mkaziz

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by mkaziz 9y ago
I would do this in a heartbeat, except having Maps and needing to look up a quick phone number / look for a place's opening hours while out and about is hard to give up. :(
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by mkaziz 10y ago
A) I'm sure he planned that when he escaped from Mecca on a camel. B) yes kind of like how the Russians went communist and then invaded Afghanistan. /a whole lot happened in between/ --- Anyway, I'm done arguing. You obv
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by mkaziz 10y ago
a) It wasn't hereditary. b) A bunch of ragtag Meccans came to Medina with a destitute Prophet, where there were two well armed and well established Arab tribes and three Jewish tribes. No armed conflict took place, because there is no
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by mkaziz 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Medina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Medina#Rights_...
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by mkaziz 10y ago
I mean, they were invited to come over and the Prophet(S) was invited to take a role of the head of state. Generally speaking most (not all) of the native Arab population (excluding the Jews) was happy about it. So in that sense, yes they w
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Conquest: https://www.google.com/search?q=conquest&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#s... con·quest/ˈkänˌkwest/ noun the subjugation and assumption of control of a place or people by use of military force.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
I referred to the act of emigration and the pact of brotherhood, not the subsequent conflicts with the Jews. There was no "conquest" of Medina. Conquest implies an invading army subjugating a native population, which didn't h
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Nadir and Qaynuqa were evicted , not massacred. Qurayza was killed after they betrayed the Muslims in the middle of a seige that Nadir (which had resettled in Khaybar) helped instigate. Khaybar was attacked as a result of that same seige,
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by mkaziz 10y ago
... you can say that about any historical event ever and massage it to fit your narrative. The commandment for Muslims to fight wasn't sent down till a year or two after the emigration, so they were quite literally not allowed to fight
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Oh. That went completely over my head. Thank you!
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by mkaziz 10y ago
You should include a note in your next tax return for the feds to not use any of your taxes to pay for his road/social security/medicare/anything. I'm sure he'd prefer his roads to come only from blueblooded America
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by mkaziz 10y ago
GP didn't imply "force", he implied /encourage/ by calling it civic duty.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
No they weren't? There was no conquest on Medina. I have no idea what you're trying to say.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
^Yep. When I was sponsored, the US government basically told us that if we try and claim any public benefits for the next 5 years, they'd come after my sponsor for reimbursement. Sponsor had to show adequate financial resources to spon
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Wow. I am beyond impressed. I am from a Muslim country and I have heard more than one person say that we may have Islam on our faces, but Westerners have Islam in their hearts. I can't even imagine the effort the Canadian sponsors put
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Do you have a quick synopsis of what happens?
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by mkaziz 10y ago
I don't think so. Having the Bengali counterbalance would have significantly reduced Pakistan's veering towards theocracy, imo. But that's speculation, neither here nor there. Who knows how it would have actually played out.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
It actually is going pretty well. We elected a demagogue and he's as checked and balanced as he can be, given that he has the House and Senate.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Yeah but you also have situations there like my old man, who got admitted for a heart attack and the hospital refused to operate without ~ his annual income (and we're middle class there) in cash being deposited first.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
I don't understand it how they ethically manage to do that. What kind of journalism is that?
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Having sex was also a major reason. Socially acceptable pre and extra marital sex is still a newish thing in our societies.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
No one's talking about that fact that the US trusts Abu Dhabi to have a customs port there[0], but not enough to let a passenger travelling via Abu Dhabi to put a laptop in their carryon ... 0. http://www.etihad.com/en-
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Of all the governments in the world today, I am most impressed by Merkel's Germany. She has remarkable ability to stand strong in the face of criticism and do what's right without bowing to populism.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
What interests me is that, despite that example, folks across the pond made exactly that mistake in November! Maybe we truly can't learn from others' mistakes.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
We marvel at those aqueducts and pyramids in the same way we marvel at this. WE shouldn't pooh-pah one accomplishment just because another exists that we're culturally more familiar with.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Any reason in particular for Foundation? I'm reading it right now and I love it, but it doesn't strike me as a life changing kind of book.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Immigration is not all or nothing. You can allow in a set number of immigrants a year - enough to inject new ideas but not enough to drown out Japanese culture. They're your borders, no one's stopping you.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Right, and the current situation is one such consequence of that. Of course they could try something else - they've been trying since the 90's from what I understand, with mixed results at best.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
It's not a floodgates vs nothing situation. You can certainly decide on an appropriate rate that you're comfortable with - enough to jumpstart the economy but not enough to completely drown out the host culture.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Addressing your first point: the problem is that they're stagnating /now/. They don't have the means or will or resources to deal with their problems. There's not enough labour to support the elderly population. I&#

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