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71% of Gazans believe what’s happening now in Gaza is a worthwhile cost of the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel
statistics show the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry is likely lying about the number of women and children killed
it's completely false that Israelis have any sort of special access to American organ donations
(SOLVED) color Western from 1940s-1960s with a small group of whites stranded in the desert surrounded by attacking Native Americans
(SOLVED) color Western from the 1940s-1960s in which the army tries to fight a group of Native Americans and loses
the most unrealistic part of the show was the total lack of traffic in Los Angeles
(SOLVED) 1980s Japanese anime style cartoon where animals and birds in the forest have a big battle against each other
it's weird that Mollie would overlook Ernest helping to murder her sisters but wouldn't forgive him for poisoning her
I wonder if Oppenheimer would have been haunted by the atom bomb's use if it was dropped on Germany instead of Japan
1980s or early 1990s computer-animated movie for Jewish kids about a sentient bicycle that helps a kid learn his brachos
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People are angry because Imane Khelif really is a man:
https://reduxx.info/algerian-boxer-imane-khelif-has-xy-chromosomes-and-testicles-french-algerian-medical-report-admits/
Nope. An actually female boxer lost to a <i>man</i> in the ring. Imane Khelif is a man:
https://reduxx.info/algerian-boxer-imane-khelif-has-xy-chromosomes-and-testicles-french-algerian-medical-report-admits/
Israel had nothing to lose from this war. 2 weeks after the attack, a Hamas leader in Gaza vowed that Hamas would carry out more such attacks again and again and again until Israel is destroyed. And because Hamas was a brutal dictatorship in Gaza, it didn't matter how all or most Gazans felt about this. It didn't matter that not everyone supported Hamas. It had no effect on what Hamas did. Second, Gazans hated Israel just as much before the 10/7 attack as they do now. Gazans weren't going to suddenly give up their hatred of Israel if it didn't go to war against Hamas. Recall what I said about the Germans not giving up their hatred of Jews after persecuting and slaughtering them even though the Jews never significantly retaliated against the Germans for it. History offers important lessons and they don't disappear just because you want to ignore them. Gazan hatred of Israel matters a lot less if Hamas has no power in Gaza.
Israel is steadily defeating Hamas in Gaza. It's decapitating the Hamas leadership and destroying the tunnels under the Philadelphi Corridor that Hamas used to bring in arms and supplies. Israel doesn't need an exit strategy. An exit strategy won't protect Israel. A lack of "misgivings" by the world won't protect Israel. Bibi being right-wing has nothing to do with this war. If any other coalition or party were running Israel on 10/7 then they would have responded the same way to the Hamas attack.
Do you realize how insane it is after the Gazans have directly endured months of this brutal war for them to believe that the Hamas attack that started it all was worthwhile? It gives the impression that Gazans believe their situation isn't really all that bad. That it's a worthwhile cost of what they believe will advance their political agenda. Israel's war against Hamas hasn't made Gazans hate them anymore because Gazans felt the same way about the Hamas attack on the day that it happened as they did when this poll was conducted months later. Everyone in Gaza was celebrating on October 7th last year.
I don't see how Jews could "add to the hate" against themselves after the Holocaust already happened. The Nazis never let up on their hate against the Jews and never let up on slaughtering Jews by the millions despite never receiving a disproportionate response from the Jews. Hamas and the rest of those who hate Jews so much are merely standing on the shoulders of the numerous generations of the past 2,000 years. There's nothing to be done about it. But Jews can help whether they can defend themselves. Hate matters less if you have the ability to destroy those who would do violence to Jews. Nothing less than a "disproportionate" response could defeat Hamas in Gaza and Israel can't afford to not defeat Hamas in Gaza. A "disproportionate" response is how we beat Germany and Japan in World War II. What we did to Germany and Japan amounted to group punishment.
That's an extremely poor argument. Robert O'Neill wasn't just a Navy Seal but a member of Team 6. He won 4 Bronze Stars and 2 Silver Stars. The worst you could say about him is that he may have lied about what he did on some missions while on Team 6. But he seems to have been a fully competent Seal by every measure so there's no reason to think he struggled to get through Seal training anymore than anyone else who successfully completed the training. There's absolutely no reason to compare him to Jordan O'Neil.
First off, even if Peter found out the truth later, that would have been after Ego had already carried out his plan. Peter finding out later wouldn't have hurt his plan after it already succeeded. Telling Peter right at that moment destroyed Ego's plan. That's what made him so stupid.
Second, how the hell would Peter have found out later that Ego gave his mom cancer? It's not as if he had stray paper documents or computer files proving it just lying around his planet for Peter to find. The only proof of what Ego did is what he told Peter. Without Ego telling Peter what he did, Peter couldn't have possibly ever known. People get cancer and die all the time due to entirely natural causes. Peter always assumed that was the case with his mom and he never would have had any reason to even think otherwise without Ego going out of his way to tell Peter what he did.
Ego may have been around for centuries but he obviously understood the concept of love. He loved Meredith and so he must have understood that Peter loved her as well. He was smart enough to understand what it would mean to Peter if he told him that he caused her to die.
I don't hate Ego. It's just that he was stupid to tell Peter that he gave his mom cancer.
He didn't have to tell Peter that he gave his mom cancer to regain dad points. How the hell would him telling Peter about that regain him dad points? That would obviously just earn him negative dad points, which is what immediately happened when he told him about it. Like I said in the OP, Peter was already completely on board with Ego's plan by that point. Telling Peter that he gave his mom cancer was completely unnecessary for his plan.
So now your disagreement with me seems to boil down to your ignorance of Islam. As I told you before, Islam simply doesn't recognize the existence of any other gods. I told you that the Shahada of Islam is that "there is no god but God". The Koran specifically rules out the possibility of lesser gods existing. You can't just willingly ignore these basic facts about Islam. Islam simply can't conceive of any being other than Allah himself creating lightning. It can't even conceive of that very possibility! Therefore, Thor's very existence as a god poses an unavoidable problem for Islam in the MCU. Therefore, a faithful Muslim such as Kamala Khan couldn't even fathom fangirling Thor.
The fact that Thor was worshipped by Scandinavians in northern Europe hundreds of miles from the furthest Muslim conquests both before and after the beginning of Islam has absolutely no bearing on Islam's view on the matter. Islam completely rejected the possibility of Thor's existence and the legitimacy of worshipping him as it did for all pagan gods. It's not a coincidence that Islam completely wiped out polytheistic religion in the Arabian peninsula. To whatever small extent that Muslims barely tolerated the practice of polytheism in other parts of the world, that certainly didn't mean that Muslims accepted the possibility that these polytheistic gods could actually exist.
Therefore, Muslims' knowledge of Thor's very existence would cause an immediate crisis of faith for them. Which means that Kamala Khan couldn't possibly continue on as a Muslim while fangirling Thor. It would be completely out of the question for her. It would only make sense if Ms. Marvel presented her as an ex-Muslim.
As I said before, your claim that she's a non-devout Muslim rather than an unreal Muslim is NOT a premise of the show. Your claim that my argument rests on a fallacy fails because of this. If the show actually acknowledged that Khan wasn't a devout Muslim then you would be right. Completely avoiding the elephant in the room that I've been talking about is what makes her status as a Muslim so unreal. The fact that the show doesn't even acknowledge the obvious problems for Islam caused by knowledge of Thor proves just how fake and phony the show's presentation of Islam really is. Islam as a whole on Ms. Marvel isn't real. The unreality of it simply goes double for Khan because she fangirls Thor.
As I said before, Ms. Marvel's "Islam" isn't a serious, complex reality but a superficial part of Khan's character and environment. Once you understand that, you can see how unreal Khan's Islam really is and how unreal her status as a Muslim really is. Superficial and phony isn't the same thing as "bad". A superficial and phony Muslim simply isn't a real Muslim. No Muslims can be “bad” in an environment where <i>all</i> Muslims are superficial and phony. You're just judging the book by its cover.
Every religion is defined by the integrity of its beliefs. Those beliefs can only change so much without the religion changing to something different. You can't deny that. It's the reason that Christianity isn't just another branch of Judaism. I keep bringing up that example and you don't address it at all. Why is that?
A being wielding the literal power of lightning has no precedent in the experience of any Muslims. Dealing with the implications of that being's existence has no precedent in the experience of any Muslims. The theological differences between Sunnis and Shiites does not compare to how Muslims would react to Thor. Coming to grips with Thor’s very existence would unavoidably break Islam. In real history, no Muslims have ever dealt with phenomena that completely eviscerated their theological worldview. In real history, no Muslims have ever dealt with phenomena that completely destroyed their understanding of what was physically possible.
What makes Ms. Marvel's Islam so fake is that it pretends that Thor coming to Earth and all the other world changing events in the MCU had zero impact on Islam. You can't possibly tell me that I'm wrong about religious purity when the show doesn't even acknowledge any lack of religious purity within Khan or any other Muslims. Your argument rests entirely on a premise that the show never acknowledged.
Your hypothetical conversation between Thor and a Muslim in the MCU doesn't change anything I said or prove me wrong about anything. It proves that Thor's very existence would be a direct threat to Muslim beliefs. But if Islam made this change and accepted the existence of other gods such as Thor then it would no longer be Islam. Islam's central belief is that there is no god but Allah. It doesn't accept the existence of "untrue" gods and can't accept it. Any Muslims making such a change to their beliefs are clearly no longer following Islam. Muslims backpaddling in such a manner to try to maintain Islam would only reveal that the emperor has no clothes. And on top of that, neither Ms. Marvel nor anything else in the MCU indicates in any way that any Muslims made any such changes to their beliefs. The MCU doesn't concede that any changes had to be made to its version of Islam.
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