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I was just saying that you do not seem to have any understanding of epistemology. You misunderstand the term "to know". Remembering trivia from skimmi...
February 20, 2020 at 10:42
You have a very poor epistemic understanding of what the term "knowledge" means. That is the source of your confusion. The underlying reason for that ...
February 20, 2020 at 09:48
No, just like a doctor, an alim is not necessarily an "I'm better" aristocrat. The job of a doctor is typically to figure out from your flailing story...
February 20, 2020 at 07:49
You have not duly trained as an alim and therefore you are not a member of the ulema. You have no credibility whatsoever in the field of interpreting ...
February 20, 2020 at 07:10
The Shia position on the matter is currently much more accepting of transgenderism than the Sunni one, where there is currently no clear "ijma" (conse...
February 20, 2020 at 06:57
You know absolutely nothing about the Islamic scriptures. You think you know, but you don't. Welcome to the Dunning-Kruger effect running loose again:...
February 20, 2020 at 06:21
I talk about religious law. Religion has other areas than just its law, for example, the origin of religious law. Religious law is a formal system of ...
February 20, 2020 at 06:07
That is not how it works either. I base my argument in religious law solely on statements that syntactically entail from scripture (Quran+Sunnah). The...
February 19, 2020 at 21:25
Most generally, merely "a source outside the system itself". Once you say "transcendental", you are already outside the system itself. What does "tran...
February 19, 2020 at 16:24
I don't really do denominations. I am probably ghair-madhhabi. It is also beyond me why Ali would be the "friend" of Allah, as the Shia profess. I wou...
February 19, 2020 at 15:55
That was not a quote. Where do you see quotation marks? No, no, no. As far as I am concerned, "who" exactly says something, does not matter, simply be...
February 19, 2020 at 13:43
There is no Pope in Islam. A mufti's advisory only binds himself. What's more, I am quite sure that his views are not the consensus ("ijma") view on t...
February 19, 2020 at 11:21
No, no. It was carried out by Nazis. This cleric does not seem to be familiar with the details of the Holocaust. The Nazis also mass-murdered Jewish w...
February 19, 2020 at 10:15
Was Nazism then rather a Chinese ideology? First of all, everything that happens in the universe is deemed to be Allah's will. Allah is considered to ...
February 19, 2020 at 09:43
Well no, that was a Nazi idea. That was not an idea that came from the Middle East. You are again trying to shift the blame for the Holocaust to other...
February 19, 2020 at 07:25
No, these European Jews were just supposed to stay in Europe. The Palestinians were not keen on their mass deportation to Palestine.
February 19, 2020 at 06:52
I have posted two links for that.
February 19, 2020 at 06:50
After a long series of "reforms", and especially after the Young Turks had taken over power, the Ottoman empire had become a nationalist, secular stat...
February 19, 2020 at 06:49
My opinion on him is mixed. I agree with his anti-Zionist efforts but I do not agree with his Faustian pact with the Nazis. But then again, it is not ...
February 19, 2020 at 06:22
In that case, do not address your own garbage to me. Capito? Furthermore, who the hell do you think you are that you can give orders to other users on...
February 19, 2020 at 00:42
For a starters, an alim acting in the capacity of mufti is supposed to produce religious advisories that are syntactic entailments from scripture. Non...
February 19, 2020 at 00:30
You are saying that the Jews "might actually have been safer" with people whom you portray as being full of "hatred of Jews". If that view is not cont...
February 18, 2020 at 17:23
At one point, you wrote: And now you write: I rest my case.
February 18, 2020 at 16:52
Why? Possibly, because God says ... who knows? Other justifications are not readily available for this otherwise widely-accepted speculative claim. (Y...
February 18, 2020 at 13:16
In the meanwhile, we also came to understand that the basic rules in a formal system of rules cannot be justified from within the system. Any attempt ...
February 18, 2020 at 12:43
Your opinion is not even necessarily shared by other Jews. If they expected to be mishandled by the Muslims, why did the Sephardi Jews flee to the Mus...
February 18, 2020 at 10:53
It is perfectly relevant to the uncanny similarity between Zionism and Nazism. They are both undeniably racist. It is not part of Islamic doctrine. Yo...
February 18, 2020 at 10:17
If there is one thing that the Zionist apartheidsstate of Israel fundamentally shares with Nazism, it is their well-attested racism. Seriously, how ma...
February 18, 2020 at 09:29
You very well know that any elusive connection between Islam and Nazism is much more of a stretch than between Zionism and Nazism. Zionism and Nazism ...
February 18, 2020 at 07:22
Bi-interpretability looks like an interesting subject, but unfortunately the Wikipedia page does not elaborate PA versus ZF-infinity as an example. We...
February 18, 2020 at 07:03
I am not interested in figuring everything that you are not, because I do not consider you personally to be a sufficiently interesting subject for tha...
February 18, 2020 at 06:02
In an earlier period, there was not particularly much of a political mutual understanding, because Nazi Germany was expelling Jews out of Germany who ...
February 17, 2020 at 20:33
The Mufti of Jerusalem was obviously trying to create alliances left and right with a view on preventing the creation of the apartheidsstate of Israel...
February 17, 2020 at 14:57
Ok, I see what Hitler apparently said about Islam and how he tried to endear himself with the Muslim community. Fine, I get that. Concerning what the ...
February 17, 2020 at 13:53
So, according to you the inspiration for Mein Kampf was the Quran? Or something like that? Islam is a book. All information about Nazism is also a boo...
February 17, 2020 at 11:42
These clerics are not as close as you or me to what happened in the 1930ies and 1940ies in German-occupied Europe. They would never advocate things li...
February 17, 2020 at 11:11
Not vastly. Some Muslims may conclude things too quickly on grounds of short-sighted political considerations, but anybody who understands what he rea...
February 17, 2020 at 10:44
Well, there are so many people, including our dear friend Leonard Euler, who thought that Voltaire was a piece of shit that there is no need to furthe...
February 17, 2020 at 10:25
That is just a typical western ethnocentric view on philosophy. If you ask a Chinese, an Arab, or an African about Schopenhauer, they will all say tha...
February 17, 2020 at 08:13
I would like to discuss this because it is absolutely not self-evident to me that two sets of different rules, i.e. PA versus ZF minus infinity, would...
February 17, 2020 at 07:56
Imagine that we design a horror moral system with the following basic rules: rule 1: You must kill everybody else rule 2: Since everybody else will al...
February 17, 2020 at 06:44
God's nature is not part of religious law, which is limited to the morality of human behaviour only. Rabbinic (Jewish) law is also pretty much a forma...
February 17, 2020 at 06:09
Ha ha ha! Exploiting a government subsidy system is not considered to be a form of theft by lots of people while breaking into your neighbour's house ...
February 17, 2020 at 02:46
That question is relevant to religion but not to religious law. Religious law is a formal system of rules. In that sense, it just behaves as any forma...
February 17, 2020 at 02:40
You ask 178432 different questions and then you still expect just one answer. So, no, I just pick one question of your 178432 questions, and I only de...
February 17, 2020 at 02:30
Wow. That is very interesting! The proof based on Von Neumann ordinals is also straightforward. In that definition, (some interpretation of) \mathbb{N...
February 17, 2020 at 02:22
Yeah, that is obvious. The problem is full of contradictions, and you clearly have no solution for that. I was just pointing out how silly the simplis...
February 17, 2020 at 01:15
Under particular, explicitly stated conditions it is acceptable in Islam. In fact, it was reasonably acceptable in western society too, until they cha...
February 17, 2020 at 00:59
Isn't it obvious that I created my own school for the year? Currently, they are at a local, private school to learn and practice reading/writing local...
February 17, 2020 at 00:15
If it is possible, then why don't you do it? And if you did it, then where is it documented?
February 17, 2020 at 00:04