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chimineycricketon Gods in the Classroom: Religion and Education in First Millennium BCE Babylonia

And they got the Greek works from Arabs who translated them during the Golden Age of Islam.

chimineycricketon Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan

Women are allowed full education in Pakistan.

chimineycricketon Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

Maraaji' is the pluralized version in Arabic, but nothing wrong with saying marjas. Marji would be most wrong though.

chimineycricketon Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car

In all of these situations, settlements continued to be built.

chimineycricketon ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials

Is this to say that law enforcement detaining children on their way home from school is a good thing?

chimineycricketon Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”

You're missing the point, "justice sought by the ICC" implies that the ICC just wanted to execute them, which is obviously not true.

chimineycricketon Israel Pumps Desalinated Water into Depleted Sea of Galilee

Israel came to Palestine, not the other way around. If someone took over your home, and offered even 90% of it to you, and invader keeps 10%, you would reject it. But alas we are here. Hopefully we can get rid of the evil parts of both governments, and make a new single state for everyone. Call it something new. All peace interested parties can be a part of the new government, ridding Netanyahu/Hamas types from the process.

Also by any chance if you have a response to the Netanyahu quote I gave.

chimineycricketon Israel Pumps Desalinated Water into Depleted Sea of Galilee

I meant they pay taxes, which pay for the water. PA signs the check I can agree.

chimineycricketon Israel Pumps Desalinated Water into Depleted Sea of Galilee

Do you really believe Israel wants to stop occupying the West Bank?

Just this month Israel killed 2 brothers (children), because they were identified as a threat. They continue to expand settlements, and they bomb during ceasefires. Can you give me any example of Israel really attempting peace? 2005 disengagement, but they have the levers to keep Gazans on the brink of death, by bottlenecking food, water, etc. Just because it's called disengagement, doesn't mean it really is. Don't accept their propaganda at face value, or anyone's, obviously.

"Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas ... This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank."

chimineycricketon Israel Pumps Desalinated Water into Depleted Sea of Galilee

https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6390/The-Israeli-army%...

chimineycricketon Israel Pumps Desalinated Water into Depleted Sea of Galilee

I'm following your reasoning. Most West Bank residents are terrorist supporters and therefore they should be...killed?

chimineycricketon Israel Pumps Desalinated Water into Depleted Sea of Galilee

Yes, and Gaza has to pay for the water. It's not free. Sometimes they pay, but get no water in return.

chimineycricketon Israel Pumps Desalinated Water into Depleted Sea of Galilee

Hopefully they can stop closing the water valve to Gaza when they feel like.

chimineycricketon OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030

Yes, in the sense that Google is not hallucinating search results or making up products when searching for it.

chimineycricketon How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized

From the people killing them in places where Hamas has no control and building illegal settlements on their land.

chimineycricketon Tinder, Hinge, and their corporate owner keep rape under wraps

Because the purpose of Tinder, Hinge, etc. is to slowly destroy the social fabric of society to a point where people are perfectly malleable. More, more, more instant gratification. Less, less, less integrity.

chimineycricketon The school shooting industry is worth billions – and it keeps growing

Obviously I'm talking about reversing shootings, that's not possible. I'm talking about the culture that's developed, that has led to more angry kids. Angry enough to shoot their classmates. Wouldn't reversing that culture be the ultimate solution? Banning guns only delays the symptoms of this anger.

chimineycricketon The school shooting industry is worth billions – and it keeps growing

Obviously this would help immensely, but this wasn't happening in the 90s when kids would bring guns to school for show and tell. Whatever changed, the better solution is to reverse that. What do you think?

chimineycricketon Meta Leaks Part 1: Israel and Meta

It's whataboutism because the statement also included that Israel is a terrorist state. By giving a list of attacks on Israel as a rebuttal, you are saying Israel is not a terrorist state because it's been attacked by Hamas. Do you see how silly that sounds? Since Hamas is a terrorist group for all of its viscousness, Israel must be as well, because the viciousness of Israel is more than 10 times that of Hamas.

chimineycricketon ‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Hamas_charter

Hamas is willing to accept the 1967 borders as Palestine.

chimineycricketon ‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler

Does Italy have a right to exist? Based on what do you answer this question?

chimineycricketon ‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler

>the way Israel is currently/always being portrayed

Israeli soldiers, politicians, and many civilians are portraying themselves this way. Soldiers post videos sniping a child in the head calling it a "legendary video", politicians say Palestinians should starve, civilians block aid trucks.

Do you resent the way they are portrayed or do you mean you resent what a lot of Israelis are doing?

chimineycricketon IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites

>Israel wouldn't attack Gaza if the terrorists who run that place didn't have a constitutional ambition to destroy Israel.

Really? The > 750,000 Palestinians pushed out of their homes in 1948, when "Israelis" showed up for the first time, backed up by guns, were Hamas? News to me.

chimineycricketon Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices

Iran did not fund ISIS.

chimineycricketon The wire that transforms much of Manhattan into one big, symbolic home (2017)

I'm not understanding most of this.

>the Salafi, take the Jewish legalistic idea

What is "the Jewish legalistic idea"? It's not a monolith. What makes a salafi a salafi has nothing to do with legalistic ideas.

>majority of other traditions in Islam lean towards Tafsir

This also doesn't make sense to me, as tafsir is exegesis of Quran. Salafis and all muslims care about tafsir.

The core differences between different groups of muslims, loosely in order of priority, is which sources to take from after the demise of Prophet Mohammed, and then how to interpret any sources (incl. Quran) (literally (salafis), logically (shia), etc.).

There are different tafsirs of Quran as well, and can have very stark differences. However loopholes are completely disallowed by all muslims.

chimineycricketon Palestinian activist arrested by ICE while expecting U.S. citizenship interview

It does. That's a clear indication of the preference of one kind of citizen vs another.

The moment European migrants started stealing land with EU guns, they started a war.

chimineycricketon Palestinian activist arrested by ICE while expecting U.S. citizenship interview

>2. Non-Jews have equal rights >I think what you're asking is: why is it OK to have the "right of return"...[because] Jews have been persecuted throughout history wherever they lived

This is a contradiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppression_Olympics

>Not one war started by Israel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing

If you want to claim it wasn't the country of Israel, congratulations I guess.

chimineycricketon All Kindles can now be jailbroken

It's an Android tablet, download whatever apps you want.

chimineycricketon Aliens from a Parallel Universe May Be All Around Us–and We Don't Even Know It

In Islam, jinns are described as being made of smokeless fire. They have societies, schools, marriages, etc. They can be good, bad, Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, whatever. They're parallel to us, "physically" speaking. Of course they can be contacted as well, but don't try that at home.

chimineycricketon Moaan InkPalm Plus is weird, cheap, small, and my kind of e-reader

Same, no blue light or eyestrain is a plus. I agree with the other child comment though, the price is too steep for now. FPS and it being Android and therefore extendable is great. I want one.