Long before Christoph Luxenberg, medieval Muslim authorities compiled lists of foreign vocabularies in the Quran. The Quran contains words from Ethiopian, Persian, Indian, Turkic, Nabatean, Syriac, Coptic, Hebrew, Greek, and Berber, and Abyssinian origin. A thread. 1/
"It takes some intelligence and insight to figure out you're gay and then a tremendous amount of balls to live it and live it proudly."--Jason Bateman #PrideMonth
Only a very small number of people are truly evil. But a very large number of people are conformists.
To prevent evil on a mass scale it’s more important for us to ward against our own instinct to conform with the crowd than it is to worry about anything else.
Hindutva bigotry uses Islam as a tool to justify hating Muslims as a people - this is terrible.
Conversely - Muhammad broke idols, cursed disbelievers, and made non-Muslims second-class citizens.
He was a slaver and a warlord not a #ProphetofCompassion
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The Hindutva brigade is desperate to divide. In their hatred for Muslims & Islam they are now openly abusing the Prophet. How do we respond? The life of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) teaches us that the best way to respond to hatred is by love & compassion.
#ProphetofCompassion
It is a crying shame that the Indian state prosecutes critical speech and that some number of its most celebrated thinkers and artists have to seek political asylum in other countries - seeking refuge not from thugs and terrorists, but from the State itself.
#BlasphemyDay
Jews like the first movie, but ignored the sequels, Christians think you need to watch the first two, but the 3rd doesn’t count, Muslims think the third one was the best, and Mormons liked the second one so much they wrote fanfiction that doesn’t fit with ANY of the series canon.
Think of religion being like a movie. The Torah is the first one, and the New Testament is the sequel. Then the Qu’ran comes out, and it retcons the last one like it never happened. There’s still Jesus, but he’s not the main character anymore, and the messiah hasn’t shown up yet.
Being an Ex Muslim is an extremely difficult choice and coming out as one, even more. That does not mean we don't exist. We do and most of the time, in secret. The world wouldn't know of us till we speak out. So here we are claiming space. Here we are, #AwesomeWithoutAllah.