed from the enemy camp. Conversely, another Jew (Ibn Sanaa) insulted the Prophet (pbuh) & even chocked him, yet he was not punished. Why? Because he did not initiate the hostility (he came asking for his stuff, though very rudely) thus preserving his inviolability.


and this is why muslims kill anyone that insult islam or muhammad
- You seem pretty alive & well, same as the other 2 billion Christians doing what you're doing...


letting the murderer of a woman go since she deserves to die for the crime of insulting muhammad
- How about those 20 million for insulting USA? Actually not even. For simply being non-American!


the dude sounds totally benevolent more like malevolent
- I don't doubt a twisted mind like you sees benevolence as malevolence.  Why don't we have a debate about this? You seem to have a lot to say. Is the Prophet (pbuh) benevolent or malevolent? 


you should argue about this with christians , I'm not a christian I'm agnostic
- In that case, you have no moral standard to speak from. That explains the sick mentality.


1.how far they are willing to go to prevent people from offering any criticism or satire towards islam
- I read somewhere you have some 200k channels & 4000 anti-Islamic organizations & billions of USDs to that effect... You been doing this for 1200 years, give it a rest, it's unhealthy. I don't see Muslims so devoted & dedicated to criticize Christianity!!!


2.how willing they are to force reinterpretations and alter the meaning of words in their books just to forcefully include scientific discoveries  , I learned arabic since I was young along with other languages and I know that all the scientific nonsense you claim mentioned in the holy Quran is just misinterpreted words
- Since you have all that confidence about the topic, why not a debate? 


one example wasaa
- Bruh! You are saying nonsense, you know Arabic my foot. I happen to be Arab, oops! Just type the word ('Musi'") in Google Translate, you should get: "expanded", "widened", "stretched"...


them into terrorists -including :
- The greatest terrorist is the US government, they literally killed 1000 times more people than ISIS & the others combined. But you don't care because these victims, for they are not westerner. An American's life to you is worth 1000 Iraqi's. Keep you moral abyss to yourself. Very distasteful.


1. don't fear death
- Is that a bad thing...?


2. defend allah and muhammad with your own lives
- Better than invading nations, laying waste to countries & massacring peoples, to protect the USD.


3. 72 vergins in the afterlife
- Fake news. You can't be this stereotypical! I'm gunna start to think you're dumb or something. 


4.you must love muhammad more than yourself, your money , your parents , your wife and children otherwise you will not enter heaven
- To a materialist person like you who loves money & sex, I'm sure this will fly right over your head.


5. the quran is the answer to everything and the quran can never be wrong
- I'm not sure about the first half, the Quran is a book of guidance. You will not find your exam's notes there. Just prove the Quran wrong & save the Muslims from it, how about it?


13 have the death penalty for homosexuality in their laws .
- Homosexual rape*.


5  have indefinite imprisonment for homos.
- Just like you did a couple of decades ago, & still do for other love practices, such as incest, polygamy, zoophilia, pedophilia...  


islam have the death penalty for homosexuality and mentioned the story of the people of lut/lot where allah punish those people for their sexual orientation mentioned in the holy quran
- Where is it mentioned? No such thing.


I say that islam is not worthy of any respect
- Not from the ignoble, evidently. It's just blind hate. I don't blame you, nurture is powerful.

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@Tradesecret
I am not Muslim and I have absolutely no respect for the religion or its leader. 
- Read a biography of Prophet Muhammed (pbuh).


Nevertheless, do Muslim religious scholars agree with these allegations or are they are all derived from interpretations from former Muslims or people not associated with it? 
- Fake news of course. & projection.


In other words, why should we trust the voices of those who have a clear bias against Islam? 
- I like this attitude. 

Islam as a religion is a ridiculous religion. It is a religion that requires obedience and submission. It is a religion that indicates that salvation is earned by obedience. And obedience not just to a dead prophet but to a God that is not personal and has no concern for me.
- What do you mean by "personal"? Are you implying salvation can be earned through disobedience? 


Its God - ALLAH rules by fear and the sword.
- What does that mean?! The opening of the Quran is literally: In The Name of Allah, The All-Merciful, The All-Compassionate, All Praise Be To Allah, Lord Of The Worlds, The All-Merciful, The All-Compassionate.


Should there be respect? I said above I have no respect for it. I ought to qualify that as in regards to theology and philosophy. For in a country ruled in accord with Islam law - respect is necessary. Sharia Law is deadly if there is no respect.  So, I confess I do respect it in some circumstances. 
- Not as deadly as Secular Law, I can tell you that.


Yet, I take the view that we ought to understand Islam - as it is understood by its Scholars and academics and clergy- in order to contrast and compare it with our own ideologies. Whether it be Christian or Secular or Hindu etc.  Our own measure of good and evil or right and wrong is immeasurably important to determine how Islam stacks up. 
- Why don't we find out through a formal debate. How Islam stacks up against your measure of morality?
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@Stephen
And its perpetual Jihad .  You forgot to mention perpetual Jihad against the non believer. At least to  my knowledge the Christ on the Christian  doesn't command one's head be removed  for simply not believing in him.
- You're confusing Islam with Christianity again. The "compel them to come in" mentality only exists among Christians. Who has been waging war after war since literally ever without stop & still? I don't see Muslims invading nations & countries. 

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- You seem to have so much to say about Islam & the beloved Prophet (pbuh) regarding slavery. Why not have a debate about this subject? 


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- Weird that you mention this, I was wondering the same thing about your violent culture. Why is Liberal Capitalism afraid of satire? Thousands of Americans who dared disagree & profess communist ideas were persecuted & incarcerated. Some states even imposed life-sentence, some even as far as the death penalty just for advocacy! People getting jailed & fined for denying the Holocaust in Europe, & for denying gay rights in the US. Damn! We've never heard of this anywhere in the Muslim world ever. Care to explain?

- It is the Liberal Secular West that is terrified of criticism & challenge. They could only force their values literally on everyone while staring down the barrel, with all means possible: invasions, bombings, blockades, political pressure, debts...etc. Yet, no alternative worldview is ever allowed in the slightest in any systematic institution, wether be it the government, justice, education, media, academia...etc.. none whatsoever. 
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A response to a prior comment you made. 

My point is clear. To leaving Islam does not require physical action, it is quite literally a thought crime. You see nothing wrong with being stoned to death for leaving behind a belief? 
- Don't lie, there is no stoning for apostasy in Islam. This reminds me of US-enacted laws against advocacy for communism, in some states -like Michigan- the punishment was life-sentence, Tennessee even decreed death penalty for advocacy...–acts supported by 46% of Americans. In your words, to leave Liberal Capitalism does require physical action it's literally a thought crime. Thousands of communists persecuted & incarcerated in the 40s & 50s for only being liberal-capitalism apostates. We've never heard of anything remotely close done against Muslim apostates under the most brutal regimes –even all combined– in Muslim countries in history. But tell me, while those 40% of Muslims may also be thought to defend against perceived acts of sedition or treason against their nation from apostates, how do you defend the 50% of Americans advocating for violence against innocent civilians?!

- You have yet to address anything I said, if your actual intent was to defend your position or attack mine. Apostasy ruling in Sharia is literally set to defend the sacred Right to Faith, guaranteeing freedom of faith to insure the soul's choice in its pursuit of the divine. If you disagree with this approach, then bring actual objections to the case, or debate me. Your tactics aren't very persuasive.  

There is a difference between obeying someone and having mutual respect.
- This is still missing the part where you show how this relates to peace.

In a marriage, the man should respect the women, and the women should respect the man.
- Sneaky way of promoting polygamy there. Thumbs up.

Obedience is what you ask for from a servant or slave
- Thank you for admitting your women being slaves to their bosses & every other type of men, as long as they are not their husbands.

- As to your "respect" professions, it's empty nonsense. Respect is 'Ihtiram' in Arabic, meaning 'bring about sanctity'. Respect entails sanctifying & upholding boundaries, of rights & dues. In a marriage contractual relationship, the man has rights over his wife as the wife has rights over her man. In Sharia, the man must dutiful in guaranteeing physical, material & emotional security to his wife, in exchange the wife must be dutiful in fulfilling her husband's needs (–namely sexual needs & all that these entail). 

– In Sharia, the distribution of rights/dues is not horizontal where all citizens have exactly equal rights, nor is it vertical where rights/dues are hierarchal. Rather, it's a network distribution, where every person -a node- has rights/dues according to their connections & positions in society, according to three types of connections:
  • Natural (Tab') relation –from birth, predetermined & irreversible regardless of circumstance, such as between parent & child, inherited & inheritor, blood relations... etc.
  • Contractual ('Aqd) relation –from mutual consent, incumbent upon contract & void upon annulment,  such as between husband & wife, employer & employee, ruler & subject...etc.
  • Conventional (Wad') relation –of status, mandated when relevant & obsolete when not, such as between neighbor & neighbor, guardian & orphan, Muslim & non--Muslim..etc. 
- From these relations, the relevant here are Care relations (Ri'aya) where one party is set to offer security to another, such as: parent–child, husband–wife, ruler–subject, employer–employee, master–slave... Thus, marriage relationships fall under the umbrella of Care relations (Ri'aya), the general understanding regarding these types of relations in Sharia is the guarantee of basic rights to each party accordingly:
  • Care (Ri'aya) from guarantor (ra'yi) to obligee (ra'yya) which include material security & may include physical or emotional or other securities –according to the type of relationship. In a marriage, this is called Qiwama, which comprise care, protection & maintenance. 
  • Dutifulness (Ta'a) from obligee to guarantor –according to the scope of Security offered, conforming to the following rules enjoined by the Prophet (pbuh): no duty to creature can trump duty to Creator; duty is obligatory in what fulfills the stated benefits to the guarantor & does not harm the obligee; duty is permissible within what is reasonable & what is beneficial...etc. For instance, an employer's stated benefits is the task he is paying his employer to perform, duty in fulfilling this task is obligatory in Sharia, anything else isn't. The greatest enjoined duty in Islam (aside from worship) is that from a child towards their parent, for the parent offers the greatest scope of security to his child, virtually everything in life. In the case of marriage, the stated benefits, given the nature of the contract, are reproductive benefits. Therefore, the wife has a duty to her husband, by Sharia, to fulfill his sexual needs & all that these entail, within what is beneficial & reasonable, & as long as these do not go against her faith or bring harm or hardship to herself.


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@RationalMadman

- You really like to comment on my posts for someone who supposedly likes blocking me.

Your entire post is full of absolute bullshit, no other word for it. For instance, in order to distract from how horrific and unjustified 'honor killings' are, you compare them to murders done in an emotional heated moment which is not just called a crime of passion but is known as the impulsive variant of second degree murder usually (sometimes it's third degree if the way it happened was very accidental and indirect vs the aggressive act made. The crimes of passion that result in human death are not comparable to honor killings, in fact honor killings quite literally always involve premeditation because the family conspires to do it beforehand.
- Let me get this straight, you're condemning one type of murder -of "honor", by defending another type of murder –of "passion". Your moral ground just hit rock-bottom, & yet you dare vomit blame from your moral abyss. Are you a psychopath?!! The great irony here; passion killing, perpetrated in rage under pressure from a feeling of betrayal & loss of one's selfish peace, is in fact –in your own ideal– much less defensible than crimes of honor, thus perpetrated in rage under pressure from not only a feeling of betrayal of one's emotional peace, but also a dread of loss of the family's livelihood & place in the community. Absolutely revolting! As a matter of fact, crimes of honor are a disgusting Western invention, born from British law & Napoleonic Law (& others), to give leniency or acquit those who kill their spouses they suspect of infidelity to protect their honor, which was imposed on colonized countries across the globe –in spite of local laws; this disgusting virus thus made it in Muslim, African, South Asian & South American countries –thankfully these have since been reversed in most. There is no such thing as crime of honor (or passion) in Sharia. Amusingly, even though these laws were reformed in the West these last few decades, their legacy still persists today under different names: passion crime – gay panic – trans panic... but the rational is the same: leniency or acquittance to spouse murderers suspected of infidelity or to gay killers in panic... Such replacements are hence not due to enlightened ideas about murder, but merely for loss of social honor in the West; the same way chastity laws were replaced with –equivalent– statutory consent laws in the 1980s for simply loss of chastity.  

- The even greater irony, they don't have honor laws (or passion laws) in most these non-Western countries, yet you still do in the West. Murder for passion (or honor) in Turkey, or virtually any Muslim country (except those still maintaining colonial laws) means life in prison. If you take a life of a human being for "passion" then you poor little thing need leniency? If you take a life of a human being for "honor" then you scum need to hang?!!! What a barbaric savage Law that favors some murders over others based on motive (of passion, greed, pride, honor, or jealousy...). I will raise you another one: in the same token that they publicize in your country the occasional "honor crime" incident from some country (omitting the legal outcomes of those incidents), other countries also publicize a constant stream of much more heinous crimes, mass murders, serial killers, children killers, parent killers, baby killers, cannibal killers, fetish killers,...committed in the USA, the United Syndicates of A-erotica...  countless murderers not motivated by pressure, but rather by sheer pleasure in murder itself, psychopaths.

- Contrast this with Sharia, any willful (non-accidental) & transgressive (not in self-defense) taking of life is murder, regardless of premeditation or motives: a soul for a soul. Period. It matters not to Sharia wether you have a rage moment or "impulse" to kill, it's murder. Spare me your nonsense, your laws are horrid & your history is disgusting. Now who's full of bullshit?! That's what I thought.

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So what is divinity other than the concepts and consequent faith of men?
- You're free to argue that. 'Divine' as in from God. So, shall we proceed with the debate?

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Eugenics is an ethical issue, not a practical one. 
- So Eugenics is science?

I’m just going by common definitions. 
- You & logic are like water & fire. I can't help you.

It isn’t because Earth’s inhabited lands are one biome for humans. It’s only possible for you to say that with a straight face due to modern technology. Ask yourself why aren’t modern humans that diverse? The only large/wide difference population wise is skin pigmentation and that’s not saying much. It’s because the finches have been separated for millions of years, modern humans have not. Yes, I know it’s hard to comprehend big numbers.
- Yet they are still finches.

What do you think of ancient humans/hominids such as homo erectus and further back australopithecus? 
- Either ape or human, nothing in between.

You have your own definition of what constitutes species.
- I don't expect anything less from an evolutionary fantasist.

How long have modern humans been around?
- No one actually knows.

I personally don’t equate mutation with randomness.
- There goes evolution out the door.

You gave me a link that doesn’t support any of that.  
- Lmao! It's your OWN link & its sources that says those things. Oops... that's embarrassing.
I admit, I couldn’t be bothered reading through what you said.
- And clearly your sources too. You don't have faith, you have blind faith. 

You’re saying any species that can breed with each other are not different species, correct?
- Under a strict definition of species, yes.
Under your own definition of species?

From a quick google search this is the definition google gave me: 
A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.
- E.g. Darwin's finches.

What I’m saying is you’re making the inclusive circle smaller going from apes to great apes. You’re starting to sound like one of those “evolutionists.”
- Bro, your red herrings are becoming smellier. 

- By now, you should realize that the this is not about the postulates of evolution, rather about the tactics of evolutionationists in using ambiguous definitions & equivocating between different meanings to allow for their mythology to exist.
Sure bud. 
- That's what I thought.

- In your dreams. Do the work then, build the argument from 'fossil record' to 'evolution by natural selection'. It may be a waste of time, because it's an impossible feat.
An impossible feat to convince someone as wilfully ignorant as you maybe. 
- I don't see the argument. 

- As long as you bring a single supportive actual evidence, you could use Homer's Iliad for all I care.
Of course that would be for all you care.
- Where is the evidence? 

It’s a good thing we don’t just rely on the fossil record to explain evolution then.
- You don't say... glad you defeated your own claims.

I’m pretty sure animals don’t just pop into existence though.
- Therefore, they magically evolve from each-other. Cavemen must think like you do.

Okay, I agree. Changing and moving doesn’t necessarily entail evolution, such as when I move my arm.
- You're not funny. You're pathetic. You can't even bring a single evidence for your mythologies. A young earth creationist can perform far better than you in defending his beliefs. How pitiable is that!

You can consider that to any organism the sustains itself through other organism or even chemical compounds and radiation absorbed. 
But why does this matter? 
- Went right over your head didn't it. You should put more effort into thinking & less effort into blind-faithing. 

Both the cell and virus require energy. 
- The cell produces its own. The virus doesn't. 

- Lmao! Isn't this just wonderfully pathetic. With this much faith you have in this mythology you could've been a high priest in Shamanism. 
Lmao! It’s better than believing animals just pop into existence in the course of 100’s of millions of years.
- You're sounding more religious than a born-again Christian. 

But I guess it makes you closer to Allah (your magical sky daddy). Pathetic! 
Do you want to carry on using this toxic language?
- Again, this isn't funny anymore. It's so pathetic. 

That was part of my explanation of how scientific theories work. 
Your turn. 
- Alright. If you are not capable of understanding a simple concept such as a circular argument, there really isn't much for us to discuss. 

Strawman. “here is my word, therefore it’s true” is an invalid argument as well. 
You still need to think it through. 
- Yeah. You're hopeless. What a waste of time.

Yes, humanity will learn more and explain evolution better. I agree. 
- No. Evolution's only fate is the sewers of history. 

So just one guys who you don’t like for his militant atheism?
It goes to show It’s because of your feelings you don’t believe in evolution. 
What makes you feel good is all that you care about.

I’m sure your perspective of evolution would be different if someone you felt positive of taught you about it.
- Not even the combined brain-power & force of charisma of all 7 billion people on Earth today is enough to save this decrepit mythology. 

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@zedvictor4
It's there  in 18 words.
Why  say in a 1000 words, what can be said in 18.
So prove that it is a GODS will and not just the will of men.
NB. All literature is  written by humans...So it's no good whatsoever, quoting from old or reinterpreted literature.
- Let's debate that. I'll take 'it's divine' & you take 'it's human'.

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- It seems I missed a previous post.

I don’t know enough about this to comment apart from knowing double headed snakes definitely exist.
- That's actually funny. That was not an attempt to diss Aristotle, I do hold him in high regard, but his schtick was Philosophy, not Science.

I asked because you almost have to be a Young Earth Creationist to believe evolution doesn’t/hasn’t occurred. What are your beliefs?
- That's the sad state we live in today, it won't last long though. The same was thought of myths like Eugenics, it's just a matter of time. In truth, the evolutionary myths have mostly been discarded, just hastily replaced by new myths every time, giving the impression of persistence & consistency.

Species is the lowest rank on the taxonomical tree.  
Of course two closely related species are interfertile. 
- You're begging the question.

Also keep in mind the Galápagos Islands is essentially one biome.
Little evolutionary pressure apart from the various foods they eat such as fruit, seeds, nectar, etc.
- The five continents are one biome for humans... [insert the rest of what you said]

So yes, it’s speciation. 
- Not in the sense of new species being non-infertile with existing ones.

Depending on the organism, let’s say 100,000 generations, you think they’ll still be the same species from where their ancestors started?
- Dude. Your own DNA is copied & split in your own body into 100 trillion cells, each cell copying DNA & making some 50 million proteins, that's 5 billion trillion times (not just 100,000), & still the same effing DNA. Cyanobacteria has been going on since 3.5 billion years, that's more than 100 trillion generations. It's still cyanobacteria.
So humans have been around for 3.5 billion years? 
- No habla English no more? 

All mutations are harmful? Like becoming lactose tolerant? You can see this in the human genetic/migratory record. This is natural selection.
- Another one of their tricks: equivocation. They call variants & snips mutation to give the impression of "randomness". These evolutionationists are really hopeless. Pathetic!

You gave me a link that doesn’t support any of that.  
- Lmao! It's your OWN link & its sources that says those things. Oops... that's embarrassing.

You’re saying any species that can breed with each other are not different species, correct?
- Under a strict definition of species, yes.

You’ve moved the goalpost from apes to great apes yet humans still full into that category. 
- False. It depends on the context. They use 'apes' generally to refer to great apes, sometimes inclusive of humans, sometimes more generally to gibbons as well, depending on the context. 

You’re saying species can’t be interfertile, correct? Or are you using your own definitions? 
- By now, you should realize that the this is not about the postulates of evolution, rather about the tactics of evolutionationists in using ambiguous definitions & equivocating between different meanings to allow for their mythology to exist.

This is one piece of supportive evidence you asked for which you said would be sufficient.
- In your dreams. Do the work then, build the argument from 'fossil record' to 'evolution by natural selection'. It may be a waste of time, because it's an impossible feat.

Do you want to go into genetics now?
- As long as you bring a single supportive actual evidence, you could use Homer's Iliad for all I care.

If you don’t believe in evolution and you’re not a Young Earth Creationist, what do you believe?
- That's a false dichotomy. I don't have to believe either.

It’s reasonable for me to conclude you think animals just pop into existence in the course of 100s of millions of years.
- That's a double false dichotomy. First of all, evolutionary theory =/= evolution. It's possible that animals have evolved from one another; in case this is true it still does not entail that the theory of evolution, which is just a claim, is true too. In the same way that the truth of objects falling because of gravity does not entail the truth of any theory attempting to explain it, for instance Aristotle's elements-attracts-elements theory -which we know is BS. Regardless of the truth gravitation, Aristotle's theory is BS. Likewise, regardless of the truth of evolution, the evolutionary theory is BS. Second of all, no evolution occurred does not necessarily mean pop-into-ion occurred. The two are equally unlikely occurrences from a natural perspective. In the fossil record, animals appear & disappear as is.  

If you have the truth, I want to know about it.
- Have you been listening? I don't believe we are even capable of explaining Life at this point. In their attempts to explain the cosmos the Greeks resorted to astrology: conspiratorial anecdotal ad-hoc accounts for lack of sufficient understanding & information about the cosmos. The evolutionary theory is the astrology of Life, a bunch of conspiratorial anecdotal ad-hoc accounts for lack of sufficient understanding & information about Life.

First: What do you mean not everything that changes and moves doesn’t evolve in evolutionary terms?
- Exactly what it says. To "evolve" in the evolutionary sense is to "become various different species from common ancestor by way of natural selection & random mutation". 

Second: What do you mean viruses are not self-sustaining and self-reproducing?
- Exactly just that. Do you even know what a virus is? A parasite to the cell.

No organism is if they don’t have energy to consume/produce.
- Which the virus doesn't, unlike the cell.

Also what do you mean by “Darwinian evolution on a virus is a spinning wheel.”? 
- 'Spinning wheel', an expression meaning 'futile' or 'nothing happens', like 'water in the sand'. 

Third: What do you mean there’s no such thing as speciated bacteria? Scientists speciate bacteria all the time in the lab.
- No such thing. Speciation does occur in the definition of "speciate" though...

Fourth:  Cyanobacteria are prokaryotic which means they’re evolution is difficult to study. Though scientist are starting to apply more techniques. 
- Lmao! Isn't this just wonderfully pathetic. With this much faith you have in this mythology you could've been a high priest in Shamanism. 

Well you don’t consider adaptation as evolution. So there’s no point
- That's 27 fallacies in one sentence. I could list them, but I may lose half my brain in the process.

The theory of evolution by natural selection explains how evolution occurs.
P1. If Evolutionary Theory, then Evolution.
P2. Evolution.
C. Therefore, Evolution.
I only see your strawman. 
- Do you now? Try one more time, see if it is.

Are you saying my words are more trustworthy than the links I share? Think that through.
- Strawman. "here is a link, therefore it's true" is an invalid argument.

Remember, this isn’t a debate. 
- I was hoping that's where it's headed.

What’s the reality if not evolution?
- Maybe we'll figure that out in 500 years, maybe not. It took a millennia & a half to go from Aristotle's 'gravity = element attraction' to al-Biruni's 'gravity = force inversely proportional to distance between two massive objects'; & another millennia to get to Einstein's 'gravitation = curvature in space-time proportional to momentum of contained mass'. You, & your evolutionationist masters, are being grossly presumptuous in thinking their "element-attraction" approach to Life is no more than a farce.

So people online who aren’t experts.
- Evolutionationists = Richard Dawkins & his evolutionary biologist class.



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Sharia Propaganda
- Oh, sorry I lied. We actually believe adultery & sodomy are amazing things... GTFO!

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@Wylted
thank you Yasmine for taking the time to respond to that
- You're welcome Whylied. 

That's a very detailed response and very enlightening. Have you considered writing a book?
I bet anyone reading your book on Islam would stand to gain a lot from it. At least somebody like me who knows nothing about it. 
- Thank you. That's actually something which's been on my mind the last couple of years. Generally books on Islam in the West are either written by a modernist scholar who doesn't understand traditional Islam thus presents Islamic tenets in a modern paradigm, which of course does not work well, since Islam revolves around God while modernism revolves around Man. Or, by a traditional scholar (student of knowledge) who does not understand the western audience thus gives an expose of Islam which assumes an unspoken paradigm the reader can not relate to. I noticed the difference in paradigm even in basic things like Logic, for intense, when I was learning western Logic. Although they are both from the same general Western Logic (as opposed to Eastern), Islamic Logic is structurally tied to the Arabic language, the transition to a western type Logic, say in English, is not a simple act of translation. A paradigm gear must be shifted to better achieve that transition & better relay the information. However, I don't know if I'm up to the task. Thank you nonetheless, I'll think more seriously about it.
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Is it Allah's will that people should not be free to choose.

No, it's the will of men.
- You got something to say? What's the argument?

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- Legal perspectives on apostasy among the Fuqaha:

  • i. The fuqaha's (jurists) views (the more familiar to most) on apostasy are concerned more about how to deal with apostates in practice to maintain social integrity, generally by exercising persuasion, confinement or punishment. The general & majority view on this is that an apostate who has explicitly, willingly & publicly left Islam after explicitly, willingly & publicly coming into it, is to be indefinitely persuaded as long as he is willing, else punished (unless a woman). In practice this means that truth seeking law abiding apostates are not punishable.
  • ii. The usulis (jurisprudents) look at apostasy as a question of Taklif (accountability), the legal dilemma of reconciling apostasy punishment (which looks like coercion) with the principle of non-coercion in faith. That is, true freedom of religion can only be accomplished by removing deceptive factors & guaranteeing access to truth seeking -which is why public preaching is also prohibited in Sharia, for that is deemed propagandism. Therefore, coercion by deception & dominance is alleviated, upholding thus the principle of non-coercion.
  • iii. The sasas (political theorists) perspective on apostasy is in reality the most relevant, for it relates to the actual governance of the state. To them apostasy is a political offense -as opposed to a criminal one, thus they only view apostasy in light of Manaa: the intent with means to undermine the integrity of the state. Thus, they don't care about individual apostates. This is why looking back into Islamic history, all those famous apostates have never been punished, for they stayed loyal to the state.


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While I can agree that women should obey their husband, and I also agree about morality coming from Allah. 
- From there it follows: if it's Allah's morality is to punish apostates, so it should yours.

The stat I am concerned about is punishing those who leave the faith. What would that pu ishment entail and why? Isn't them being condemned to hell a good enough punishment as is?
- Your argument is: temporal punishment is unwarranted since an absolute punishment exists? That entails Law & penalties are superfluous. Maybe, a hasty judgement? Also, a finite punishment does not impact an infinite one, to add to your words...

Also, while homosexuality should certainly be discouraged through social pressure, I'm not exactly sure why a Muslim would advocate stoning the.. 
- You sound sincere in your question so I'm going to answer sincerely in good faith, as I know you can be a troll. In injecting an Islamic practice into an assumed secular paradigm you're begging the question. This is not a question on the effective practices, this is rather a question on the underlined values behind those practices. What do Muslims believe about foundational values?

- We believe our souls established a covenant (Ahd) with Allah to worship only Him. Then brought to this life as delegates (Khilafa) to Allah in this Earthly domain to cultivate & colonize the land (Istimar), acting on by proxy rights (Haq) granted by Allah. In this life our yearning for God is actually the memory of our covenant, as if something we miss we are incomplete without. This memory is our innate state of being (Fitrah), which manifests in our faculty to seek the divine & recognize it when we see it. This faculty is reason (Aql), gift entrusted to us to be fulfilled upon maturity. We are responsible (Taklif) to uphold that trust (Amana) by preserving our innate state of being (Fitrah) -thus our covenant- until we return to Allah again after death. Maintaining our covenant is to worship Allah alone (Ibada). Upon death, our last state of being (Khatima) is what counts, wether we have succeeded in the preservation of our innate state of being (Fitrah) or destroyed it, wether our good deeds outweigh our bad deeds or the opposite. In that course, Allah tests us with ease & trial (Ibtila) to reveal wether we are sincere & to remind us not to steer away from Him. Worship in essence is recognition of the divine –in the absolute, thus recognition of the self –in self-annihilation. This realization is submission to Allah (Islam) manifesting in gratitude & humility. Failure to achieve this realization is delusion, manifesting in arrogance & ingratitude. Gratitude is accomplished by repaying Allah's debt (Deen) on the self [Deen = religion]. Only Allah can tell us how to be grateful, hence revelation (Naql). If reason (Aql) is a gift to seek Allah, revelation (Naql) is a gift to know Allah. If revelation in essence is a message to adore the One (Tawhid), then reason in essence is to make-One (Tawhid, in the literal sense).

[To elaborate on that last bit, Tawhid literally means: make one. we believe that our memory of the One as our innate state of being is Reason itself. Thus, the essence of Reason is in: the conception of universals -that is to make-One particulars, & also the anticipation of explanations & causes (law of causation). It is as if, our memory of the One gives us the unique ability to see Him in the world, to see unity in the many, thus infer universals from particulars; that our memory of the One creates a want within us as if we miss Him that we seek explanations in everything we see in anticipation of an ultimate explanation: Him – to make-One, that is Tawhid].

- Transgression is to infringe on the right of another; the Earth being the domain of Allah (along with all things), any human exercise of rights therein is therefore transgressive. However, since Allah has made us delegates on the Earth we can act by proxy in his domain. Thus, as long as human exercises of rights  are within the boundaries set by Allah, they are non-transgressive. – From this respect, Sharia, being inspired from a divine message, unavoidably must seek to preserve our innate state of being, while empowering us to settle on the Earth. Sharia must remove impediments to the soul's purpose of finding Allah in the temporal life. It follows, boundaries must be set to safeguard these purposes & transgression against these boundaries must be penalized, hence the 6 sacred rights:

  • 1. Faith, for only in guaranteeing freedom of faith does the soul have the choice to uphold the covenant or break it.
  • 2. Life, for only in survival does the soul have the chance to seek her purpose in finding Allah after maturity & to prosper on the Earth.
  • 3. Reason, for only in preservation of reason that the soul may find its memory of Allah after maturity & settle rationally on the Earth. 
  • 4. Family – (for progeny, from a man & woman union), for only with nurtured & stable progeny that future souls may also get their chance at finding He who they have lost & also at settling & prospering on Earth.
  • 5. Property – (material wealth), for only in guaranteeing earthly rights that can soul follow its purpose while being settled on the Earth.
  • 6. Honor – (moral wealth), idem.
- We also believe that we get rewarded for our own good deeds, but also for the deeds others do thanks to ourselves. If I teach my child a virtue then I too get a reward whenever that virtue is actualized. & if he teaches his child, I get both, & so on ad infinitum. For the sake of preserving future souls & for the sake of gaining more rewards, Family preservation is necessary, thus a sacred right in Sharia. Any impediments to the sanctity of Family must be removed by Sharia, thus transgressions against the integrity of the family must be penalized; particularly, extra-marital intercourse type. Two such transgressions stand out above the rest: adultery & sodomy, for one leads to unsafe progeny & the other to no progeny at all. Therefore, adultery & sodomy must not be allowed, thus penalized. Hence, Hadd (penalty) in Sharia literally means 'stop' or 'limit'. However, given the very nature of these acts being generally carried out in private. Sharia deals a two-fold block to the practice:

  • In private: if the practice was performed in private, then it must stay very in private. One, repentance in secret is mandatory. Two, exposure of the act by another party is punishable as calumny (qathf – in 80 lashes). Three, confessions are extremely discouraged, views of ulama range from accepting 4 consecutive & consistent confessions to not accepting any at all. Four, even if the confession is accepted recanting is possible up to the last moment, the transgressor need just call it off or leave the circle of penalty for it to stop. Five, in case the spouse was the witness, the outcome is permanent separation (Lian) without any need for public or legal recourse. Six, in case the spouse finds out after birth, the child is his by Sharia, unless in divorce. Seven, circumstantial or indirect (such as video) evidence is unacceptable & liable to punishment. Eight, having any number of testimonies less than 4 righteous, simultaneous corroborating & accidental witnesses on the act of penetration is punishable as calumny (80 lashes each) – which is a prohibitively impossible condition to fulfill unless the act is done in public. Nine, ignorance of the prohibition of the act in Sharia is like no act has occurred...etc. – In short, Sharia enacts all possible venues to keep private extra-marital intercourse as private as possible, deterring any revelatory factors, thus insuring integrity of the family & safeguarding the honor of those involved to allow for repentance & to protect their children's wellbeing; but also to block the spread of the act or any potential normalization.
  • In public: if the act was performed in public, in a reasonably crowded place, where the condition: 4 righteous, simultaneous corroborating & accidental witnesses on the act of penetration fulfilled (for instance, not in a brothel where witnesses' testimonies would be invalid), then the punishment is stoning to death (Rajm). –  In reality, only two such cases were recorded in the Ottoman empire during its 6 centuries of reign, one of which was a set-up. No one would actually go to those lengths for a bit of pleasure! Given that this kind of scenario's likelihood is of mythical proportions, the true purpose of Sharia is to prompt hopelessness into any attempt to advertise, promote or normalize these acts; also, the image of stoning is so harsh & horrifying, that in itself is a powerful deterrent from even thinking about committing such acts, even in private. 

Please respond to the punishment stuff.
- I see our fellow quoted another post of mine >>> In the spirit of education again, there are three legal perspectives on apostasy among the Fuqaha. Any objections?

When you look at how predominantly muslim societies will often stone queers to death and do honor killings, I think they mean punished by death in those statistics. 
- Aren't you very funny! You may wanna think about how the world sees the US, as the most violent nation on Earth. The occasional once a year "honor killing" headline in American TV from some other country, is met with an abundant stream of daily, if not hourly, violent crimes headlines in that other country. It's revolting. The delusion is almost pitiable. Another thing I don't get about his nonsense... it's not like these murders you love to call "honor killing" are legal, they are just murder. As a matter of fact, honor killings are un-Islamic practices imported from the West during Colonialism, a legacy of Civil Law (Swiss, Germanic & French) in these countries. Disgusting! It was not, in fact, until very recently that countries like Italy & Brazil criminalized murder for honor, like WTF?!!  Other Western countries opted for change of language instead, passion instead of honor. Honor killings is murder, the "honor" label doesn't add or diminish anything from the act of taking a life. They don't like calling it honor killing in the West, so they instead call it crime of passion or crime of pride. We'll save the "terrorist" label for those we don't like, aka Muslims. We'll save the "honor killings" label for them too. Rightly so, mass killings by Whites happen virtually every other day, yet that one Muslim "terrorist" in 3 years is so much more... murder rates of women in crimes of passion or pride or greed is dozens if not hundreds of times higher than those "honor killings" in these countries, but they have the bad label, they must be so much worse. Lmao! How effing dumb is this?! In truth, you have most heinous types of murder in the US, mass murderers shoot others for no reason whatsoever, serial killers by the thousands murder for sheer pleasure. Do disturbing, it's as if the US is in a planet of its own in crimes.


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False. Even the Muhammadiyah's consensus is consistent with Islam on this. For fear of having muslims led astray, you'd rather avoid the mass-circulation of literature that you deem unislamic.
- No state allows what undermines it. So? Western countries censor everything they don't want too. Malaysia doesn't have to censor what France does, the same way France doesn't have to censor what Malaysia does.

Sure, if it's physical science, it's harmless. Everything else however is banned because according to Islam, truth is on their side.
- Same thing in the West. You keep committing this circular fallacy. They think the truth is on their side, they ban what they disagree with.

Again, this nauseating pre-arranged idea of truth in the inquiry of knowledge is the most annoying part of islam. Practically, it leaves absolutely no breathing room for alternatives. 
- You want to square the circle! If Islam is true, then Islam is true. It can't be true & false at the same time. It's either true or false. If it's true, then else is false. If it's false, then the truth lays somewhere else.

You're making grandiose claims about human nature again. Islam's societal practices have no common ground with western societal practices. You're looking at the west with your islamic-tinted glasses. The fact that you're assuming that human nature has this certain innate bias clearly shows a lot about Islamic society in general. It clearly disallows a different viewpoint of human nature.
- You're not really saying anything. This is a rant about nothing. What exactly do you disagree with? That humans protest injustice? That the weak follow the powerful? That decadence is the last stop to any civilization?

This is where I disagree and decided to choose a different lifestyle. For the next part of your large posts, you've said a lot about submission. I am well aware that personal whims do not override religious obligation. Well, i know that islam has been consistent on this end. As I said earlier, the fundamental issue is that i don't agree with its lifestyle. Thus, I chose the west.
- What does any of this have to do with Islam?! 

 I guess it's fair that taxation is theft. Again, you're inferring corruption for granted. What is it with muslims and their grandiose claims? You've claimed that western philosophy came from Islam. Yet, here, you're making mistakes as though you read none of the Vienna circles' analytic philosophers.
- Allow me to offer you a further glimpse into this story. Consider the following pieces of facts:
F1. Gustav Le Bon, a 19th century French intellectual, wrote about a story of a general sent by Napoleon to recover a Maliki book of Law titled Sharh Dardeer (which is an actual book, widely read and large Maliki reference in some 2.4 million words).
F2. Pre-1800 France had no prior legal tradition, only a couple of essays on customary laws. 
F3. In 1782 Napoleon commissioned a committee to draft a French law for his nation (in the fashion of Ottoman canons). 8 years later, the committee is a failure, it gets disbanded. That same year, 1800-1801, Napoleon invades Egypt & Palestine, long story short, a million people are dead, the invasion is unsuccessful, Napoleon goes back. This time, however, he commissioned a new committee, 9 months later, a new law is drafted, called Napoleonic Law.
F4. A century later, an Azhari scholar does a comparison between 1400 articles of Napoleonic Law & Shard Dardeer. He finds there 9/10 reconcilable similarity.
- Tell me what do you say about this?

These inferences mean nothing if only to show a generalized rejection of those you deem different than you.
- You're talking about Europeans & their denial.

I'm not intending to move to the west to be a pioneer of something, I just want out of a Muslim country and read literature freely until I grow old. Malays have a simple philosophy of life. Be simple, live simple lives. Jesus, I'm not an over-zealous american hell-bent on achieving her dreams.
- What don't you read Muslim literature? Are Muslim intellectuals not available in your language?

So, me encountering Rawls' essays in a decrepit indonesian bookstore is an elaborate scheme by western countries? That's interesting. Maybe, when I have free time, I'll look up that charlatan Chomsky. 
- Let me know when you find ar-Razi in a European bookstore.

I think the last part of your posts about inheritance laws seem like a rejection of my anecdotes. I think you've only offered your own rebuttal in the form of counter-anecdotes. ill read it a second time next time in case I miss anything. Once I do, expect a reply to that.
- I argued from principle, not from example. By LAW, Islamic inheritance is not allowed in the West. Going to a judge with "I want my Islamic share" is a nothing.


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Good luck with your discourse.
- Good luck with your Islamic studies.

Feel free to roam the forums, I don't really care what you do. Freedom to speech to reply to any of my posts and others and whatever. I believe the usual stuff with this site applies. you should conversee with other like-minded philosophers, plenty of them seem immune to your kind of stuff. Good I guess, but I don't have to follow them or you. I'm usually good as an observer of two debaters insulting one another because some of them can be pretty insightful. I really like that about this site. However I have my own rules that I apply arbitrarily to myself. I dont want to throw insults because I have dignity and I don't have infinite time. I have control over participation so I will limit myself where appropriate.
- Ex-Muslims generally tend to be good target for debate, alas! Are you actually Christian?

Bangsa apa yang paling gobo dalam dunia in? bangsa yang suka menipu dalam hal perbahasan
- My best friend speaks Malay, -la. 
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- Good luck with your Islamic studies.
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Enough with the accusation that I lied.
- It's not an accusation, it's a fact. Lie = say something untrue. As to your intents, that's on you.

I did none of those things; I'm not a snake who promises a contract only to bail a few weeks later. I could go with this local stereotype that Arabs/Indians/Whites are aggressive and unbearably loud in asia. But I didn't; I gave you my honest opinions as an apostate. Aside from that, this is good resource.
- I don't even know what you're talking about.

So... Kripke's modal logic came from the greco-arab translation movement.
- That's not modern philosophy. Though a lot of underlined ideas are of course influenced by Muslim as by the Greeks. Muslims are an essential & integral part of Western Philosophy.

And Kant's synthetic a priori probably came from...another Arab. No doubt, you'll probably say analytic and rationalist philosophers took their own inspiration from reading Ghazali. Ok, I understand your perspective 
-  Yes to your question, but you haven't actually addressed anything I said. This is just conceited denial. You want to be right, therefore you are right. The fact is, at least 120,000 Muslim manuscripts have been collected & studied in Europe from early 16th century to late 19th century. Hundreds, if not thousands of Europeans migrated to the Islamic world to learn Arabic & science & collect books. Kant or Hume or the entire bunch were swimming in Islamic ideas wether they liked it or not. The question is not wether Kant or others plagiarized an Arabic text & put their names on it, although this has often happened. The question thus becomes wether Kant's ideas or others' have been circulated in the Muslim world prior. Once that's established, then it's a natural conclusion they were inspired by them. 

Might be interested in a debate. No promises though. But currently, I'm on Hobbes. So was his profound influence on pleasure and law an Arab idea? Feel free to say something about him too.
- I would have, but I'm not gunna waste my time with a dogmatic fantasist. You couldn't even defend Hume in the slightest. You just can't admit that he is not that great. 17th century & 18th century Europe was not as you like to imagine. It was a poor relatively backward part of the world. With very little to show for in intellectual terms. It was not until the 19th century, & particularly after the industrial revolution that Europe begin to leave everybody behind. Hume didn't say much, in comparison to what Ashaaris taught. That's the difference.

As to Hume, well, he placed his faith in his supervisor, not of Locke or Burkeley.  Plus, it was him who contested the majority of Newton's work, not Berkeley. You're wrong to suggest that Berkeley's essays had an influence on the Anti-Newtonian movement. Plus, Hume's lasting legacy is his work on sentimentalism. His letters concerning natural sciences are pretty much defunct. I don't defer to him on natural sciences for the same reason why mathematicians don't defer to Kant on mathematics. they're both outdated. There are clearly false misrepresentations you made about western literature there. I'm not sure if they're  sloppy writing or that you've carelessly written them from memory. Either way, i'll leave this on a positive note.
- Why do you admit a thing & deny its necessary consequences? If you admit Ashaari thought was prevalent around Hume's circle, why do you deny their influence. That's squaring the circle.

I haven't checked on all of the other theological claims though. Do I plan to? At the moment, no. I'll see about what I can do about your post in the near future.
- Next time I'll know not to be courteous.

That next post is useless. All I could read from that is the typical classic condescension from the ulama: that I'm incapable of deep thought.
- Yes, you have to be humble. That's how you learn & grow in knowledge. The point is, when you fathom someone like Fakhrdeen Razi & see his otherwordly genius & legacy, & his polymathic & librarial contributions, people like Hume & Kant become insignificantly small in your eyes. This is where I'm coming from. The dude literally wrote a dictionary, while being a physician, an astronomer, a mathematician, a jurist, a theologian, a philosopher of the highest caliber. His books could fill an entire library, it's estimated that he wrote one volume on average per week. I have dozens of his books, one of the most difficult people to read. But you have an excused, you probably don't speak Arabic. Hume will do.

You sure you don't live in Indonesia and actually oversee the office to turn apostates back to reverted status?
- Why are you doing everything else other than actually defending your beliefs or your idols?! 

I'd rather live in a melting pot of various western perspectives than to live under the constant condescension of Muslims for simply choosing a different lifestyle. No thanks.
- It seems to me you're still living under Muslim perspectives, albeit counterfeit ones. If you really want to live in a truly melting pot of western perspectives, you need to move to progressivist & post-modernist philosophers, early-20th century & on.
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Almost everything you said about western tolerance either makes absolutely no sense,  because they don't connect to the philosophers or that they seem more of a tirade against the west than a genuine critique.
- Yes, because you're trapped in the labels, not the actual substance behind those labels. The great success the West still enjoys blinds the infatuated from their oppression. In merely allowing your own faith in your own heart they make it sound like the greatest gift in the world. That's not even an object of freedom, for it is beyond the scope of law, by design. Everything you complain about in your country is *actually* western practices, which happen to be applied under a Muslim majority. If Muslims actually acted like the West & imposed their own laws & freedoms on people, there'll be turmoil. But it's ok when the West do it. Let's examine this great western tolerance:

  • In terms of religious beliefs: Islam = tells you let's agree that I consider your beliefs false & you consider my beliefs false. West = humiliate & subjugate your beliefs yet lies to your face & tell you it's freedom.
  • In terms of religious practice: Islam = virtually unconditional freedom of practice your faith – a minority is simply not subject to Sharia, for Taklif in Sharia is only meaningful if you're Muslim. Secular West = no such thing, for you are subject to the state & its morality & laws.
  • In terms of judiciary: Islam = minorities are free to establish their own courts & issue their own rulings & laws. Secular West = burbles... equality baby.
  • In terms of government: Islam = minorities are free to establish their own administration, elect their own representatives, run their own territory, & enact their own local policies. Secular West = crickets... majority rule baby.
  • In terms of finance: Islam = minorities are free to establish their own tax collection system on income & commerce. West = tumbleweeds...
  • In terms of culture: Islam = given it's a community based system, minority customs are naturally maintained & cultures are preserved. West = complete & total annihilation of culture. In fact, Christianity in the Middle East has fallen more in the past 100 years under secular rule, than it did for the prior 13 centuries under Islamic rule. Similarly, the 30 points down by which Christianity fell under 13 centuries of Islamic rule, it took only 30 years to achieve in secular France.
  • In terms of language: Islam = in communities language is vital, never dies. Secular West = assimilation practices annihilate diversity in language. All the Berber peoples of the Maghrib still speak Berber despite 13 centuries of Islamic rule & them not even having a written language. 3 generations in the US or any western country & it's gone.
  • In terms of defense: Islam = non-Muslims are exempt from participating  & sacrificing themselves in wars for a cause they don't believe in. West = a soldier is a slave to the state forced to fight against his own faith for a cause he does not believe in.
  • In terms of religion: Islam = no interference into the religious institutions of minorities (or Muslims). Secular West = even though they love to call it separation of Church & State, in truth it is strictly subjugation of Church to State. The Church has no power over the state & no power from it, unless granted otherwise.
  • In terms of education: Islam = parents are free to teach their children's, unless harm is done or complaints are issued. Secular West = systematic indoctrination labelled with very loud & very flashy 'freedoms'.
  • In terms of thought (& speech): Islam = free rein of ideas in the scholarly realm where thought matters, with prohibition of public propaganda. Secular West = prohibition of challenging & unfamiliar ideas in the academic realm, free rein to propaganda in public realm where thought does not matter.
...etc.

- You can not argue with this, it's hopeless. If you insist on denying this, just imagine the contrary scenario, where Islam is West & West is Islam, to realize the disgustingly unimpressive & empty slogans of "freedom" the West screams. In a 100% western system majority Muslim country, Christians will be crushed like dust, humiliated, & may only survive by conforming to Muslim lifestyle, their cultures lost & their languages. Conversely, how great would the West & their freedom be if they had adopted Islamic community-based system? Be honest. Muslims failed at PR & propaganda. But this is not going to last long, the moment their dominion is gone, so will the awe & the prestige, especially given the immense oppression & corruption they spread. You yourself will abandon this, the same way all those apostate communists 3 decades ago abandoned those beliefs.

Im not talking about the persisting influence of the four imams, I'm talking about the Asharis and the Muatazis. Asharis literally grounded their belief in the same way as muatazis.
- That can't be true, since they hold opposite beliefs! I will tell you briefly some of Ashaaris principles, which are in this case also my beliefs:

  • Tasdiq principle = faith is established with discernment (reason).
  • Taesis principle = inferred belief (dhan) must follow from foundational certainty (qat') [they reject the preponderance argument & circular faith].
  • Taqdis principle = unambiguous authentic revelation must conform with sound conclusive reasoning, else up for interpretation.
  • Tawil principle = scriptural language is Arab literary language, i.e. conventional, usage & inferred meanings are all valid, depending on context.
  • Tawatur principle = only mutawatir (authenticated with certainty) hadith are acceptable in Aqeeda (theology).
  • Tasalsul principle = foundationalism (as opposed to coherentism or infinitism).
  • Qidam principle = necessity of necessary being.
  • Huduth principle = non-necessary beings (events) are finite.
  • Imkan principle = non-necessary beings are possible/contingent.
  • Mukhalafa principle = Allah is transcendent, disjoint from his creation.
  • Tamanu principle = there can't be two necessary beings, argument of singularity.
  • Tawafuq principle = efficient causation is inductive, not necessary.
  • Ittirad principle = uniformity in nature is a habit immediately or secondarily imposed by Allah.
  • Ietibar principle = time & space & relations are relative contingent on perception.
  • Jawhar fard principle = matter is quantized.
  • Arad principle = accidents (properties of matter = motion, transformation & warmth) are probable until actualized.
  • Tazammun principle = accidents actualize in quantas of time.
  • Tamakkun principle = accidents actualize in quantas of space.
  • Tafra principle = velocity is bounded (there is a maximum & minimum possible velocity).
  • Ijbar principle = events are predetermined (determinism).
  • Kasb principle = free will is relative, a state of conscience in reaction to determined circumstances.
  • Hujjah principle = accountability to Allah is established with reason, ability & knowledge of revelation (people who don't know the message are not accountable)
  • Taklif principle = accountability in Islam is established with reason, ability & belief in Islam.
  • .... etc. 
- Christian Theology is infantile compared to this, a drop in the ocean of Islamic Theology. It's just that the loudest voices in today's Muslim world are from abjectly ignorant corners, like the Salafis & their kinds. They memorize Hadiths & they think they know everything...  


Back to the topic at hand, I think succeeding imams won because "islam will persist until Qiyamah", which is a pretty amusing statement after their victory over the Muatazis government.
- Where do you get this nonsense though? Mutazilites were crushed with reason, when they crushed their opponents with tyranny. Stop pretending like you know what you're talking about. Close that window. If your sources knew any better at all they would've gotten attached to the Falasifa, not the Mutazilies. At least Falasifa had much more contributions & lasted far longer. Interestingly, the Mutazilites actually never went away, their thought was adopted by the Shia Imamya, particularly the usuli branch, still living until today.

Again, I'm trying to say that this is an Islamic principle. Grandiose claims start and end at Islam. Stop mixing western philosophy with Islam. It bears no relevance when you're making grandiose claims about ideas. Western ideas are "free" while Muslim ideas are "grandiose"
- False. Islamic affirmations are sincere while Western affirmations are pretentious. The Declaration of Human Rights in France was followed by mass massacres within, followed by more than 2 centuries of the most brutal & bloodiest expansion in history, killing dozens of millions of innocents in the most horrible ways, accompanied by the largest & cruelest slavery campaign in history. The Western great incoherence is a legacy of Christianity's great incoherence. Proclaim "give him the other cheek" slogan as a self-righteous guilt-free card to go & brutalize to your heart's content with "smite them with God's wrath". 

Yes, I have read The Incoherence of the Philosophers. Just so you know, my parents implemented harsh hunger deprivation and threats of permanent disownment on me when they heard ive apostatized.
- Why did you apostatize? Why Christianity? Do you believe Jesus is God?

They also told me to read Ghazali, which I did.
- It's ok to admit the obvious. No you didn't.

Ptolemy writes scant little about philosophy and he merely extended Aristotle's De Caelo. Ptolemy was a careless astronomer and his textbook was quickly disposed in favor of Sufi's observations.
- How do you come up with these sentences that make so much no sense?! I can't even! Ptolemy's legacy is in his treaties on geometrical positions of celestial bodies, aka Almagest. What does that have to do with Metaphysics? Aristotle's cosmology gives a conceptual structure to these paths & positions, in orbits & heavens & such. How did you read Copernicus? I don't know how you expect to have a debate on this subject when you can say stuff like this! I guess it's an automatic win for me.

Causality is not apparent and time is relative, well of course it isn't for you. Why do you think this ties to western philosophy, it's as Eastern as Eastern can be. Good luck with that level of generalization, you sound like my deranged anti-islam pastor when I first apostatized (not an insult to you in particular, just that the point youve raised is eerily similar to what he said to me).
- I don't know about that pastor, but I've indeed misjudged you, my fault. Given your big claims about reading Hume & all these philosophers it gave me the false impression that you're actually grounded in philosophy. A lot of things I might be saying would probably go over your head.

Hence, I told Lemmings that muslims generally label ihan omar a deviant. She's like mahathir who's notorious for having anti-semitic beliefs alongside that unsubstantiated "moderate islam". Muslims sure love to make labels.
- Ehhhh...?! I don't recall saying any of this. Who says Ilhan Omar is not a Muslim? Anybody who professes Islam & does not negate himself otherwise is effectively a Muslim, be it a saint or a murderer, & to Allah we all return & to Him all accounts. 'Moderate' is an empty label, it means nothing in Islam. Mahathir is a great president & a shrewd politician who masterfully seized Malaysia from under foreign dominion with class & propelled it to the powerhouse it is today, where the average Malaysian industrial output is higher than the average American. Great man, much respect.


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- Truth is, the Muslims were honest about borrowing Greek ideas, for that was mandated by their faith. Plagiarism is prohibited in Sharia. One of the Ten Principles of Knowledge (Mabadi Ashara) in our tradition is al-Wadii, meaning: inventor/discoverer/founder. Muslims were compelled by faith to be honest about the origin of the ideas they engage, Christian Europeans were compelled by faith to lie & deny.

If Hume was a muslim and if he mass-produced and circulated his book, he would've been executed for corrupting the public sphere.
- Had you actually read 'The Incoherence, you would've realized that al-Ghazali's opponents, who are the Falasifa, deny miracles a-priori, unlike Hume who does so a-posteriori. Btw, Mutazilites denied miracles in the same way too, more or less. From your sheer ignorance, you conflate the gracefully tolerant Muslim world with the prohibitively intolerant Christian Europe. We can also see the influence of Islam in the deistic tendencies of Hume & his mentors. Maybe you know their views on apostates: punishment -& death if they become Muslim or atheist! As a matter of fact, their views on Blacks & non-White races. I don't have to tell you they were all deeply racist & intolerant, for they had no prophetic tradition to abide by. 

Additionally, Voltaire and the German idealists share none of your views.
- Voltaire was increasingly more familiar with Islamic literature in his carrier. Don't be shy, let us know. You're fantasizing. Germany had the largest Islamic manuscript collection in Europe (more than 40,000 manuscripts) & the most prominent Arabic chair in Europe, in Berlin, given the close relationship they shared with the Ottomans. The dominant narrative today which seeks to erase any Islamic influence on Europe was not the case even up until the 19th century. Revisionism in Europe started with the rise of racism & nationalism, particularly since the early 20th century. Parallel to the rejectionist revisionist narrative, there was always an honest narrative forever attached to their Islamic root. LeBon, Lamartine, Briffault, Tolstoy, Carlyle... & many others are a good examples. The same way Muslims tend to emulate westerner today, Europeans used to emulate Muslims for the better part of 8 centuries, although often with fervor hatred & an almost self-loathing sense of denial. Europe & Christians have a serious problem of ego.

Absolutely none of their philosophy is inspired from your religion.
- It's ironic isn't it. I asked for one idea of European philosophy that isn't Islamic & you bring Ashaari ideas, the most widely adopted at the time. The Ottoman Empire officially adopted Ashaari theology, & yet the Europeans couldn't go far in their philosophy despite the readily available material & ideas.

What's next? That Max Weber's Christian Faith in Capitalism is Islamic?
- That's the level of literature you're showing off with?! Max Weber is a sham. A feel-good "philosopher" for Protestants against the materialists. Though I do agree with him about work & striving for a better life, which as it happens is an ISLAMIC idea not a Catholic one. The ideas of Capitalism, about supply vs demand, work & savings, consumption driven wealth, free market, investment, trade ...etc are common understanding in the Islamic tradition, from Abu Hanifa's treatise to al-Jahiz's (d. 868) essay on trade Tabsira bi-Tijara through al-Khallal's (d. 923) Hath Ala Tijara to Ibn Khaldun's (d. 1406) Muqaddimah. The Prophet (pbuh) himself exercised free market reforms when he came to Medina, he said: "a townsman must not sell sell for a bedouin, leave people alone to engage in trade with one another, Allah will grant them provision through one another". It's just that Europeans attribute whatever discovery or innovation to the first European who happens to mention it, regardless where it came from. It's strange though that you bring up these abysmal people. Is that where your infatuation is? In that case, I'm sure it'll fade away as quickly as it came. Allow me to show you what it means to be a true giant. The great polymath Imam Fakhrdeen Razi (d. 1210), one of the 4 Pillars of the Ashaari school (alongside Baqilani, Juwaini & Ghazali), produced great works on every science known to Men:

  • On Scripture (Quran & Hadith) he wrote more than 20 works, including his famous 32-volumes (7 million words) Tafsir – Futuh al-Ghayb, a theological exegesis of the Quran considered one of the 7 mother tafsirs.
  • On Jurisprudence he wrote a similar amount, most notably the 6-volumes – al-Mahsul (1.2 million words) encyclopedia of Islamic legal theory, which is along al-Ghazali – al-Mustasfa, the reference work in the subject -legal theory & jurisprudence thus being his primary specialty, for which he is most famous.
  • On Theology he wrote over 50 works, such as – al-Matalib Aliya, a 9-volumes (1 million words) proof of God, where he discusses & argues views on God (his existence, unity, omnipotence & omniscience, transcendence, immanence & will), views of Muslims in all their schools & sects, from Christians & Jews in their various denominations, from Zoroastrians & Brahmans & other Hindu religions, from Buddhists, even from Subsaharan African tribes. Contrast this to Humes who argues with himself thinking he is so slick. 
  • On Philosophy he wrote over 20 preeminent works,  such as – Ayat Bayinat (in 10 volumes) – Tajiz Falasifa (Incapacitating the Philosophers) – Jawhar al-Fard (The Infinitesimal Essence) – Mabahith Wujud (Essays on Being) – & al-Mabahith al-Mashriqya (Eastern Essays, in 3 volumes), the most prominent work of his time... Plus his commentaries on Ibn Sina, namely: – Inarat – Sharf Uyun Hikma – Sharh al-Mantiq , & – Sharh Shifa (in 25-volumes)...etc.
  • On Tasawwuf he wrote a comparable amount, about spirituality & mystic thought, the soul, enlightenment, self-discipline, devotion & asceticism.
  • On Literature & Linguistics he wrote a dozen works, notably: In Grammar – Sharh Mufasal (in 4 volumes). In Poetry – Sharh Diwan Mutanabi (commentary on Mutanabi poetic corpus). In Rhetoric – Dirayat Ijaz. In Literature – Sharh Maqamat Hariri (commentary on al-Hariri "plays", 50 of them). [Maqam is a short play in poetic form meant to be narrated to an audience with passion or played with shadows]. In linguistics – Mukhtasar Sihah (Abridged Dictionary, with 40,000 entries)...etc.
  • In History, a similar amount, notability – Tarikh Duwal (History of States, in 9 volumes) & other biography & genealogy books.
  • In Mathematics, a comparable amount, notably, in Geometry – Musadarat Iqlids (Fallacies of Euclid, refuting Euclid's circular proofs). In Astronomy Risala Fil-Haya (Essay on Astronomy). In Navigation, – Bist-Bab Fi Marifat Usturlab (on astrolabes & navigation)...etc.
  • In Medicine he wrote a similar amount as well, particularly: In Surgery – Tashrih Mina Ras Ila Halq (Surgery From Head to Throat). In Medicine – al-Jami al-Kabir Fi-Tibb (The Major Encyclopedia of Medicine, commentary on Ibn Sina's Qanun). In Psychology, – al-Firasa (the first work ever exclusively written on the subject)...etc. Sadly most of these are stored deep in manuscript dungeons collecting dust & mold. Truly sad!
That Calvinism arose from the doctrine that Muhammad prophesized that he and his companions(and their followers) are the only worthy sect in Islam? No.
- You seem to be confused about something... The word 'Islamic' in Islamic Civilization or Islamic Heritage or Islamic influence does not pertain to the doctrine of Islam, rather to the intellectual & literary yield generated by the collective contributions of the Islamic civilization born of the prophetic tradition. Some important scientists & philosophers & poets may not have been Muslim though they were Islamic.

Well, on an unrelated note, I did remember that Malaysia successfully commercialized Islam, so go ahead and make your own illustrations of what you think of that. I'll read them and I won't distract the thread.
- I'm not sure what this mean...?

I don't disagree with anything you've said about dhimmis. The only thing I want to note is that If you think that's where rights are sufficient for dhimmis, you're wrong.
- None of those rights are offered in the West, yet you seem to be fine with that. Why don't you elaborate on your point.

Though, muslims are right in the fact that there are indeed dangerous enemies operating within every muslim nation. You could bomb them (enemies of Islam) for all I care; they're just as extreme as Islam.
- You're literally contradicting yourself. Any better formulation of this?

I don't live in the west. I've only lived vividly through their philosophers.
- I call that the great hypocrisy. One thing western intellectuals have succeeded in doing more than any other is the perfection of the art of slogans. They have the best names for everything they like & the worst names for everything they don't. The surface is nice, yet the inside is rotten. You know how Fuqaha (jurists) define Taxation (jibaya)? They define it as 'the coercive deprivation of able subjects from benefiting from some of their wealth', they don't do nice names. In contrast, US brutal invasion of Iraq is called 'Operation Freedom'. That's it, Truth vs. deception.

Even if western philosophers did lie about freedom, and that they were "Medieval-CIA" style dajjal (anti-islam) operatives, then I must've been duped into the most biggest conspiracy theory I've ever seen. Uh, no. I don't find eschatological viewpoints compelling.
- I don't know what any of this means.

On the question of apostasy, what makes you think that clerics have your best interest at heart?
- They should, if they are sincere, which is expected from a traditional scholar. My exposition regards traditional systems & views, which are hard to imagine being implemented today. All this is conceptual, no Muslim state today is actually Islamic in the traditional sense. That said, the amount of anti-Islam propaganda & atheist, feminist, LGBT... propaganda today can induce doubts in many Muslims, having a counter narrative is mandatory.

Further, what makes you think the apostates in question are apostazing based on an infatuation of the west?
- I said most, not all. Apostates in the past were so rare & exotic, it often happens that they get invited by the caliph or sultan himself to see what they are about.....

Would you classify me as a malay fetishizing on an amoi? This is all very convenient of you to inject relativism without taking into account the amount of pain muslims have to go through once they've apostatized. You may judge me; I don't bite.
- I'm discussing ideas, not individuals... Probably 90% of the time on this website, I don't actually speak from my personal beliefs as much as I speak with the intent to argue for something or against something (within the bounds of Sharia of course). In person I'm Sufi.  

Are you a salafi?
- No. I'm a maliki (fiqh) ashaari (theology) & junaidi (sufism) traditional Muslim, from a traditional background, with chains going back to Prophet Muhammed (pbuh). 

Is that why you disagree with this? Then I'm not the person to debate this. Find another muslim; Indonesia houses another major sect called the Muhammadiyah
- I doubt it, there is another kind in South Asia too.

Disagreements in divisions in Islam are always labelled and classified with derogatory claims of blesphemy. 
- You seem to be arguing with yourself. Cool.

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I don't agree that much of western philosophy is inspired from Islam. The only agreement you're getting from me is the fact that Aquinas referenced arab scholars. However, that's where your culture's influence end. Mere citations is the only thing the golden age of Islam was capable of producing.
- Aquinas quotes mainly al-Ghazali & Averroes. He mistakenly quotes al-Ghazali from his 'Purposes of the Philosophers' work where al-Ghazali convincingly presents the ideas of the philosophers (mainly Farabi & Ibn Sina, from both the Platonic school & the Aristotelian school) as a prelude to destroying them in his next book ('The Incoherence of the Philosophers'). Aquinas most likely did not have access to the latter, thus assumed these were al-Ghazali's own ideas, which in reality were largely obsolete by that time in the Muslim world. Regardless, Aquinas's knowledge of Al-Ghazali & Ibn Rushd, the foremost theologians & philosophers of their time, is effectively knowledge of the Islamic tradition up to that point, or at least a great deal of it. Hence, his theology is essentially Islamic theology, although in a Christian mold, the same way Maimonides' theology is Islamic theology in a Jewish mold. If you literally put Aquinas arguments alongside Muslim ones, you'll know, it's almost uncanny! If you wish to debate me on this, I'll be happy to. This isn't strange at all, it is rather the norm; denial of Muslim influence is an act of worship to them;  al-Kindi's ontological arguments is falsely attributed to Anselm & Ibn Sina's cosmological argument (Burhan Sidiqen) is falsely attributed to Leibniz, just because they happen to be the first Christians to mention them -centuries later. 

Granted, you did pioneer medicine for a time before the inquisition burned the books and drove the muslims away from Spain.
- Laughable! Muslims pioneered nearly all the ideas proponents of the "scientific revolution" & "renaissance" & "enlightenment" claim, (with minor exceptions) in Physics, Astronomy, Social Science, Philosophy, Theology, Law... not just Medicine. What is now known as Classical Physics in mechanics, astronomy, optics, gravitation... is in effect Islamic Physics. Muslims are the true inventors of Science. The Greeks had no Science, they had Natural Philosophy. Thanks is due to great geniuses like al-Ghazali (d. 1111) & Ibn Haytham (d. 1040) who, conceptually & methodologically, excised Greek Philosophy (& Religion) from Science, to open the door to experimenting-hypothesizing based discoveries. The Muslims took their systemization of mathematics into a purely formal language (Algebra) to Natural Science, in inducing mathematics into it by modeling experimental problems into formal ones, inferring therefrom general mathematical laws (this is a uniquely Islamic logic invention, called Tanthir). This may sound evident today, but it's thanks to the Muslims. Until al-Qushji (d. 1474) gave the final coup de gras & alienated the practice of Physics from any philosophical assumptions or implications. This also applies to the Scientific Method falsely attributed to Bacon (even though he himself quotes Arabs in his own essay). Centuries before Newton, al-Biruni (d. 1048) had already established that gravitation is inversely proportional to altitude, Abu al-Barakat (d. 1166) had already proven that force is proportional to acceleration, & Ibn Baja (d. 1138) had already shown that for every action there is an opposite reaction... In fact, Fakhrdeen Razi (d. 1210) discusses all these laws of motion in his book Mabahith. The laws of refraction, reflection, refraction, & geometric optics in general already established by scientists from Ibn Haytham (d. 1040) to Taqiydeen Shami (d. 1585), which by the way happen to be all Ashaaris. I'm up for debating any of the above.

That said, medicine now is not islamic thanks to the inquisition.
- Are you sure...? Zahrawi's (d. 1031) 30-volume at-Tasrif was still studied in Europe until late 19th century, & Ibn Sina's 5-volume Qanun was standard textbook until the 17th century. I have a copy of the 30th essay of at-Tasrif (last volume): Maqal al-Jiraha (The Essay of Surgery), & I have a copy of Ibn Sina's Qanun. You'd be surprised how Islamic western Medicine is. In his Essay of Surgery (comprised of 187 chapters) in the chapter of Saratan (Cancer), az-Zahrawi categorizes tumors into four categories based on the size of the tumor, & deems the 4th category fatal. He also describes the procedure of removal of tumor, either by preservation of organ or complete removal with lymphatic nodes. The influence extends to biology in general & hospitals too, after all Muslims invented hospitals.
I could write an essay on this, or we could have a debate. 

Plus, I can offer you glimpses of what a Butler-ean reflection looks like,
- Use your words. What about Butler?! Do tell. If you're any bit familiar with the Islamic tradition you'd know that his ideas are basic discussions among Muslim theologians, it's almost childish. His views on conscience & the guilt-shame trap & the process of accountability from thoughts to desires & all that are *glaringly* Islamic & very anti-Christian. These ideas are elementary ideas in Islamic Theology, which is far more expansive & profound. The Islamic influence is too blinding to miss. There is literally an entire branch of Islamic Theology on Taklif (Accountability/Will) which expounds on these ideas. His argument from preponderance theory on faith is the weakest form of argument in our tradition, as espoused by the Athari school. It's not even a proof, it's an embarrassing conjecture.

and I can tell you what Hume thinks of necessary connection. Both are deeply unislamic.
- Wow! I'm impressed... They say, lie big & leave fast. But I say, just don't lie. For someone who keeps advertising Ashaaris you don't know one of their basic tenets: rejection of efficient causation (necessary connections), the principle of 'Indaha la biha' (with it not because of it). If you had read 'The Incoherence' as you claimed you'd have known the 17th essay about efficient causation, where al-Ghazali refutes the philosopher's 'Iqtiran' (necessary cause-effect) in favor of 'Adah' (uniformity/frequency). The chapter literally opens up in: "In our view, the connection between what are believed to be the cause and the effect is not necessary."

For example, necessary connection has a small chapter disputing miracles.
-To be honest, I was extremely disappointed reading Hume, all that hype for nothing. I don't get the appeal, most other westerners I read fair better than him. The entire thing is a huge case of begging the question. The great irony of this, is that he expands so much on denial of efficient causes with all sorts of anecdotes just so he can deny miracles afterward. In al-Ghazali's refutation of the philosophers, in contrast, leads him to confirm the possibility of miracles, which the philosophers deny. You can't have necessary causation & miracles, that's a square circle. Hume, however, while his argument for illusion of necessary connections necessarily implies the possibility of miracles, he proceeds to deny that possibility just to prove they can not be proven, which is begging the question. He claims that frequency of uniformity is always higher than frequency of singularity, therefore singularity can never undo uniformity. By this he literally destroyed his entire no-causation from single observations premise. Maybe we can have a debate on 'Of Miracles' of Hume.  

- Hume's other ideas about knowledge & association & "passion"...etc are very basic in Islamic Theology. It's profoundly unimpressive. Read al-Jurjani's 8-volumes al-Mawaqif  in 1.3 million words to understand the scope of 'Knowledge' in Islamic Theology. Hume's entire book is 50k words. He merely introduces basic Ashaari concepts discussed for a thousand years in the Muslim world to a European audience, in a crippled fashion nonetheless. His inductive causation venture doesn't get him very far. It rather leaves him in contradiction & confusion. Do not compare midgets like Hume to giants like al-Ghazali. Allow me to illustrate that insurmountable gap on this particular issue; al-Ghazali takes his inductive causation so much farther. He postulates that no-efficient causation not only allows for singularities, but rather entail the isolation of events as non-consecutive accidents which appear to be uniform from frequency. Thus substantialism (materialism) is not real, for substance is contingent on perception & must thus be discrete, i.e. quantized; being broken into infinitesimal essences (jawhar fard). Further, accidents, thus superadded properties (like motion & transformation) on these infinitesimal essences, mustn't persist two instances of time, are henceforth potential until actualized once perceived. This entails that time & thus space are relative, for they are hence contingent on perception...  long story. Hume couldn't even figure out the incoherence of his materialist doctrine with his inductive problem, which drives his followers nuts. Al-Ghazali also elaborates on the levels & types of said perception, way beyond Hume's measly association. I'll be happy to have a debate on this comparison, although it would look more like slaughter.

- I'm sorry to shatter your world, but Hume -like the others- has extensively been influenced by Muslim literature, particularly Ashaari literature. Islam then was the dominant force of the time & for the prior 10 centuries, Muslims controlled half global economy & global trade. Living standards in the Muslim world were much higher than those in Europe (~$2.5k Ottoman vs. $0.6k in France); civilization spread from the East to the West. By then, Arabic chairs -aimed at collecting, translating & studying Arabic manuscripts- were set up everywhere in Europe, notably at Oxford. Hume's two major influences, his idol John Locke & his mentor George Berkeley (from whom he gets his views on causation for instance) have both hugely promoted Arabic literature. John Locke's professor Edward Pococke is the founder of the Arabic Chair in Oxford University is credited with procuring the immense collection of 420 Arabic books from the Middle East after he travelled to Syria to study Arabic & Islamic sciences. George Berkeley, in his own turn, coming from Dublin Society & Trinity College from the largest collection of Arabic manuscripts, of the fellow Marsh. To note, Oxford University holds some 15,000 Islamic manuscripts collected from the Muslim world from early 16th century to late 19th century, & studied or taught in England & Ireland. Berkeley's essays (Hume's inspiration) rejected Newtonian doctrine of infinite & static continuous universe (inherited from the like of Averroes) & argued for relative time & motion & quantized substance, which are strictly Ashaari ideas of jawhard fard, zaman itibari...(these are not Greek ideas). As we say in Arabic, the stolen is in the pockets of the thief. David Hume, too, adopts the jawfar fard notion, yet rejects what it entails, which makes his worldview all over the place, most likely from lack of access to further Ashaari literature.

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@MarkWebberFan
It doesn't end there. If you evaluate the muslim countries under some form of sharia, the Inheritance laws are incredibly punishing for non-muslim minorites
- If what you're saying is true, then this is probably an issue in Indonesia, it's not in the Middle East. On the contrary, Muslim countries in the ME, despite all their shortcomings, offer a lot of freedom of practice to the minorities therein. They have Muslim courts, Christian courts & secular courts in Lebanon or Egypt, you're free to chose which you want to settle your affairs in. This much freedom isn't offered in any western country. On the contrary, inheritance laws are incredibly punishing for Muslim minorities in the West. My friend's ex-coworker is in huge debt because his stepmom took all the money his dad left him. If I'm not mistaken I think he is in prison. 

and if you choose to marry a muslim whilst secretly retaining your atheist/catholic/Buddhist belief, you'll inevitably told to be buried alongside your "muslim brothers". No amount of petition/work will help you settle your grave alongside your deceased non-muslim parents.
- Different countries have different laws regarding burial rights. Muslims in Europe find it hopelessly hard to be buried where they want, in Muslim cemeteries, if they are even allowed to have any. You're sensationalizing everything, & just proving how worse the West is in comparison.

In addition, your properties will be given to muslim in-laws, rather than your own flesh and blood. Good luck with that level of freedom.
- Dude, what the f are you talking about?! You make sound like the West is some heaven. Good luck getting your Islamic inheritance in a Western country, it's impossible. Else, they literally send you to prison. So much for freedom. You're either too delusional or too bullshitting.

I could survive in a fundamentalist society, so long as they don't pervert their way into banning western literature. That would be the final straw imho.
- Again, what the flying f are you talking about?! We live in the age of internet, there is no such thing as banning literature.



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There's a lot to unpack in your posts. For the record, I think you seem to be partaking in a sort of generalized rejection of the west.
- Not really. It's a case to case basis. If you generalize 'Islam' I will generalize 'West'. If you say 'religion Islam' I will respond 'Christianity' 'Secularism'... depending... If you say 'this particular Muslim country' I will respond 'France'. If you say 'this particular Muslim' I will respond 'this American'. This applies either ways, disparaging or praise. It's just so that most people here hate Islam, so that's the impression they will get from me. I've also read dozens of Western authors, from Aristotle to Kant to Hume to Hugo to Toynbee to Shaw to Chomsky & many others. Though coming from the background I come from, reading Fakhrdeen Razi & Subki & Ghazali... I'm not as impressed. But indeed, I do have an extreme bias against the West as a polity, given I read their abominable vomit inducing history. You can't come back from that.

Although I'm interested in what an arab (than indonesian) would say about that,
- Ask away.

I still think your gigantic post isn't any different than other islamic clerics that I've seen.
- Which post is that?

You're beating a dead horse.
- It's a debate website. I'm here to beat people.

You're free to suggest that I've strayed too far away from my Buginese roots. I could easily claim that I am a singaporean amoi and you'll even suggest the exact opposite. how very convenient of islam.
- I don't see the connection at all... Not everything that moves must relate to Islam! 

Not withstanding the amount of muslim-to-muslim discrimination between indonesians and arabs, I can see that this tale of islam is predictably old. Case in point: my parents had done the exact same thing few years ago. I'll be honest now since you've been polite to me (as Safalcon did) in the past: I have no intention to pursue this along the lines of a generalized rejection. I have no intention of pursuing this along the lines of assimilation or reversion of either side; the waves have settled and I have moved on.
- It's a question of Power. Power induces submission, "powerful therefore right". Oppression induces resistance. It's human nature to protest injustice. Thus, when you have both, an Oppressive Power, it induces conflicting reactions, some will submit & emulate, while others will protest & reject. The West has been hugely dominant last century while also causing immense injustice. It's only natural to expect these reactions. Though, power disappears but grievances about injustice never do, not here & not in the next life. That said, as a Muslim we submit to Allah alone, for Power is Allah's alone. It doesn't matter who's dominant, that should not shake the faith of a Muslim into submission. The universe is too big & time is too infinite for the West to mean anything, or anything on this insignificant Earth. In that respect, I don't reject the West or submit to them. Whatever is conform to Islam I take, whatever doesn't I leave.

For a short statement of my issue with your post, I don't think you've actually looked at what "degeneracy" actually means. You're inferring  degeneracy for granted, which is understandable given how islam is currently structured. And by suggesting that, you've essentially outlined the exact issue I have with islam: its clear, fanatical in-group favoritism at the cost of those who chose a different life.
- I particularly mean by degeneracy Fisq, which means public display of indecency. In-group "favoritism" applies to any & every ideology, by definition. Beliefs are exclusive. That said, we are resurrected solo, we face Allah as individuals, not groups. To each his journey with Allah, & to each his deeds. Degeneracy is the end of society. Every civilization, every state, every nation in human history fell after decadence. When societies stabilize, they work & save, their elite seek luxury, which drives innovation & art, which further expands luxury, which spur indulgence, indulgence leads to decadence, decadence corrupts societies, corruption leads to oppression, thus collapse. The West is decadent, it's in the brink of collapse. 

Islam is willing to converse with me in so far as I play-pretend and apologize for harmlessly choosing a different life. To do otherwise is to do exactly what you've done: accuse normal people like me of treason, blesphemy and defilement of islam. I'm definitely aware of the "public sphere" that clerics warn me and my family to safeguard wholeheartedly, especially against muslim enemies.
- I don't know where you're coming from. Clearly you have a story to tell. This is a debate website, we are here to argue ideas. Islam in essence is about submission to Allah, not about some 'Islam' concept. An apparent sinner can be better in the eyes of God than an apparent pious person. It's about the heart, having humility & gratitude toward Allah & recognizing one's sins & shortcomings. It's a personal relationship between a person & his Lord. What you're taking about is "social Islam", which is a consequent of society, like any other.

That said, generally speaking, I don't see how you can beat the "freedom to choose/speak/read" lifestyle that the west offers.
- Propaganda. Reality is otherwise. There is very little freedom to do anything in the West, except in self-gratification (aka degeneracy), then it's virtually limitless. Everything is brutally imposed on you, but you don't feel it, because even that feeling is brutally imposed on you with ceaseless indoctrination & propaganda. If you disagree, show me a single thing that is not "degeneracy" you have freedom in in the West. I've worked in many Muslim & European countries. I've never paid taxes in Muslim countries. In Europe you get screwed every which way by the state they know everything you do & they take everything they want from you. In many Muslim countries I can talk to the other party & establish a contract according to our shared morality, this is impossible in any western country. I can not practice 90% (if not 99%) of my faith in a Western country. Everything is imposed on you by force of law, & an ocean of propaganda of "freedom" for make-belief. The communists did the same, & were arguably more successful. I can't talk freely about my opinions or feelings as I would in a Muslim country, otherwise chastised or even kicked out. The only thing you can talk about freely in the West same is degeneracy. You can't chose to study what you wish or teach what you wish in the West. You'll never get there. Why don't you go to western university & start a Sharia course? Or something like Intelligent Design? As I said, pure propaganda.

I'm betting that the middle east (like inonesia) has a tight control over its distribution of literature; the muslim countries are a joke. Practically, the countries are a mess and you should sort them out yourselves before critiquing the west. My opinion.
- You have it backwards. The West controls education in Muslim countries, though various nasty conventions. They impose their ways on the world. They have much worse restriction of literature too. They just have better PR. Some Muslim countries are catching up on that. They realize you just to lie & promote big beautiful labels & do what you want behind the scenes. In truth, no state allows what undermines it, wether speech or literature. That's self-destruction. It's just propaganda is a power tool. I recommend Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent, 



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Been an interesting series of years.  
- Yeah...

How things been on your end around here?
- Just showed up here a couple of weeks ago.

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@MarkWebberFan
You've made exceptional posts in the thread. Thanks, I think I will subscribe. Your posts are all very useful but I want to say a few words about your statement below:
- It's literally textbook CIA propaganda. Check Noam Chomsky, he wrote an article about this & the role of US Intelligence in the whole affair.

IMHO, i don't know anything about leftists but the islamist propaganda you speak of is not restricted to Iran. In a way, if what you're saying is true, then the left (or whatever) is pandering to fundamentalist islam all across the globe. This includes Indonesia, malaysia, brunei, saudi arabia, turkey, afghanistan, iran and iraq. What you essentially have in the US are  fundamentalists looking to turn the country into a religious dustbin.
- So much fantasy! You have to admit, the most successful propaganda machine in history can even make a thing look its opposite. Speaking of Chomsky, check his book Manufacturing Consent, a cruel portray of this propaganda machine.

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@MarkWebberFan

I want to note that such sentences are rarely carried out because apostates prefer to live a secretive life.
- Explains the very loud voices of apostates these days... Why do I keep hearing this BS! Some of these guys literally host TV programs & say "we live secretive lives to not be put to death", who're you kidding!

Islam is not "tolerant"; its believers will believe in this apostate ruling until the day of judgment and will still think it's right to apply death sentences to ordinary citizens.
- Islam is unconditionally tolerant of genuine faith, it's not tolerant with faith born from compulsion, wether that is in the form of coercion or deception or submission. In Sharia, publicly preaching to non-Muslims in their own communities is prohibited. That alone tells you the essence of Islam, that it is not to coerce people into following it, rather to guarantee freedom from compulsion in religion, thus justified accountability to Allah.

They'll call you evil and relish in the fact that they've carried out a command from god. 
- You seem to be very disgruntled about this. Why are you complaining about Islam's religious tolerance while praising the West's attitude knowing the West is so much worse?! You're not allowed to practice much of your faith in the West, only in belief & few practices of worship. Freedom of religion & freedom of speech in the West are only allowed in non-consequential non-institutional spheres. As a citizen, you must submit to the secular morality in your acts in spite of your own morality & conviction. As an official, you must profess a secular rational to propose laws or enact policies against your own beliefs. There is no room for alternatives in any systemic institution in the Western state, wether in education or academia or state media or government or judiciary or anything. It's all geared to promote a western liberal & secular worldview in systematic indoctrination, while professing "freedom". All this is prohibited in Islam. LMAO! If this isn't the biggest farce in modern history I don't know what is.Even in public, you will be ostracized & crushed in every possible way if you dare say "undesirable" things. 

A good general rule for observing how Islam works is to think like the muslims themselves. For muslims, the scholars (ulama) represent islam. For example, when Islamic empires reached peak power, their philosophical guidance is largely directed by scholars: the Asharis and muatazis. Both were initially influenced by Greek philosophers. As such, reason-based philosophy was regularly applied in religious rulings. However, their dominance lasted less than a century. The Muatazis were the first to disappear as succeeding imams found that greek philosophy perverted Islam.
- This is so nonsensical it isn't even nonsense. Where do you come up with these utterly made up fantasies?! It seems I need to help a bit with some education. Here we go, a summarized timeline:
1. Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) taught his companions about morality (good acts of body), rationality (good beliefs of mind) & spirituality (good intentions of soul).
2. His companions inherited this legacy & imparted it (the Sunnah) to thousands of successors, setting the foundations of Islamic morality, rationality & spirituality.
3. Their successors (early 8th century) crytalised the tradition into Fiqh Asgar (minor fiqh = law/morality) Fiqh Akbar (major fiqh = theology/rationality) & Tasawuf (sufism/spirituality).
4. Their successors (mid to late 8th century) founded the major legal schools we know today, Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi, Hanbali (named after the founders). Plus, the two jurisprudent (legal theory) schools, the Usuli school (of principles) & the Qawaidi school (of maxims). Plus, the theological schools with the orthodox Sunnah (Sunnis), with other sects also emerging, particularly: Mutazilites, Jahmya, Qadarya, Shia & Khawarij. Finally, the mystical schools of Sufism: Muhasibi, Junaidi... & others.
5. Early 9th century = Greeks being translated. This boosted Mutazilites foundation which made them very compelling as a school, but they spread too fast & quickly resorted to oppression to impose their ideologies. 
6. Mid 9th century saw the fall of the Mutazilites at the hand of Imam Ashaari, thus the divergence of the Sunni theological school into 3 schools: Ashaari (dominant), Maturidi (virtually same as Ashaari), & Athari.
7. Late 9th century to late 10th century = rise of Falsafa (Islamic brand of Greek philosophy) mainly through the legacy of al-Kindi, al-Farabi & Ibn Sina, which constituted a serious threat to the traditional trend of Islam, the Ashaari school.
8. 10th century saw a fundamental shift in paradigm away from Greek philosophy & the consolidation of virtually all schools of thought towards orthodoxy, led by al-Baqilani, then al-Juwaini, then al-Ghazli.
9. 11th century saw the consummation of all fields of knowledge (religious & scientific) into this new anti-Greek paradigm, starting with Ibn Haytham's revolution & al-Biruni a century prior, & culminating into Fakhrdeen Razi.
10. From the 12th century to the 16th century the world of knowledge as we new today is forged by countless scholars from different fields. 

- As to your claims:
For example, when Islamic empires reached peak power, their philosophical guidance is largely directed by scholars: the Asharis and muatazis.
- Ashaaris & Mutazilies are theological schools, not philosophical schools. 

Both were initially influenced by Greek philosophers.
- Not true. Ashaaris adopted Greek Logic (mantiq) into their own Islamic Logic (nathar), but vehemently rejected Greek metaphysics & philosophy in general. Mutazilites adopted some Greek ideas into their own though.

As such, reason-based philosophy was regularly applied in religious rulings.
- That's a little too much BS. Beside the fact that you're mixing philosophical schools with theological schools with legal schools... the schools of Islamic Law (Fiqh) & those of Islamic legal theory (Usul Fiqh) have both emerged before any Greek anything. Have you ever seen a ruling that relies on Greek absolutely anything? No... Nonetheless, you're right about the "reason-based" bit. The consensus among the Four Imams on the sources of legislation being (in this order):  Quran, Sunnah (prophetic tradition), Ijma (consensus), Qiyas (analogical reasoning -aka general syllogism), Aql (reason), Istihsan (good customs). Reason-based rulings without some objective morality are in practice whim & custom based rulings. Different societies inevitably end up rationalizing their own sensitivities into Law, they can't all be correct, now can they?

However, their dominance lasted less than a century.
- False. Can you remind me what are the Four Madhhabs dominant today? Let's see, Hanafis, Malikis, Shafis, Hanbalis founded by Abu Hanifa, Malik, Shafi, Ibn Hanbal respectively, who lived between early to late 8th century. How many centuries is that? 12 or 13?

The Muatazis were the first to disappear as succeeding imams found that greek philosophy perverted Islam.
- Which it did. Do you know what Muatazilites even believed? They believed that the Quran is a creation, & not the Word of God, which started the Mihna period of religious persecution in which religious scholars were punished, imprisoned, or even killed unless they conformed to Muʿtazila doctrine. They believed Reason is the only source of morality even if it leads you to evil, that God does not know the particulars only the universals, that God is contingent on Good, that all non-Muslims go to Hell, that salvation is warranted with faith even if you commit crimes...etc. & they persecuted whoever disagreed with them. All this is complete utter nonsense. With the exception of biology (particularly zoology & botany) Mutazilite contributions to Islamic heritage & discoveries are insignificant.

For example, imam Ghazali wrote the "The incoherence of the philosophers" as a starting critique of greek-inspired ulamas.
- Have you actually read that book? Of course not. You may not be aware, but what you probably believe today is what Imam al-Ghazali said then. This book, alongside Ibn Haytham's (also an Ashaari) Critique of Ptolemy, is what led to the paradigm shift in human worldview, from the archaic Greek nonsense to a new paradigm which exploded into a vast & rich tradition across the knowledge spectrum. If it wasn't for al-Ghazali & Ibn Haytham, archaic Greek philosophical & astronomical models would not have been abandoned to give way to new ones, which are what we know today as Analytical Theology, Modern Philosophy, Natural Science, Classical Physics..etc, which the thieving Europeans love to attribute to themselves. LMAO! 

- Particularly, in his book al-Ghazali refuted the Greeks in 27 claims. Such as: the claim that sight is in the soul not in in the eye, which al-Ghazali refutes, along with others: the claim that the universe is infinite in the past; the claim that Time is everlasting & non-relative; the claim that inductive causality is necessary (which would be promoted by Hume 8 centuries later...etc). In short, you don't know what you're talking about & you're putting down a great man, without whom you probably wouldn't be here today. Al-Ghazali's genius has been in isolating Greek philosophy from the practice of Science, in exposing it for its overreaches & in replacing it with a new paradigm of causality & matter, where atoms are quantified, causality is apparent, events are probabilistic & time-space are relative. You imagine modern & enlightenment philosophers you read follow Greek philosophy? No they don't, they follow al-Ghazali's paradigm & other Muslim philosophers. I have yet to find a single idea promoted by European philosophers which hasn't been established by Muslims centuries prior.

Plenty of other new ulamas follow suit. What you have now is the exact religious ideology prescribed by the prophet himself. 
- What does this even mean?!! The dominant traditional schools today are the same as the dominant schools 10 centuries ago. Although, there is a lot of invading modern paradigms into Islam the past century or so, either in religious guises (such as Salafism) or secular guises (modernists & such). Ulamas in the traditional sense are still preserving this vast living tradition from all these past centuries.

Since you live in the US, Id say that ilhan Omar is a moderate. Muslims will brand her as a deviant (which isnt bad for the west). It is a strong word -- used sparingly to denote muslims who are "lost in the forest". You should only start worrying if muslims start flocking to her in large numbers. 
- There is no such thing as moderate Muslim. You're either in the fold of Islam, or you're out of it. As long as one believes in the pillars of the faith, he is Muslim, whatever their actions might be. Moderates to the West designate "Muslims who agree with us what we feel today". A Muslim who disagrees with their feelings, whatever they might be, is unacceptable. That is the "Tolerance" of the West.


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