Yes, lets imagine a world WITHOUT MUSLIMS, shall we?
Without Muslims you wouldn’t have:
- Coffee
Cameras
Experimental Physics
Chess
Soap
Shampoo
Perfume/spirits
Irrigation
Crank-shaft, internal combustion engine, valves, pistons
Combination locks
Architectural innovation (pointed arch -European Gothic cathedrals adopted this technique as it made the building much stronger, rose windows, dome buildings, round towers, etc.)
Surgical instruments
Anesthesia
Windmill
Treatment of Cowpox
Fountain pen
Numbering system
Algebra/Trigonometry
Modern Cryptology
3 course meal (soup, meat/fish, fruit/nuts)
Crystal glasses
Carpets
Checks
Gardens used for beauty and meditation instead of for herbs and kitchen.
- University
- Optics
- Music
- Toothbrush
- Hospitals
- Bathing
- Quilting
- Mariner’s Compass
- Soft drinks
- Pendulum
- Braille
- Cosmetics
- Plastic surgery
- Calligraphy
- Manufacturing of paper and cloth
It was a Muslim who realized that light ENTERS our eyes, unlike the Greeks who thought we EMITTED rays, and so invented a camera from this discovery.
It was a Muslim who first tried to FLY in 852, even though it is the Wright Brothers who have taken the credit.
It was a Muslim by the name of Jabir ibn Hayyan who was known as the founder of modern Chemistry. He transformed alchemy into chemistry. He invented: distillation, purification, oxidation, evaporation, and filtration. He also discovered sulfuric and nitric acid.
It is a Muslim, by the name of Al-Jazari who is known as the father of robotics.
It was a Muslim who was the architect for Henry V’s castle.
It was a Muslim who invented hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes, a technique still used today.
It was a Muslim who actually discovered inoculation, not Jenner and Pasteur to treat cowpox. The West just brought it over from Turkey
It was Muslims who contributed much to mathematics like Algebra and Trigonometry, which was imported over to Europe 300 years later to Fibonnaci and the rest.
It was Muslims who discovered that the Earth was round 500 years before Galileo did.
The list goes on………..
Just imagine a world without Muslims. Now I think you probably meant, JUST IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT TERRORISTS. And then I would agree, the world would definitely be a better place without those pieces of filth. But to hold a whole group responsible for the actions of a few is ignorant and racist. No one would ever expect Christians or White people to be held responsible for the acts of Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma bombing) or Andreas Brevik (Norway killing), or the gun man that shot Congresswoman Giffords in head, wounded 12 and killed 6 people, and rightly so because they had nothing to do with those incidents! Just like the rest of the 1.5 billion Muslims have nothing to do with this incident!
Sources:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-islamic-inventors-changed-the-world-469452.html
http://articles.cnn.com/2010-01-29/world/muslim.inventions_1_hassani-inventions-muslim?_s=PM:WORLD
http://www.ummahedinburgh.co.uk/radio/files/Muslim-Invention-Article.pdf
BURN 🙂
Forever reblog.
Not a edge in sight
bless
And what about our Muslim friends? Our Muslim partners? Our Muslim bankers, and in-laws, and doctors, and artists, and editors, and bankers, and writers, and film-makers, and lab workers, and professors, and fellow students? What about our fellow residents of the world?
As well (and with justification) blame the world’s sorrows on America, in Panama, in Cuba and the Philippines, in Honduras, in Vietnam, in Cambodia and Laos, in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Columbia, and I’m counting out two World Wars. Maybe I shouldn’t. We don’t exacting shine a bright humanitarian light next to the Muslim world, do we?
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If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu.
So, in about 30-40 years unless they get shut down by legal shenanigans it will be possible for a human fetus to be placed in an artificial womb to complete gestation.
Wonder how many right to lifers will be willing to go to a clinic and take up someone else’s overbearing or crushing burden?
The same number lining up to adopt them now.
What women tell women to do to prevent rape and violence takes on the character of magical thinking — rituals and talismans and rites of cleanliness meant to prevent uncontrollable circumstances. The advice is always terrible in some way, and it has a certain desperate powerlessness to it. These rituals have come to be because they are comforting and allow many women to function. The alternative to this advice is for many women even worse than this advice, even though the advice is awful. It is admitting that we live in a world of men’s violence, and that we can do nothing about it. Comforting the victim means accepting that tomorrow, you could be the victim, your daughter or son could be the victim, and there is nothing you can do about it.
why do fantasy worlds always have to include real world misogyny and sexism
and racism
Because some of the best fantasy serves as allegory for the real world.
Why can’t good fantasy serve as an example of the kind of world we could have instead of reflecting all the real world’s prejudices? Maybe some of us are sick of fantasy worlds where we’re to accept that dragons and elves exist but the presence of POC, gay people, and gender equality are too far fetched to be believable.
I’m not saying it can’t, but it sounds to me like you don’t want dramatic storytelling, you just want wish-fulfillment. I don’t endorse any of these practices in real life, but they exist. Good fiction, some of the best fiction reflects all the goods or ills of society and shines a spotlight back on it.
Take, for example, George R.R. Martin. He doesn’t endorse these things in real life, but I think the reason his characters resonate with so many people is because of how real they are. And you have characters like Arya, Dany, etc that are overcoming this and proving they are among the most badass people on the planet.
Conflict drives a story. A story without conflict is boring, and boring is the worst thing a story can be.
A story can have conflict and drama without relying on racism and sexism to be the source of it. These are not essential elements of “dramatic storytelling,” they are some of the most common and easy tropes out there that authors use.
See: David Weber
Conservative Institute Releases Video Telling Feminists to Stop Criticizing Video Games
Conservative Institute Releases Video Telling Feminists to Stop Criticizing Video Games
Christina Hoff Sommers of the American Enterprise Institute wants feminist gaming critics to just lay off already.“Hey bro, we found a woman who thinks like us! That’ll show the Feminist Illuminati that’s trying to take away our video games that they need to STFU!”
Here’s the main problem with “trickle-down” economics.
It conveniently “forgets” that the people who catch the water first, whose cups are supposed to runneth over and “trickle-down”, have made it a point to drill a hole in those cups, run some plastic tubing from the bottom of those cups that lead down their sleeves, underneath their clothes, into a large industrial-strength garbage bag that is hidden in their shoes somewhere in another country where that water does not get taxed.
The only part that trickles down is when they laugh so hard their cup shakes off beads of condescension.
Of course, nowadays they don’t even bother to hide the plastic tubing under their clothes. We’re just supposed to not notice it, how dare we point it out.
In election years they often will trickle on your shoes and tell you it’s raining.
BREAKING: Seattle becomes the first city to raise its minimum wage to $15/hour. SHARE if Congress should take Seattle’s lead!
the current minimum wage (at least in NY) is $8.00 and less than a year ago it was $7.25, so yes.
Wow
Nope nope and nope. Make better decisions and life and you won’t be working a minimum wage job.
^ That’s literally the dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever read in my life. Are you the kind of person that goes up to homeless people and tells them to get a job? Good fuuuuuuuuuuuucking lord. If everyone was able to get a “better” job, there would be absolutely no-one populating the mass expanse of the workforce. Are you unable to see how this suggestion is completely and utterly illogical? And extremely rude?
Thank god people in Seattle have good heads on their shoulders so single mothers working 3 minimum wage jobs to feed their children can finally be treated like actual live human beings with needs and not capitalistic automatons.
“Just get a better job” is the most white bread privilege shit I’ve ever heard.
I don’t even think it’s white privilege. I think it’s just near-bottomless dumbfuckery.
“Get a better job,” they said.
Suddenly, every custodian everywhere quits their job and gets a better one. Now, upon entering public restrooms, everyone is handed a spray bottle and toilet brush, because now they have to scrub their own shit out of that public porcelain throne. Women’s restrooms come complete with plastic bags, because they have to bring their soiled period products home with them and dispose of them at home, because there is no more public waste removal.
“Get a better job,” they said.
All fast food employees quit and find a “better job”. No more fast food places! There also aren’t any restaurants. Better learn to cook your own shitty garbage burgers. You have only yourself to yell at if you forget the cheese.
“Get a better job,” they said.
Retail stores no longer have any employees. All shopping must be done online, but you have to drive out and pick up the supplies yourself because the Fedex people quit and got better jobs, too.
“Just get a better job,” they said!
You now have to grow and make every single thing you ever consume for the rest of your life, because no one wants to do it for you at $7 an hour.
Fuck you.
^ THE LAST COMMENT THOUGH FUCKIN AMEN
I’ll always reblog this.
for that comment I will reblog
I’m normally not one for long comments but bravo
Yeah. I will just get a better job and stop working two jobs for minimum wage and another salary job that isn’t livable all while going to school. Yupp. I will just suddenly be CEO bc I got a better job.
….also bout to just be working the salary job bc I DONT HAVE TIME TO SLEEP…..
By the way, for all those folks who said this would never work…
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/09/14/15-now-seatac/
In January, the town of Seatac, Washington, put in to effect a new $15 per hour Minimum Wage. No ramp ups, no tiered implementation. One day it was the state standard, the next, the highest minimum wage in the nation. The Koch Brothers sank a fortune to fight this measure, which fell on deaf ears as the town rejected their trickle-down theories and instead voted for the measure. The result is that for one town, they became a test bed, to put the theories behind trickle-down economics to the test.
Now, nine months on, we are witnessing one of the most dramatic recoveries in the Pacific Northwest.
It’s working. Now raise your own goddamn minimum wages.
And with just a little bit of luck, this kind of thing will push up the wages of people who get severely underpaid for actual skilled work. You know, like the IT staff in a lot of businesses, who get paid $12 or less an hour, are expected to have college degrees in computer science and keep up their certifications on that kind of salary, and expected to be grateful for it because, after all, it’s more than minimum wage and everyone knows computer stuff these days.
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Never, ever enough love for this. She looked like a grown-ass woman trying to get her interior thoughts together before an interview. Because she was not flinging herself into Charming Monkey behavior for your pleasure yet, you think she looks “worn out?”
“Fuck you” is really the ONLY possible response to that.