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Radio Free Amanda 余美娜

catcontentonly

Attributing rise in hate crimes on Trump calling it the "China virus" is insufficient in 2 ways:1. It's ahistorical--working class Chinese in US have long been associated w disease &

Helen Pluckrose has returned to Hermit Mode

HPluckrose

OK, so I came back to discuss this. I think nearly everybody sees the problem with it. Let's put it in perspective.https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/coronavirus-vaccine_uk_5ea067f2c5b6b2e5b83ba372 Firstly, arguments that she shouldn't be

L.R Lenheim

ii_Hierophant

》Thread No.1 [The Islamic Punishment for Murtads]Contents:●Definition of Riddah.●Ruling of Murtads.●Punishment for Murtads.●Refuting Modern Claims Against the Hudud. ●Definition of Riddah-From a pure linguistic perspective, Rid

Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ

bdaiwi_historia

1/The author, @Ed_Husain, made a string of errors and specious arguments in this piece. The analysis of medieval Islamic history and philosophy on display is not only outdated, but quite

Clive Gabay

CliveSG

This thread . Some people will have started to follow me back when I wrote about development, Malawi, and such stuff. These days my research has taken a very different

John Sanilac 👳

JohnSanilac

Thinking I might focus more on imaginative writing and less on aesthetics/relationship discussion. Not totally decided because those seem much more popular, but I always feel like I'm repeating the

Pallando the Blue

KomninosM

In the "traditionalist" camp, we often see people getting hyped about the "glorious Aryans" descending from the steppe and establishing the "magnificent and exotic civilizations" of the East, which the

𓋹𓍑𓋴Nyatsimba Mutota

lumekaaveknew

In “an Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary” compiled by Sir E A Wallis Budge (an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist) the word KHENT means THE BIGINNING, the LAND SOUTH OF EGYPT. KHENTI

alice 🇨🇳

GOWONlKA

“read and search up news about the camps in china” *posts misinformation that’s fueling sinophobic and orientalist attitudes*https://twitter.com/kaiiprasads/status/1301646941105856513 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_ef5kHPvQRkR_c

Pallando the Blue

KomninosM

As I told you at the end of my Potrimpo thread, I would examine the idea of the divine triad. The concept of the "divine triad" is closely associated with

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

The collected poems of al-Mutanabbi (d. 965), the most celebrated Arabic poet ever, were first printed not in Cairo or Beirut, but Calcutta in 1815.The editor, Shaykh Ahmad, was Yemeni.

Carly Silver

CarlyASilver

Thrilled to tune into this lecture @Harvard lecture on Egypt and Nubia as African civilizations and historic whitewashing in racist approaches to Egypt Herodotus/Hecateus noted how geography (Nile, desert) individuated

Laila Al-Arian

LailaAlarian

This is stunning news. Will the @nytimes retract Caliphate given that one of its main subjects has been arrested for making up the story?https://twitter.com/stewglobal/status/1309581575412232198 Apparently @CBCNews called this guy’s credi

omid safi

ostadjaan

Today’s public service announcement: When you see a poem or saying attributed to #Rumi in which he is reported as saying: “I am not a Muslim”, or “I belong to

disney was a mistake

aiukliAfrika

"DPRK starves their people" is a very popular meme among Western imperialists, but far too often when pressed on their understanding of the situation of food security in DPRK, it

_Halaby

_Halaby

[Thread]As usual, non-academic rants from Apus. This thread will demolish your beloved fables using mostly non-Muslim historians & academics.Bismillah.https://twitter.com/ApostateProphet/status/1302430821035503618 1/"It is now appa