Arvind Sood

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[Arvind Sood @arvindlotus]

"If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization."

Ludwig von Mises

[Arvind Sood @arvindlotus]

*gym*

[Arvind Sood @arvindlotus]

Who wants to bet $100 that the Indians have started buying gum memberships?

[Western Standard @WSOnlineNews]

🚨 GoodLife Fitness pleads members to stop using saunas as washrooms

Link in thread 🧵

[Arvind Sood @arvindlotus]

@omarali50 @_shershahhkhan_ They believed in many Gods - except every one of these Gods was a Black man named Allah.
Substantively Mushreek, Technically Muslim
You are right to sense a Qadiani conspiracy!

/sarcasm

[Arvind Sood @arvindlotus]

@aziz0nomics @richimedhurst Also, Russia is 'the West'?

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@kartheeque @omarali50 Conversion as part of trade route would have been like switching from one Hindu path to another- unlike the sword-led campaigns in the North
Even in this 'myth' there is no war and force, so that is something!

[Arvind Sood @arvindlotus]

Two different ways of seeing the same thing @omarali50
https://t.co/lbFd9xeddL

Also I thought the oldest mosque in 'South Asia' is in Kerala. Not built by Arab invader? Does not count!

[Rubab @rubabbx]

727 AD.

The oldest mosque in South Asia was built in Sindh, Pakistan.

65 kilometres east of Karachi.

In the 2,100 years old Port city of Banbhore.

The Mosque of Banbhore. Also known as the Mosque of Debal. Built just 16 years after Muhammad bin Qasim brought Islam to the subcontinent through this exact port city in 711 AD.

One Prayer Hall.

No Mirhab.

33 Pillars wodden resting on sandstone bases, arranged in three rows of 11.

Open Courtyard.

2.5 degrees of Mecca. Calculated by hand in the 8th century. Verified by modern instruments 1,300 years later.

Archaeologists excavated the site starting in 1958 under Dr. F.A. Khan. What they found stunned the entire academic world.

The ground plan mirrors the very first mosques ever built in the Islamic world in 670.

Kufic inscriptions found on site confirmed the date.

It has no mihrab. The mihrab was introduced into mosque architecture later. This mosque predates that innovation. Making it not just old but a living record of how the very first mosques in the world were built.

The city of Banbhore, It traded with China via the Silk Road. A pot marked with Chinese characters was found in its ruins.

Alexander the Great passed through it in 324 BC.

Scythians ruled it.

Buddhists worshipped here.

Then Muhammad bin Qasim arrived.

And 16 years later someone built a mosque.

The first mosque in South Asia.

In Sindh, In our Pakistan.

Pakistan submitted Banbhore to UNESCO for World Heritage recognition in 2004. Still waiting.

The Mosque is in ruins today. Just Rock Foundation remains.

No Preservation in sight.

No renovations in sight.

The Introduction of Islam in South Asia deserves better.

site co-ordinates: 24°45′08″ N, 67°31′19″ E

Disclaimer: The last two images are AI Imagination of what the mosuqe would have looked like if it was still in its orignal condition.

@AntiquitieSindh
@UNESCO
@archaeologyart
@archaeologymag
@PPP_Org
@BBhuttoZardari

[Arvind Sood @arvindlotus]

@omarali50 If this is to be believed
https://t.co/e1qb5dloqg

But Keralites are 'kaaley' and have 'chotta kadd'

yeh thodee na 'aslee' musalmaan hain. inki to nasl badal deni chahiyey (a la Tikka Khan)

/sarc

[Arvind Sood @arvindlotus]

"Older-stock Canadians withdraw. Other immigrant communities withdraw. East Asians withdraw. Eastern Europeans withdraw."

'South Asians' never withdraw!

[Sciohn Fhanne @sciohn_fhanne]

I'll try to be very careful and sensitive with this observation of Canada, because it touches on highly charged questions of ethnicity, immigration, belonging, and public space.

But here goes.

I've walked around Mississauga's Celebration Square on multiple evenings, and one thing I've increasingly noticed is neither hostility, nor tension, nor conflict, but something more subtle and perhaps more concerning.

Public spaces seem to become associated with particular ethnocultural communities to such a degree that many others gradually stop showing up.

The result is not segregation in any formal sense. Nobody is being excluded. Nobody is being told they cannot be there. Yet the effect can be remarkably similar. A space that is nominally shared begins to feel less shared over time.

To be perfectly clear, what troubles me isn't the presence of any particular diasporic community itself per se, but rather the gradual disappearance of the sense that these spaces belong equally to all of us as Canadians.

When a public square begins to be perceived, fairly or unfairly, as belonging primarily to one group, many others instinctively withdraw. Older-stock Canadians withdraw. Other immigrant communities withdraw. East Asians withdraw. Eastern Europeans withdraw. People who have no objection to anyone there nevertheless begin spending their evenings elsewhere.

Human beings are, for better or worse, tribal creatures. We gravitate toward familiarity. We seek places where we feel represented. We retreat when that sense of belonging is lost.

I understand this instinctively as someone from an East Asian diasporic background myself.

The bottom line here is that a healthy Canadian civilization cannot simply consist of parallel communities inhabiting the same geography. It requires common spaces where people from different backgrounds routinely encounter one another and develop some sense of collective belonging within the same civic realm.

What I increasingly worry about in Canada is not "diversity" itself, but the erosion of sharedness.

A country begins to lose something important when its public spaces cease to feel genuinely collective.

And whatever future Canada ultimately chooses for itself, it should never, ever feel like a collection of separate worlds living side by side while gradually forgetting how to inhabit the same one.

[Arvind Sood @arvindlotus]

@MrMaitra During this period of imperial darkness (historians version of Jahiliya), millions of Indians were moving TO British administered India FROM the non-British parts (Princely States).

Such fools those Indians! Running to their predator. Like moths to the flame, really.

/sarcasm

[Arvind Sood @arvindlotus]

@GadSaad It is not a recession

Inheritor of Rashidun Caliphate, most Learned and Exalted, Amir-ul-Momineen Grand Mufti Justin Montreali has already said it is a shecession

[Arvind Sood @arvindlotus]

So tempted

Alas, the chances are they will declare me Hindu Kafir and dash my hopes of drinking booze with azeez brothers in Karachi.

Sad really

[Life in Saudi Arabia @LifeSaudiArabia]

Golden Opportunity - Foreigners can now apply for 🇵🇰 Pakistani citizenship with an investment of SR 67,500 ($18,000).

[Arvind Sood @arvindlotus]

Avez-vous suivi cette affaire, Monsieur ? C'est votre université, n'est-ce pas ? @ElstKoenraad

https://t.co/InrBI5EPes

[Arvind Sood @arvindlotus]

Hanania-ji @RichardHanania is on his way to being given Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card and have his picture taken while Modi-ji is hugging him
What result would we get if we performed a similar analysis on Indians in Canada @TheophanesRex?

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

India has sent 96 people to America who started billion dollar companies. No one else is even close.

There's only about 5 million Indians in America. Almost one in 50,000 of them is a unicorn founder!

What a holy, special, beautiful people.

I will always fight for them.

[Arvind Sood @arvindlotus]

@TheophanesRex Don't give him ideas.

The AI for All Agent will offer everyone MAID along with the census form. The AI for All Agent v2 will give every dead person a reminder that they can face legal consequences for not filling out the census form.

[Arvind Sood @arvindlotus]

@Frankisalegend1 Objection Milord - that is not the proper Desi way to eat mangoes !

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@MelissaMbarki @SenateCA Ignore the boil water advisory you have to live with.
Just be a good 'Indian' like we tell you how. Federal bureaucrats know what is better for you than you do.

Sickening!

[Arvind Sood @arvindlotus]

Mr. Beck is behaving as if he is from Brampton

/sarc

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Getting calls about Canada Royal Milk...

Just learned the contract to build the facility was sole-sourced to Graham Construction, no competitive bidding process. Grant Beck, the company's CEO, reportedly flew to China on a whirlwind 48-hour trip to sign the deal, and Canadians paid for it.

Unbelievable.

[Arvind Sood @arvindlotus]

@vimuktaatma @bagga_buntyy1 Zaheer Abbas

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@TheophanesRex @TheTorontoSun @HunterTOSun To be honest, I am just surprised the Sun did not run @sunlorrie's photo

everyone know Lorrie was driving that lorry

It was Lorrie's lorry. Decidedly

/sarc

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@TheophanesRex @TheTorontoSun @HunterTOSun Yes Toronto Sun is sure this person is right .... 'extreme right'
Don't make Brampton Man like they used to