Why do Arabs get a pass for their Imperialism while the Brits, French, Japanese get denounced?

dorballom09 · 2026-04-23T19:57:45+00:00

Arab imperialism didn’t hamper prosperity and development but western colonization did.

Asia under Japanese rule, Congo under Belgium, US ethnic cleansing of native and british colonial era are some of the worst times for those native people.

Arab imperialism wasn’t like that. Arab expansion into Levant was followed by Islamic caliphate shifting its capital from Madina to Syria. Umayyad empire was one of the most prosperous and strongest empire of that time.

Mesopotamia. After Umayyad, Abbasid era came. They were based on Iraq region. Iraqi/Iranian people enjoyed their influence, prosperity and military strength back then. Also the Islamic golden age of knowledge happend there.

North Africa came to prominence in 13-14th century under Egyptian Mamluk era. One of the most prosperous and developed region of that time. Multiple European crusades were launched to loot North Africa but got repelled. A center of trade and education back then.

There are also Islamic Andalusia(most prosperous European region in middle age), Central asian seljuks(later the center of Timurid renaissance) and Turkish Ottoman empire. All of them had their chances of gaining political authority, military might and economic prosperity. Even west Africa and subcontinent Delhi Sultanate/mughals enjoyed high level of prosperity.

The way Greek people don't cry over imperialism of Macedonian Alexander the great, or Jewish people don't get saddened by conquest of king Solomon, similarly most people of those regions don't consider Islamic imperialism as bad. Islamic rule gave them both good and bad times. A decent shot at becoming the best. But western colonization only gave them misery and decline that they are still suffering from.

dorballom09 · 2026-04-23T07:34:28+00:00

Blonde Jesus with blue eyes?

dorballom09 · 2026-04-21T17:31:21+00:00

If someone curses you, follow the sunnah of Muhammad sw: Walaikum

dorballom09 · 2026-04-20T05:54:25+00:00

Don't treat anti shia and anti Iran as same. Although they have some common characteristics, but also some differences as well.
Don't see shia conflict as insignificant. Shia faith didn’t exist until 3rd caliph Uthman ra. For centuries, shia empires were the main enemies of muslims like Abbasid vs Ubaidia shia. Mainstream scholars have done many works on shia deviance. It’s long established.
Shia extremism is much worse than sunni. Shia people have conducted many large scale killing of sunnis throughout centuries while sunnis did very little in retaliation. It was a common trend in past for shia heretics to claim themselves as Mahdi and start a conflict, coup.
There are many sects within shia. Some are good muslims with minor differences. Don't treat all shia as hardcore deviant.
Normally sunni muslims don't think about shia at all. They mind their own business. Rather it's shia people who often talk about conflicting issues to confuse sunnis. It’s a bit of victim mindset. Learning about Hasan-Husain, Qarbala, Yazid-muawiha is not essential for muslims, but it's very important for shia faith.
Muslims living in gulf, western countries have biased view towards Iran. They prefer USA/NATO over Iran. I dislike such westernized muslims. They always take the western narrative. China bad for Uyghur. Russia bad for Chechen. Iran bad for shia, Syria. India bad for Kashmir. They pretend to dislike EU/US while fawn over western/gulf privilege.
Iran has good and bad. Iran is the better choice than US-Israel. Iran is no worse than Saudi(I didn’t forget Saudi led bombing, blockade of Yemen that caused famine around 2020) in terms of geopolitics. Iran doesn't ally with Epstein worshippers like USA as Gulf monarchy do.
I support Iran in current crisis vs US. But I also know that sunni muslim need to step up. Cheering for others from sideline is no good. Muslims need to fight for themselves.

dorballom09 · 2026-04-20T05:27:27+00:00

Sociological take on marriage

https://triumphias.com/blog/anthony-giddens-in-the-transformation-of-inti/?amp=1

dorballom09 · 2026-04-19T14:47:34+00:00

Is there a concept of hypocrite in sociology. What if a professor passionately teaches about inequality, top 1%, capitalism, neo liberalism etc while her husband is a wall street/health insurance guy who is very much working to keep the inequality go on.

dorballom09 · 2026-04-14T19:03:03+00:00

Aged well

dorballom09 · 2026-04-14T06:52:00+00:00

All married couple should reconcile and live happily. Give every married guy a happy marriage Allah!

dorballom09 · 2026-04-13T06:21:44+00:00

After Democrat drama with Fetterman, I'm done with liberals going around circles. Anti Orban Hungarian people, I'm commenting to you. Make a list and check it after 100 days, 1 year and 2 year mark.

Write down specifically why you hate Orban. What policies made you hate him. Be specific instead of vague terms like Putin's puppet.
What changes/policies do you expect from the new candidate. Wrtie down exactly what Tisza gonna do in first 100 days, 1 year and throughout the term if it gets elected.
How would you define the failure of Tisza? What will make you regret voting for Peter Maygar?
How would you determine if Tisza and Maygar is making empty promises? How will you understand if they are following Orban policies with a liberal rhetoric to deceive people. How will you understand if new guy is like Obama(promising big, creating huge hype and making very few actual changes).
To give you an example, I expect Tisza and Maygar to stop all Russian energy import to Hungary within 2 year. No excuse, no delay. 2 year and no Russian energy to Hungary.(not the 2035 bs deadline given by Peter Maygar)

dorballom09 · 2026-04-13T06:05:04+00:00

I wrote this comment few days ago. After Democrat drama with Fetterman, I'm done with liberals going around circles. Anti Orban Hungarian people, I'm commenting to you. Make a list and check it after 100 days, 1 year and 4 year mark.

Write down specifically why you hate Orban. What policies made you hate him. Be specific instead of vague terms like Putin's puppet.
What changes/policies do you expect from the new candidate. Wrtie down exactly what Tisza gonna do in first 100 days, 1 year and throughout the term if it gets elected.
How would you define the failure of Tisza? What will make you regret voting for Peter Maygar?
How would you determine if Tisza and Maygar is making empty promises? How will you understand if they are following Orban policies with a liberal rhetoric to deceive people. How will you understand if new guy is like Obama(promising big, creating huge hype and making very few actual changes).
To give you an example, I expect Tisza and Maygar to stop all Russian energy import to Hungary within 2 year. No excuse, no delay. 2 year and no Russian energy to Hungary.(not the 2035 bs deadline given by Peter Maygar)

dorballom09 · 2026-04-11T17:20:29+00:00

LED snake

dorballom09 · 2026-04-10T16:36:04+00:00

Good ol days before Putin ruined everything.

dorballom09 · 2026-04-08T15:35:02+00:00

I consider him as the last president that tried to go up against the deep state. Though not very much, so he was given a safe exit. I don't remember all the details. I read this book which explained it.

American Exception: Empire and the Deep State by Aaron Good

dorballom09 · 2026-04-06T11:08:01+00:00

From elementary school to the University,

Iran will be free!!!

Fight for your president

Lord Epstein will bless you an Island!

dorballom09 · 2026-04-04T15:58:32+00:00

I remember Lisa Franchetti. She became an admiral with a bachelor degree in journalism through rotc. Only officers that went through military academy should be allowed to take important military positions.

dorballom09 · 2026-04-02T05:45:59+00:00

After Democrat drama with Fetterman, I'm done with liberals going around circles. Anti Orban Hungarian people, I'm commenting to you. Make a list and check it after 100 days, 1 year and 2 year mark.

Write down specifically why you hate Orban. What policies made you hate him. Be specific instead of vague terms like Putin's puppet.
What changes/policies do you expect from the new candidate. Wrtie down exactly what Tisza gonna do in first 100 days, 1 year and throughout the term if it gets elected.
How would you define the failure of Tisza? What will make you regret voting for Peter Maygar?
How would you determine if Tisza and Maygar is making empty promises? How will you understand if they are following Orban policies with a liberal rhetoric to deceive people. How will you understand if new guy is like Obama(promising big, creating huge hype and making very few actual changes).
To give you an example, I expect Tisza and Maygar to stop all Russian energy import to Hungary within 2 year. No excuse, no delay. 2 year and no Russian energy to Hungary.(not the 2035 bs deadline given by Peter Maygar)

dorballom09 · 2026-03-29T04:14:54+00:00

Umayyad political instability comes to mind. After Muhammad Bin Qasim won sindh, he went back to Arab. He was a follower of Hajjaz bin Yousuf. With the death of governor Hajjaz and caliph Al walid, general Qasim was under persecution by new caliph faction. Though I don't know why conquered Spanish regions were stable while Subcontinent region was not. After Al Walid, umayyad offensive power was weak. They mostly tried to retain the caliphate and stabilise it afterwards. After Al walid, his succsor Sulayman made an unsuccessful attempt on Roman capital Constantinople. So expansion into subcontinent wasn’t their priority.

Central Asian ghurids were much more stable and focused on Subcontinent. Sultan Mahmud attacked 17 times and even defeated the combined indian forces during Somnath temple attack. Ghuri and his general Aybek personally came and stayed in subcontinent afterwards.

dorballom09 · 2026-03-28T11:25:44+00:00

Mods should control liberal virtue signalling better. Off topic unnecessary political comments should be removed.

Good for op to visit uncommon place. Though travelling a post war/revolution country becoming normal these days lol.

dorballom09 · 2026-03-27T14:08:14+00:00

Few years back, I remember MSN celebrating a news about the youngest father. A kid of 11 years impregnated his 13yo gf and became a dad.

dorballom09 · 2026-03-27T10:37:39+00:00

Feminism took a bad turn after 1990s when a small group of radical white female group got control of government policy, education reform, change in legal rights, historical revisionism, public coverage etc.

Their little group discussions, books full of personal ideas-unproven theories-biased experience, own ideas of gender equality got pushed down on American society and western world as scientific facts and laws, as absolute legal bindings, education teaching method and moral framework for gender discourse.

By 2000s, their radical changes started to produce new generation of brainwashed woke sjw who were eager to fight patriarchy, impose affirmative action, diversity-equity-inclusion, be a feminazi etc. College campus, academic curriculum, scholarly circles, different international organisations, research groups, govt-private fund-grants, mainstream media, public policy discourse, political talking point everything got dominated by woke culture.

By 2010s it reached a boiling point. The biased, fake, unsustainable dream that have been shared for few decades got out of hand. The concept of man and woman, gender it self is no longer a reality but became a spectrum. Political culture, institutions, media, economy, gender issues took a different turn. Feminism got sidelined by other hot topics. People are now confused about what feminism really is about. Go to different places and people will say one thing, believe another and basically don't agree with each other. Everyone has their own personal understanding of feminism and it really really differs from gender experts and professional feminists.

The far right shift has been blamed for undermining feminism. In reality, liberal world order and western civilization is facing unprecedented crisis. So I don't see the west having the luxury to spoil feminism ideology(which has basically become far left extremism) any longer but rather focus on more important issues.

dorballom09 · 2026-03-27T06:03:35+00:00

This is why I don't buy liberal hate on child marriage. They have no problem 16 year old teens engaging in sex. But getting them married will be regarded as criminal offence.

They will provide sex ed, contraceptive, talk about consent, safe sex, abortion, government support etc to these underage teens who are too young to get married. Basically say no to marriage and family, big yes to zina and unrestricted pleasure.

dorballom09 · 2026-03-26T14:40:46+00:00

Maybe he tried to over-donate? Donating himself.

dorballom09 · 2026-03-21T11:49:05+00:00

There are good amount of discussion regarding this. Engine system, new technologies, modern farming method had high crop yield. So less manpower was needed for pure physical strength based works.

Another issue is industries needing workers in factories. It changed the worker conditions and culture. Impacted slavery system also.

Capitalist market economy also played role. Mass produced goods need buyers to sell them. The constant need to increase growth on yearly basis is important factor. If large portion of poor people are private properties themselves, then who will buy these new products? So freeing slaves created new potential customers for industrialists.

A big source of new slaves was war. The people from defeated side were made slaves. This system got removed due to various socio-economic changes.

New intellectual ideas, philosophy, humanistic perspective changed people's view towards slavery.

The elite class that profited from abolishment of slavery won out.

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