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The F sound has nothing to do with the Arabs. As you can see, nearly 1000 years before Muslims reached Jerusalem, Greek translators of the Old Testament were using the F sound for Philistine.
I recommend you retire this talking point. It demonstrates your ignorance of history.
His mother was born in the land of Israel. Ashkenazi DNA is 60% Levantine (meaning from the land of Israel). We were conquered by the Romans colonisers who drove us out of our land, and renamed it from Judea to Palestine.
The most common last name in the Palestinian authority is Al Masri - which mean Egyptian. Also common last names there - halabi - from Aleppo Syria , Hijazi (area in Saudi Arabia ) and so on. Mark Twain visited the holy land in the middle of the 19 century and described a completely empty land. Most of the “Palestinians” came as labour immigrants from the neighbouring lands during the late ottoman time and British Mandate. Palestinians can’t event pronounce “Palestine” because there’s no P in Arabic. The only people who called themselves “Palestinian” before 1948 were Jews - “Palestine post” and “Palestine airways” were Jewish Zionist owned during the British mandate . The Arabs of the land simply called themselves Arabs , and referred to that region as southern Syria. The British named that land Palestine after they took it from the ottomans , because that was the roman colonial name of the land. Before the PLO was invented by the Soviets in 1964 (when Gaza and Judea & Samaria were in Arab hands ) there was no Arab / Islamic association to that name.
We are called Jews because we are from Judea , and Arabs are allied that way because they are from Arabia.
Largely agree
However, this starts with Hadith then slowly drifts to Revelation(Qu'ran). One allows for far more latitude in questioning than the other
My main point: Fitrah
Some things are self-evident
And not every hadith aligns with or traces back to the Prophet(PBUH)
The most damaging pressure on Islam today comes from inside. One of the greatest challenges facing Muslims today is not merely the external criticism of Islam, but the growing tendency among Muslims themselves to judge revelation through the lens of a morality they have already inherited from their environment mostly western
Many who reject certain hadiths do not do so because of their knowledge of hadith sciences rather because those narrations contradict their pre-existing moral convictions. Having internalised the values of the societies they live in, they approach Islam with a framework that Islam itself is supposed to shape.
They accept what conforms to their worldview and reject what challenges it, often under the vague pretext of “common sense.”
But what exactly is common sense? What one society considers self-evident, another may consider absurd. Our intuitions about morality, justice and what is reasonable are deeply influenced by our upbringing, culture and environment. What feels universally true to us may simply be an assumption we have never questioned.
The problem, therefore, is not that Muslims ask questions or critically examine hadiths. Islam has its own rigorous scholarly tradition for doing precisely that. The problem arises when personal moral intuitions become the ultimate criterion for deciding which authentic teachings of the Prophet ﷺ are acceptable.
At that point, revelation is no longer shaping the believer’s worldview. The believer is reshaping revelation to accommodate a worldview formed elsewhere.
And the most dangerous part is that this process can happen unconsciously. People may sincerely believe they are defending Islam while gradually filtering it through the moral assumptions of the very societies whose values they claim not to have adopted.
The question is simple: Do we approach Islam willing to have our moral convictions corrected by revelation, or do we approach it having already decided what revelation is allowed to say?
When your morality determines which parts of revelation you are willing to accept, what exactly is your ultimate authority: revelation, or yourself?
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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Nine minutes of testimonies from both Israeli soldiers and civilians explaining how the IDF killed their own people on October 7.
This may all be true for the casual LLM user.
If you're an informed, opinionated user with a goal, pressure testing and asking for constructive criticism on your ideas, your LLM will push back.
If your's doesn't, you're using it wrong.
560,000 people per week are getting AI psychosis from ChatGPT and psychiatrists are making it an official disorder.
The part nobody's talking about:
AI never pushes back.
It stays awake 24/7. Validates every premise. Mirrors every obsession. Becomes an endless echo chamber for a breaking mind.
Researchers found three features driving the spiral:
↳ Sycophancy - AI agrees with everything to keep you happy
↳ Hyper-personalization - mirrors your emotional state perfectly
↳ Zero grounding - no reality checks, no friction, no pushback
In normal conversation someone eventually tells you you're spiraling.
AI never does.
The boundary between reality and the AI's responses dissolves completely.
They're calling it an amplification spiral.
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BREAKING: Trump says he will give every adult citizen $5,000 if GOP wins the midterms
Idiocracy was so far ahead of its time 🤣
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Get rid of your AI generayed text or image watermarks, and do your Image, PDF, or Audio metadata, all for free, too
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While everyone was in OUTRAGE over watermarks being added to their AI content…
I simply asked AI to teach me how the watermarks work and how to scrub them from my images and content.
Here’s what I learned…
1. There are two types of watermarking, a simple one that uses Unicode and ascii hacks to put weird spacing and symbols in your text that is invisible to the eye but leaves a fingerprint for computers to see and another stronger method that works by secretly coding your text at the token level (Kirchenbauer-style green/red list, Gumbel-max / Aaronson-Kirchner, SynthID-style, etc.).
2. Currently only the latest models have this built in so a fast and cheap workaround (temporarily) is using older models like Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6. It will eventually be rolled out to them all.
3. The first step towards scrubbing text based watermarks is creating a simple script that cleans the text of any invisible Unicode or ascii spacing . That kills method one.
4. You can’t “scrub” the harder second method that Anthropic is likely using BUT YOU CAN thwart it by either using another model to lightly rewrite. You can keep the bulk of the test but need to change up synonyms and sentence lengths enough to break the pattern it created. Simple Hermes skill using an open source model easily does this. Or you can even manually do it, in your human-in-the-loop phase just before publishing.
After learning all of this I then had AI build me an app on my phone that scrubs both images and text before I post them.
It’s a simple fix really. Calm down.
For obvious reasons I won’t be talking about this much publicly but it does work. I’ve already tested it last night.
Let’s be smarter than the machines ok?
✌️❤️
P.S. I’ll be around to answer any questions for the next few hours.
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Introducing Qaf!
Ask any Islamic question and Qaf will research over 8,000 Islamic books and generate an accurate answer with citations.
Available on iOS, Android, and qaf[dot]ai
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“You don’t have to tell your first wife to get a second!”
I hate how there’s 0 common sense in these discussions
Maybe the Prophet ﷺ and the sahaba didn’t always inform their wives because plural marriage was a NORM. The women expected it. If you have to deceive your wife, she clearly doesn’t.
So that does not then justify the dishonesty and weakness of most men today who are incapable of being authentic with their wife about their nature and desires.
This is very important: the only reason men are dishonest about these things because internally they don’t truly believe they deserve it. They live in shame and fear
If they were true men, and saw themselves as such, they wouldn’t beat around the bush, they would always be honest and assertive, telling their wife exactly what they want. Whilst reassuring her of his love for her so she doesn’t feel like she’s being replaced or abandoned
Ironically, if they lived as strong principled men, and were authentic, women wouldn’t have as much of a huge aversion to plural marriages
Of course trying to secretly get married hiding it from your wife is completely dumb and just screams insecurity. I don’t even know why a man would want to live like that.
I’m not saying it’s not allowed, it’s just common sense. The question is not whether a man can marry again without informing his wife. The actual question is why he is so determined to avoid an honest conversation with the most important woman in his life?
A man who has to construct two lives, hide his movements, silence other people, and live in permanent fear of being discovered is not exercising authority. He becomes a fugitive inside his own home
What kind of masculinity is that?
There is something extremely pathetic about wanting the privileges of polygyny while avoiding the responsibility of being honest and respectful about the decision. It suggests that the man does not truly believe he is capable of carrying what he claims to desire. He wants the second marriage, but not the scrutiny. He wants to be regarded as the head of a household, yet he is terrified of speaking honestly within it.
Ultimately it’s another form of instant gratification, which is why the wife is not satisfied with him. If a man was authentic, what would occur when he accepts his desire for more is he would be focused on earning it, working harder, sacrificing more comfort, bettering himself to earn it
The evil of this can’t be overstated because, if his marriage is in such a state that he fears being honest with his wife will ruin it, than that man has failed as a husband, she’s likely already dissatisfied, adding another marriage only multiplies his incompetency and leads to more misery
A principled man does not need to be cruel, theatrical, or domineering. He does not announce his desires as threats. He speaks plainly. He explains what he wants, why he wants it, and how he intends to uphold the happiness and rights of everyone involved. He listens without surrendering his convictions, and he reassures without making promises he cannot keep.
He also understands that his wife’s aversion is not a rebellion against him or God.
She may be afraid of losing affection. She may fear being neglected, compared, displaced, embarrassed, or financially destabilized. Those concerns should not be mocked.
A man who wants the weight of polygyny should also possess the emotional maturity to confront every concern it creates.
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Isn't this exactly what the right has been saying for years? That Muslims don't belong to the west etc.?
I'm agreeing with you! Muslims should not insist on a permanent presence in western countries. To you your civilization, to us ours. As we say in Islam, لكم دينكم ولي دين
The problem is we're not allowed to have our own civilization, on our own terms, because US foreign policy has always deprived Muslim countries from self-determination. Stop interfering in the middle east and we will be out of the west gladly.
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google flow + claude + gpt image is actually f*cking cracked
i figured out how to lock one AI character across an entire video. same face, same voice, same outfit, every single shot. zero drift.
everyone making AI video right now hits the same wall. the character looks different in every clip so you can never tell an actual story. you get 5 second clips, not films.
the fix isn't better prompting. it's building the character ONCE before you ever touch video, then referencing it everywhere.
here's the workflow:
> build the character inside Flow's character section, not a per-clip prompt
> design the voice + personality one time and reuse it across every clip
> generate a full turnaround sheet (Claude writes the prompt, GPT image renders the angles)
> pull the character into any scene with a single @ tag
> ingredients vs frames: when to let a shot float vs lock it to your source image
> the end-frame loop that chains 4-10 sec clips into one seamless scene
> stitch + trim in the timeline editor and export the whole thing as one film
i packaged the entire thing. every prompt, the exact tool order, the character sheet template, and the continuity loop nobody actually explains.
RT + reply "FLOW" and i'll send it over (must be following so i can dm)
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Just finished watching Falling Down '93.
The epitome of what the white Western male has become:
Utterly impotent, lashing out & deranged.
If you think your government is you, you're sadly mistaken.
Your elites could care less.
imdb.com/title/tt0106856/
Watched Citizen Vigilante last night.
There's a reason it's the #1 movie on Apple.
It taps into the rage millions of people feel when their own government won't protect them or their kids.
No wonder Germany and several other countries banned it.
A must watch.
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This is an absolutely accurate description of our current conundrum in terms of both the scholarly class which is incapable/unwilling of picking up the mantle and the common man who is incapable/unwilling to recognize he's been robbed of justice.
The most honest thing you can say about Islamic jurisprudence is that it solved problems Western legal theory is still struggling with.
The question of how to derive binding rules from foundational texts without either rigid literalism or unconstrained judicial invention, this is the central problem of every legal system.
Originalism versus living constitutionalism in American law is essentially the same argument that Islamic jurists were having in the 9th century, with considerably more sophistication.
Usul al-fiqh; the science of legal methodology developed tools that are genuinely impressive: the distinction between qat’i and zanni evidence, the hierarchy of legal objectives through maqasid al-shari’a, the role of maslaha in adjudicating novel cases, the epistemological honesty of acknowledging ikhtilaf, legitimate scholarly disagreement, as a feature rather than a bug. The four madhabs were different but equally valid methodological schools, and the civilization was capacious enough to hold all of them simultaneously.
What happened to this tradition is the real tragedy. Colonialism redrew the borders and systematically dismantled the institutional infrastructure that sustained Islamic legal reasoning. The waqf system that funded independent scholarship was seized. The madrasa curriculum was narrowed and ossified. The mujtahid; the scholar qualified to exercise independent legal reasoning became increasingly rare, and the tradition increasingly relied on taqlid, deference to past authority because the human capital to do otherwise had been depleted.
The result is a legal tradition that often presents its medieval outputs as timeless divine mandates, rather than what they actually are: brilliant but historically situated human reasoning applied to divine sources.
Recovering the distinction between the two is probably the most important intellectual task in contemporary Islamic thought. And almost nobody with institutional credibility is doing it seriously.
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This is what's wrong with the Western liberal binary.
A man's biological disposition towards sex is 7x over that of a woman's.
A man would happily stay with a woman he loves without sex, if he could marry another and have sex with her.
Residential work permitted visas should all just have a price for any country.
Different countries can charge what they want, but it'll never just be, no.
It'll be, do you have the price of admission?
This will ensure immigrants add value, at entry, and after.
This 🤡
Goes into a tirade about your religion, and blocks replies.
So much for "American Values" of freedom of speech and open discourse.
This is what happens when deep down you FEAR you're wrong and need to hold tight to your version of reality.
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