How the Mongols erased Islamic Iraq

(Echoes of Torture)

Muslim month of Ramadan begins (Islam)

Fasting with the eyes means abstaining from temptation(s).

Fasting and celibacy during month of Ramadan explained | Omar Suleiman + Lex Fridman

(A Messy Classroom) All About Ramadan | Islamic history, Muslim

holiday, fasting tradition, Eid al-Fitr educational video

Sid, Krish, Mo, Josh, Aquaman, Lao Tzu, Joe

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar. It is observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (sawm, not eating during daylight hours), communal prayer (salah), reflection, and community [5] -- and no sinning in general so "fasting" with the eyes as well. It is also the month during which the Quran is believed to have been revealed to the Islamic Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The annual observance of Ramadan is regarded as one of the Five Pillars of Islam [6] and lasts 29 to 30 days, from the sighting of the crescent moon to the next [7, 8]. More

• Why don't Muslims ever depict the Prophet? (Everybody Draw Mohammed Day); Buddhism began with the same rule, and Judaism continues to avoid direct mention of their tribal god or the making of graven images and idols. When Buddhism began, the Buddha (the "Awakened One") was referred to with symbols of a Bodhi tree, lotus flower, or an empty chair (aniconism), and the first human depictions were from his hometown (outside of India that had the same prohibition on anthropomorphic images), that being the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara (modern Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sakastan, Scythia).

(Global News) Time for higher consciousness, mindfulness, purification

The beauty of Islam

(BTN) It's amazing to learn about popular Islam, revealing many common motives with Buddhism

• Omar Suleiman explains to Lex Fridman; A Messy Classroom; Global News; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

White racism, Abrahamic Jews, Epstein Files

From Abrahamic religions to the Epstein Files: An inevitable outcome

(Kayse Melone) Feb. 10, 2026: Abrahamic religions, patriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalism -- let's talk about them all and how they led to this.

• 00:00 Intro
• 03:29 - A note on gender
• 08:40 - The agricultural revolution
• 12:08 - The village
• 18:34 - White people
• 23:08 Humanity and consumption
• 28:31 Abrahamic religions
• 32:29 Collective action

(Sammy Obeid) Mad Funny (Bad Bunny) | stand up

• Genocide of the Taino people by Columbus landing in Caribbean (never having set foot on actual mainland America)

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Goddess Islam/Muslims could not erase

• Trinity: Goddesses al-Lat, Al-Uzza, and Manat
• Christian/Jewish God's WIFE: Asherah
• There was Eve (first woman) and Lilith before her

Origin of the God YAHWEH (YHVH, Allah)

YHWH’s real source revealed — It changes everything!

(Dr. Fran Stavrakopoulou)

(MythVision TV) Dec. 1, 2025: In this groundbreaking documentary, we embark on a riveting journey through time and belief, tracing the enigmatic origins of YHWH, the name revered as "God" in Abrahamic religions [YHWH to Jews, Jehovah to Christians, Allah to Muslims?].

Guided by the profound insights of Dr. Joshua Bowen and Dr. Kipp Davis, two esteemed scholars in ancient Near Eastern Studies and biblical archaeology, this episode delves deeply into the dusty realms of ancient texts and artifacts. As we navigate through the complex tapestry of history, culture, and theology, Dr. Bowen and Dr. Davis illuminate the path, shedding light on how YHWH evolved from a regional tribal deity to a monotheistic icon, shaping the spiritual landscape of billions of fearful humans.

Join us as we uncover the layers of faith, myth, and history that surround the origins of YHWH, revealing a story as profound and enduring as the name itself.

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All hail the Great Muhammad 🕋☪🕌

30 of Muhammad Ali's best quotes as the greatest of all time (USA Today)

The Prophet Muhammad (from the Siyer-i Nebi, 1595)

Aren't images of the Prophet Mohammad prohibited as they are on South Park? Wiki has them.

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GOP Pres. Ronnie Reagan punches Ali in the face

Who used to "float like a butterfly and sting like a bee" while uttering poetry and punching people professionally? American president politician Ben Franklin? (Happy birthday, Benji!) No. The great and final prophet of God (peace be upon him)? No. Mr. Cassius M. Clay Jr. (slave name), liberated by his switch to the Black Power Committee and American Sunni Islam, adopting the name of the Prophet? Yes, that great boxer who wowed the world from inside the ring and dazzling interviewers with his intrepid linguistic stylings and wisdom.

• From the archives: Muhammad Ali discusses his post-boxing future on Face the Nation
• Muhammad Ali's birthday

Great Muhammad Ali: all the knockouts

The Buddha, Krishna, CENSORED, Jesus, Aqua Man, Lao Tzu, Joseph Smith: SuperFriends

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(Show Me Boxing) American Muhammad Ali is one of the most talented boxers in the history of professional pugilism. His career was full of momentous events, which included a rapid rise and a deafening fall. He was not as spectacular a knockout artist as Mike "Ear Eater" Tyson, but he put a lot of tough guys on the floor of the ring during his career.

Ali making move on shy Pres. Jimmy Carter

Because Ali's career consists of almost only victories, there are a lot of knockouts among them as well. This video collects all of Muhammad Ali's knockouts, from the very first to the most recent. So sit back and watch it all to make light of capitalist-fueled violence that deadens the public and primes them for war ("Might makes right") almost as much as military American football (a kind of more violent futbol or British soccer using a dead animal as a corpse puck, Afghan Polo style from the game buzkashi.

At the same time, think about which bloodsport knockout in Ali's career was the coolest and led to the most killing and brutality by imperial soldiers in Vietnam and elsewhere and paramilitary troopers on the nation's streets who beat Blacks and others like a sport emulating the professional boxing matches they were so fond of watching and modeling. #MohammadAli #knockouts #boxing

Pre-Islamic Mecca: Nanna, Baal, Allah

Allah, Nanna, Baal, and the Anunnaki: THE SECRET CONNECTION

La.Vie.de.Mahomet (1699)

(Jason Abadi) Premiered Jan. 17, 2025: The Anunnaki Connection - Podcast. Are the gods (devas, brahmas, asuras) we know today echoes of something far older?

In this deep dive into ancient history and mythology, we explore the connections between Allah (Islam's supreme being), the moon god Nanna, the Canaanite (early Jewish) god Baal, and the Anunnaki (Sumerian ET "gods").

From celestial worship to sacred symbols, the evolution of divine identities may be traced even today. Discover how ancient myths shaped modern beliefs and uncover the threads linking the heavens, the earth, and the gods who ruled (or claimed to rule) them.

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• Show Me Boxing, March 29, 2023; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Islam explains 'Big Bang' as act of God

Oh my God, Miriam, can you believe how they dress their girls? - We mustn't judge, Khadija!

The Big Bang problem for atheists: What Hawking and Tyson get wrong | God’s Cosmos

Muslim graffiti over Hunza Buddhist petroglyphs

(Basira Education) This video challenges the [Western] materialist view of the universe by using the [supposed] "Big Bang" as evidence for God's existence [that God being Allah, the One and Only true God, with only one messenger, peace be upon him, the Prophet Mohammed, with only one true revelation of His will and His orders for how to live].

Shaykh [Sheikh] Hamza Karamali explains that the "Big Bang" marks the beginning of the universe, making it impossible for materialism to explain its origins without invoking some [pre-existing] thing beyond physical matter and time.

• Science: Is our universe a black hole? New cosmological model challenges the Big Bang
• What does it mean to be human?

Khilji destroys Buddhist Nalanda

He contrasts this with the views of [wheelchair scientist] Stephen Hawking and [gatekeeper mouthpiece] Neil deGrasse Tyson, arguing that their denial of a pre-Big Bang cause overlooks the need for a immaterial, timeless creator — God [or an impersonal ground or source].

The Big Bang, once rejected by materialists, now serves as overwhelming scientific evidence for a finite universe that points to a divine creator.

To learn more about a "Why Islam is True" course, go here: whyislamistrue.com/course. To learn more about Basira's classical curriculum in a modern context click here: basiraeducation.org.

Why listen to a Muslim or learn about Islam?

Why do Jews hate Muslims?

Salam alaykum. A Buddhist website giving Islam a forum? But they're monotheistic Abrahamic fanatics!

Wisdom Quarterly is interested in all faiths and practices, explanations and views, particularly those we disagree with, so we listen without necessarily expecting to be listened to in return. Why?

In the future, when peace reigns in the world, one can only hope that it will not be because we all agree but rather because we have all learned to respect, enjoy, and celebrate differences.

The Buddha originated the famous simile of the elephant, which like the Aesop Fables (rooted in the Jataka) gained so much popularity people use it without realizing who came up with it: A group of blind men are asked what an elephant looks like. So depending on their sense of touch, they feel a portion of the elephant and extrapolate a global view. The one who feels a leg describes the elephant as a column. The one who feels an ear describes the elephant as a supple palm. The one who feels the trunk describes the elephant as a snake, and so on. Each, going on limited information, proceeds to form a wrong view about the whole.

All of their views combined might get us somewhere, but instead they are with each other: "How can you say a supple palm when this is a post?" "How can you say post, when this is a snake?" and so on.

One of the best classes to take in college is comparative religion. If they were presented fairly and accurately, we might be drawn to the best religion for us, rather than all being baptized by fire into Scientism. Lots of students would surely become agnostics, and a few might become militant atheists and even fewer pantheists and animists. Who's right?

This is a question of epistemology (the philosophy of determining what qualifies as proof and knowledge), which is very ontological (concerned with being). Go, Socrates! The unexamined life is not worth living, which seems to be what our Western hedonism (pleasure above everything else) seems to really be about. In any case, we already hear the anti-Islam view by its most articulate critic on YouTube.

• Basira Education (video), 9/20/24; Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven, Shauna Schwartz (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Palestinian goes Buddhist: US self-immolation

Fox News Raw; Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven, Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Wisdom Quarterly

What was Rage Against the Machine on about by using this Buddhist monk on the CD cover?

They hit back. Now we must kill them all.

Once upon a time, long long ago, America was behaving badly in the fabled jungles of Buddhist Vietnam. It was killing, slaughtering innocents, bombing villagers, setting trees on fire with jellified gasoline (napalm), causing it to rain by controlling the weather, causing floods and devastation to farmland and villagers. America was trying new weapons, bombing as many ordinates as it could get rid of to profit by ordering more from contractors connected to the weapons trade.

The Jewish Bible says it's okay to kill to win war.

It dropped so many bombs that it ran out of targets, when glorious warlord National [War] Adviser and Sec'y of State Kissinger devised a way to get rid of more bombs: drop them all over neighboring countries not involved in the war, killing countless innocent civilians in war crimes unimaginable after the greatest war crime of all, dropping nuclear bombs on Buddhist Japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) as demonstrations to the world:

"Hey, look everybody, we have the biggest bombs the world has ever seen since they were used on Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro (Indus Valley Civilization city-states of ancient pre-India or Great Bharat, as Oppenheimer well knew)! We'll gladly drop them on your civilian populations if you cross us! Go on, we dare you!"

Friends: Dr. Rev. MLK and Thich Nhat Hanh

Then, in their desperation to bring attention to America's crimes, Vietnmese Buddhist monks spoke up. But it wasn't enough, until one brave/senseless monk decided to do the unthinkable. It was the only way to get the world's attention: He set himself on fire, self-immolation, protected by exquisite mindful meditation to see all things as

1. impermanent, hurtling towards destruction,
2. unsatisfactory (unable to fulfill one or quench the flood of desires), and
3. impersonal (not "I" but an empty process of consciousness, carrying on from one existence to another.

Now a non-monastic, non-meditator (though perhaps one who prays to the great Allah until samadhi), and presumably a non-Buddhist Palestinian female in the USA has done the unthinkable: She has set herself on fire in Atlanta to bring attention to the plight of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank under the tyranny of US-sponsored Israel and Netanyahu's murderous, genocidal rightwing government.

Zionist Jewish Israel has been doing settler colonialism and genocide for a long time, killing medics, journalists, children and anyone else standing in the way of Israel's total conquest of the Middle East to devour states all around it and become the new world leader, imposing capitalism and phony-democracy on everyone around.

Palestinian supporter sets self on fire outside Israeli consulate in Atlanta, USA

(LiveNOW from FOX) Dec 1, 2023: A person in possession of a Palestinian flag set herself on fire outside the Israeli Consulate building in Atlanta, USA. The protester was badly burned (partially immolated) then transported to a hospital in critical condition.

A guard attempted to intervene but was unsuccessful. The guard was burned on his leg and wrist. The guard's exact condition is now unknown. Police said the incident was not a terrorist act but rather an "extreme act of political protest."

• Persecution of Buddhists

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Love before Zionism: Jew, Muslim agree

Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, Neturei Karta (nkusa.com), Dr. Safiyyah Ally (Let the Quran Speak, 10/13/23); Sheldon S., CC Liu, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

"We cry for the Palestinians" | Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss

I stand with Gaza b/c I'm human

(Let the Quran Speak) Oct. 13, 2023: Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss is a Jewish activist and spokesperson for Neturei Karta (nkusa.com), a Jewish group that vocally OPPOSES the state of Israel and Zionism.

Irrespective of whether or not the Palestinian people were affected, or the land were uninhabited, Neturei Karta says the Jewish people did not have a right to self-determination.

Why does Bibi Netanyahu poison peace?

[The corrupt CIA-groomed Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu is an arm of the American military doing the CIA's bidding in the Middle East.]

The establishment of a state of Israel prior to the coming of the Messiah, according to the Bible (Torah), is sinful and an act of rebellion against God.

I'm NOT Ultra-Orthodox yet I support Palestine

Rabbi Weiss says Jews yearn to return to the "Promised Land" and pray to God to bring about that end day, but in the meantime, they are tasked with patiently waiting, serving God, being loyal citizens in any country they are living in, and upholding the Torah (Jewish law from Old Testament sources) in every land in which they live.

This interview was conducted by Dr. Safiyyah Ally at Reviving the Islamic Spirit Convention in Toronto, Canada, in December 2022.

• Neturei Karta (nkusa.com)
• Jewish Voice for Peace (jvp.org)

We are here: Jewish Voice for Peace (jvp.org)

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UK journalist’s response to Israel supporters

Lauren Booth (Towards Eternity, Oct. 17, 2023); CC Liu, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

British activist’s brilliant response to Israel supporters

(Towards Eternity) Assalamu Alaikum, brother and sisters. Today's video features Lauren Booth (@LaurenBoothOfficial) to tell us about the latest situation in the Gaza Strip, Palestine.

She responds to Justin Bieber and other Israel supporters about their views on the conflict and Israel's 50-year war on Palestinians.

• Counterpoint: Israeli warmonger Caroline Glick says "Calls for Israel to restrain itself are illegal" [We should be able to kill as many as we want and steal as much land as is rightly our because we say God said so]. WARNING: Extremely graphic hatred of Palestinians AND anyone else who questions what Israel is doing or has done or plans to do

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Secret sex trade in Muslim Iraq, cleric pimps?

Meet the world's most popular porn star - they're from Lebanon | indy100 | indy100

There are real porn actresses who are real Muslims, not just famous Mia Khalifa?

Uncovering Iraq's religious front for child prostitution | Iraq's Secret Sex Trade | full film

What is the real "dragon" males must slay to not go around getting into trouble?

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You did this, Georgie? - I had help, Donny.

Journeyman Pictures) Aug. 25, 2023: This powerful investigation into Shia clerics [may Allah preserve the innocent Sunnis] in some of Iraq's holiest shrines uncovers a network of exploitation of young women and girls, trapped into prostitution and pimped out by a religious elite -- imams.

I helped. Mind your own business, DT

For the first time the clerics' secret sex trade has been captured on camera. Undercover filming and victim testimony reveal how they procure young females for male clients and are prepared to conduct "pleasure marriages" with children.

For more information, visit journeyman.tv/film/7677. Subscribe to Journeyman. Like on Facebook. Follow on Twitter for news and JourneymanVOD Follow on Instagram. Visit subreddit. BBC Arabic: Ref. 7677.

CODE PINK: Women for Peace (for an end to economic militarism and sexist patriarchy)

Iraq: What Bush and Cheney kept secret

Covered-life fashion in NYC (NY Daily News)

Buddhism and God (cartoon)

Family Guy; Robot Chicken; Ven. Nyanaponika (Mr. Sigmund Feniger's Buddhism and the God-Idea), BuddhaNet via ATS; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Buddha, the man, proves we can.

[COMMENTARY: Buddhism is nontheistic. It is not atheistic, though that is certainly the impression many get superficially.  What's the difference? First, there is certainly not the great creator God we always hear about, who created everything and controls thing and decides who gets into hell and heaven and how you look and how much money you have. Nontheism means whether there is or isn't it doesn't matter as concerns enlightenment, liberation, awakening to ultimate truth. Theism and atheism are polemical positions for or against there being a God or gods. There are, conventionally speaking, many "gods" (devas). They are not God. There's a Maha Brahma, who is beyond gender so not a "He," conventionally speaking. And there are countless devas, "shining ones," from space, dimensions, realm, and on this planet with us. There are many kinds of beings. We have the potential to be reborn as devas so in that sense we are divine and will be reborn on levels corresponding to our karma, our deeds rooted in our understanding of reality, our VIEW. Right view leads to good outcomes, whereas wrong views mostly to miserable results.]

Isn't the Buddha God? No, no way.

Contradictory views have been expressed in Western literature on the attitude of Buddhism toward the concept of God and gods.

From a study of the sutras or discourses of the Buddha preserved in the Pali language canon, it will be seen on the one hand that the God-idea, the idea of a personal deity (a Brahma, YHVH/Yahweh, Jehovah, Allah), an actual "creator God " conceived as eternal and omnipotent, is incompatible with the Buddha's teachings.

Aha! I am thy God. Worship me, sheep!

On the other hand, conceptions of an impersonal godhead (godhood, Brahman) of any description, such as world-soul, are -- ultimately speaking -- excluded by the Buddha's teachings on non-self (anatta), insubstantiality, the impersonal nature of all things.

In the fabled "Garden of Eden," what must it have been like for the first man and woman, the Adam (Adama race) and the Eve, the second woman after Lilith?

We come from space

In Buddhist literature, belief in a creator God (issara-nimmana-vada) is frequently mentioned and rejected, along with other causes incorrectly adduced to explain the origin of the world, for instance, a world-soul, time, nature, and so on.

God-belief, however, is placed in the same category as those morally destructive wrong views that deny the karmic results of our actions, assume a fortuitous origin of humans and nature, or teach absolute determinism (that everything is caused by karma or predetermined by fate, which is called fatalism).

Thou shalt not question Me!

These views are said to be altogether pernicious, having definite bad results due to their effect on ethical conduct here and now in this very life.

 

Theism, however, is regarded as a kind of karma-teaching insofar as it upholds the moral efficacy of actions -- the understanding that we do "reap as we sow."

Hence, a theist who leads a moral life may, like everyone else doing so, expect a favorable rebirth. One may possibly even be reborn in a heavenly world that resembles one's own conception of it (so religion is correct to that extent, except that no such world will actually be permanent). It will not be of eternal duration as he may have been promised by popular religions. Hell(s) are impermanent, too, though possibly of very long duration.

If, however, fanaticism induces one to persecute those who do not share one's beliefs, this will have grave karmic consequences for one's future destiny.

Fanatical attitudes, intolerance, and violence against others with different beliefs create unwholesome karma leading to moral degeneration and to unhappy rebirths.

 

Hi, I'm Shiva. I'll be one of your Gods.

Although belief in a God does not exclude a favorable rebirth, it is a variety of eternalism, a false affirmation of permanence rooted in the craving for eternal existence, and as such it is an obstacle to enlightenment and liberation.

 

Among the fetters (samyojana) that bind one to the Round of Rebirth, theism is particularly subject to those of personality-belief, attachment to rites and rituals as if they could produce enlightenment, and craving for fine-material (rupa loka) existence or for rebirth in heavens of the Sensual Sphere (kama loka), as the case may be.
 

"God? creates but you destroy?

As an attempt at explaining the universe, its origin, and our human situation on this plane, the God-idea was found entirely unconvincing by the Buddhist thinkers of old.

Through the centuries, Buddhist philosophers have formulated detailed arguments refuting the doctrine of a creator God. It should be of interest to compare these with the ways in which Western philosophers have refuted the theological proofs of the existence of God.

 

But for an earnest believer, the God-idea is more than a mere device for explaining external facts like the origin of the world. For a believer it is an article of faith that can bestow a strong feeling of certainty, not only as to God's existence somewhere out there, but as to God's consoling presence and closeness... More