#rules of Islam

[secular-jew]

This is modern Islam

[summercoldd]

First of all, LMAO. Welcome to yet another episode of muslim women being delusional. Men didn't "interpret" Islam, they INVENTED it. Your sugarcoating will not change the fact that islam is inherently patriarchal, male favouring and anti- women. It also won't change the fact that your prophet slept with a 9 year old little girl. It also won't change the fact that your prophet literally said "most of the hell will be filled with women" and men will get 70 virgins in jannah. There is no alternative female- centered interpretation for islam and you're delusional if you think so.

It's like saying "let's have a female interpretation of patriarchy" or "let's have a lower caste interpretation for caste system" or "let's have a working class interpretation for capitalism" or "let's have a black interpretation of racism".

You don't reinterpret oppressive systems, you challenge them with the opposite!!!

[pluvionpc]

happy @barrissday! a little love and appreciation since i’m officially caught up in all (tv/movie) things star wars >:)

these outfits are based on designs done by merihry on ig and posted by the islamic fashion institute. they are an absolutely stunning set among many awesome collections, and i strongly recommend you check out both the artist and the rest of the inst’s work!

[cavalierzee]

Jerusalem Is 100% Palestinian Land

According to the ICJ, the American embassy in Jerusalem is built illegally on Palestinian land.

Today’s ICJ opinion confirms that Jerusalem is 100% Palestinian Land.

Jerusalem has been the heart of Palestine and will always be a part of PALESTINE.

Sulaiman Ahmed

[uma1ra]

While it's permissible to read the Quran without understanding its meaning, it's not ideal. The Quran is meant to be understood and acted upon.

Explanation

The Quran is called the Furqan, which means "the distinguisher between right and wrong".

The Quran is meant to be pondered and contemplated upon.

The Quran itself repeatedly mentions that it is meant to be understood for guidance.

The Companions of the Prophet would not move on from ten verses until they had learned them and how to act upon them.

Some say that it's crucial to understand the meaning of the Quran so that we can distinguish between good and evil.

Some say that the highest level of reward is to recite the Quran and know the meaning of what you're reciting.

[lankylounger]

Laura lee watching the Yellowjackets eat each other from heaven finding out why it’s a sin to tell people that they’re prophets

[femboy-expert]

You’re islamophobic because you’re ignorant

I’m islamophobic because they made significant advances in mathematics and math makes my head go ouch

We are not the same

[ramayantika]

Okay now what's the deal with hating on kathak for its connection with mughal history.

You don't even know a thing about dance but you got to hate it mindlessly

[summercoldd]

I have a strange relationship with my periods. While painful and difficult to deal with, I found them liberating as a child. I didn't want to admit it but I hated namaz, quran, and fasting. And it was so satisfying to know that finally I could be myself for 7-8 days. I've stopped offering namaz and reading the quran now, but the feeling of exhilaration still comes with every period and feels so nostalgic (I still have to pretend to fast tho).

[disgustedorite]

I'm still thinking about how weird fandom is about hijabs and strict adherence to "rules" about them. Not too long ago I witnessed one of my coworkers take off her hijab right in front of everyone and use it to wipe sweat from her brow. I know I should've expected a bunch of non-muslims on the internet who have probably never met any real muslims to get things wrong when making their diversity headcanons and yelling at people for drawing hijabs wrong or whatever but it's still shocking just how much of it in reality isn't a big deal.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

New Rule: Dear Chappell Roan... | Real Time with Bill Maher

And finally, New Rule: To mark the October 7th anniversary, we must launch a campaign to educate young Americans about the Middle East. And the way I'd like to begin that process is by addressing an open letter to Chappell Roan.

Now, to those viewers who aren't watching this while also looking at their phones, let me explain. Chappell Roan is not the name of one of Tru.mp's golf courses, she's actually a great new recording artist who, like a Hezbollah pager, is really blowing up. In just a few months, she went from a struggling artist to getting three billion plays on Spotify. Netting her almost 11 cents.

But here's what caught my eye. She seems like a Gen Zer who can be reached, because I saw her on TMZ say: "it's like, obviously, fuck the policies of the right. But also, fuck some of the policies on the left." That sounds like something I would say!

She also said, "I think it's important that people use critical thinking. I think it's important for me to… question myself… question my algorithm, question: is some person that tweeted something about someone else even true?" Preach, queer ally, preach.

But then we get to Israel, and Chappell, this is where we must put to the test your pledge to use critical thinking and to question whether what you're reading on social media is true. Because it isn't. There's a whole history of the Middle East that you and your fans aren't hearing about. So, why don't you let me be your spirit guide through this?

But before I do, let me tell you a little about myself, since you may have no idea who I am, considering that when this show went on the air you were barely old enough to be told you were in the wrong body. So, my name is Bill Maher, I'm 35. I've been to all of Diddy's freak-off parties, and I work at the same place as Euphoria. In fact, she's right down the hall. My TikTok handle is "B-Nasty" and I go live every Friday night with the anime filter on, and I once won a smoke-off against Willie Nelson, Woody Harelson and Snoop. Okay, that one's true.

But, no, look the truth be told, I'm a baby boomer, I remember phone-booths and cars with ashtrays and vaginal sex. And I didn't learn about the Middle East from TikTok, which is a Chinese company whose totalitarian government would just love to have America's youth hating America. That's some of that algorithm stuff you say you want to look into.

Now, first off, the fact that you don't know much history isn't your fault. You live in the United States where the schools stop doing that whole "teaching facts" thing a while ago. But getting all your history from TikTok is like getting all your calories from Hostess.

I know you're moved by what you see on there, we all are. The dead Palestinian bodies. But it's odd that your generation didn't seem nearly as moved by the Jewish bodies on October 7th. You killed at Coachella this year, but when Hamas kills at a music festival it's a whole other thing. Doesn't the sight of so many young women raped at a music festival make it a little personal? My guess is that Gen Z hearts are hardened by the propaganda you see on TikTok, which likes to call the Jews "colonizers." But colonizers are intruders who have no history in an area, like when Spain conquered the Mayans. Or when your mom took over Facebook.

When the Dutch took over South Africa, they had no history to the land, they just wanted it. But Israel is the Jews homeland. And Jews have always lived there, I cap you not. You can look it up. It's in this book called The Bible, which is horribly wrong about sex ed, slavery, science and cooking, but the archaeology checks out. It says the Jews built a temple with a really big wall seven centuries before Muhammad or Islam ever existed, and sure as shit, you can still go there and touch it. Calling Jews colonizers in Israel is like calling Native Americans colonizers here. It's ridiculous.

Chappell, did you know that for 2,000 years, Palestine was like an Uber driver with a three star rating? Nobody wanted it. And there was never any Arab country called "Palestine." It was an orphan province, and if you ask people what they thought about it back then, they'd say it gave them the ick.

But after World War II, and after the Jews were very nearly wiped out by an actual attempted genocide, they decided it was time for their historic homeland to be an actual country so that for once they could defend themselves.

And the UN - we like them, right? Yeah, they agreed, and voted a country for each of the indigenous peoples. One side agreed to that. But the Arabs had a slightly different proposal. They said, "how about we keep it all and wipe you out?"

Chappell, if you think it was repressive growing up queer in the midwest, try the Mid East. You're a female drag queen and you sing, "I fucked you in the bathroom when we went to dinner, your parents at the table." Yeah, that wouldn't fly in Gaza. Although you would, straight off a roof. The same goes for, "knee deep in the passenger seat and you're eating me out." Yeah, my guess is the morality police would figure out that one's not about the drive-thru and kill your featherboa wearing ass. You know when you sing that LA is where "boys and girls can all be queens every single day"? You're welcome, but offer not good in the West Bank.

Chappell, you're not wrong that oppression is bad or that Palestinian and many other Muslim populations are oppressed and deserve to be freed. You just have it completely ass-backwards as to who is doing the oppressing. Hamas is a terrorist mafia that took over Gaza. The Revolutionary Guard is a terrorist mafia that took over Iran. ISIS is a terrorist mafia that took over Iraq. The Taliban is a terrorist mafia that took over Afghanistan. These are the oppressors and when you make it all about Israel, you take the pressure off of them. You enable them.

The Iranian regime has killed 600 protesters after a 22-year-old woman died in police custody following her arrest for the crime of wearing her head covering incorrectly. Just to be clear, that's your team. Iran is who sponsors Hamas and Hezbollah. Are you sure this is who you want to throw down with?

Meryl Streep spoke at the UN recently and said this about the Taliban, who are only slightly more conservative than your heroes in Hamas. She said, "today in Kabul a female cat has more freedoms than a woman. A cat may go sit on her front stoop and feel the sun on her face. She may chase a squirrel into the park. A squirrel has more rights than a girl in Afghanistan today… A bird may sing in Kabul, but a girl may not." You're a singer and you're advocating for a place and a culture you would never want to live under.

Gender may not be binary, but right and wrong kind of is.

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https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/ushistory/results/achievement/

Baseline: NAEP Proficient

And this is just US History. Now consider proficiency in World History.

Having watched the full video, I've come to the conclusion that Chappell Roan is a window-licking weapons-grade ignorant moron. What's more concerning is that her fans will uncritically parrot her ignorant, ahistorical politics just because they like her music.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/black-sheep-empire-actors-actresses-ancient-rome-0010292

The ancient Greeks loved the theater and ancient Greek actors enjoyed a position of eminence and respect. In contrast, although entertainment and drama were similarly adored in Ancient Rome, theater performers were often demeaned by the upper-class society and also perceived as morally unclean.

We need to go back to this.

[cupcakegalaxia]

When 20 years ago atheists said that the decrease in religion (*cough* Christianity *cough*) would lead to a more enlightened society are suddenly concerned about the slow moving ball of Western Society collapsing, authoritarianism rising and political unrest on a level the world has not seen for a very long time.

sigh

[skywingsfly]

"Cahiliye Hükmünü mü arıyorlar?"

Ayet Maide 5: 50:

أَفَحُكْمَ ٱلْجَـٰهِلِيَّةِ يَبْغُونَ ۚ وَمَنْ أَحْسَنُ مِنَ ٱللَّهِ حُكْمًۭا لِّقَوْمٍۢ يُوقِنُونَ

"Onlar hâlâ cahiliye hükmünü mü arıyorlar? Kesin bilgiyle inanan bir topluluk için hükmü, Allah'tan daha güzel olan kimdir?"

"(If they turn away from the Law of Allah) do they desire judgement according to the Law of Ignorance? But for those who have certainty of belief whose judgement can be better than Allah's?"

[uma1ra]

[roxiearth]

Growing up Muslim gives you this whole other perspective like what do you mean interest?? It doesn’t even make sense on paper, how’d y’all normalize it so much??