Shahenshah

o/ Thanks!

Ruler Name:Shahenshah Nation Link:https://www.cybernations.net/nation_drill_display.asp?Nation_ID=162944

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Good thing rest of the planet has figured it out. Point being, there is a more fundamental issue, SRO etcs are band-aid on an open wound.

my freind has a 5 y/o daughter, so I was at his place and she was just playing around asking for my phone, so i handed her over my backup nokia (one with buttons, i got it when i broke my primary to pass through the day and not miss calls)....she just starting rubing/scrilling the screen and looking at me like 'wtf is wrong with this thing, it's not responding'. That was an interesting moments, kids of no concept of 'buttons on phone'. I'm fine with it, they dont need to know it. Similarly, I have alot of early 20s guys, everyone's got a snapchat and instagram these days, i signed up, just so im 'in the loop'. my accounts are literally empty.

Ruler Name: shahenshah Nation Link: http://www.cybernations.net/nation_drill_display.asp?Nation_ID=162944

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You do realize that unstable contitions in the ME are in a large part caused by sectarianism? It’s not the whole story of course, but a pretty decent part of it.Sectarianism in ME is practically driven by Politics. The original secterian divide was also political in nature in regards to political leadership of the emerging empire and today also it's primarily driven by Politics. Politics in ME has alot to do with the politics itself and all things that divide politics, religion is merely a tool. So, you cannot take secterianism in isolation in ME of everything else. Dude, you practically know nothing other skimming stuff that you read on Wikipedia or some tilted blogs. Oh I read plenty books on various topics, I just like to reference Wikipedia as an easy source to support a statement here and there. But since you want something more, I highly recommend reading Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari for some very interesting perspectives on the development of humans, empires, ideologies and other things. If you can even by it in Pakistan, not sure what's the official policy is on books by Jewish authors. https://urdubazaronline.pk/Sapiens:%20A%20Brief%20History%20of%20Humankind Once more, your preconceived notions betray your biasness. I'll answer the rest later, in a wedding(not mine) and you may not know this, bit in Pakistan that's a whole week of affairs, ceremonies, events, dancing, eating etc that I get confused and loose track of what's going on o/. That's the week of actual events, excluding months leading up to plans for each of the events. The absolute minimum you can go is 3 days, that's like the most basic. Funny thing, Islam encourages you to keep it simple, have 1 event and be done etc, but local traditions and cultures play a role, and you my friend, often tend to confuse them with religion.

which is why NK would not last very long in a land war. lets say they attack SK, and then the troops move in, and they see what the rest of the world is actually like and realize they have been lied to all their lives. Does Rocket Man actually think they would continue to fight for him? Thats not the problem, NK does not and never did stand a chance millitarily. Until few years ago, they had enough artillery to wreck Seoul, the Capital of South. But IMO, combined firepower of US, SK and Japan would be more than enough to shock and awe the entire place and cut the CnC from Pyongyang to the border where you have the mass of artilleries pointing to Seoul. All US Presidents upto Bush had the option to take care of it IMO. Now they probably have enough nukes to wreck SK and Japan. These strategic decisions aren't controlled by foot soldiers and the guys firing the artillery shells or shooting nukes aren't the ones crossing the borders. The question now is are SK, Japan and US willing to risk a nuclear missile slipping by and hitting Seoul or Tokyo? The answer is a big resounding NO, the only reason Kim's govt surivives is becuase that govt has forged an effective detterence against external millitary action, else Kim would have gone down like Gaddafi or Saddam. If his regime is near collapse and and if Kim feels it's due to machinations of his enemies (sanctions) he may as well say, "I'm going down anyway, so I'm gonna take you guys with me". So you just can't play silly game with a regime that has nukes. It's no more middle East or Africa or South America where everyone and their mums are busy playing game of thrones. No, what you do is do some symbolic actions, slap on the wrist(token Chinese sanctions) talk tough (tweet like Trump) and do nothing but try and keep things rational and hope someone with direct access to dictator does the deed quickly and smoothly and obtains power very fast and hope that person is less of a lunatic than the guy he's replacing. Good luck putting the genie back in this bottle. Trump's been dealt a bad card here. NK conducted first nuke test during Bush's regime, that was the moment when options were lost and a credible detterence forged by NK, but as we all know, Bush was rather busy conjuring WMDs out of thin air in Baghdad instead of taking care of the real shit.

Wouldn't that be against freedom.of expression?

Lys, our resident succesfull capitalist entrepreneur has deduced that there is no solid evidence of global warming over 1000s of scientists and decades of their work and research. This is an equivalent of Donald Trump winning the AVN award for being the best female lead. Jokes aside, Lys, maybe you're more of hands on person who'd like to see things for yourself, it's fair to have that kind of skepticism. Perhaps you live in part of the world that isn't affected yet by global warming, perhaps you could try and visit the areas that are?

https://tribune.com.pk/story/1561269/3-anti-gay-us-lawmaker-resigns-caught-sex-man-office/ Lmao

You do realize that unstable contitions in the ME are in a large part caused by sectarianism? It’s not the whole story of course, but a pretty decent part of it. Sectarianism in ME is practically driven by Politics. The original secterian divide was also political in nature in regards to political leadership of the emerging empire and today also it's primarily driven by Politics. Politics in ME has alot to do with the politics itself and all things that divide politics, religion is merely a tool. So, you cannot take secterianism in isolation in ME of everything else. Dude, you practically know nothing other skimming stuff that you read on Wikipedia or some tilted blogs.

Wait, so the nations that ran colonial empires for centuries (in effect the biggest and most complex slavery instituitions) pressured others to give up the more crude form of slavery? Not sure what to make of it. - The views of slavery in Islam are more complex. Islam emerged in the region where pagans, Christians and Jews all practiced slavery. The modern/colonial context of a slave is quite different from the one that is in Quran. Quran mostly pushed for the rights of slaves or freedom of slaves for atonement of sins. While Quran did not completely abolish it at the time, it severely limited it and bought rights and conditions to slavery and encouraged freedom of slaves, this happened while the entire world was moving in opposite direction and continued to do so up untill last 50-60 years. Context of slavery is quite different in Quran vs the colonial wester view, which was alot more disgraceful and something in line with practices and laws before Quran in that specific part of the world. Following was some of the stuff that differentiates Quranic view of slaves 1400 years ago vs the colonial/western view of slavery 50/0 years ago: - Food and clothing to be same as masters, a concept unheard of if you view slavery under context in which West practiced it. - preserving dignity. Again, a concept unheard of in the concept your limited awareness - had to be treated fairly and kindly. - slaves had precedence in some matters over free men. - slave may buy his own freedom. - slavery had no concept of "race" as opposed western/colonial instituitions where race was the critical factor and where non whites were essentially considered to be animals and put even in zoos to be displayed. While Quran did not completely abolish slavery at the time and context, but it blocked almost all ways of enslaving slaves, encouraged their freedom, infact made it a duty to do so (before that, practically there was nil chance you'd be ever free or have respect or dignity if you end up being a slave). Some of the first converts to Islam were slaves, infact one of the reasons they converted were they were getting the most rights as slaves vs any where else during that time. Slaves were practicallyembers of house holds,any served as generals, some even served as Emirs. So the whole concept of it is quite different and nuanced vs the more contemporary view established as pracited by west where slavery was driven by racism and the rights were limited to actually nothing. -- Biyong or selling of slaves as mentioned in the article is actually prohibited, but obviously I didn't expect you to carry out that research for us. I'm sure you'll now come find, nitpick some random example or something out of context to justify your believe. I'm sure if we were in 1850, you'd be able to tell us how you've read a some random stuff somewhere that justify all blacks are to be treated as slaves and animals. Obviously, I can link all of the above,, but your entire view on Islam is so nuanced, biased and out of context, that it's pointless. If you were looking to find more contextual views, you would have, I'm sure you're intelligent enough to do, but you chose not to and came up with a headline indicating you were being intentionally obtuse. The fact your headline mentioned "Ancient Islamic tradition" proves your bias as pointed out by other posters. Slavery is a practice not limited to a place or religion or one tradition, but you made it with the head line. Every kid who has read history up to highschool can deduce this, as long as your thinking isn't too narrow. Anyway, there is absolutely no space for slavery today, doesn't matter where you are from or what you believe. If anyone tells you it doesn't exists today in every country or economy, then you're a fool.