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skepticism, philosophy, business, and art. 📿 substack:

[🐇 @bunnpyunk]

muslims really did cook with the no drinking rule because i’ve seen what heavy drinkers look like

[🇪🇬🕊️ @sayooofa]

Learned this the hard way.

[Aner @mephistophalic]

Studying Economics at university today is similar to studying Theology in the 19th century.

[🇪🇬🕊️ @sayooofa]

@al_done3 It was “irrelevant” in the real world because apostates got jailed or killed for voicing their beliefs.

You’d be surprised how many Muslims harbor atheist beliefs but keep it hidden ..

[🇪🇬🕊️ @sayooofa]

I believe the natural instinct to question the validity of Islamic interpretation and practice can become pathological.

It’s the sign of a healthy [and courageous] religious spirit to desire spiritual truth.

Yet when that desire pushes one to destroy the entire foundations of the faith and rebuild it — that’s arrogance.

[🇪🇬🕊️ @sayooofa]

Mature believers of Islam take it upon themselves to accept the interpretations and opinions of scholars which prove the most convincing, not those which are convenient.

[🇪🇬🕊️ @sayooofa]

@big_fig1218 @sharghzadeh Literally. As someone from a Muslim country, this tweet is complete copium for the fact that Western countries dominate in every measurable field.

One only needs to look at the geopolitical landscape to understand this reality.

[🇪🇬🕊️ @sayooofa]

Geniunely, America might be one of the least Christian nations in the world.

American Christianity is essentially a new nationalist-religious movement.

The deification of money (rebranded as the “Prosperity Gospel”), the complete lack of ‘love for thy neighbor’, and funding the bombing of Jesus’ descendants in Palestine can hardly be called Christian.

[Sean Strickland @SStricklandMMA]

This is why I am pro Christians.... America is a Christian nation.... Its that simple.. Its a worthy hill to die on.

[🇪🇬🕊️ @sayooofa]

I’m not Christian, but what you may consider ‘basic human decency’ wasn’t actually the case before the Christian revolution.

For example, the idea of having pity for the homeless or disadvantaged was practically absent in the Greco-Roman world.

Goodness was associated with nobility and strength.

Your belief in these things being “basic human decency” is just proof to how successful Christian values have become.

[Tom Holland’s “Dominion”is a good read for fuller perspective]

[The Vegapunk of Hyenas @Yeenie_Mcbeenie]

The problem with arguing Christian morality is that you’ll see basic human behavior and Christians pretend they invented it

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Wow. These disgusting antisemites are now going to Wikipedia to edit the referee’s profile and add that he is Jewish.

This is the same rotten conspiracy theory: that Jews control FIFA and somehow made sure Egypt lost.

Even if the referee were Jewish, that would have absolutely nothing to do with the outcome of the match.

Assuming someone is biased simply because they are Jewish is classic antisemitism. Judging a person by their identity instead of their actions—and treating Jewishness itself as evidence of wrongdoing—is guilt by association, and it's disgusting.

These people are a complete joke. And of course, they can’t sell their disgusting antisemitic conspiracy theories without hiding behind “pro-Palestine.”

[🇪🇬🕊️ @sayooofa]

@XamarPapi I agree with you absolutely. Similarly, if the ayah said the steep path was “abolishing the ownership of humans” that would be abolishing slavery.

It doesn’t say that though. It says to “free a slave”. That is charity, not abolishing the system.

[🇪🇬🕊️ @sayooofa]

This is a very heavy reach ..

Would you argue that the Prophet wanted to establish a communist economic system because he advocated for giving monetary charity to the unfortunate?

[Omar @omar_dddg]

It is, if you follow the Quran not your whims.

[🇪🇬🕊️ @sayooofa]

I may be theologically out of line here, but the idea of ‘military saints’ seems like a contradiction in terms.

[🇪🇬🕊️ @sayooofa]

@latinizedlogos they can’t fathom any Muslim existing outside the Salafi framework, it’s why they claim he’s practicing ‘taqiyya’ to hide his Al-Qaeda beliefs ..

[𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ𐀔٠ ࣪⭑ @honeydewfae]

I’m seeing a lot of misinformation about Islam when it comes to slavery

Islam does NOT permit slavery, so it’s concerning to see a lot of people claim that it does. Islam, as a whole, doesn’t allow the oppression of people.

https://t.co/gRXLXiGccX

[🇪🇬🕊️ @sayooofa]

I will never understand how people can get SOOO close to getting it, but not make the leap.

Could it be — that perhaps, — Islam condones something indecent and immoral?? … no, no, surely that can’t be the case …

[🇪🇬🕊️ @sayooofa]

Exhibit A of the revisionist impulse:

[🇪🇬🕊️ @sayooofa]

The history of sectarianism and seemingly polar values within religious communities is the dynamic interplay between the revisionist and the fundamentalist.

The revisionist views history from the lens of progression, and the positive evolution of morals and society.

In this regard, he is a conformist.

In order to participate in this progressive world without losing touch with his culture and tradition, God undergoes evolution.

In this regard, he has very foggy vision.

God thus rewards the behaviors of those operating within a 21st C. moral paradigm, and detests all those actions done by the “extremists”, once blessed by God himself centuries ago.

Whether the revisionist does this with malicious intent or merely ignorance varies by person.

The revisionist presents this evolved faith to the progressive world, who happily welcome it as it supposedly fits neatly within contemporary perspectives. In this way, the revisionist keeps the rotting faith alive with decorative makeup.

The free secular spirit, however, is not deceived. He confronts the faith head-on with courage, and unmasks the faith. It’s through this courageous undertaking that the free spirit unlocks the world through the eyes of the fundamentalist in all its barbarism.

Ironically, it is the revisionist’s efforts which keeps the fundamentalist surviving.

The fundamentalist becomes increasingly suffocating with the passage of time. He aims to worship his faith in all its ancient and rotting glory, elevating its first followers and thinkers as humanity’s greatest exemplars.

Furthermore, he meticulously preserves and elevates the sacred texts alongside it’s earliest commentaries and guidebooks as humanity’s greatest texts.

In the revionist’s violent reaction to this rich, authoritative [and backward] religious history, he attempts not only to dig up the heretics and wrongdoers of the religion’s history from the muddy crevices of history, but ALSO dig up from their works the rare ideas which corroborate with 21st C. ideals, and posit this scramble of interpretations as the TRUE faith.

In the case of Islam, the revisionists wish to discard all those ancient elements not considered essential to salvation. They wish to escape from the Hadith literature, and the earliest commentaries.

Unfortunately, they are barred from interfering with the sacred text itself [God’s word].

The secularist and fundamentalist see reality with clearer vision, albeit with fundamentally polar spirits.

As erroneous as the revisionist is, I wish to keep him around as he is good company.

As clear-sighted and truth-seeking the fundamentalist is, I wish to keep him as far away from me as possible.

[🇪🇬🕊️ @sayooofa]

Except it is THE important thing in Islam.

The whole concept of Islam is submission to the Qur’an and Sharia whereas true, inner belief is tertiary.

[🇪🇬🕊️ @sayooofa]

The brutal intelligence pill is that while people claim that everyone has different strengths in various academic subjects,

It’s more often the case that a smart person is generally good at everything while an unintelligent person tends to not be good at everything.

Intelligent students, post elementary and middle school, tend to devote most of their energy towards the ‘hard’ subjects such as math and science as they allow for more successful career trajectories (despite being fully capable at excelling in the English and Arts departments).

Unintelligent students, finding the ‘hard’ subjects more difficult to grasp, enter the subjects with less barriers to entry such as Art and English.

Obviously, over long enough time frames, the unintelligent Art and English students increase their capabilities in those fields (surpassing the intelligent students in those fields), which gives the illusion that these students somehow have better strengths in said fields.

This is not the case.

Furthermore, I’ve noticed that intelligent kids who decide to enter the Art and English fields (those who excelled in math and science as well) tend to go miles further in those fields than the unintelligent kids who only went those routes because of said-barriers-to-entry.

[🇪🇬🕊️ @sayooofa]

They’re liberal because they promote liberalist ideas that they take as ‘self-evident human rights’ such as free speech, anti-slavery, anti-child marriage, etc.

They don’t understand that their morality stems from 21 C. liberalist ideas whilst simultaneously claiming to uphold Islamic law by being against homosexual behavior.

Give it another 50-100 years before they see homosexual behavior as a“self-evident human right”.

[Azhaar @Azhaar3818]

Muslims on this app will decry liberalism without knowing that they themselves are the liberal. They're just not so liberal enough to endorse homosexuality, transgenders, and pornography.

And it's these people who sneak themselves into the traditional sunni camp.

[🇪🇬🕊️ @sayooofa]

@Azhaar3818 Absolutely. This phenomenon only gets worse with time btw.