"Positive thinking isn't ignoring life's problems, it's understanding that Allah can make a way out for you if you sincerely try." - Shaykh @omarsuleiman504
The Prophet ﷺ said of the Dajjal:
“Part of his fitnah will be that he will say to a Bedouin, ‘Do you think that if I resurrect your father and mother for you that you will testify that I am your lord?’
He will say, ‘Yes.’
So two devils will appear to him in the image of his father and mother, saying, ‘O my son, follow him for he is your lord.’”
Source: Ibn Mājah #4067 & classed as Ṣaḥīḥ by al-Albāni.
"1400 Israelis!"
The majority of October 7th Israeli deaths were soldiers. Of the rest, many, if not most, were killed by the IDF itself in crossfire, Hannibal directive actions, and just plain panic & mistaken identity. And then of the remainder after all that: remember, everyone is the IDF--how many "civilians" were armed & shooting back?
Hamas is legally & morally entitled to conduct resistance operations against its military occupiers & opponents and it's increasingly apparently that that is what Hamas did.
BTW, no babies have been identified, yet.
#40FakeBabies
The Saudi fast food sector is estimated at $8.66 billion annual revenue.
McDonalds market share: ~28.8%
28.8% * 8.66 = $2.49 billion
$2.49 billion * 5% = $124 million
2/3 of this money will go to operating expenses like salaries for McDonalds employees, business development, marketing, etc. Most of this will likely go to labor costs, which will be taxed in the US at an average of 24.8%.
The other 1/3 is corporate profit, which will be taxed at around 20%, and will go to wealthy investors who will probably also pay around 20% capital gains tax.
So a low end estimate of the tax paid on McDonalds profit to the US government would be around 20%.
20% * $124 million = $24.8 million
Around 16% of US tax revenues go directly to the military, but this doesn't include other military related expenses like veteran's benefits and interest on debt from past military expenditures (including things like purchasing and maintaining the "Iron Dome" system, for example). If the number is adjusted to include these expenses, it is closer to 47%.
$24.8 million * 47% = $11.65 million
We are now approaching 10,000 killed Palestinians and 24,000 injured after 28 days of war, which works out to about ~350 killed and 850 wounded per day, around 40% of them or 140 children killed and 340 injured.
Israel's cost for the war is around $246 million a day, so $11.65 million toward US military expenses (which now includes direct financing for the bombs used in Gaza) works out to about 67 minutes of the Zionist war effort.
67 minutes is ~4.6% of a day, which works out to 16 Palestinians killed (including 6 children) and 39 injured (including 16 children).
BUT THINK OF THE POOR FILIPINO WORKERS AT THE SAUDI MCDONALDS, AND THE POOR RICH OIL SHEIKH THAT OWNS REZA FOODS!
And so what if they contributed over $11 million to the US war effort - they donated $533,000 for humanitarian support to Gaza (50% of which will probably go into the pockets of overpaid UN staff, some of whom will pay taxes on their income in the West).
It's worth mentioning that when the US put sanctions on Russia, the owner of the Russian McDonalds franchise just rebranded as "Vkusno i Tochka" which translates as "Delicious, period." The workers kept their jobs, people are still eating at the restaurants, the menu items are basically the same, and the rich owner is still getting richer.
If Muslims boycott Western franchises agressively enough to push them to rebrand, it could literally save lives of innocent Muslims being butchered right now.
The situation is much more complex than the numerical breakdown above suggests, but the point is that supporting Western businesses, even in Muslim countries, does mean supporting the West's war effort and political agenda. So stop. As much as you are able.
Believers, let not a group of men laugh at another group. It may be that they are better than those (laughing at them). Nor let a group of women laugh at another group. It may be that they are better than those (laughing at them). Do not taunt one another nor call one another by offensive nicknames.
~ Quran 49:11
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