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Archon_WarslutFor Christians, the Universe starts with God creating it. For Muslims, the Universe starts with hating Jews.
For Christians, the Universe starts with God creating it. For Muslims, the Universe starts with hating Jews. - Lemmy.World
For Christians, the Universe starts with God creating it. For Muslims, the Universe starts with hating Jews. The first chapter of the Bible is Genesis- the story of God creating the Universe. The first chapter of the Quran is “The Cow”- an attack on Jews. I’m going to explain the context of the chapter and then recite some important parts. Please read, especially if you prefer not to read such posts. “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned in love” -Shakespeare Why did Muhammad hate the Jews so much? Because he at first tried to suck up to them, but then was rejected by them for this effort, leading Muhammad to decide to embark instead on a decade of armed conflict against them, resulting in him and his followers eradicating them from the Arabian Peninsula. Muhammad’s first attempt at receiving religious worship involved him trying to convince Judaism that he was the next Jewish prophet, or rather, that he was the original Jewish prophet, such as his ego went. He attempted to convince them of this by having his first, small band of local ruffian followers all pray toward Jerusalem five times a day, on their hands and knees. This is the original Muslim prayer routine (later it was changed to praying toward the Kaaba of Quyreish (Mecca)). In the town of Yathrib (Medina), Muhammad commanded the rabbis to follow him, for this. The rabbis rejected his offer. They didn’t care that he prayed toward Jersusalem, because he didn’t know anything about Judaism, and hadn’t done anything to help or save anyone in the world, but was calling himself their own Messiah. This was all because of a hallucination he had had in a cave one day, causing him to become convinced that the Judeo-Christian angel had selected him to be the Judeo-Christian prophet, and he even took that to mean that he was “the real prophet” compared to the ones who had come before him such as Jesus, Moses, and Abraham. This is all without actually doing anything like that on his part. He was just a lowly merchant. So, he decided to start off his religious career by making people pray a lot. Surely this would do the most to convince people he was a prophet, he must have thought. He then became outraged when this didn’t work on any religious scholars, who he wanted authority from. He wanted them to agree with him that he was The Prophet. The first chapter of Islam’s holy literature (the Quran book plus the several Hadith books) is Muhammad’s angry reply to these rabbis of the town of Yathrib (Medina), forming the origin-story of all of Islam: Muhammad’s counter-rejection of the first religious scholars who rejected him. This a scathing rant against all Jews, here addressed as “the disbelievers” for a first time: the chapter is entitled “The Cow”, and it’s numbered as the second entry after a seven-line introduction, making it the first chapter of substance in the Islamic narrative. Its title “The Cow” is also an attack on Jews. Here is the very first address toward Jews in the Islamic literature, beginning right away within its first substantial chapter “The Cow” (which is a slander referring to the sacred calf worshipped by rebellious Jews in their own Exodus narrative): Muhammad’s tone has become threatening as he sentences them to immediate doom: "Verily, those who disbelieve, whether you warn them or you do not warn them, it is all the same for them; they will not believe. Allah has sealed their hearts and their hearing, and on their eyes there is a covering. Theirs will be a great doom. And of mankind, there are some hypocrites who say, “We believe in Allah and the Last Day”, when they are not believers. They think to beguile Allah and those who believe, and they beguile none except themselves; but they perceive not. In their hearts is a disease, and Allah increases their disease. A painful doom is theirs because they used to lie. And when it is said to them, “Make not corruption in the earth”, they say, “We are but reformers.” Are they not indeed the corruptors?! But they perceive not. And when it is said to them, “Believe as the people have believed,” they say, “Shall we believe as the foolish have believed?” Are they not indeed the foolish?! But they know not. And when they meet those who believe, they say, “We believe,” but when they go apart to their devils they declare, “Lo! we are with you; verily, we were only mockers.” Allah Himself mocks them, and leaves them increasing in their transgression to wander blindly on in their contumacy… Deaf, dumb and blind; and they will not return to the Right Path… … guard yourselves against the Fire prepared for disbelievers, whose fuel is o men and stones… O Children of Israel! Remember My favor with which I favored you, and fulfill your part of the covenant, I shall fulfill My part of the covenant. And fear Me. And believe in what I have sent down, confirming that which you already possess of the Scripture, and do not be the first to disbelieve in it, and do not exchange My revelations for a trifling price, and fear only Me… O Children of Israel! Remember My favor with which I favored you and how I preferred you to all the worlds… And when We appointed for Moses forty nights of solitude, and then you took for worship the calf after him and were wrongdoers… And when Moses said to his people, “O my people! You have wronged yourselves by your taking the calf for worship, so turn in repentance to your Creator, and kill yourselves. That will be better for you in your Creator’s sight… And when you said, “O Moses! We will not believe in you till we see Allah plainly”; and even while you gazed, the thunderbolt seized you… And humiliation and poverty were stamped upon them, and they were visited with wrath from Allah. That was because they disbelieved in Allah’s signs and killed the prophets wrongfully. That was for their disobedience and transgression… And when Moses said to his people, “Lo! Allah commands you that you sacrifice a cow.” They said, “Do you ridicule us?” … “Pray for us to your Lord that He makes clear to us what cow it is.” Moses answered, “Lo! He says, ‘Verily, it is a yellow cow, with a bright color, gladdening the beholders’”… And when they the Jews meet those who believe, they say, “We believe.” But when they go apart, one with another… And they say, “The fire of punishment will not touch us…” … Do you say concerning Allah that which you do not know? No, but whoever has done evil and his sin surrounds him, such are rightful owners of the Fire. They will abide therein eternally. And remember when We made a covenant with the Children of Israel, saying, “Worship none except Allah only, and be good to parents and to kindred and to orphans and the needy, and speak kindly to mankind, and establish prayer and pay the poor-due.” Then, after that, you turned away, except a few of you, being averse… Do you believe in part of the Scripture and disbelieve in part? … those who do so… on the Day of Ressurection they will be consigned to the most grievous doom. For Allah is not unaware of what you do… We gave to Jesus, son of Mary, clear proofs of Allah’s sovereignty… Is it always the case that, when there comes to you a Messenger from Allah… some you disbelieve and some you kill? And they say, “Our hearts are hardened.” No, but Allah has cursed them for their unbelief. Little is that which they believe. And when there comes to them the Jews a Book this Quran from Allah… they disbelieve in it. The curse of Allah is on disbelievers… Evil is that for which they sell their souls: … For the disbelievers there is a shameful doom…”… Why then did you previously kill the prophets of Allah, if you are indeed believers? … And Moses came to you with clear proofs of Allah’s sovereignty, yet, while he was away, you took the calf in worship and you were wrongdoers… … Worship of the calf was made to sink into their hearts because of their disbelief. Say to them, “Evil is that which your belief enjoins on you…” And you will find them greediest of mankind for life and greedier than the polytheists. Each one of them would like to be allowed to live a thousand years. And to live a thousand years would by no means remove him from the doom. Allah is the Seer of what they do… And when there comes to them a Messenger from Allah, confirming that which they possess, a party of those who have received the Scripture fling the Book of Allah behind their backs, as if they do not know. And they follow that which the devils falsely related and used against the kingdom of Solomon. Solomon did not disbelieve, but the devils disbelieved, teaching mankind magic… Neither those who disbelieve among the People of the Scripture nor the polytheists love that there should be sent down to you any good thing from your Lord… Or would you question your Messenger as Moses was questioned previously? … Many of the People of the Scripture long to make you disbelievers after your belief, through envy on their own account, after the truth has become manifest to them… And they say, “None enters Paradise unless he is a Jew or a Christian.” These are their own desires. Say, “Bring your proof of what you state, if you are truthful.” And the Jews say the Christians follow nothing true, and the Christians say the Jews follow nothing true, yet both recite the Scripture. Similar words are spoken by those who do not know. Allah will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning about which they used to differ… And the Jews will not be pleased with you, nor will the Christians, till you follow their religion. Say, “Lo! the guidance of Allah Himself is the only Guidance.” Those to whom We have given the Book, who recite it with its true recital, those believe in it. And whoever disbelieves in it, those are they who are the losers. O Children of Israel! Remember… [And it keeps going on like that. I’ll stop here. These were excerpts from lines 1-122]
ilias 🏴☠️💙💛a picture worth of a thousand words - and a unifying message to all pro-russian scum, whether ideologically (from far-right to commies) or individually (from orban to varoufakis):
#Hungary #Democracy #Europe #EU #Politics #RussiaIsATerroristState #Communism
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MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History April 12, 1934: The Toledo (Ohio) Auto-Lite General Strike began on this day. Initially, 6,000 workers struck for union recognition and higher pay. In late May, police beat an elderly picketer, infuriating the crowd, which began hurling stones, bricks and bottles at the cops. When the police had the fire department try to hose down the crowd, they seized the firehose and turned it back on the police. The cops fled inside the company gates and began firing so much tear gas and vomit gas (DM gas) that they were unable to enter the riot zone and make any arrests. Strikers continued hurling projectiles, overturning cars, setting them on fire. They used car tire inner tubes as giant slingshots to launch bricks into the company grounds. Later, the strikers busted through police lines and entered company grounds, engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the police. The next day, 1,300 Ohio National Guard arrived, leading to a five-day running battle between them and roughly 10,000 strikers. During the Battle of Toledo, the militia fired on workers. They shot tear gas, which the workers threw back at them. They attacked with bayonets and the workers retaliated with bricks, injuring several soldiers. Two strikers were killed and over 200 injured. The strike lasted for two months and resulted in a win for the union. It was one of the most important labor struggles of the 20th century. During that same spring, there were also General Strikes in San Francisco and Minneapolis.
The strike was led by the American Workers Party (AWP), a short-lived Marxist party that lasted from December 1933 through December 1934. The AWP also organized the unemployed, who were plentiful during the Great Depression, so that they would not scab on the striking workers. The AWP ringed the Auto-Lite plant with picketing workers to prevent strikebreakers from entering. Auto-Lite won a court injunction limiting where they could picket, opening up gaps through which they could get scabs inside. The AWP then instructed members to violate the injunction, leading to repeated mass arrests. Strikers and supporters packed the courtrooms, singing and generally disrupting the trials, leading to the release of all members. In 1934, the AWP merged with the Communist League of America to form the Workers Party of the U.S.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #generalstrike #toledo #union #militia #nationalguard #wages #police #policebrutality #strike #communism #scab
Today in Labor History April 12, 1927: The Shanghai massacre of 1927 occurred on this day. Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the right-wing, nationalist Kuomintang (KMT), ordered the execution of Chinese Communist Party members in Shanghai, ending the First United Front. They killed up to 10,000 people.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #communism #china #nationalism #kuomintang #shanghai #massacre
Anastasiia OnuI’ve also heard this phrase so many times in #Germany but couldn’t really point my finger at what is wrong with it.
A Moldovan anarchist told me once that at an international #anarchist congress a couple of years ago, Eastern European arguments and stories were denied as “the wrong theory”.
Gosh! We have the lived experience, a proof that your theory doesn’t work! This all is a form of gaslighting
https://open.substack.com/pub/hearttoheartwithana/p/but-that-was-not-real-communismsocialism
札幌『資本論』に学ぶ会P. Casspaty @viruerde · 4月8日
al ver las imágenes del lado oscuro de la luna sólo puedo pensar en las de hiroshima y nagasaki los imperios sólo viajan al espacio exterior para volver universal la esclavitud y mostrar a los otros que se pueden convertir en la muerte el destructor de mundos
#communism
https://x.com/viruerde/status/2041615398236274781?s=20
P. Casspaty (@viruerde) on X
al ver las imágenes del lado oscuro de la luna sólo puedo pensar en las de hiroshima y nagasaki los imperios sólo viajan al espacio exterior para volver universal la esclavitud y mostrar a los otros que se pueden convertir en la muerte el destructor de mundos
rameen @rameenwhile · 4月7日
thinking about how easy it would have been to feel uncomplicated joy at the miracle of humans going to the moon if half of the world wasn't currently actively being butchered and amputated in part by the people who sent them there
#communism
https://x.com/rameenwhile/status/2041370528574009583?s=20
P. Casspaty @viruerde · 4月8日
los imperios espaciales extraen minerales de asteroides ponen fármacos y prótesis en tu cerebro las bombas nucleares desaparecen pueblos enteros el mundo visible está hecho con ia generativa masas mueren en la miseria el capital gobierna nuestro destino como los dioses antiguos
#communism
https://x.com/viruerde/status/2041610709482504484?s=20
los imperios espaciales extraen minerales de asteroides ponen fármacos y prótesis en tu cerebro las bombas nucleares desaparecen pueblos enteros el mundo visible está hecho con ia generativa masas mueren en la miseria el capital gobierna nuestro destino como los dioses antiguos
#communism
https://x.com/viruerde/status/2041610709482504484?s=20
P. Casspaty (@viruerde) on X
los imperios espaciales extraen minerales de asteroides ponen fármacos y prótesis en tu cerebro las bombas nucleares desaparecen pueblos enteros el mundo visible está hecho con ia generativa masas mueren en la miseria el capital gobierna nuestro destino como los dioses antiguos