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In 2017, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, MBS, began waging an all out war against Islamism and Islamist groups of all Islamic sects, including but not limited to the Sunni Islamist group, the Muslim Brotherhood. Although I believe that ideally, MBS needs to accelerate his plans to secularize Saudi Arabia, prosecuting Islamists is certainly a step in the right direction. He is the first Saud Royal family member who isn't a "wanker" as the English like to say. Other Gulf countries, mainly the UAE, leads the way in combating Islamism in our part of the world.

Once upon a time, Islam attempted and failed miserably in colonizing and Islamizing Europe due to the Crusades, Reconquista, etc. Islamists today are still trying to conquer North America and Europe, but this time through a soft invasion that exploit Western humanitarian/democratic laws. Such laws were not designed to deal with Islamo-communist infiltration through immigration. Such laws were enacted based on the assumption that all people are generally good.

Not all people in the Middle East are good. The Islamist regime in Iran killed 600k in Syria and 400k in Yemen.

I apologise to the Native people of Great Britain about the pain the trash of the Middle East, known as Islamists, have caused your people.

Leftists can demonise you, but I see you as honorable defenders of your homeland. Because as an Arab native to the Arabian Peninsula, I would do the same.

Even today, Europe and Great Britain remain the last line of defense before the world succumbs to a Caliphate.

Fight to the bitter end patriots! God is with you!

This is a follow-up post (see link to previous post at the bottom).

Before I clarify the question further, let me clearly state key historical facts:

1. The ARAB Peninsula, where Saudi Arabia (my country of birth, ethnicity, and citizenship), the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Yemen, and Oman are located today, is the historic homeland of ethnic Arabs.

2. Anywhere else in the Middle East where there are majority Arab speaking populations was colonized (e.g. Levant and North Africa).

3. Ethnic Ukrainians have always traced their heritage back to the Eastern Slavic tribes that lived around Kyiv, regardless of tiny DNA traces belonging to the Cimmerians, the Scythians, the Sarmatians, Greek, Persians, Nords, etc. They do not call themselves Sarmatians, Persians, Cimmerians, or Nords when it's convenient.

4. Since the Arabic/Islamic occupation of Jerusalem in 637 AD, no Arab living in Judea and Samaria has ever openly traced their heritage back to the Canninites until the early 20th century after the establishment of the British Mandate. Those who did, very a few in numbers, did it to rival Jews who have always traced their heritage back to Judea and Samaria for 3500 years. Even while in exile around the world.

5. Palestinians today will never claim nativity due to their Turkic roots to Turkey. Never their Roman roots to Italy. Never their Egytian roots to Egypt. But they have the audacity to claim nativity to Judea and Samaria based on the Canninite roots they only recently remembered that they have and only when speaking to a Westerner.

They should have accepted the generous portion of the land offered in the 1947 UN plan because Jews are native to the land. And they are not.

Now that the historical facts are out of the way, I would like to ask Israelis another "what if". The purpose is not to dwell in the past but to derive a lesson from the history of the conflict past 1948 for my people.

What if...the remaining Arabs in Judea and Samaria used Gandhis methods of non-violence to try to establish a state next to modern Israel after 1948 war? Would Israel have agreed to grant them a state?

Please note that the British were, in fact, occupiers to India while the Arabs in Judea and Samaria are the occupiers. I cite Gandhi's methods, however, only for their non-violent approach to achieving political goals.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskIsrael/s/hS6pNiYgxH

I know this sounds like something that would only happen in an "alternative universe." But bear with me, please. I would like my fellow Saudi friend to hear from Israelis directly about their understanding of what a high confidence good faith peace negotiation should look like.

No state should be forced to make peace with states or political entities whose entire purpose in negotiating with the other side is to buy time for the next attack. Russia in 1994 promised Ukraine never to invade their sovereign territory if Ukrainians handed over all of the USSR nuclear arsenal left in Ukraine after the USSR collapse. And we all know how that went...

This is part of the reason why I think as a Saudi that negotiating with the Islamist regime of Iran (refer to the history of the Muslim Brotherhood for the benchmark understanding of the word "Islamist") is a waste of time. This is my position, not because I hate peace, but because the regime's list of broken promises speaks for itself.

Now, in this alternative universe scenario, the Palestinians have become unified behind a united leadership. The factions no longer exist. Palestinian public opinion has accepted the reality that nothing violent they can do will get them a state. They have collectively endorsed only the diplomatic path to statehood. Not a single terrorist attack has happened for a year. No smuggling of weapons. Even better, Arab populations and leaders across the 22 Arab states have decided to let the Palestinians determine their own future however they wanted. No calling names. No calling Palestinian negotiators traitors.

I want to hear from you, an individual Israeli, if you will in this exact scenario, have more trust that there will be a concrete peaceful outcome to any negotiations with a Palestinian convoy (or maybe nothing will change?). Explain your personal answer without talking about how public opinion in Israel would change.

I chose my words carefully, writing this post. And I chose to speak beyond empty words of compassion. Because human compassion is standard and automatic. The struggle of the Ukrainian people is neither standard nor automatic. Ukrainians have demonstrated exceptional bravery, innovation and ingenuity in defence of their homeland against Russian imperialism.

Beyond admiration for your achievement in the last 4 years, we, the people Gulf, stand by you in your just struggle because we understand why you are fighting and what you are fighting for. We understand...because Russian imperial subjects in the regime of occupied Iran have been trying to subvert our regional security for decades now. We understand also because Islamist imperialists who are friends with Soviet sore loser of Moscow actively try to erase national and ethnic identities and replace them with a single, forcefully homogenised state.

For the fallen, Ukrainian or foreign, civilian or soldiers, I raise a glass in your honour!

To the people of Ukraine: You have been asking for aid from the brotherhood of nations. I and anyone who can are answering that call. I will serve with gladness to the best of my humble capacity the honourable cause of your people.

To the Middle Easterners, who fight on the side of Soviet loser of Moscow, you have brought disgrace to yourselves and to your people by aligning with the same guy who massacred Syrians. I insult you in three ways, not that three ways is enough:

1. How the Zaporozhian Cossacks would have insulted you: Brothers and companions of the accursed devil!

2. The tongue of your Russian imperialist masters: idita nakhoy!

3. In my mother tongue: كفاية يا شراميط!

To the followers of the Soviet sore loser of Moscow reading this, I have three things to say:

1. Idita nakhoy!

2. Russian mothers grieving for the loss of their children in an invasion of sovereign nation will be on you.

3. I urge you not to follow Putin to his disgraceful death.

Finally, to the honourable Russians who oppose the Soviet sore loser of Moscow:

1. Spaciba!

2. God with you!

3. The liberation of your homeland from the Soviet remnants is at hand!

As God told the Israelites when they were chased by the pharaoh, "Stand firm, do not fear, and see salvation of the Lord."

History is being written and at the centre of it Слава Україні will echo for eternity! ❤️🇺🇦

From what I have read so far, three stories made me chuckle:

1. Jesus as an adolescent disappearing for three days without telling his mother and Joseph. Once they found him at the temple learning about his father, Jospeh and Marry became visibly upset as any concerned parents would. And as would be expected from a 12 years old boy, he wasn't sure why they were so concerned looking for him when the house of his father is the only place he could possibly be in.

2. Jesus as a young adult when he turned water into wine at the wedding. There is that light-hearted relationship you would expect between a young adult and his mother. She throws some hints by observing aloud that the wedding is out of wine. "Woman, why do you involve me? My time has not yet come." She completely ignores his desire to be left alone and asks the servants to get him what he needs. Despite initially resisting to make the wine, he eventually obliged his mother's request. He is the son of God, but she is his mother!

3. In Ecclesiastes, King Solomon has finally gained wisdom, exclaiming that there is nothing new under the sun. And all it took was committing most sins under the sun.

My divine sign was coming across the story of Nicodemus in the book of John after months of obsessive indulgance in the philosophical contemplation of "re-birth". But coming from atheism (and Islam before that), I felt great mistrust towards spiritual figures. I was not willing to follow another Muhammad. Specifically, the Sunni Salafi version of Muhammad, which treats women as subhumans. There are other less evil versions seen in other Islamic sects, but their followers are much less numerous and, therefore, irrelevant to this discussion.

The issue of women is important to me as a Saudi man because the theocratic system of pre-2017 Saudi Arabia made Saudi women's lives a living hell. I never noticed that most Saudi women were beautiful until I came back to visit in 2021, 4 years after the Crown Prince MBS became the de-facto ruler and abolished the hijab legal mandate. Before that, 99.9% of women were covered head to toe. They were not allowed to even drive. They were banned from many occupations either for legal reasons or because people would call a man a "cuckold" if he were to let his daughter or sister work in mostly men environments. My older sister and my maternal aunt faced a lot of family backlash working in the medical field. And since the average Sunni-Salafi did not want his wife/daughter/sister to be evaluated by a male doctor, the government had to import a lot of "infidel" female doctors and nurses. Published domestic unemployment data said 6-7%, but in reality, it was nearing 50% because half of the population was rendered absolutely and utterly powerless. This is not to mention the constant harrasment from the "morality police" (which MBS also abolished in 2017), targeting mostly women. The morality police made sure most women in Saudi Arabia looked like walking trashbags.

The Sunni-Salafis (also the Shiia Twelvers in Iran today) assign the full responsibility of "not tempting men" to women. Sometimes a naive girl was raped due to secretly dating a male who saw her as deserving of rape (because "why would she go on date if she wasn't whore?" In his mind). Sooner or later, the morality police caught them (because of road checkpoints) and brought her back to her family and then her father/brother killed her (i.e. honour killing). Her "sexual immorality" brought shame to the entire family, and the shame had to be dealt with decisively.

Such monstrosity was allowed to happen because Saudis wanted to uphold "God's" Sharia law in the best way possible. To "bring us closer to God," they said. But the deeper this "divine" rabbit hole went, the more I saw the devil standing in the corner smiling and awfully pleased by what we had become.

The doubt and mistrust I felt after reading John was for a good darn reason. I was not willing to follow another Muhammad even if it meant eternal damnation. And so driven by curiosity to learn what kind of person Jesus is, I read Matthew next:

"If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea."

"And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away."

As it turned out...Jesus, my Lord and Saviour, was nothing like Muhammad...

I converted from atheism (Islam before that) to Christianity on January 9 2024. I was dating a girl to whom I later became engaged. However, since I am getting baptized into Oriental Orthodoxy on October 3rd, I was internally torn about ending the engagement with that girl because I do, in fact, love her immensely. The problem was that she was agnostic when we got engaged but later went back to Islam. My priest told me that I really need to consider this marriage because any children we both rear will likely end up straying away from God. And so before yesterday, I decided to end it. Wasn't easy, but it was necessary. I could not pressure her to convert to Christianity, but I had been praying for her to convert all this time.

It ended on a good note, and we both wished each other fortune and happiness in way ahead.

I am 32, and I am really looking forward to starting a family with a rightous woman and rear many children (at least one biological and the rest can be adopted). The issue is that I am not sure about the criteria and what traits I should look for in a woman of sound Christian faith.

Any tips you can give me?

Disclaimer: This post is strictly educational in the context of the Christian-Muslim debate.

The slander is a mental projection for reasons, including but not limited to:

1. The third Caliph, Uthman, ordered the burning of all OTHER existing Quran versions, which got him assassinated later (656 AD).

2. From 632 to 644 AD, the first and the second Caliphs, Abu Baker and Omar, ordered the buring of any written collections of Hadith.

3. Al-Bukhari publishes his Hadith collection book, Sahih Al-Bukhari, in 846 AD. Each Hadith would reference 6 or more people he never met in person between him and Muhammad.

4. Because Sunni Islam dominated through sheer numbers and colonial conquests for centuries, it exerted distortive influence over Shiia Islamic theology, inducing the following changes:

• Shiia had their own version of Hadith, which included stories and statements about/made by their Twelve Imams. At first, they were accepted strictly based on consistency with an Imam's biographical qualities and merit. Later, like Sunni Hadiths, authenticity was determined based on the reliability of all characters in the chain of narration. Leading to Shiia accepting evil Hadiths as authentic like Sunnis do.

• Shiias have always believed that unless you are the Lost Imam, Al-Mahde (went missing in 874 AD at 5 years old), you could NOT even hope to succeed in upholding Sharia law even if you really tried. Because you are prone to vices as all humans are. The Lost Imam does not make mistakes because he is in direct contact with Allah. Inspired by Sunni aspirations for a Caliphate in the modern time, Aytollah Al-Khomeini in 1979 came up with the title "Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist" to start upholding Sharia law right now in Iran while awaiting for the Lost Imam to return at the end of times.

Conclusion: Muslims corrupted their own religion from the start and then the dominant sect, Sunni Islam, corrupted other Islamic sects.

I am getting baptized next month according to the original faith of my great grandfather in Egypt (Coptic Oriental Orthodox) before he migrated to Saudi Arabia in 1850s. But I am really open to Eastern Orthodoxy because I think the only major difference that caused the split in the first place is very trivial. And the priest at my church said it's ok to go to an Eastern Orthodox or a Catholic church while I am in Ukraine. So I have the following questions:

1. Are there ever any small chapels in military outposts?

2. Is it easy to find churches that provide services in both Ukrainian and English in major cities like Kyiv and Lviv? (my Ukrainian language is rapidly getting better, but still poor)

3. Can you recommend any churches/cathedrals/parishes in Lviv or Kyiv with beautiful architecture to visit when I have free time?

4. Are there any restrictions on wearing religious symbols in general in the military?

Note: If you have ever encountered individuals with similar psychological abnormalities and lived to tell the tale, please let me know as I have questions for you, too. I will try to summarise, but feel free to ask about the details.

Location of crimes: Saudi Arabia

Timeline: 1971-2002

Story 1: Out of xenophobia towards the foreman, my father (only 11 years old at the time) and his friends killed the foreman using 4 hungery dogs that they previously fed for weeks to make them loyal.

Story 2: My maternal grandfather gave my mother (12 years old at the time) the beating of her lifetime because a neighbour informed him that my mother killed a cat by sticking a firecracker up the friendly cat's anus while laughing hysterically.

Story 3: My mother would always tell me as a kid stories of encountering demons. For example, she would stare at the mirror for so long and begin to see her image become demon-like. She is a paranoid schizophrenic as well as a psychopath.

Story 4: Looking back, I understand now that my parents had a mutual deal where my mother got to torture the foreign maids for her sadistic pleasure while my father assaulted them. Trapped in the 4th floor apartment (barred windows too), the maid tried to use a long extension cord to descend to the ground and escape that hell on earth, but she slipped and died. The police decalred it as suicide as they suck at their job in Saudi Arabia. I was 8 at the time. My parents separated vioently soon after because I think my father thought she went too far.

Story 5: For exposing her half brother for assualting 4 nieces of his including my older sister, my mother accused me of being a political agitator, which can get you excuted or imprisoned forever in Saudi Arabia and I barely made it out alive.

Definition: A concept coined by the psychologist Pierre Janet. It describes a lowered state of conscious control where the mind's focus weakens, allowing unconscious thoughts, emotions, or memories to rise.

What does it indicate in the psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, or the psychodevelopmental sense?

Definition: A concept coined by the psychologist Pierre Janet. It describes a lowered state of conscious control where the mind's focus weakens, allowing unconscious thoughts, emotions, or memories to rise.

What does it indicate in the psychoanalytic sense when the frequency and intensity of the lowering the mental level increases in a patient?

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The article also says that most of the remaining 10% landed on non-critical assets. This means that the interception system also discriminates against non-essential aerial targets.

8000 aerial projectiles is not a small number, even distributed evenly over a month. This is very impressive.

I wouldn't be surprised if Ukraine became the drone warfare defense solution worldwide. Even the US and the Gulf are interested in Ukraine drone interception technology.

Don't get me wrong, in the real world, since the start of the nuclear age after WWII, known resources of Uranium were regarded as scarce, projected to last less than 100 years in a Once Through Fuel Cycle nuclear reactors. This is a nuclear power reactor design that enables extraction of only up to 1% of the total fission energy locked in natural uranium.

That was not the end of the story because nuclear scientists came up with the Breeder technology, which unlocks the energy potential of the remaining 99%. Americans finished construction of the Experimental Breader Reactor-I (EBR-I) in 1953. The Soviets' BR-I equivalent design reached criticality in 1955. Thus, this has long been a proven technology to extend uranium resources by a factor of 100. So 100 years of resources would last 10,000 years.

I am not sure if this has been addressed in the Lore of the Fallout universe, which was more than comfortable with nuclear energy and radiation in general. It makes sense to run out of oil, but nuclear fuel? Not a chance. In fact, including known uranium resources in sea water today, there is enough uranium to be used in energy for 10,000,000s of years. Not 100s. Not 1000s. 10,000,000s of years.

I am interested in hearing from a Fallout Lore expert how is the rapid depletion of uranium resources is explained.

EDIT: Microfusion cells ammo indicate that small modular nuclear fusion energy technology was also realized. That's 4 billion years (yes, you read that right, billions) worth of energy at humanity's disposal.