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Please Sir, tell me your secret for living such a long life. I must know!The one i was told over 20 decades ago...
Please Sir, tell me your secret for living such a long life. I must know!
Wrong; muslims unironically want that and believe living like animals praying for Allah is better than what we have now.Obviously, saying that every Muslim wants this is moronic and blatantly untrue.
Personally, I believe that Islamic extremism won't die down (mind you, not disappear entirely) until Islam itself establishes a separation between mosque and state.
Nuh uh.Islam as we know of it today is essentially what Marcion wanted to do, that is, cut off the Torah/Old Testament to uplift and enthrone a new prophet as a foundation for a new religion, making it less Judaism 2.0 and more of a new religion. Early Muslims used the Torah and the Christian Gospels along with their new Koran book. The Arab alliance that attacked the Byzantines and Persians consisted of Christian/Jewish tribes. Muhammad and the Koran are the mythologization of their alliance and power grab and, most importantly, their "spiritual" justification for the power grab. The problem arises when the Shiite split happens in the alliance and eventually double down on the Koran as the ONLY holy book so they could have a legitimate reason to split from the alliance and have a justified reason to attack the other members. A lot of what we know as modern Islamic terrorism really began when the Shiites doubled down on the Koran as sola scriptura and started using it to attack their enemies, who were mostly other "Muslims."
You could see the shift of what we know as modern Islam occur when the power shifted to the Shiites around the 800s a.d. - the extra hadith sayings of Muhammad started here to justify this, and the Twelver Shiites started promoting the split of the Koran from the rest of the canon. The Gnostic Sabians allegedly were part of the original Koranic canon with the text "Psalms of Zabur" until Shiite reformer al-Bukhari cut it off, eliminating them from the alliance; this is why they're called "people of the book" in the Koran along with Christians and Jews. The Ghassanid/Melkite Christian tribe, who were a part of this alliance and the ones who were targeted by the Shiites, were said to be worshipers of John (Sabians) originally and eventually became what we know as Sunni Muslims. Marcion, in a weird way, lives on through Islam and its movement.
The puritanism that's ingrained in Islam itself - but married women back then during Greco-Roman antiquity had to cover their hair in a veil, so it showed you were unmarried or a prostitute if you didn't cover it and thus, immodest.How did Muslims get that idea that it is "immodest" for a woman to show her hair in pubic, resulting in having the "hijab" on at all times when out... when not made to cover up like a bedsheet ghost, that is? Even Victorian women and 17th century Puritan women and could at least show some hair, and they lived in the considerably cooler climates.
It's kind of hard not to see it existing since it was essentially an expanded Arabic Christianity that did not rely on Roman Law - instead, they tailored it for themselves and created their own laws since they gained newfound power at the time. Really there was no way the ever-growing influence of the Semites (Arabs/Jews) at the time, who were mostly experienced mercenaries and merchants (powerful combo), were going to bend the knee to Rome in how they practiced Christianity and their other traditions over there - thus, the major split will always be the Trinitarian heresy from the Arabic point of view, birthing Islam.The world would be a better place if Shia (or even Ibadi) Islam was the dominant form of Islam over Sunni. Then again it would even be better if there was no Islam in the first place but let's just imagine this hypothetical.
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