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Pointless Pedant said:
Their main criticism of Giordano Bruno was that he thought there were other habitable planets in the Universe and aliens existed. They didn't like anything which suggested the Earth or people weren't unique, because they didn't want to contemplate their own insignificance.
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Their main criticism of Bruno was that he didn't cuck out and recant when they told him "nah dog that's heresy" and it made them look weak if they didn't burn him.
 
Pointless Pedant said:
For all those those people making up crackpot theories about religious conflicts being deadlier in modern times because of reduced need for manual labour, that's a heap of bollocks, but I guess expecting anyone to know about the French wars of religion or the 30 years' war is too much when there are so many comic book films to whine about. The latter conflict was so devastating it led to a complete overhaul of European politics and established the concept of Westphalian nation states.
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I wasn't talking about wars back then being cuddly pillowfights, they were still rather bloody ordeals obviously, but the goal behind a military conquest usually isn't to acquire lands that only consist of burned crops, dead peasants and smoking rubble. Granted, back then military strikes to disrupt the enemy's infrastructure and economy were just as vital to warfare as they are today - it's the whole idea behind a chevauchée, after all. I merely mused about whether or not it's a new developement that a nation or terrorist group might conquer lands to 'purify' it and assuming that's correct, if the reason for this might be an economy that is based on -say- selling oil to crooked goverments rather than taxing newly-conquered population.
 
Pointless Pedant said:
I don't think Egypt and Syria are particularly concerned with neo Nazi gangs when they had Otto Skorzeny and Alois Brunner working for them for years.
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By the end of his life, Brunner wasn't so much working for them as enslaved and kept in a dungeon by them. He apparently died in horrible squalor and in agony from miserable health. Which he deserved, of course.
 
RomanesEuntDomus said:
I wasn't talking about wars back then being cuddly pillowfights, they were still rather bloody ordeals obviously, but the goal behind a military conquest usually isn't to acquire lands that only consist of burned crops, dead peasants and smoking rubble. Granted, back then military strikes to disrupt the enemy's infrastructure and economy were just as vital to warfare as they are today - it's the whole idea behind a chevauchée, after all. I merely mused about whether or not it's a new developement that a nation or terrorist group might conquer lands to 'purify' it and assuming that's correct, if the reason for this might be an economy that is based on -say- selling oil to crooked goverments rather than taxing newly-conquered population.
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Some of the Mongol conquests were genocidal. The city of Merv was utterly exterminated, and Baghdad's population didn't recover until the 20th century. The death tolls of the French wars of religion (3,000,000 dead) and the 30 Years' War (8,000,000 dead) vastly exceed anything ISIS or al Qaida managed to do, so people were obviously happy to cause massive damage in religious wars at the time.

Every nation, regardless of wealth, needs labourers, because labour jobs don't do themselves and are vital for keeping society running. Saudi Arabia and the UAE import them by the million from South Asia and Africa, the latter to the extent that Arabs are now less than 1/5 of the population. ISIS rely on local Iraqi and Syrian Sunnis for their heavy work, and they have even more heavy work to do since they have to clear rubble and maintain a war effort. They never controlled enough land for a lack of labourers to be an issue, and it was never a possibility that they would either, since most of the world doesn't like terrorist groups proclaiming caliphates on sovereign states' territory.
 
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Pointless Pedant said:
Some of the Mongol conquests were genocidal. The city of Merv was utterly exterminated, and Baghdad's population didn't recover until the 20th century. The death tolls of the French wars of religion (3,000,000 dead) and the 30 Years' War (8,000,000 dead) vastly exceed anything ISIS or al Qaida managed to do, so people were obviously happy to cause massive damage in religious wars at the time.

Every nation, regardless of wealth, needs labourers, because labour jobs don't do themselves and are vital for keeping society running. Saudi Arabia and the UAE import them by the million from South Asia and Africa, the latter to the extent that Arabs are now less than 1/5 of the population. ISIS rely on local Iraqi and Syrian Sunnis for their heavy work, and they have even more heavy work to do since they have to clear rubble and maintain a war effort. They never controlled enough land for a lack of labourers to be an issue, and it was never a possibility that they would either, since most of the world doesn't like terrorist groups proclaiming caliphates on sovereign states' territory.
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I never disputed any of that, you know.

Pointless Pedant said:
Since you said you were German, I might ask why the Nazis had the Holocaust and Generalplan Ost when they could have taxed the Jewish and Slavic population instead. The answer is fairly similar.
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Didn't know WW2 was a medieval war. :story:

Edit: also this is getting awefully OT, so let's rather get back to the main show instead of further shitting up this thread.

"Is it correct to kill geckos by hand? Is it proven that there is reward for killing them?"
Praise be to Allaah.

Killing geckos is prescribed because there is a great deal of evidence to that effect. It should be done with a tool or implement, etc. There is nothing in the reports to specify that they should be killed by hand or to encourage killing them by hand. I do not think that this is correct and there is no report to this effect. That is alien to Islamic teaching and good characteristics.

In al-Saheehayn and elsewhere it is narrated via Sa’eed ibn al-Musayyib that Um Shareek told him that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) told her to kill geckos. According to the report narrated by al-Bukhaari, he said: “It (the geckos) used to blow on Ibraaheem, peace be upon him.”

In Saheeh Muslim it is narrated via ‘Abd al-Razzaaq, Mu’ammar told us from al-Zuhri from ‘Aamir ibn Sa’d from his father that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said enjoined the killing of geckos and called them mischief doers.

Killing geckos with one blow brings more reward than killing them with two blows. This was narrated in Saheeh Muslim via Khaalid ibn ‘Abd-Allaah from Suhayl ibn Abi Saalih from his father from Abu Hurayrah, that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever kills a geckos with one blow will have such and such hasanah (good deeds); whoever kills it with the second blow will have such and such hasanah, less than the first; and whoever kills it with three blows will have such and such hasanah – less that the second.”

Shaykh Sulaymaan al-‘Alwaan.

Ibn Maajah (may Allaah have mercy on him) narrated in his Sunan from Saa’ibah the slave woman of al-Faakih ibn al-Mugheerah that she entered upon ‘Aa’ishah and saw a spear sitting there in her house. She said, “O Mother of the Believers, what do you do with this?” She said, “We kill these geckos with it, because the Prophet of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) told us that when Ibraaheem was thrown into the fire, there was no animal on earth but it tried to extinguish the fire, except for the gecko, which was blowing on the fire (to keep it burning). So the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) commanded that they should be killed.”

(Sunan Ibn Maajah, 3222. He said in al-Zawaa’id, the isnaad of ‘Aa’ishah’s hadeeth is saheeh, its men are thiqaat (trustworthy)

And Allaah knows best.
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So, apparently killing harmless little critters is srs bsns.
 
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RomanesEuntDomus said:
I never disputed any of that, you know.


Didn't know WW2 was a medieval war. :story:
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I was just using it as an example of somewhere in the modern age which definitely wasn't an oil economy. I shouldn't have, since it just pushes it even further off topic.

Getting back on topic, drinking while sitting is better than drinking while standing.

https://islamqa.info/en/143966

Whoever wrote these religious laws must have had a lot of time on his hands.
 
If you use stones to wipe your arse, you are supposed to do it an odd number of times.

https://islamqa.info/en/127362

IslamQA said:
Cleaning oneself with stones or whatever takes their place, apart from bones and dung, takes the place of cleaning oneself with water when purifying the front and back passage. Men and women are the same in that regard. What is required is three clean stones for both back and front. If that is not sufficient, then it is essential to do more until it becomes clean. It is best to make it an odd number, so if it becomes clean after four wipes, it is prescribed to do a fifth, and if it becomes clean after six, it is prescribed to do a seventh, because of the general meaning of the words of the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allaah be upon him): “Whoever cleans himself, let him make it an odd number.”
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Ginger Piglet said:
You must not shit facing, or facing directly away from, Mecca, and must rotate your toilet accordingly.

I sometimes wonder whether the Prophet and his companions were all just trolling and after hours they would giggle about how they pulled the wool over the eyes of the illiterate shit-thick goatherds.
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I've noticed that if a religion or a branch of it has micromanaged rules, the founder just wants power by wearing out his/her followers with all of them.
 
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