#going through divorce islam

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I came across the video where a man said I left Islam because Allah curses Abu Lahab in Surah Masad. He being weird and senseless further said Allah is saying as if He is scared of Abu Lahab.

The Qur'an was revealed to the Messenger of Allah (صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ) and Allah used to communicate with Muhammad (صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ) through the Qur'an. During the early days of Prophet's ﷺ‌ mission to spread tawhid and remind people to worship none but Allah. So allah revealed a verse ordering Muhammad ﷺ‌ to invite his relatives to Islam ( Quran 26:214-216).The Prophet (ﷺ) then stood up and answered his Lord’s command. Ibn ʿAbbās (رضي الله عنه) reported that, when : ( “And warn your tribe (O Muhammad ﷺ) of near kindred” ) was revealed, the Prophet (ﷺ) ascended Mount As-Safā and began to call out, “O children of Faihr, O children of ʿAdee,” these being the various sub-tribes of the Quraish. They all gathered together before the Prophet (ﷺ), and if a man was not able to go himself, he sent a messenger on his behalf to find out what was happening. The Quraish, Abu Lahab included, came, and the Prophet (ﷺ) said, (“Suppose I informed you that horses (i.e., an army riding on horses) were in the valley (i.e., behind this mountain), intending to attack you - would you believe me?” “Yes,” they said, “We have experienced nothing from you but truthfulness.” “Then I am a warner to you,” said the Prophet (ﷺ). (The Prophet (ﷺ) then went on to say: “Verily! I’m a warner before the time of a severe punishment.”) “Woe to you for the rest of this day!” exclaimed Abu Lahab. “Is it only for this that you have gathered us together?” Then Allāh (ﷻ) revealed the following verses, making it clear who it was that was headed for destruction:

"Perish the two hands of Abu Lahab (an uncle of the Prophet ﷺ) and perish he! His wealth and his children (etc.) will not benefit him!” (Qurʾān 111:1,2)

In brief Allah is not scared of abu lahab. Allah revealed this verse to remind Muhammad (صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ) that abh lahab can do nothing to you. Allah is with you O Muhammad (صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ) and his hands will be perished. Also abu lahab was the worst enemy of Muhammad (صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ). He even made his sons to divorce the daughters of Muhammad (صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ) which caused immense sadness and pain to Muhammad (صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ). Later on Uthman ibn affan رضى الله عنه got married to them and thats is why Uthman is known as Dhul Noor-ayn (possessor of two lights). The wives were ( Ruqqaya and Umme Kulthum رضى الله عنهما). Abu lahab and his wife used to place thorns on his way to hurt him. They wanted to assassinate the Messenger of Allah (صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ). The first years of Prophethood were so hard and painful for Muhammad (صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ) but he held the rope of Allah and didn't stop with the likes of Khadija, Abu bakr, Ali,(may Allah be pleased with them all) with the Messenger of Allah (صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ). The power actually came when Hamzah رضى الله عنه accepted Islam although his acceptance wasn't due to the message of Allah to accept islam. Hamza رضى الله عنه accept islam out of love for Muhammad (صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ) when abu jahl hit the head of the Prophet ﷺ‌ with stone. So out of pain and love for Muhammad ﷺ‌ he went to abu jahl and hit him back and abu jahal knew about hamza رضى الله عنه and his bravery so he couldn't move an inch towards him. Furthermore Allah mentions Prophets and their enemies in the Qur'an so as said Allah mentioned abu lahab as the worst enemy of Muhammad (صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ) in the Qur'an.

[lover-girl-estxx]

Lipstick and Mascara

моя любовь means my love

Based on this asked:

"Islam and the reader are married, but Islam cheats on the reader and the reader finds out and leaves Islam. Islam regrets it very much and loses most of their matches. In the end, the reader forgives himself and they make peace"

*not my gif*

"is this okay?" I asked coming out in a long tight dress with long sleeves, I don't have the same religious view as Islam but I try to dress a little more modest for him "it's great" I smiled "okay! I just have to put lipstick on" he nodded and went back on his phone I grabbed my brown lipstick putting it on then put it in my purse. "k ready!" he grabbed my hand as we walked to the car, he opened the door for me "thanks baby" I kissed his cheek "of course моя любовь" he smiled making me do the same.

We pulled up to the restaurant 30 minutes later I pulled the mirror down to check my makeup "I have to do lipstick again" I giggled "oh my gosh" he laughed I reached down for my purse but my fingers touched a lipstick, I grabbed it and opened it seeing the color was a bright red lipstick a color I only wore maybe on Halloween but never anytime other. "Islam?" I looked over to him "mmm" he looked at me not out the window anymore "whos is this?" he looked like he saw a ghost "um yours I guess..Not mine" he laughed "i'm not joking Islam this isn't mine" he cleared his throat "this isn't mine so who's is it" I added "listen моя любовь-" "don't! fucking tell me" "don't us-" he hated when I cursed "I don't care tell me who's it is" " it...it was a um one time thing," my eyes started to water "I regret it so I didn't tell you" "w-when?" tears now going all down my face "3 weeks ago" I let out a shaky breath "why would you do that! we just got married a ago. you took me to Moscow for a trip before we start trying for kids" "y/n it has nothing to do with us" "it has everything to do with us" I put my head into my lap "I regret it" "I don't care.....please take me back to the hotel" "hey i-m" he rubbed my back "don't touch me I hate you right now" I sat up quickly and threw his hand away.

we've been married a year, I thought all the doubt, his family not really liking me and thoughts I had in the start of our relationship. The different beliefs, different culture and many other things. "your going somewhere else your not coming in with me" "no come on we go back dagestan tomorrow I stay with you tonight" "no your not and your going back to Dagestan i'm going back to Y/H/T" he sighed "y/n" "no your just pissing me off more" I got out of the car he did the same "Islam" "i'll get other room".

He was getting all his stuff out of the room and I sat on the bed "who was she?" "she was um fan" I nodded "we're like done i'm not working through this" "I was one time thing" "no I don't care" "Y/n-" "нет, мне все равно (no, I don't care) can you understand? Take this with you too" I handed him my ring he sighed I wiped my eyes mascara getting on my fingers.

| 3 Months Later |

Islam sent me money for an apartment of my own and all my stuff, so to break in the new apartment I invited my sister over to watch Makhachev vs Tsarukyan. "your about to divorce him and your still gonna watch his fights?" she asked "yeah I mean i'm not the one who made the choice for him to cheat I still love him I just don't like him" I shrugged. "Islam has said in interviews leaning up to this fight that he has had some personal issues leading up to his training camp an through the camp" Jon anik said as Islam walked out I rolled my eyes "you going for tsarukyan?" she asked "no i'm going for Islam" I chuckled "he cheated on you you have to do a little revenge even if its just with us" "no i'm not doing that," I lightly chuckled "never lost a fight he's good".

"Islam's striking is very underrated he's wre-" Joe started before Jon cut him off "and Arman Tsarukyan has knocked down Islam Makhachev and the ref has called it" "oh my God" I stood up my hands went over my mouth "is he okay?" my sister asked "yeah yeah he's okay" I sighed as he stood up.

"I tired my hardest it did not work," he shrugged "I will try again get my mind okay" he nodded and wiped his nose "Islam makhachev everyone". he didn't look as good as he should being in the cage "okay um i'm going to bed i'm not feeling well" "okay" she nodded.

Y: you okay hon?

my thumb went over the send button but didn't I just set my phone on my nightstand and rolled over closing my eyes.

I got up and fixed my tank top "gosh I need coffee" I groaned walking out into the living room expecting to see my sister but I saw Islam "w-what are you doing?" my sister came out of the kitchen with two cups of coffee "I think you two need to talk" "no Y/s/n why'd you call him? How'd you get here so fast?" "plane fight not far" "i'll be in the other room".

"I'm sorry" he said "thanks" I pulled my legs to my chest and grabbed my cup of coffee "I didn't think about how it would affect you" "how could you not Islam? When you were hooking up with a girl you didn't think about your wife?" "I did I..I stopped half way if that helps" "I can't Right now" "there's nothing else I can say I regret it and I'm sorry and I love you I want you back" he looked over at me tear weny down his cheek i wiped it and set my cup of coffee down. I wrapped my arms around his neck and my waist "we'll work on it, no kids right now" I said pulling away looking at him he nodded I kissed his cheek and laid on head on his shoulder "I'm sorry" "shh dont talk about it anymore okay?" He nodded.

[inspofromancientworld]

By the Rivers of Babylon We Sat down and Wept and its Ancient Origins

By Henry Pierce Bone/ After William Edward West - Christie's, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12105640

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, more commonly known as Lord Byron or simply Byron, was a British poet who lived from 1788-1824. He is regarded as being one of the greatest British poets of all time. He was good friends with Percy Bysshe Shelley and the father of Ada Lovelace.

By Thomas Stewardson - Unknown source, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=792792

Byron's family can be traced back to the Doomsday Book and Ralph du Buran, who came to England with William the Conqueror. His paternal grandfather set a speed record for circumnavigating the globe as well as a 'tempestuous voyage' during the American War of Independence, earning him the name 'Foul-Weather Jack' in the papers. His father married a woman he'd been having an affair with after her divorce while she was eight months pregnant. When marrying Byron's mother, his father took her last name to prove that he wasn't just marrying her for her landholdings and fortune. She ended up having to sell her land to pay his debts, though, burning through nearly all her money. They ran away to France to avoid creditors, though returning to England just before Byron was born. Byron was named after her father, who was descended from James I of Scotland, despite his father wanting him to be named William because he wasn't in the country. Byron took the title when he was 10 and his great-uncle died. Byron didn't have a good relationship with his mother, often mocking her for being short, 'corpulent', and for drinking. Weather she was indulgent or stern without follow through is unknown, though one of his biographers leaned toward indulgent. His mother-in-law required that he take on her surname to inherit and he did so, which gained him half of her estate.

Byron started school in Aberdeen before his family moved back to England when he was 10. His mother also often took him out of school at a whim, leading him to be a poor student. When he was 15, he fell in love with Mary Chaworth and refused to return to school for the semester because he was intemperate in all things and was too distracted to focus on schooling, when he gained a bit more control and was able to form friendships with his fellow students.

By Thomas Phillips - Government Art Collection, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45367891

He went to Trinity College, Cambridge, when he was 17, where he met John Edleston, who would be his 'protégé'. Whether their relationship was 'pure' or not is up for debate, especially given the growing intolerance in England at the time, but there are reasons to believe that Byron did engage in homosexual affairs through his school life, at least. When he was 21, he went on a Grand Tour, which was normal for noble sons at the time, even though he had racked up a lot of gambling debts through his schooling, leaving his mother hiding from his creditors. The on-going Napoleonic Wars pushed his Tour to the Near East, around Mediterranean and the Levant, exposing him to Islam, especially the Sufi mystics. He spent much of his life abroad, only in England from 1811-1816 in his adult life.

By Eduard Bendemann - cropped version from http://www.buddenbrookhaus.de/index.php?getfile=flyer-babylon-v2.indd.pdf, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8470026

By the Rivers of Babylon We Sat down and Wept is a paraphrasing of the 137th Psalm, which references the Fall of Jerusalem in 597 BCE, with the rivers being the Tigris and Euphrates, which bounded the land of Babylon. Where the Psalm references 'Zion', the poem references 'Salem'. The Psalm and poem are a communal and personal lament, a pain of the group being taken from their homelands as well as the personal fear of forgetting where one came from. It is also a calling for justice against those who take those away from their homes and destroy those homes, even if they are apparently victorious in the moment.

You can read the poem here. You can read the psalm here.

[creekfiend]

Just wanted to say thanks for "people from culturally Christian backgrounds" because that seems like a good way to phrase it, and I'm going to try to remember to use it when I'm talking about this sort of thing. (I try to not be a dick to people, when possible, and trauma's messy and complicated.) I'm sorry that some people are being horrible in this whole discussion, and I hope you are doing okay.

I'm doing fine! I really sympathize with most of the people involved in this tbh (except the outright antisemites of course lol) bc like I HAVE seen a lot of reactive and reductive and unkind blanket statements about this by some jumblr people in which they are condescendingly explaining other people's realities to them. Which is my LEAST favorite thing. Jumblr can also be really... umm, dog pile-y in a way that I find frustrating and unproductive. However. I think it's also fairly obvious that most of these reactions are trauma responses, and while that isn't an excuse it is an explanation and provides additional context that I do not feel is irrelevant. For jews we have constantly been told 'well simply stop being jewish' like all the time by everybody, often at gunpoint. So like, when I see nonjewish atheists assert that stuff jews are TELLING you they have gone through "literally never happens" that ALSO REALLY SUCKS. like so so bad. Cannot overstate how much that sucks. Cannot overstate how much it sucks to see ppl I sympathize with deeply wrt their mistrust and hatred of like, organized religious authority, align themselves with people who refer to jewish atheists as "religious nationalists" for refusing to divorce themselves from their ethnic backgrounds/culture/community/traditions. That rhetoric is Just antisemitism in a form that has been used to cause real and violent harm to us in living memory.

Also really alienated by the idea that one must be This Vitriolically Angry About Religion to "count" as an atheist. Like what? That is bonkers. I do not understand why the people making seemingly reasonable posts about "actually here's some interesting writings by people from Islamic cultures or majority Hindu cultures or orthodox jewish cultures outlining the ways that the authorities in these societies have used religion to cause harm on a systemic level" (objectively true) seem to be aligning themselves with people who are doing the SAME THING TO JEWS that they resent being done to them -- e.g. condescendingly explaining to us that our negative experiences with a certain type of atheists Don't Exist or Don't Count or cannot possibly be rooted in antisemitism.

I find the whole thing depressing and troubling. I don't tend to follow jumblr because of the aforementioned issues I have w it but this backlash seems to me to be disproportionate and really hateful in a way that... combines poorly with the increased antisemitic sentiments being lobbed at jews from all ideological sides recently. I wish we could all be more congizent of 1. the role trauma is playing here for everyone and 2. the inherent lack of productive discussion that can be had when two parties are simply Trauma Responsing at each other back and forth endlessly.

Then there's the people who just get super aggressive about people "believing fake things" but I'm not sure there's any help for them. Sure wish that the nonjewish atheists who are not like that would disavow them though! I certainly am more than happy to say "acknowledging a cultural/societal dynamic that privileges one religion and culture as default and that existing in thay culture might cause people to have unexamined assumptions about other religions and cultures" should not be weaponized against individual people in order to bully them by insisting they are a thing that they manifestly are not (atheists aren't Christians. The fact that atheists from Jewish backgrounds will have Jewishness shackled to them regardless of their degree of identification with Being A Jew is actually bad and a function of antisemitism; it is not an aspirational dynamic we should be applying to other people simply because their cultural background is privileged over our own in our society.)

Like can we stop talking past each other and try to understand where people are coming from

People are expressing a lot of hurt and anger about atrocities and systems of oppression that I ultimately feel are totally interconnected. Because of this hurt and anger most people are not being precise in their language or prioritizing connecting or actual dialogue about this and instead focusing on dogpiling and gotchas. It's discouraging.

I'm a secular humanist jew with complex feelings towards both jewishness and atheism as concepts and movements. I want to understand and connect with people based on our common ground.

This is I guess all me being a big baby who is unsuited to internet fights but this one specifically feels really hurtful to me because I feel like my reality is being ignored and denied. I suspect a lot of people are also feeling that way. Which might be a good place to START the discussion to be honest.

[apostateoverrubies]

Okay so I recently became aware of a tactic that queerphobic people tend to use when debating on LGBTQ+ rights thanks to a Muslim I've been debating with.

They'll ask for our stance on pedophilia since if we're advocating for the rights of queer identities, we have to accept pedophiles as well.

They want to back you into a corner and make you think that queerness and pedophilia are intertwined when that isn't the case.

If that were the case, then only queer people would be attracted to kids but there are also plenty of heterosexual people like that too.

Just because they want to weasel their way into our community doesn't mean we accept them.

Now, it's time for me to go into why a Muslim has no place to criticize LGBTQ+ community for pedophilia acceptance.

I'm doing this because the whole reason this debate is happening is because of one of my earlier posts where I called out certain religious folks for supposedly being against pedophilia while being part of groups that supported it.

I will say I should've worded that post better and be clear about which specific religious groups are guilty of this. But otherwise, my point still stands.

Anyways, back to Islam.

I think many ex Muslims and hopefully other ex religious people out there know about Aisha.

For those of you who don't, Aisha is Muhammad's child bride. They married when she was only six and their relationship was consummated when she was 9.

She was his favorite wife.

So already this is a bad look. How can you say we're the ones promoting pedophilia when your own prophet married a little girl?

But that's not the only case of it, though it is definitely a very infamous one.

What I want to focus on though is verse 65:4. The general focus of the 65 is divorce, thus the title "Surah At-Talaq".

In 65:4, it goes into the waiting period women and girls have until they are either "honorably retained" or "honorably separated." For those going through menopause and even those who have not menstruated, their period is three months.

Sure, one could argue that it could apply to women who are simply unable to menstruate. But if that were the case, we wouldn't be seeing child marriage in the Quran at all.

And like I said, it wasn't just Muhammad who married an underaged girl.

Umar would go on to marry Umm Kuthum while she had supposedly had not yet reached puberty. (But from what I've heard, not every Muslim acknowledges this marriage.)

Urwah ibn Zubayr had also apparently married off his daughter while she was still very young.

Not to mention, child marriage was widespread in Muslim countries. It's only becoming less common place because of "westernization and man-made laws", though this is according to an Islamis source.

And even with all that aside, AFAB Muslims even before puberty are sexualized through strict dress codes to supposedly protect their purity. Though what really is going on here is that young girls are seen as inherently sexual in their eyes, and instead of protecting them from creeps, it's on the girls to "remain pure."

So yeah, next time you think about calling out queer people for pedophilia acceptance, check your own religion first.

[scobbe]

Something I wish feminists would keep in mind when criticizing religion, especially the Abrahamic faiths, is that before and outside of Judaism/Christianity/Islam, things were Very Very Bad for women. The divorce codes in the Torah are in response to men going through wives without a care in the world and there is a constant stress for the care of widows and orphans - and this all comes from God’s own mouth. Patriarchal society has constantly been pushing against female equality for eons and yes, does rear its unholy head in scripture. But the revelation itself is that we are all in the image of God and equal under God - no slave or free, no male and female.

How we have dealt with that information is where the messiness comes from, not God’s intent for humanity.

[i-cant-sing]

just wanted to say Kashmir has always belonged to India

And you were saying why people of India is always about Pakistan is because Pakistan is always sending terrorist in India and we are not going to forget about the death of our indian army

And you were talking about BJP, BJP is the first political partie in India that has guy to ban the three times saying divorce means divorce many of female muslim in India support BJP for this

By your logic, Pakistan and Bangladesh also belong to India? Should they all just reverse their independence???

Personally, as someone with Kashmiri ancestors, I think yall should have Kashmir vote whether they wanna stay in India, join Pakistan or be independent altogether.

As far as the whole "announce divorce 3 times" goes, that's an Islamic thing okay? There's a way things are done in each religion, they don't have to provide u or the state reasons for that. I'm sure, whoever passed the ban probably thought he was helping Muslim women out or something but it wasnt BJPs problem to deal with. Besides... why... why are they banning hijab?? What good is that bringing to the world? Is it fair for the Indian Muslims to not be able to practice their religion freely, while Indian Hindus get to do it??? What about Muslims slaughtering animals on eid? Should we ban that too because the BJP, a majorly Hindu party, feels its uncomfortable, if not outright disrespectful because they worship cows??? Then, should Muslims be allowed to bash all the idols because they consider it disrespectful to have so many gods????

And look, Im mot saying Pakistan is completely innocent. I'm sure they've done terrible things too when minoritiesare considered (like blasphemyaccusations end up costing u your life there), but to consider the actions of few bad people and assume everyone of association is a terrorist is just downright stupid. Not even sad, pathetic, its stupid.

Should you be afraid of me because I'm a Muslim? Huh? Do you hate me now?

Thing is u are probably wondering why I'm being all Pro Muslims rn when every other community in the world is also suffering/had suffered through something bad... why I'm soooo "insensitive" to the Hindus pain?

Because you/whoever that anon was decided that the time to bring up the Hindu suffering is when I'm talking about Palestine. The fucking nerve. What you/that anon was trying to do was overshadow the Palestinian suffering, by bringing up Hindus. Not to mention, how they mentioned being afraid of Muslims now?? Idc how old u are, its not okay to be racist and its not my job to teach you right from wrong.

Now, you could say whatever you want about me- I give two shits. If you really care about Hindus suffering and what not, post about it on your blog. Raise awareness. But you can't guilt me into sympathising for your cause by making me stop talking about Palestine. I'm not forcing u to raise awareness about Palestine, am I?

[dankusner]

OBITUARY

KRIS KRISTOFFERSON

Country music superstar, A-list Hollywood actor

LOS ANGELES — Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma, died Saturday.

He was 88.

The country music superstar and A-list Hollywood actor died at his home on Maui, Hawaii, family spokeswoman Ebie McFarland said in an email.

McFarland said Kristofferson died peacefully, surrounded by his family.

No cause was given.

Starting in the late 1960s, the Brownsville native wrote such classics standards as “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down,” “Help Me Make it Through the Night,” “For the Good Times” and “Me and Bobby McGee.”

While Kristofferson was a singer, many of his songs were best known as performed by others, whether Ray Price crooning “For the Good Times” or Janis Joplin belting out “Me and Bobby McGee.”

He also starred opposite Ellen Burstyn in director Martin Scorsese’s 1974 film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore , starred opposite Barbra Streisand in the 1976 A Star Is Born and acted alongside Wesley Snipes in Marvel’s Blade in 1998.

Kristofferson, who could recite William Blake from memory, wove intricate folk music lyrics about loneliness and tender romance into popular country music.

With his long hair and bell-bottomed slacks and counterculture songs influenced by Bob Dylan, he represented a new breed of country songwriters along with such peers as Willie Nelson, John Prine and Tom T. Hall.

“There’s no better songwriter alive than Kris Kristofferson,” Nelson said during a November 2009 award ceremony for Kristofferson held by BMI.

“Everything he writes is a standard, and we’re all just going to have to live with that.”

He was a Golden Gloves boxer and football player in college, received a master’s degree in English from Merton College at the University of Oxford in England and turned down an appointment to teach at the Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., to pursue songwriting in Nashville. Hoping to break into the industry, he worked as a part-time janitor at Columbia Records’ Music Row studio.

At times, the legend of Kristofferson was larger than real life. Johnny Cash liked to tell a mostly exaggerated story of how Kristofferson, a former Army pilot, landed a helicopter on Cash’s lawn to give him a tape of “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down” with a beer in one hand.

Over the years in interviews, Kristofferson said with all respect to Cash, while he did land a helicopter at Cash’s house, the Man in Black wasn’t even home at the time, the demo tape was a song that no one ever actually cut and he certainly couldn’t fly a helicopter holding a beer.

In a 2006 interview with The Associated Press, he said he might not have had a career without Cash.

“Shaking his hand when I was still in the Army backstage at the Grand Ole Opry was the moment I’d decided I’d come back,”

Kristofferson said. “It was electric. He kind of took me under his wing before he cut any of my songs. He cut my first record that was record of the year. He put me on stage the first time.”

In 1973, he married fellow songwriter Rita Coolidge and together they had a successful duet career that earned them two Grammy awards.

They divorced in 1980.

He retired from performing and recording in 2021.

Sinéad O’Connor slams old pal Kris Kristofferson for toxic masculinity

Sinéad O’Connor – aka Magda Davitt, or Shuhada’ Sadaqat – is back on Twitter with a vengeance these days and has since shut down her account.

Over the weekend, Sinéad sent out a number of pleas from County Wicklow regarding her missing 14-year-old son Shane, who thankfully was found safe and sound on Monday morning.

Even the police got involved, and when Shane was found “safe and well,” Sinéad tweeted “alhamdulillah,” Arabic for “praise be to God.” (You’ll remember that she converted to Islam last year.)

The 52-year-old Sinéad also let the world know about a long-ago fling with the singer/actor Kris Kristofferson, who’s now 82.

A fan of Sinéad’s on Twitter shared the true story of how Kristofferson came to Sinéad’s aid in the days after she shredded a photo of the Pope on "Saturday Night Live" in 1992, and faced the wrath of an angry nation afterward.

Not long after, Sinéad was one of the featured performers at a Bob Dylan tribute concert at Madison Square Garden, and the crowd booed lustily.

Kristofferson was sent to the stage by the organizers to take the visibly upset Sinéad off, but instead, he told her not to let the “bastards get you down.”

So with Kristofferson’s words of encouragement, she continued, singing a capella about injustice and war, and he was the first one onstage afterward to give her a hug.

The aforementioned fan, Audra Williams, shared the story on Twitter in the context of the new Gillette ad that’s whipped up so much debate.

Williams tweeted, “The recent Gillette ad has started/furthered a lot of conversations about what alternatives to toxic masculinity look like. This is it.” Underneath the tweet was a photo of Sinéad being comforted by Kristofferson onstage during the Dylan show.

Sinéad, using her @magdadavitt77 handle, offered her take on the fan’s opinion and it was pretty surprising, not to mention crass.

“I would not agree Kris wasn’t toxically masculine. He took full advantage when he got the chance and then immediately turned nasty once…” and we won’t go on given that we’re a family site.

She ended the quote with the hashtag #NoHeroOfMine.

Sinéad further elaborated on Monday morning.

“In case my use of the words ‘took advantage’ [in] an earlier tweet might be misconstrued I wish to make clear that in no way, shape or form was I in any way sexually assaulted by Kris Kristofferson. And that the one time we did have sex, it was consensual.”

Sinéad seems to have made quite an impression on Kristofferson.

He wrote a song 10 years ago called “Sister Sinéad” in which he called her a “bald-headed, brave little girl.” Guess the feeling isn’t mutual.

[lifeofresulullah]

The Life of The Prophet Muhammad(pbuh): The Battle of Uhud and Afterwards

The Prophet Marries Hazrat Zaynab Bint Jahsh

(The month of Dhulqada in the 5th Year of the Migration)

Hazrat Zaynab bint Jahsh was the daughter of Umayma bint Ab­dul­mut­talib, the aunt of the Prophet. She had married Hazrat Zayd b. Haritha, the adopted child of the Prophet. The Messenger of God himself wanted her to marry Zayd.

Zaynab and her family did not want that marriage but they gave consent to it when the Prophet insisted.

Zayd Divorces Zaynab

Zayd did not regard his wife Zaynab, who was dignified, equal to him spiritually. This caused lack of harmony in their marriage. As a matter of fact, Zayd went to the Prophet at the end of the first year of their marriage and said to him “O Messenger of God! I want to divorce my wife.”

The Messenger of God said to him, “Live with your wife; do not divorce her! Fear God!”

However, Zayd felt through his foresight that Zaynab had a high ethics and that she had a nature that could be a wife of the Prophet. He did not regard himself equal to her in nature to be her husband; therefore, he divorced her.

The Prophet Marries Zaynab upon the Command of God

The Prophet became very sad due to the end of the marriage between Zayd and Zaynab because of “spiritual lack of harmony”. For he had wanted this marriage to take place. It was necessary to do something and to soften Zaynab’s relatives, who got sad due to this divorce.  

The iddah (the period a woman has to wait after divorce) of Zaynab ended. She was 35 years old.

One day, the Messenger of God was sitting together with Aisha and talking to her. Meanwhile, he received some revelation. God Almighty stated the following in the verses He sent down:

“Then when Zaid had dissolved (his marriage) with her, with the necessary (formality), We joined her in marriage to thee: in order that (in future) there may be no difficulty to the Believers in (the matter of) marriage with the wives of their adopted sons, when the latter have dissolved with the necessary (formality) (their marriage) with them: and God’s command must be fulfilled.

There can be no difficulty to the Prophet in what God has indicated to him as a duty. It was the practice (approved) of God amongst those of old that have passed away, and the command of God is a decree determined.”

When the revelation ended, the Prophet smiled and said, “Who will go and give Zaynab the glad tidings that God married her off to me in the sky?”

As it is clearly understood from the verses, God Almighty ordered the Prophet to marry Zaynab. The Prophet married Zaynab as a result of this order. The statement, “We joined her in marriage to thee” in the verse indicates clearly that it was a heavenly marriage. That is, this marriage took place beyond the traditional and apparent acts and as a result of the decree of qadar; the Messenger of God obeyed the decree of qadar. It has nothing to do with bodily desires.

An Important Reason of This Marriage

The marriage established between the Prophet and Zaynab contains an important aspect of Islamic law and an aspect that interests all believers and is beneficial for them. It is stated in the following part of the verse: “in order that (in future) there may be no difficulty to the Believers in (the matter of) marriage with the wives of their adopted sons”. When a person adopted a child during the Era of Jahiliyya, people called him/her as if he was the real child of that person; and that child had the right to be an inheritor to that person. Naturally, that person could not marry a woman that his child divorced; it was forbidden.

Thus, the Prophet married Zaynab based on the command of God, showing that this belief and custom of the Era of Jahiliyya was wrong. It is stated by the verse that it would not be a sin for believers to do so.

The Gossips of the Munafiqs

When the Prophet married Zaynab, the munafiqs, who were eagerly waiting for opportunities to plot mischief and cause sedition among Muslims, started to talk against it a lot. According to the belief of Jahiliyya, it was haram for a man to marry a woman that his adopted son divorced; thus, they used it as means of gossiping against the Messenger of God, saying, “Muhammad rendered it haram fo a person to marry his son’s wife but he himself married the woman that his son Zayd divorced.” The verse that was sent down settled the issue: “Muhammad is not the father of any of your men, but (he is) the Messenger of God, and the Seal of the Prophets: and God has full knowledge of all things.”

Prophets look at and address their ummah like a father due to their duty of prophethood not due to their human personalities. Therefore, it cannot be mentioned that it is inappropriate for them to marry their daughters. The Quran spiritually states the following in order to eliminate the questions that could come to the mind:

“On account of Divine mercy the Prophet has compassion for you, he deals with you in fatherly fashion, and in the name of prophethood you are like his children. But in regard to his human personality he is not your father so that it should be inappropriate for him to take a wife from among you! And if he calls you “Son,” in respect of the rulings of the Shari’a, you cannot be his children!”

The believers who have foresight and prudence will definitely notice, through our explanation, that the people who want to blame this pure and decent marriage, which has many wisdoms and lead to good things, in order to cast a shadow upon the high personality of the Messenger of God, act with bad intentions and deliberately.

Wedding Feast and a Miracle

It was a custom of the Messenger of God to give a feast to his Companions when he married. This custom has been going on as sunnah among Muslims.

When the Messenger of God married Zaynab, Umm Sulaym, the mother of Anas b. Malik, sent him some fried Madinah dates. The dates she sent were in a small bowl and they were barely sufficient for the Prophet and Hazrat Zaynab.  

Anas b. Malik, who is well-known as “Khadim an-Nabawi” (the Servant of the Prophet) narrates the incident as follows:

“The Prophet (pbuh) accepted what I brought and said, ‘Call Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali (may God be pleased with them)’; he also mentioned the names of several people. I was surprised because the Messenger of God ordered me to call many people for a small amount of food. However, I could not act contrary to the command of the Prophet. I called all of them.

Then, he said to me, ‘Go to the mosque and invite all of the people in the mosque.’ I did so. I said to the people praying in the mosque, ‘the Messenger of God invites you to his wedding feast.’ They all came.

Eventually, the hall was full.

The Prophet said to me, ‘Is there anybody left in the mosque?’

I said, ‘No.’

He said, ‘Go outside and invite whomever you see.’

I called them. The rooms were full, too.

He asked, ‘Is there anybody left?’

I said, ‘No, O Messenger of God!’

He said, ‘Bring me the bowl.’

I brought the bowl to him.

He put his hand on the bowl and prayed for abundance. Then, he said, ‘Let everybody sit in circles of tens and eat what is in front of them.’

The guests sat and ate as they were ordered. Thus, all of the guests came in groups, ate and left.

I was looking at the oil and dates in the bowl. The people in the hall and the rooms ate from the bowl until they were full. What was left in the bowl was as much as I had brought.

The Messenger of God said to me, ‘O Anas! Put it away.’

I took the bowl and went to my mother. I told him all about the incident.

My mother said to me, ‘No need to wonder! If God had wished all of the people of Madinah to eat from it, all of them would have eaten and been full’.”

Since the religion, call and prophethood of Hazrat Muhammad was universal, he was given all kinds of miracles. He showed many miracles regarding the increase of food. We quoted this miracle here due to its relevance to the issue. We pray as follows:

“O Lord! Give abundance to the material and spiritual sustenance that you grant us for the sake of the Messenger of God (pbuh)!”

The Verse of Hijab is Sent Down

The guests that had joined the wedding feast of Hazrat  Zaynab had all left; only three people had remained. They kept talking. The Prophet was not pleased with the situation. He left and went to Hazrat Aisha’s room. Then, he visited the rooms of his other wives one by one. He returned hoping that those three people had left. However, when he returned, they were still talking.  The Messenger of God could not say anything to them. He walked toward the room of Hazrat Aisha again. This time, they stood up and left. When, the Prophet was informed about it, he returned. He entered his room.

Hazrat Umar had once said, “O Messenger of God! Would it not be better if you kept your wives behind a screen? All kinds of people come to visit you.” However, the Messenger of God did not say anything to Umar because there was not a command from God Almighty about it. Once, he saw Hazrat Sawda, one of the wives of the Prophet outside, and said to her, “O Sawda! We recognized you!” He said so because he desired a divine command to be sent regarding tasattur.

When the incident we have mentioned above took place in the wedding feast of Hazrat Zaynab, the verse about tasattur was sent down:

“O ye who believe! enter not the Prophet’s houses― until leave is given― you for a meal (and then) not (so early as) to wait for its preparation: but when ye are invited, enter; and when ye have taken your meal, disperse, without seeking familiar talk. Such (behaviour) annoys the Prophet: he is ashamed to dismiss you, but God is not ashamed (to tell you) the truth. And when ye ask (his ladies) for anything ye want, ask them from before a screen: that makes for greater purity for your hearts and for theirs. Nor is it right for you that ye should annoy God’s Messenger, or that ye should marry his widows after him at any time. Truly such a thing is in God’s sight an enormity.”

The Prophet went out and recited the verse that was sent down to the people. Thereupon, his wives went behind a screen.

After that, the wives of the Prophet talked to the people except the ones that were their close relatives, servants and slaves behind a screen when it was necessary to talk.

Once, the Prophet was near Umm Salama and Maymuna. Meanwhile, Abdullah Ibn Umm Maktum, who was blind, entered the room. The Prophet said to his wives, “Go behind the screen.”

They said, “O Messenger of God! Is he not blind? He does not see or recognize us.”

The Prophet said, “Are you blind? Do you not see him?”

Muslim Women are Ordered to Cover Their Bodies

Some ill-mannered munafiqs harassed female slaves. They sometimes disturbed other women thinking that they were slaves.

They sometimes disturbed Muslim women, too. When they were asked why they behaved like that, they said, “We thought they were slaves.”

Thereupon, the following verse that ordered Muslim women to cover their bodies was sent down:

“O prophet! Tell thy wives and daughters, and the believing women, that they should cast their outer garments over their persons (when abroad): that is most convenient, that they should be known (as such) and not molested.”

[cadybear420]

Meet My MC: Evie Ayana (OG HSS)

Trivia and Extended Details under the cut!

Note: All details are subject to changes and additions.

Family and Background

🇮🇳 Evie is a mix of South Asian (Indian) and European (English/Scottish) descent. Her mom Rani is Indian, and her Dad Scott is a mix of South Asian and European. However, Scott suspects he may have some Turkish roots/ancestry somewhere along the line.

💔 After Scott and Julia (Emma's Mom) ended up going their separate ways in college, Scott would meet Rani. The two fell in love and eventually were married and pregnant, but divorced on amicable terms because Rani realized during the pregnancy that she was not up to being a parent. It was tough on the two of them because they were an otherwise perfect match.

🌉 Evie was born in San Francisco, California, and has lived there all her life up until her and Scott's move to Cedar Cove when he got a new job offer.

👶 Scott chose the name "Evelyn" partly because he liked the way it sounded and partly because some of its meanings include "desired", "desired child", and "wanted", as Scott had always wanted to be a father. But it was quickly shortened to "Evie" as he began using "Evie-bear" as a name of endearment for her.

👨‍👧 Rani would sometimes come to visit Scott and Evie, being more of an Auntie figure to her. They get along pretty well, but it could be a bit awkward since Rani and Scott still had some feelings for each other and neither of them had really had any new partners. Evie never resented Rani for leaving, but would often feel like she missed out on having a great mother figure.

☪️ Both Evie and her dad are cultural semi-practicing Muslims. Scott has Islamic ancestry, but grew up in a household that wasn't strictly religious. Most of his and Evie's practicing of the religion involves fasting on Ramadan, celebrating Eid-ul-fitr and Eid-al-adha, not eating pork or drinking alcohol, and the occasional prayer.

🐱 Scott and Evie adopted Daisy just after Evie graduated middle school. Scott had always wanted a cat as a kid, but his father was deathly allergic. This made Scott afraid to get a furry pet for years, even after he'd moved out. But with Evie loving cats just as much as he does, he eventually decided "enough" and adopted a month-old white-and-orange rescue kitten. Daisy is quiet and calm, but at the same time, her Orange Cat side shows through quite often and she also gets freaked out by large groups of people.

🐹 Scott and Evie adopted Cheese Nugget (sometimes called "Cheesy") in the Fall of Evie's first year at Berry because Scott loves hamsters just as much as he does cats. Don't worry, they make sure to keep Daisy and Cheesy far away from each other. Daisy doesn't know that Cheesy even exists and they intend to keep it that way.

Evie's HSS Story

🚚 Evie hates drastic changes, and hopes to live a life that is stable and secure. At the very least, she wants to be able to know how to mitigate drastic changes. Evie was not a fan of having to move up North. She was leaving behind the home she'd lived in since childhood and the few friends she had made. But she did also hope to end up in a better high school environment.

🫢 Evie started out as very cautious, nervous, and impulsive before coming to Berry. She was bullied fairly often in early elementary school and sometimes had trouble making a lot of friends. When she came to Berry, she was very unsure of it at first and did still have some difficulty, but she was eventually able to take the opportunity of a fresh start and begin pushing herself to be a more confident, outspoken, and actively helpful person. She's been able to make friends and stand up to bullies and assholes much more easily at Berry, though it could still be a bit difficult sometimes.

🤵‍♀️ Evie is a very GNC cis girl and has been for as far back as she can remember. She tends to prefer masc clothing and hair styles, she's very proud of her masc form and likes to work on maintaining her muscular build, she almost exclusively likes role-reversed romances and behaves accordingly with Aiden, and she struggles majorly with genital dysphoria. Seeing Evie being so open with her GNC appearance and behaviors eventually inspires him to step out of his comfort zone and start trying out some GNC styles himself, such as crop tops, short shorts, and dresses.

🏈 Evie has done basketball ever since she was 4, and football ever since late middle school. Berry High was her first time getting into baseball. Though even for basketball, she'd never been on an official team for any of those sports until Berry. But she also greatly enjoys running and has done track-and-field in her freshman year. She had wanted to join football back then, but was a lot more unsure about it. Even in Berry she was a bit unsure, but seeing how welcoming Julian and Caleb were and encouraging her to join made her feel more confident about it.

🫂 Of the people she's met during her time at Berry, she's closest to Emma Hawkins, Jade Ali, Caleb Michell, Michael Harrison, Maria Flores, Caleb Mitchell, Cher Lee (my HSS:CA f!MC) and Bear Lee (her twin), Sakura Watanabe, Julian Castillo, Cameron Levy, Kieran Hale, Frank Walter, Koh Sunya, Myra Khandaar, Ajay Bhandari, Skye Crandall, and Payton Saunders. And Aiden Zhou, of course, but that goes without saying.

🎹 Evie was drawn to Aiden right when she first saw him. She didn't crush on him just yet, but she was captivated by his distinguished appearance and she would try to get to know him better at Brian's party. It wasn't until after he invited her to listen to him play piano that she officially started crushing on him and began actively pursuing him.

👫 Evie was drawn to Aiden for a couple of reasons. There's the fact that he was kind and she found him attractive as all hell, of course. But the big one for her is that she could see a lot of herself in him. He was reserved, shy, insecure, and socially awkward, and she could relate to that. But he was also passionate and dedicated to his craft, and seeing that inspired her to do better at her own interests and passions.

😬 Knowing the story of her parents' backstory has made Evie a little bit cautious about her own relationships; she'd always want to make sure that her partner was 100% comfortable with her and that she wasn't forcing them into doing anything they didn't want to do. This especially shows as she gets into a relationship with Aiden, a normally reserved guy who starts to step out of his comfort zone more often while dating her. She always kept it mostly friendly with him, but would start to express more romantic gestures and feelings when she learned for sure that he liked her. Her insecurity would be a point of contention between them later on in their relationship, but eventually they'd be able to work it out together.

🏀 Evie was very infuriated by Band and Cheer siding against Basketball. Although she sympathized with them on how Isa was treating them unfairly, she despised that they were primarily going after the team over it. It pissed her off even more when Aiden seemed to defend it and even agreed with Mia that the team was "like a second Isa". For a while she'd contemplated whether or not to bring it up, but seeing how everyone did seem to acknowledge they were caught up in their stress, she figured it'd be okay to let it go. Though she and Aiden would eventually discuss it later.

🎤 Evie has mixed feelings on her singing skills. She's not amazing, but she can carry a tune well enough. Sometimes she sings karaoke with no one else and likes how it sounds, other times she isn't so confident about it. But she does seem to be a little less nervous about it when singing with a partner, as discovered by her karaoke with Aiden at Brian's party. Eventually her singing skills will improve as Evie-Aiden duets almost certainly become a regular thing.

👑 Evie ended up winning Homecoming Queen, Payton's Guest of Honor, and Prom Queen. Hoco and Prom titles were never something she really cared about, but she still felt honored to win them.

🎭 Evie has always loved imaginary play-pretend games as a kid and thus does take a little bit of interest in theatre, and would feel ready to try it out by the start of HSS:CA. She was cast as the princess for one part of auditions, but her role of preference was the Knight. However, Danielle's sabotage causing her to break her leg would leave her very distraught, as she was missing out on both football and on theatre that quarter.

Miscellaneous Personality Trivia

💜 Evie's favorite colors include purples, powder pinks, and mint greens.

🎵 Evie can't play an instrument to save her life. She'd taken a few lessons as a kid once, but it did not work out. Aiden does think she might have a secret talent for percussion, though.

💞 Besides Aiden, Evie has also felt attraction for Michael Harrison, Maria Flores, Julian Castillo, and Kieran Hale. None nearly as strongly as Aiden, though. But later on in life, Aiden and Evie may agree to an open marriage and occasionally swing with Michael and Maria.

🏳️‍🌈 Evie is bi with a huge preference for guys. She first realized she wasn't straight around the end of 7th grade and knew for sure she was bi in 9th grade. However there was a lot of confusion for her in figuring this out because of her heavy preference for men, and stigmas that bi women with a male preference "aren't queer enough" or "just looking for attention". In fact, she didn't even have her first actual girl-crush until she met Maria. But soon enough, she was able to come to terms with the fact that her preference for men doesn't make her any less bi.

📝 Evie loves creative writing and has done it since she was a kid. This is in part motivated by the fact that she dislikes most of the romance/erotic stories genre. While she has nothing against those who do like them, and there are some movies that she can still enjoy even with a normative main romance, she still has a bit of contempt for the genre because of how pretty much none of them cater to more role-reversed romance fantasies. So she’s always felt pretty alienated in the genre, and has considered a career as an author so she can publish stories with GNC romance.

✈️ Evie has a bit of an attachment to vehicles like trains and airplanes and gets a bit excited about going on them. A lot of the time, Scott would let her help him out with his model train displays.

⭐ Evie loves cute and pretty stuff. Heart shapes, star shapes, flowers and flower shapes, butterflies, smiley faces, cats, glittery/shiny/sparkly/shimmery things, squeaky things, etc. You can rip that stuff from her cold, dead hands.

🌸 Evie adores scented products and has a huge collection of lotions, gel bead freshners, soaps, and other bath/home/care products that have scents she loves. Her favorite scents include eucalyptus, lavender, mint, cherry, and powder.

🎶 Even though Evie can't play a musical instrument for shit and a lot of the musical terminology Aiden uses is utter nonsense to her, she's quite the enthusiast for good songs and soundtracks. The Incredibles, The Matrix, Super Mario Galaxy, James Bond, and many more. She excitedly raves to Aiden about her favorite soundtracks from movies, video games, TV shows, etc. Often she'll even recommend a show or movie to him partly on the basis of it having a bomb-ass soundtrack, and almost 100% of the time he will enjoy it and they'll rave about the best parts of the soundtrack together.

📸 Evie puts great value on having hard physical records of memories, much unlike her boyfriend who prefers to remember things through music. Sometimes she does like to maintain memories through associations, but out of the fear of the possibility that she could forget certain good or important memories, she always tries to keep photos, notes/journal entries, or any other form of direct record.

☕ Evie does not like coffee. It smells nice, but the taste is awful to her. She much prefers tea (especially Earl Grey and mint teas), hot cocoa, and warm apple cider.

🌶️ Evie loathes spicy food. Hot peppers, spicy-flavored chips, heck, even a lot of South Asian/Indian dishes. She hates the taste and doesn't understand the appeal at all.

Other Profile Pieces

Original Intro for OCtober 2023

Bubble Chart Profile

More in-depth on Evie's parental backstory

Aiden's favorite aspects about Evie

Bonus Meta Fun Facts:

In my first HSS playthrough, I named my MC "Cady Heron" after the character from "Mean Girls", which I personally consider to be one of my most favorite high school movies of all time. By my second playthrough, I changed it to "Evie Ayana" to make the character more personalized.

My username "cadybear420" comes from hearing Scott call my MC "Cady-bear" all the time in that first playthrough. Plus 420 added on because weed number funny.

Evie, "Cady" at the time, originally started out having the wavy blonde hairstyle. But when I got to Book 2, I changed it to the short brown hairstyle. But I do like to headcanon she did have long bleached hair at the start of her freshman year in high school.

Prior to making this profile, 3 out of my total of 7 playthroughs took Evie on some greatly alternative routes. Two where Evie romanced Michael; one where Evie did band and was good at it; and one where Evie sucked at raising school spirit, was a jerk to the Hearst kids, and led on Emma so she could ask Aiden to homecoming.

My headcanons for her story during the HSS:CA timeline are currently tentative. Not only because it's been a while since I last played the trilogy, but also because I might change up a lot of the canon for my headcanons. We'll see.

[dwellordream]

“…Francesco’s account reveals that he had some understanding of Islam, but what he says is also at times incorrect and insulting. Towards the end of this work, he includes a section called The Contrasts, where he sets out to explain what made Muslims different from European Christians. This really is only one person’s views, one that is shaped by his own religious faith and that he was an outsider living in the Middle East. Here is what he writes:

When they pray they turn to the South towards the Tomb of Mohammed while we turn to the East and the Jews to the West.

In reality, Muslims pray toward Mecca, while Jewish people would have prayed in the direction of Jerusalem.

The men do housework and carry water and weave, and the women do the trading.

The women carry burdens on their shoulders and the men on their heads.

The men eat seated, the women standing.

Fathers are bound to feed their daughters but not their sons; and more the bastard than the legitimate.

These four points, and others further on, reveal much about what Francesco really thinks is different and wrong with Arabic people – to him they are too feminine, and women are given roles and rights that should only be reserved for men.

The barbers when at work sit and the clients stand.

They drink all day except when they eat.

They continually wash their hands, and their hands are always dirty.

This seems to be a reference to the Islamic practice of washing one’s face, hands, arms, and feet before prayers.

The women wear only one dress, the men wear three or four.

We take off our headgear in sign of respect, they take off their shoes.

The women wear trousers, and the men go without them.

In Lent we eat during the day and they fast during the day and eat like beasts all night.

This refers to Ramadan, a month-long celebration for Muslims where they fast during the day and will have feasts after sunset.

We address a letter when it is written, they begin with the address.

We urinate standing, they squatting as females.

We like dogs, they cats.

Having pets was common in the medieval world, and while the reputation of dogs and cats vary in different parts of the world, in neither culture it was universally so.

We drink wine, they water.

We are guided by the sun, they by the moon.

This is probably a reference to how the European calendar was solar-based, but the Islamic one is lunar-based.

We eat from on high, they from the ground.

We sleep undressed, they, men and women, dressed.

We value horses, they mares.

We girdle ourselves over the clothes, they under.

They write from right to left, we the reverse.

They wear linen, we wear wool.

Francesco does not take into account the differences in climate between Europe and the Middle East.

They sell chickens by measure, and fruits and vegetables they sell by weight on the balance.

They carry to market birds in a sack and figs in a cage.

We despise imbeciles and they revere them as saints.

Perhaps Francesco is referring to Sufi practitioners, who follow a more mystical path of Islam. Moreover, he seems to be oblivious to how his own Franciscan order was derided by many of his fellow Christians.

Slaves with us are servants, with them lords.

Later on Francesco has to make a detailed explanation of who the Mamluks were, and offers a less-than-accurate history of their rise to power in Egypt and Syria. Many enemies of the Mamluks often disparaged their origins as slaves.

Men give dowry to the wives, and we do the opposite.

Francesco also offers more details on this, finding this way more “just, reasonable and proper’ then the Italian practice where the parents of the bride had to offer a dowry to obtain a marriage. He explains why: “First, it would be a means whereby many poor girls could marry, who through poverty cannot marry, and so remain single in danger of sin and cause sin to others.”

We repudiate the wife, they the husband.

His sister also wanted to know about how wives can repudiate their husbands, by which he means they divorce their husbands, and Francesco responds by explaining this can happen in cases of abuse, neglect or abandonment. Divorce was actually fairly common in medieval Egypt, and both men and women could initiate it.

Men go barefooted, the women wear light shoes.

The men are beautiful; the women are most ugly and small.

The men wear clothes cut low, the women cut close to the neck.

The men wear a veil on the head, the women a cap.

The men never spit, the women do.

The men like cats, the women dogs.

Francesco sums it up by concluding “if they could they would walk backwards just to be different from us.”

Francesco’s list is very surprising – one would expect that this Franciscan friar would write about religious differences – instead, it is often just about daily life and trivial topics. However, there is often an underlying view that traditional gender roles were not being followed by medieval Muslims. More than a dozen of his contrasts involve women doing or wearing something that goes against what he thinks should be the proper way as found in Francesco’s homeland.

Not everything that Francesco finds to be different is to him a bad thing, and his view of Muslims isn’t always negative (at times he is far more critical of other Christian sects that lived in the region). But it is telling that he views the differences as somehow being in opposition to his own culture, as if it was somehow planned to be that way. One wonders how perplexed Francesco would have been if his travels took him to more distant lands and cultures.

This list is perhaps even more revealing in how much it shows the differences between medieval people and us. Francesco Suriano would see our modern-day lifestyles and habits as being very much ‘the other’, critiquing the way we dressed, ate, and slept. Who knows how upset he might become to learn that some people had pet fish!”

- Peter Konieczny, “The Differences between Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages”

[starfire-s]

Hi I'm a long time follower it's not my first time writing to you and I'm not sure if I have the right but I just want to say that I am so proud of you and how far you've come. These past few years especially this last one has not been easy for you but you've persisted and you've made it through your education, you've had to deal with some unfortunate people in your personal and professional life and here you are. You've made it. Thank you for sharing a part of your life you are an amazing person and I feel lucky to be following along on this journey. I am not religious but it brings me a sort of peace to know you have reconnected with yours. Again I am probably not within my right to make comments about that but you've come so far and in spite of all you've suffered you've made it through and you are still here. ♡

Hopefully my words won't make you feel uncomfortable in continuing to share a bit of your life I would love to follow along as long as you allow.

hi anon!! thank you so much for this message and thank you for being proud of me. i am also grateful to have come so far… i honestly never thought i’d be able to start healing and moving forward.

i always say this to all my family and friends but reconnecting with Allah and islam was the best thing to happen to me. i never would’ve found Allah again if i didn’t go through what i did. in my worst time, i only had Allah and he is the reason i am still here and moving forward, despite the obstacles.

as for my life, idk if i have given everyone the update but i am still married due to some legal reasons. however, i have not seen my husband since november last year. i had to write to him as part of my divorce application and i told him that i hope he finds some peace too, and i truly hope he does. despite what he did to me, i don’t hate him but i do pity him sometimes that he can’t make his own choices for himself. i know usually in divorces you have to hate the other person which is very true for my husband because he hates me but i think me being able to say i dont hate him also shows that i am healing and i am neutral about him now.

i am now looking forward to seeing what life has in store for me… i always believe that after all this Allah has written something good for me and i will be at peace.

[questionsonislam]

How can a woman get "Khula" (divorcement)?

If a woman wants to divorce, it is necessary that her husband give her the right to divorce. If a married woman wants to divorce and her husband does not divorce her, the families can choose an arbitration committee and the divorce can be realized.

A woman is religiously the wife of the man whom she performed a marriage; therefore she cannot marry anybody else unless her husband divorces her.

The things that can be done in such a situation is to make the man divorce the woman or to divorce them through an arbitration committee.

In a situation like that, it is not right for the man not to insist on not divorcing the woman only in order to harm her. (al-Baqara, 2/231).

Therefore, in a situation like that, a respectable, wise, virtuous scholar should go and talk to the man as a mediator and tell him that he should end a marriage that does not benefit him at all, that the religious marriage cannot be used to satisfy oneself by harming the woman and that it is contrary to Islam; he should persuade the man to divorce the woman.

If the man insists on not divorcing, the families of the woman and man choose an arbiter each because they cannot apply to the court since there is not an official marriage. If one of the families does not agree to choose an arbiter, the other family can choose a just and impartial arbiter for them.

The arbiters try to arbitrate first. If there is a real necessity, they can decide to divorce the man and the woman even if the spouses do not consent.

After a divorce like that takes place and the waiting period for the woman ends, the woman can marry again.

In order to prevent such incidents from happening, it is necessary to perform official marriage contracts and have a legal assurance. The young people or their families who say that they are religious people may deny the contracts they have made among themselves when there is no official recording and one of the parties, usually the woman, faces a difficult situation.

Thus, let alone realizing the high aim that our religion assumes out of the marriage, people try to oppress one another using the religion.

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I just feel like writing and venting a bit. Whoever reads it, gets a quick reflection of my brain at night as things have been building up for awhile. I’ll ask a question, but at the end of the day what matters? You can argue that the day is over and tomorrow will be redundant, a different but likely similar flavor; life goes on… Or you can argue that life has a very distinct purpose and actions, thoughts, words spoken, and prayers played a role in what transpired throughout the entirety of the day. So many people get into this momentum where they are feeding on progression in some area of their life and that is what brings them through life. Whether they are growing in many areas of their lives or whether they have plateaued and are bit stagnant, there needs to be an ultimate destination. It’s the central objective for success. “Being busy” or “Having a family/relationship” Isn’t the destination. That’s why there are broken families and an out of control divorce rate. There are people rushing through life, rushing through relationships, rushing to family life, rushing to college, rushing to a career but as they reach these checkpoints in life, they are fun, new, and exciting, but then the air becomes stale, people spiral back into their weirdness and discontent. You’re probably wondering to yourself, maybe speculating that I was going to bring up religion.. Yes I will, religion is a checkpoint, not the destination. Religion is a horrible word for one that I resent and detest. It’s just used by ignorant and unbelieving people. Ever “religion” has a very real spiritual background that is full of truth. Regardless of your personal religion that you’ve either grown up in or have chosen to follow, you’re likely left with questions unanswered. I would argue that you take a handful of the common religions and do a breakdown analysis of each of them. If you’re requiring some closure in leaving a specific religion or in need of some reasoning behind the religions, do the analysis. Even if you’re already participating in a religion, don’t expect that it has all the answers because none of them do. In fact they always have a hidden agenda and they always have missing destinations. I consider paganism, wicca, satanism, Catholism, Buddhism, Islam some of the more popular ones. They all have their own unique themes and guiding light. And they all have some truth. But if they aren’t instructing you about your destination, then they aren’t leading you in the best direction in your life. We need to consciously be guarded from the world, yet focused on our destination. There are tons of distractions and tons of misinformation out there. When we take all of the religions and bodies of education we are surrounded by, there are tons of false profits and bad teachers, shallow priests, teachers, and poor guides that will attempt to lead you and direct your attention. Question it all.

The best things in this life fade and the comfort we have can be stripped at any time. Be prepared to know who you are, present yourself to the world, guard yourself from evil, and surround yourself with what is right. I hyper focused on a lot of the “right things” but they hijacked my projection; they set me off on a hidden goose track. Find that center where you can align yourself with goodness and love and get as many careers and enjoyment through life, but don’t forget that you have a destination and that your life matters here on earth so treat others with respect, love your enemy, allow your soul to be sculpted, shifted, and melted to the highest degree, find the error in religion. Keep rocking!

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Trang's Work to Prevent WWWIII (This Time with Nuclear Weapons) and End the Ancient Religious War

Religious Argument:

Now I, Trang, understand why Jesus had to die for Jesus people's sins: bombing darker-skinned babies, children, women, and men living in this 'Jesus' birthland' area in the Middle East (Asian Minor or bottom left area of the M.E.) adjacent to the mouth of dark Africa (next to Egypt) for last 400 years in the Palestine region to conquer the prize land for Christians (but mostly for white Protestant Christians because they only have divorces via Church of England and the Protestant-created empire of America.

The Catholics don't care for this war and the prize land of Bethlehem as much as the Protestants judging how the Pope came out to denounce IDF and calling them terrorists for killing some of his Palestinian Catholic Christians ( a Christian Palestinian mother ran out of church to go to the bathroom andgot killed by an IDF sniper. Her daughter ran out to pull in her body and got shot by IDF) and bombed one or two oldest Christian churche(s). Furthermore, a few Spanish-Catholic countries in South America cut ties with Israel. In interviews, both the king and president of Spain blamed Israel for their harsh treatments of the Palestinian people which lead to October 7th massacre. Catholic countries of Italy, Spain, and France refused to remove UN peacekeeper troops in South Lebanon after Netanyahu expressed his request that UN troops are to be moved. France proposed Europe an end selling arms to Israel after is IDF invaded into its old French colonized territory in Lebanon along with Netanyahu's warning to flatten Lebanon if the Christians Lebanonese troops don't follow their UN contract kick out Hezbollah terrorists even though the Lebanese went through a 30-year civil war a decade or two ago (probably fighting with Hezbollah which are basically ex Muslim Palestinians who got kicked out of their land by Israel). Christian Lebanon was kind as a neighbor to accept so many muslim Palestinians; thus, this created a civil war in Lebanon with such a large population of Muslims entering Christian Lebanon. So I feel for the Christian Lebanonese the most. Even though Jordan and Egypt (most citizens follow Islam) accepted many Palestinian refugees in the past, they closed their borders to the Palestinians today because they have tourist businessese to run (tourist business is a big part of their economy andatleadt 1/3rd of the tourists are Americans, Europeans, and the rest of the West) and it's hard to run a tourist business if you have angry, revengeful, and violent Palestinians turning into terrorist activities living in your countries.

I, Trang, think this is also a continuation of another religious war with deep and painful wounds and scars in Europe and England area when the Catholicsm and Protestants fought for dominance during the kings and queens days. I think subconsciously the Catholics don't want the Protestants to control Bethlehem(Jesus' birthland). I think subconsciously the Protestants are jealous of the Catholics that they don't have Jesus' Bible and the Vatican City while they have nothing but divorces via Church of England and vast colonized territory around the globe through British colonialism. Thus they have to get the final straw to gain equality to Catholicsm: Jesus' birthland or Bethlehem. Even though Protestant representeting Church of England prince William (the fire kind) came out to express his concern for the fighting in Gaza, his words were quickly quiet by Isreal and the majority support of his country men. This whole mess was created by his country via British colonialism in the Palestine region and gave it to the Holocaust Jews by the agreement of the U.N. which was established immediately after WW2 and for the helping of the Holocaust Jews. Now the UN is hated by the Israelis and America because the UN doesn't approve of Israelo sezing Moreland in winning wars with the Palestinians. England removed itself as the babysitter of Isreal after 1947 so American raised up to be its guardians. America doesn't mind Israeli aggression in stealing more land in winning wars with war waging Palestinians because American Protestants have their eagle American eyes on Jesus' birthland.

Meanwhile, I, Trang, sees another player in this war: Irish Biden as Catholic Irish fighting with Church of England and England as their colonizer of their northern Irish land. If Irish Biden in America can win this war to gain Bethlehem, the rish Catholics will gain respect and equality to Italian Catholics as their contribution to Catholicsm. In the meantime, they thought Irish Catholic Biden can show England, church of England, and the kings and queens the friendly finger for what their Irish Catholic people went through with a million dead in thr irsh potato famine wiy england stealing all the potato to punish Irish revolt (I think) and stealing nearly half of their land. Juicy huh?

Now the bombing has spreaded to nextdoor Lebanon which also killed the lives of the most innocence (old-French-colonialism-colored Christians in Lebanon) in this Judaism-being-supported-by-white-Christian-bombs-weapons-and-money-against-current-residents-of-Islam war. I, Trang, believe that most humans are not aware that this Jesus' land (also known as Holyland to the Christians and Jews) is also religious land for the Hamas, Palestinians, Iranians, and Islam for their Muhammad (founder of Islam) died and went to heaven here per Hamas' words.

I ASSUMED that after the majority of Christian movement moved to Europe and the majority of the Judaism movement moved in all directions but also has some prominence in Europe after it was kicked out as the results of many wars with many interested parties dated as far back as 2,000-3,000 years ago. Finally, the Muslims (people who follow Islam) and Arabs (people who look like Muslims but don't necessary follow Islam) gained dominance of the Middle-East. During Muslim's control around 1,500 years ago, a younger religion arrived called Islam with it's founders Muhammad. Thus, it made sense that this is also the land where Muhammad died and he happened to die in Palestine as according to the Hamas so that is why they are fighting hard to defend Palestine as their religious land, too. However, listening to a Christian radio, I heard the Christian radio show host dismissed the Hamas' claim that their Muhammad died and went to heaven in Palestine so they don't care if the Hamas thinks the Palestine region (Holyland or Jesus' land) is also their sacred land, too.

I also ASSUME that ancient Jews (ancestors of the Isrealis) were kicked out by God for nailing his son Jesus per accusation of the Bible in which humanists reject as words that are true because there was no evidence and words of hatred to their Jew people. However, if it is true that I am Jesus' father living as a female named Trang or the female Buddha or the hardcore heterosexual female philosopher, guess who hurt me? A gay Jewish man and an human resources man names David (as th Star of David) who all worked as my bosses at Starbucks in gay capital of the world, San Francisco.

I heard on several Christian AM and FM radio shows in America that they fear the Muslims will destroy all sacred relics and places where Jesus was born and walked in Bethlehem; and how wonderful it would be for them to run Bethlehem for Jesus vacations to feel closer to him and walk where their Jesus used to walk. They also said their Bible instructed them to return to the Holyland to rebuild the Kingdom of God preparing for the second coming of their Christ (Jesus). They also expressed their love and respect for their dear Holocaust Jewish friends who were hurt so badly by the death of 6 millions Jews by Hitler and his Nazi regime in Germany so they have to provide unwavering support for Israel to fight in this war to reclaim the Jewish ancestor's land ( 3,000 years) even though it involves kicked out darker-skinned people called Palestinians.

Mike Johnson and his Bible Belt people said they live their lives 100% on the Bible so I, Trang, ask them, "Who nailed Jesus?" You are helping to kill one kind of people (Palestinians or people you deem as terrorists) to help another kind of people who were harmed badly in WWWIII to have their ancient land back to live while knowing their ancestors are blamed by your precious Bible to be the ones who nailed your Jesus. Now guess what? Because of your kind deed to help the Isrealis get back their ancestors' land, the indigenous people around the world and especially your American-Indians want your help to reclaim their ancestors ' land back too in which your ancestors stole so you can live on it right now

I, Trang, said, "Because the Hamas terrorists said this land is also where their religious land where Islam's Mohammad died and went to heaven, it must be shared by all parties once individual reparations is paid to the Palestinians in order to achieve eternal peace, or this ancient war will be continued after we die with most of the young generation favoring Free Palestine over Israel judging front their protests on the streets and judging how your 2 white American children (one as airman named Aaron Bushnell) recently burned and tried to burn themselves to death for Free Palestine. A recent articles on Dailymail said the young generation thinks Hitler has some good points. A year ago, another article on its website stated that the young Western generation sympathizes with Osama bin Ladan's pain in the Palestine region. I, Trang, could be wrong with my predictions, but atleast I have done my part to warn you (Isrealis and Jews included). As a Buddhist, a semi-Buddhist, and an atheist, this is not my war; however, I pain for babies and children on both sides and outside the war, the animals, environment, and the planet. Peace and love via suing."

Atheistic Argument:

In a true democracy, we buy back land with handsome price they can't resist, not spent 1/2 trillion dollars to steal back or reclaim land from 3,000 years ago, and defend in wars. As an ethnic-American, I am willing to pay 2% tax for rest of my life to pay reparations for Palestinians, descendants of black slaves, Indigenous-Americans for stolen land, and supporting religious symbol of Judaism on Israeli planes and flag to bomb Lebanon.

The terrorists said why do we park our white Christian democracy troops in tanks, planes, and soldiers carrying guns all over their darker-skinned Islamic and Muslim land? How would we like it if they, Russia, or China park(s) their troops around the America and Europe?

The young generation in America, Europe, and around the world seems to favor Free Palestine over Israel judging how some white young American people (including an airman Aaron Bushnell) burned themselves for Free Palestine. After we die, they will implement their Free Palestine plan. However, while still alive and in charge, we old people have a chance to sign a solid compromising deal to save Israel while creating 3 more new states in this Palestine region in my 4-state-in-M.E.-plan below. Guess what? Now the indigenous people around the world (even in Scandinavia) especially the American Indians want their 10,000 ancient land back, too. Will you do the helping or will it be the work of your future children and grandchildren?

Iran and Democracy Argument in Gayism:

Iran promotes 2 genders while democracy promotes 100.

Trang's Hardcore Heterosexual Female Philosopher's Argument with Iran and the West Controlling Jesus' Presumed Sexuality Which Determines the Livelihood of Christianity:

Under Islam control, Bethlehem (Jesus' birth town) will never see gay pride parades and 🌈 flags or Jesus will be deemed gay, and eventually, the end of Christianity. Thus, I, Trang, believe subconsciously the Catholics are working hard to prevent the Protestants to control Bethlehem to prevent democracy to control Bethlehem which will destroy Christianity eternally (Christianity is all Italy, the Pope, and the Catholics have). Furthermore, I, Trang, believe subconsciously the Protestants think they are higher than Jesus because one day there might be another God's representative coming out of America in a form of blonde hair and blue eyes once I teach their white-white American children not to be so gay as a hardcore heterosexual female; and once I teach their future DNA not to be so violent by being more understanding and reasonable to protect all races and religions and not just their kind and races with expensive reparations and returning some land. Last but not least, I, Trang, think, subconsciously, the white American Protestants will think they are higher than Jesus once their reasoning skills kick in to learn that Jesus might not be a blonde hair blue eyes man so they subconsciously want to turn Jesus gay by conquering Bethlehem with their gay American democracy to put rainbow flags and invite gay pride parades. That is why I, Trang, made a philosophy thar Jesus' father or God came down as woman names Trang (similar to Trans, but I am not trans) to stop the Jesus' Protestant people from turning Jesus gay when Jesus is not gay with this quest to control Bethlehem. Get it? Poor Jesus, suffered so much in the nailing pain, all naked, starved, dehydrated, carrying his own heavy bbq stick, with his meat cooked in sun; and now in the pain of half of his Jesus' people in the form of Protestants subconsciously creating gossips that he's gay when he's not to destroy his reputation and religion. No wonder their Jesus Christ had to die for their sins. In the meantime, Judaism, Isrealis, and most Jews don't care because they don't accept Jesus as important in their religion. A Buddhist like me cares but everyone and their mother and father call me, Trang, crazy and hurt me. Sheesh, no thanks to you humans. At least I have Jesus and Jesus' father as God, Allah, Yahweh, Brahman, Ong Troi/etc. on my side, then I'll be a OK: crippled, mental, and semi-homeless a OK. Oh Buddha and Buddhism came from Hindu soni have to include the word Brahman. I am slowly out to protect Isrealis and Jews along with Muslims so I can include Yahweh and Allah. Haha, got you you suckers by your balls and breasts while wearing expensive dish washing gloves. Off to wash my hand with hand switch soap and water.

In this war, the most innocent are the Lebanese Christian babies, children, women, and men. Therefore I sent a message to the Pope on X that I will make be the Lebanese Christians and Palestinia Christians are caregivers and guardians of Jesus' assets in Bethlehem. I will remind the Islamic Palestinians, Hamas Hezbollah that their fellow Christian Muslims also suffers too in their war. White Christians can still have their Jesus vacations like they do now but the Islamic Muslims won't destroy Jesus' assets to earn more tourist money for all parties involved.

Trang came from atheist commie Vietnam with 9 years living in Vietnam with 7 years under commie control; who loves yummy Buddhist vegan Vietnamese food and loves washing dishes at the Vietnamese temples and still bow at buddha statues as her spiritual teacher; exploded to pictures Catholic French churches in Vietnam; writes in Vietnamese language by the influence ancient England's missionary changing traditional Vietnamese writing into Catholic Roman alphabet to fight against Chinese control for 1,000 years; trained in Protestant America for 41 years but about to return to Vietnam if it's not too gay to live by relinguishing her genocide-gay-Spanish+as-second-language American citizenship forever while paying back the Vietnam sins to Cambodia for Vietnam invasion of their land during Vietnam war.

Love and Peace via Suing Argument:

As an ex new social studies teacher, I sued America using the separation of church & state defense (1st Amendment of Constitution by American Founding Fathers) for the U.S. support of the religious symbol of Judaism on Israeli flag (Star of David) in this war and last 76 years to build and defend state of Judaism called Israel.

Four and Even Five New States Argument:

Israel as land before 1948 with reparations for kicked-out Palestinians; Gaza as the Vatican City version for Islam; Palestine to replace West Bank; and a new democracy country in the Middle East as a true democracy between Jews, Muslims, and Christians (ex-Israelis and current-returning Palestinians with reparations for Palestinians). Eternally ✌️ in this new democracy country for they are only humans who share same idea that God is a non-human-force that created the universe. 🙏 Hurray 🙌 🎉

However, with a new and true democracy state between Jews and Muslims with one side of a country being closer in proximity to the Islamic state and the other side closer the Isreali state, I fear this idea will collapse into a civil war like in Ukraine (one side closer to russia and the other closer to Europe with Ukraine toppled the president and government that favors Putin and replaced the new government with jewish funny man Zelensky in charge), and even America (one side closer to China being less religious and the other side closer to Europe being very religious). Thus we will have to establish 5 new states in the Palestine region to lock ✌️ eternally and melt the key.

In Conclusion:

I, Mai-Trang Thi Nguyen, relinguish my American citizenship as a hardcore heterosexual female to go where it's more safe for me if it's not too gay living and working in a job that I want to apply for: the female Buddha. I can teach English to orphaned kids while instill self-esteem into their parent-less lives. Then I'll do volunteering work to sweep the streets and even clean public bathrooms for a race, religion, government, and country are nothing without basic cleaning with not took much chemicals and sanitization with more environmental friendly chemicals. I choose Vietnam. If Vietnam turns gay then I choose Cambodia, Laos, and Nepal. If these countries turn gay, then my black bed sheets, masks, and I will move to Iran living on top of the destruction once Israel nukes Iran. The next sub-empire will be in the Asia continent which includes Iran, Russia, and rest of Asia, and perhaps even Middle-East and Africa for countries that are more hardcore heterosexual and have religions that believe that God is not a human being that created the universe or perhaps universes and beyond.

I believe there won't be any more empire for empires are evil and bullies. We humans are too smart to be control by empire so we will have sub-empires to balance out the power to protect the existing of all humans or God's children, not just a section of humans and a section of God's children. Even though America and the West will die as an empire , they will still be strong like today's England, Germany, France, etc.

Go see my Master's thesis in philosophy as the female Buddha in the below post on who I found as your second coming of Jesus or the reincarnation of Jesus and Satan living as a man. I found them in gay San Francisco of California in America for California and America is half God's force and half Satan's force. With this finding, I believe God as Jesus' father want Jesus' people in the form of white skin to build a second God's Kingdom in America with reincarnation added to their Protestant version of the Bible (updated Bible) and stop messing with the Holyland and Bethlehem out of jealousy of the Catholics have the Vatican city and original Bible, and darker-skinned Christians caring for Bethlehem (Jesus' birthtown).

OK this will be my last post. Trang's work at 51.5 years old.

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