May Allah reward the hardworking team at Rooted Initiative and their local Bangladeshi partners for helping the Rohingya people.
They have my support, and I ask you all to lend yours too!
Eid Mubarak to you all ❤️
even if you lot disagree with his framing, I’m still reposting this for max demoralisation effect
in my crusade against clannism in the ummah, which includes honour and vendetta culture, i will fight underhandedly
There are Muslim tribal cultures in which if a child is unaccompanied it is normal to rape them, then normal for families to blame the girl, then normal to *kill* the girl for disobeying the family because they wanted to marry her to a drug dealer. Why is Rotherham such a shock?
@HDR_655@n30n5223434 Some followed false claimants to prophethood like musaylama, al-sajjah, and tulayha al-asadi, some refused to pay zakat to the caliph, and others did both of the above.
Who said anything about idolatry?
Let me add some granularity to this statement:
The E. African Sikh diaspora who arrived in Britain along with the Gujaratis in the 70s have a diet form of the original paindu Punjabi culture after decades in E. Africa.
The full-fat paindu Sikhs came directly from rural Punjab.
Yookay civnats are in a quandary about the Sikhs
They love to laud Sikhs as visibly “ethnic” immigrants with a history of imperial and patriotic devotion.
Turbaned brown man who loves to knock back pints at the pub. Grandfather bled for the King.
But every now and then, the mirage cracks; civnats are reminded that Sikhs are the ethno-cultural kin of the much-hated Paki.
This requires an eye-wateringly rapid and gargantuan build-up of national energy infra and full-stack AC supply chain indigenisation, for which the Indian Union does not have the political economy in its current form
Can’t guarantee AC as fundamental right for 2bn people on current energy infra and screwdriver-giri AC manufacturing base
Canadians, like the Australians during WWI, regarded their relative social egalitarianism compared with hierarchical Old Britain as one of the reasons why the Canadian Corps was such an effective fighting formation compared with the British regulars.
Institutional fabian coddling has erased their natural sense of political survival that normally exists in any minority community in any society. We’re like animals in captivity who’ve forgotten how to hunt and rut.
Yookay is now a sandbox where the normal rules are “suspended”, and so the Sikh community don’t feel an existential pressure to maintain socio-political capital. So they burn it by crying DAS WAYCISS.
Same phenomenon applies to Muslims and Blacks.
Institutional fabian coddling has erased their natural sense of political survival that normally exists in any minority community in any society. We’re like animals in captivity who’ve forgotten how to hunt and rut.
Yookay is now a sandbox where the normal rules are “suspended”, and so the Sikh community don’t feel an existential pressure to maintain socio-political capital. So they burn it by crying DAS WAYCISS.
Same phenomenon applies to Muslims and Blacks.
False Premise 1: Cheap, exploited labor is China’s defining comparative advantage
This is the biggest and most obvious error, implied in multiple places throughout the argument. OP obviously still has a 2005-era (or earlier) model of Chinese industry, which is undermining all the subsequent analysis.
An explanation of Chinese competitiveness that assumes low wages, weak labor protections, and scalability via labor abundance was never the whole story, and is particularly wrong today. Supply chain experts and procurement people have been trying to explain why Chinese manufacturing hasn't immediately slipped away to cheaper labor markets like India or Vietnam for a while now, but seems some China econ opinion-havers still haven't heard about it.
More serious analysis today attributes Chinese manufacturing advantages to things like industrial clusters, supplier density, rapid iteration, economies of scale for capex, high-quality infrastructure, strong national/local gov't coordination, and extreme domestic competition, among others...
If you refuse to acknowledge this, your arguments will always keep circling back to unsophisticated caricatures of low-cost labor exploitation.
British Sikhs have long been considered a model minority and an integration success story. The core teachings of Sikhism promote equality for all human beings. This is not merely in word, but deed. Go to any gurdwara anywhere in the world and you can get a free vegetarian meal, regardless of who you are.
Over the years, Britain has made legal accommodations for Sikhs. Turbaned Sikhs have an exemption from wearing a helmet on a motorbike, famously satirised in the British sitcom Only Fools and Horses with the 'Del Boy turban helmet'.
Baptised Sikhs (Amritdharis) are provided an exemption (and a defence) on religious grounds, under the Offensive Weapons Act 2019, to carry a ceremonial knife, known as the kirpan, as part of five symbols of their faith – colloquially known as the 5Ks.
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Here is the Mughal Pādshāh Akbar welcoming his female relatives, several of whom are depicted wearing burqas, as was the norm for elite women.
The claim that such veiling practices were alien to Indo-Muslim society before modern “Arab influence” is historically inaccurate.
I don’t know where you got this understanding from.
Yes, sincere repentance erases sin from the sinner’s account of deeds, but that sin was still an evil. And sins involving oppression of others are regarded differently to personal sins.
In Islam, an oppressed person reserves the right to litigate against his oppressor on the Day of Judgement, and personal repentance will not save the oppressor from divine consequences.
Acting as if having sex before marriage makes you a sinner and therefore either a “bad Muslim” or a non-Muslim or drinking or listening to music (not even a sin btw) or dating/marrying outside the culture or partying/going to clubs or wearing make-up or any number of things…