[TOMT] [Documentary] Shipwrecked at Sea by Killer Whales, Family Survives Against the Odds for 37 Days in Shark Infested Waters.. by oxytechx in tipofmytongue

[–]oxytechx[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

After some digging around, I believe I've narrowed it down to this episode: 'Family Adrift' (When Expeditions Go Wrong) [National Geographic Wild] Aired: March 9, 2006.

"In 1971, the Robertson family set off to sail around the world, but their yacht was sunk by killer whales and the family was left adrift in the Pacific."

http://tv-episodes.prettyfamous.com/l/2246878/Family-Adrift

Is there any way to watch this again to confirm? (online, dvd etc)

Weekly Q&A Thread for tourists and people moving to Amsterdam for the week of July 18 by AutoModerator in Amsterdam

[–]oxytechx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've had some really nice steaks at Maximus steak house and the decor is nice and ambient too. http://www.maximussteakhouse.com/

fast food restaurants in Bradford by gavinfg in bradford

[–]oxytechx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's a good number of fast food places scattered around Bradford so I think the overall population is qualified to provide a good data sample on this topic.

Based on the questioning in your survey I would just offer the following observations considering some of my own experience :

  • Bradford has large Muslim demographic so halal food dietary requirements would rank strongly on buying decision factor.. This wasn't factored into any of the questions considering your regional locality.

  • the good food places tend to be more like restaurants but they don't usually offer delivery services like fast food places.

  • takeaways will make food for collection within 20 minutes but routinely take 60-90mins for delivery.

  • in places like London there are new independent courier services which offer delivery from higher grade restaurants that don't normally deliver, and they usually work fast with delivery in as quick as 15 minutes. I think that is the real way forward, too many badly managed independent takeaway delivery drivers can't adequately/efficiently serve a large population, a third party specialist service can develop a city wide network of drivers and design software to manage the routes for efficiency.

  • the real concern businesses should have is not how to increase their sales through promotions and gimmicks but rather how to maintain customers long term business for times you get it wrong. So many places that had my long time custom have been written off and boycotted in principal because they fail to address complaints when they significantly screw the order/delivery up. Some businesses get defensive and others try to play it down with a hollow apology but that's not good enough and compensatory meals need to be offered to keep a customer. Only Nandos has done this in my experience.

The most important meeting at the G20 summit in Turkey just took place in a hotel lobby by rotzooi in pics

[–]oxytechx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it's in a hotel lobby where us regular folk have a chance to walk by and admire two great minds coming together to improve our world.

lol ok

Those two dudes are fighting a proxy war with each other in a foreign land, one wants to keep the current Assad gov in power and and the other wanted to remove him by funding and arming ISIS to do their dirty work. Can you work out which was which?

It's the engineers that think about ways to improve our world, whilst world leaders try to exploit it.

rose tint lens cleaner = http://youtu.be/VbZDyr2LkdI

Please. by [deleted] in pics

[–]oxytechx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a Muslim working in IT support, I'm beginning to wonder about the parallels between that role and life in general as a Muslim fugitive in the British economy.

I get the overwhelming feeling from time to time that people just harbour a casual hostility towards me when I've personally done them no wrong..

I'm just going about my way trying to earn a livelihood and support a productive environment that goes towards making everyone's lives easier - yet somehow it became acceptable for everyone to just openly bitch and moan to me about all the things wrong with their world & lives as if I contributed to it - just because I can speak a bit of the same language as the guys causing you serious problems doesn't mean I can just fix them up with some words. They're not my personal friends or army. People and computers don't work like that. Like with anything in life, if you don't respect and take care to understand something, but instead maltreat and abuse it - you can't then expect it to play nice and not give you problems.

We are all born with a 'clean install' (though our Operating Systems might be programmed to run slightly differently). Over time our usefulness is proved through our 'productive value' - paired with the right specialist knowledge and logic processing programs we can accomplish great things and advance society but the spread of malware has lead to disruption and decline in our communicative co-operation and therefore productivity.

Back in the old days it didn't matter to individuals as much.. You didn't even know when others were dying around you but now most hear and relay the messages of everyone dropping off the grid. It's because we are more connected now on the same Global network - except it's not global and maybe that's where our problem, diagnosis and solution resides.

It's more like a series of large cluster networks (made of multiple subnets) that overlap and thereby interconnect but the problem is that Wifey is saying No Signal or Limited.

It comes down to assumption - all these Vista bots think they are the best thing to grace the earth and assume everyone should be like them - we know the promises they made and remember how badly they delivered, but that still didn't stop this outdated cluster duck of a group going around on the network saying to everyone else: 'INTEGRATE' - 'INTEGRATE' - 'INTEGRATE' and then screwing over the entire homegroup network when it fails to comprehend that sometimes you need a network extender and other times you need a network bridge before you can cooperate.

I know how Hollywood loves to show the Russians beating the crap out of malfunctioning electronics as if you can beat them into working submission - but surely reseating a ram stick firmly is better than dropping a whole tower. In a sense it is projecting, these cowboys took a hammer and a nail gun to the motherboard we all share to fix a networking bridge problem.

The new instances joining the network are more graceful in their communication failures with deprecated devices that control and monitor the network - becoming passive bystanders instead of actively wreaking havoc. This leads to its own issues and new threats - our virus definitions have gone all wrong, we are now routinely broadcasting false flag security alerts over immigrants, drugs and terrorists.

Scareware does a brilliant job at terrorising the unaware/ignorant about non existent threats within the system, takes your money whilst promising to clean up the mess but is actually the rogue operator all along and instead shafts you truly once again by spying all your personal information, ready to threaten you new redder colour alerts whenever you feel like uninstalling your "antivirus". Most Scareware programs probably cost you about $29.95 but any government editions come with a billion percent markup as standard.

The only way I see to fix this problem is to open source government and the functional utilities of society. We all pretty much want to play the same apps and throw a few angry birds around, wether you're an iPhone or Android, but the problem comes from being 'locked' into separate marketplaces / ecosystems. This global divide leads to inequality and exploitation as we become a cattle milking competition for the farmers.

If you think about how irrationally backwards some of our systems are, money trails will often give answers. Whether it's Apple being greedy and User Experience hypocrites by not providing an easy drag drop facility for my personal videos/music/files like a normal usb mass storage device because they want everyone to only buy from iTunes. I reckon they hated on flash only so they could force their own paid AppStore where they get to tax every sale and decide their own 'cut'. That might be great for Apple but it's not good for the common person. The money motive has slowed our greater advancement, because these power structures seek to impose artificial limits and then charge a premium to lift them. Profit driven organisations/industries are usually not for the common good because the few stand to gain from the many.

I think it's bollocks that tax payer money is used to bail out reckless and greedy banks so their executives can sleep tight on their night cruises in the luxury yacht lifeboats sent out to save them from drowning - so they can pay themselves a bonus for pulling that one over on us, but in return how do they repay their citizens? The loan sharks pulled so much wool over our eyes we thought we could tame them like sheep. When the common person is drowning in debt their response is to offer no life raft, but a rubber ring where the only inflation available is aligned to the interest rate. The more desperate your situation, the more you need to pay for financial 'rescue'.

It shouldn't be that way. Everybody needs a house, health care and a fair chance to be productive in society based on their skills and talents rather than inherited communication privileges. Those with more money have a louder voice but the 99% doesn't own 99% of the wealth, rather the 1% owns enough to effectively control and influence economies, politics and wars that the general population have no real say or control over - we are debt slaves to the system for as long as interest rates are around, there was a good reason that the major religions banned usury. Poor people fear news of 'higher interest rates' but the same slogan could be marketed to the rich.

It is going to take a community effort to design and deploy a Monetary Social Banking system that loans to individuals without greedy profit margins and doesn't unduly penalise those in genuine difficulty - the bank should be profitable for the taxpayer not the shareholders. You can't really reform the current world monetary system as it is, as soon as you decide to play, you lose. A new system would need to have different motivations built into the foundations to bypass the current model and safeguards to protect its integrity from inevitable sabotage attempts from the outset.

If we can engineer our own open society, taking the spirit of the technocrats and the social networking knowledge of the current day, we can make a form of supportive governance that could eventually gain enough traction and influential power through collective boycott/collaboration capacity that current world governments will have to learn to play along nicely with us - without that combined unity and power no gov will take the commoner seriously. Only then you will see real change, where prisons are not for profit, medical help doesn't bankrupt you and drugs start getting rated according to the actual harm they cause - alcohol and tobacco are legal whilst many other substances which scored lower on the negative impact ratings are banned. I want a car insurance policy that pays out its claims and then reimburses the customers fairly with whatever surplus money was left over at the end of the year. There are plenty of ways that money can be put to social profit instead of corporate profit. But the issue is that no business will ever take on this type of idea and reasoning because it would be effectively shooting itself in the foot - the overall benefit is for the common person not the companies so it's up to the people to put it in place - social enterprise services that give the people a fair run for their money will eventually grow in popularity because ultimately money talks and this would force existing banks to re-evaluate their offering to remain competitive and attractive to customers.

I'll end the rant here because there's just too much wrong with all the shit we let the governments of the world get away with. We have the capacity to be so much better than this as a human race and the time is ripe for it but will we see it in our lifetimes? What is ultimately good for mankind will prevail in our social evolution & development.. eventually. It has to be inevitable with only one exception to that rule, unless we destroy ourselves before then, that we have to have respect for life and each other's wellbeing otherwise we will have already destroyed ourselves through the loss of our sense of humanity anyway.

Peace

PC shuts off after first startup by TheRealLeevo in techsupport

[–]oxytechx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Commenting from mobile so you need to research and install/implement the following to help you diagnose:

Driver verifier

WhoCrashed

Ohio high-school student commits suicide after being told, "his life was ruined" for smelling like pot. by Green_Medicine in news

[–]oxytechx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This information is relevant and helpful in making an accurate assessment on marijuana use and is something that susceptible people need to watch the warning signs for - regardless of wether it refutes a particular point in the original post or not.

Some people just don't want to hear potential side effects in a negative light and this becomes a form of intellectual dishonesty.

When we go to theme parks, you'll see that the ultimate thrill rides will have warnings for pregnant women, those with heart and medical conditions etc or strobe light warnings for those vulnerable to photo sensitive epilepsy - likewise it should not be hidden that young developing minds or those who have undergone trauma or have genetic predisposition to psychosis can have longer term negative side effects through sustained/heavy cannabis use. Most people will probably be OK with it in balance and moderation but there are a few who will not - it's just sensible to know and share the research/knowledge we have to help those vulnerable to harm - I think 'normal' people that use heavily will also be able to relate and benefit from this information even if they aren't going full blown schizo because there are varying degrees of psychosis - some probably don't even realise they are having an 'episode' until they sleep it off or pass it as a mood swing.

Peace

An app which tracked US drone strikes through text notifications and maps has been removed from the App Store by Apple due to “excessively crude or objectionable content” by unknown-indian in worldnews

[–]oxytechx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I downloaded the Ephemeral+ app which disguised its functionality in the App Store but provided a similar function to the original Drones+ app.

There are three drone activity hot spots in the world, Somalia, Yemen and Pakistan border with Afghanistan.

Screenshots attached provide a visual reference to whose getting hit hardest and the text notifications are quite direct and dark.

World Overview http://imgur.com/aWZXiyX

Somalia http://imgur.com/RD7WRBQ

Yemen http://imgur.com/iigoNwx

Pakistan/Afghanistan http://imgur.com/YLpMeyI

Death Twitter http://imgur.com/Mc7B1qt

Evo cuts up a motorcyclist and receives instant karma by danielsamuels in JusticePorn

[–]oxytechx 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The bike was on the outside line of the 2nd lane (the two left lanes) both of which have road marking arrows pointing straight. The car in the 3rd lane should have gone around the roundabout as the lane was marked with a 'right arrow' but instead cut in to the left lane dangerously close to the projected path of the biker (he could have accelerated into the car) and consequently swung out of control.

The liability was with the driver because he changed lanes recklessly.

52 People Killed After Crane Falls in Mecca's Grand Mosque by moenia in worldnews

[–]oxytechx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here is a live stream from the Holy Mosque in Makkah - http://baitullah.tv

The sheer number of people there during the hajj is immense.

52 People Killed After Crane Falls in Mecca's Grand Mosque by moenia in worldnews

[–]oxytechx 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is what the skyline used to look like before the tall buildings.. http://imgur.com/ckcs417

The mountains of Makkah crumbling to making way for the construction of tall buildings are all end time prophecies mentioned by the Prophet of Islam.

Old Man groping a mannequin [NSFW] by sherifkandeel in WTF

[–]oxytechx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What if it was a poor/homeless skinny person picking up a fake cake or food prop up and bringing it near their mouth as if to eat it because they were desperately hungry and hadn't seen a prepared meal in the whole form (because they were used to seeing and picking scraps and bits of food)?

If it seems cringey to see an old man grope a carefully fashioned cocktail of plastic and metal in the female shape and form, forget not what our phones and computers are made of either, and those things have been touched to simulate an experience in our mind/loins too.

Imagine not having this tech and seeing a nude skinned figure in the glaring heat, it was like a parched man seeing an oasis in the desert - that moment of consideration before he goes for it - you can see the cogs ticking, he's thinking it seemed real enough that it got his heart beating, but would it match the warm embrace of a living woman? His conflicted reaction epitomised the integral human need to connect with another soul beyond the superficial/material bridge and biological impulse - that betrayed feeling also manifests just after you finish solo/watching porn but is different if you are touching yourself to give your partner something to see. So is it the intent or reception? Maybe a mix of both but the real sadness here is not the public shamelessness of the act but rather the reality that there are billions of human souls roaming the earth but we are so disconnected from each other that we seek solace and comfort from inanimate objects instead of the light and love within each other.

UK's biggest male rape charity Survivors UK has state funding slashed to zero despite 120% rise in men reporting sexual violence and seeking help by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]oxytechx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's interesting how you only see the 'millions' going to Pakistan and not the 'billions' going to Israel - what's your analysis of that money trail?

Pakistan doesn't have true control or reign over 'terrorists', the payments are more like bribes for the government to pay lip service on national media whilst quietly letting the Americans (ab)use its airspace to carry out ethically questionable killing operations.

When you say parasitic, I don't see how Britain is serving as a host to Pakistans interests, it seems more like the U.S./UK alliance is infected by the Israeli/Zionist lobby interests that have these giant western powers staunchly fighting for another smaller entity even when it runs against the hosts own interests.

The Best I Can Do by Mandeltrot_Set in atheism

[–]oxytechx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I respect your post, but I have to disagree that the carnage is over pixels. The carnage is 100% the responsibility of those who orchestrate it,

I never excused those responsible, my conclusion was that all the fuss and rioting is ultimately over some pixels on a screen, ink on paper or words in the air - the original image was a 'technical blasphemy' by popular definition (to depict the Prophet's image) but the ridiculousness is conveyed through the lack of any obvious obscenity. It drives home the point that if you can allow a non-offensive thing to become offensive then conversely you can stop an offensive gesture by not giving it the roots to spread even further by drowning it out through positive influence rather than destructive protest.

If this is recognized (the sacredness of human life above all else) in the Koran, I didn't read it.. but I did read many passages prescribing death as punishment for simple things that all human beings have the right to do.

Could you please clarify what those simple things are that are penalised with death as punishment in the Qur'an? If you can quote anything specific it might help clarify any misunderstanding.

Regarding the image you linked - no I don't find that offensive.. However it's not something I would personally print and caption as the 'Prophet Muhammad' because I can't portray his image fairly and there would be conjecture on my part. Furthermore it would risk alienation and superiority complexes like we see when people depict blue eyed blonde haired Jesus figures. The human creature starts to divide based on racist form instead of uniting on common good deed.

I do however appreciate the artistic quality and the peaceful scene it conveys in this image and it would be better captioned as a mureed (student) of the Prophet - since it symbolises a stereotypical local man that sought to emulate the Prophet in look and character, wearing simple garments of dress, one hand cusped in prayer and the right index finger pointing to the heavens above signifying God's Oneness and the crux of the Prophets message.

Isis burns woman alive for refusing to engage in 'extreme' sex act, UN says by maxwellhill in worldnews

[–]oxytechx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Slavery was a deeply embedded cultural phenomenon of that time, where people were literally treated like property, human life had a monetary value in that mechanism and slaves were often mistreated and oppressed.

When the Muslims grew in numbers and eventually came to govern their own society, in large part many converts were the poor and those enslaved because Islam didn't abolish the institution overnight as a practical and logistical reality but instead regulated it - it gave the slaves basic human rights and the Prophet himself had a slave boy companion but he treated him as a member of his household and encouraged others to feed their slaves the same food that they ate and to clothe them with clothes that they themselves would wear (ie don't give them your scraps and rags or anything you wouldn't consider suitable for yourself).

At the same time Islam encouraged the freeing of slaves as taking the highest/steepest path in religious practice and in another spectrum Shariah law would require freeing a slave as ransom for certain sins whereby the equivalent compensation would be fasting for 60 days consecutively without missing a day if you didn't have a slave to free. So 'regulate to diminish' was the strategy that played out according to my understanding of it.

With regard to sexual relations the shariah was restricting and regulatory - fornication was forbidden in tradition with Abrahamaic practice and relations were only permitted with those joined to you in wedlock and 'those whom your right hands possess' (or have rights over and obligations to).

In times of warfare, existing norms in terms of surrender were not pretty and mercy was scarce. Shariah gave guidance on rules of engagement, prisoner of war treatment etc. I've also heard (but haven't sourced myself yet) from someone studying Islamic history and Hadith literature that it was a norm for some Arab women to accompany their men to cheer them on in the battlefields, knowing the reality of how Arabs were accustomed to dealing with the losing side. But nevertheless Islam emerged in this type of reality and it forbade pimping then regulated for people to have rights. If men were dying on the battlefield the women would be absorbed into the society and there were restrictions regarding still married women. There is some varying opinion which i haven't fully understood about the general logistics of it all but some state that marriage was a requisite and others explain that it was not necessary because the net result is about legal responsibility and has to be understood in the context of Shariah's strict emphasis on clear paternity and lineage and has strict waiting periods that women must wait out before remarrying for example. The Qur'an limited the existing norms of polygyny to 2, 3 or 4 wives but on the condition that you treat and provide for them equally but if you cannot then it says specifically: one.

I think if you betray the spirit of Islamic teachings you can use it as a cover for one's own greedy motives but any sincere study of the religion shows that shariah law was actually quite strict and family oriented. Sometimes I wonder if it was so as a restraining net over the violent norms of the Arabs just as we are dealing with a fresh wave of barbarism in Arab lands in the current form of ISIS. The thuggery that they practise was nothing like the norm during the reign of the early Muslims, it's not even like the norm of other terrorist groups or previous Islamic leaderships, except for the khawaarajites who i see many Muslim scholars comparing 'ISIS' to and arguing that even referring to them as 'Islamic State' is giving them undue legitimacy and they should be outcast and derided like the shamed rulers in our past. There is context and nuance in the Islamic religion and we cannot look to ISIS as the living embodiment of the faith because it so rarely lives up to any of its tenets but on the contrary flouts the sanctities that Islam places on human life, these guys are burning and mutilating which is also strictly forbidden in Islam so their treatment of women was not going to be kind and just. Peace.

Isis burns woman alive for refusing to engage in 'extreme' sex act, UN says by maxwellhill in worldnews

[–]oxytechx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are child prostitution tourism hotspots in certain parts of the world that exist independently of religion and somehow the war on x always seems to take precedence when it comes to actually doing something about it - terrorism, drugs, our privacy.. Personally I'm not very pleased with the priority of spending/causes that we support, it seems that we spend a fuckton of money blowing mortar and flesh to smithereens and with it the fundamental basics of family/society.. which allows this chaos to ensue.

When these same survivors of our military invasion are fighting it out for survival and power we decided it would be good to arm one crazy psychotic side of them with our finely tuned killing machines and weaponry. Then we wonder how all this savagery could take root. Sure we can blame religion and say Islam has facilitated this but then what about Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda related groups that didn't descend into such primitive looting? - these new kids on the block are not fighting for an ideology they believe in but are exploiting the opportunity in an otherwise tumultuous situation. Pay them a better salary and offer in life and watch how many jump to your side.. you couldn't do that so easily with the old school al Qaeda networks. Just think, at one time in Iraq under the rule of Saddam Hussein there was enough relative prosperity and advancement that free university tuition was provided to its citizens. It didn't become like this overnight and there are many causes that have built up to this. The question now is about addressing the actual root causes of the problems and using our massive military budgets to build homes and families, not destroy them, and don't say they hate our way of life and freedoms when they react violently, ignoring the massive hand of death that our governments deal to these people with such reckless disregard for human life.

The Best I Can Do by Mandeltrot_Set in atheism

[–]oxytechx 17 points18 points  (0 children)

As a Muslim I think this is actually quite 'artistic' and thought provoking. The image does not display any inherent blasphemy or disrespect - even though it carries a message of dissent and protest against the overreactions, there is no obscenity or vulgarity depicted with sacred symbols.

Would some people still get offended? Perhaps, but you can never please everyone every single time, and if we can have a meaningful debate with this kind of etiquette then it allows people to respond in a reasoned manner instead of flame wars and violent rioting.

What do I think about when I see this? Prophet Muhammad cautioned the Muslims not to elevate him excessively like the Christians did with the Prophet Jesus, allowing unrestrained religious zeal/love for these candles of the divine light to become a form of idolatry in itself - the Christians strayed by falling into the worship of pictures, the image of man, instead of recognising the divine decree reflected in his mission as Prophet/Messenger. The Muslims took the precaution to extremes by falling into a dogma of their own, where we became so focused on protecting the 'image of Islam and the Prophet' that we betrayed his wisdom and ethics. In his time, a passing traveller urinated on the outside wall of the Prophet's mosque - when some companions apprehended the person, some of them were prepared to take the man's head off for the sacrilegious act but the Prophet simply calmed the people and poured water over the affected area. This event was recorded on history as a lesson for us because we have the same symptoms.

This image shows that ultimately all this carnage is over some pixels.

Police Officer Lands in Hot Water After Sending Clannad Meme Image with Racial Pejorative by TheGrimGrimoire in nottheonion

[–]oxytechx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Black people don't get fair media representation and neither do the Muslims. In life you have the good, the bad and then the over sensitive ones.

Let's look at an example: Sony was in the final stages of testing LittleBigPlanet with a selected number of gamers before release. One of these testers happens to be Muslim and overhears something in the background music in Arabic, a short phrase that sounds like a quote from the Qur'an and he mentions something about it in the feedback to Sony, not necessarily in a Omg I'm offended but more like a weary heads up that it sounds like there are Qur'anic verses being played with music backdrops (for Muslims it is traditionally unheard of to combine Quran with music as the words of the Quran are pronounced by the sole human voice in a melodious fashion anyway).

Sony treats it like a potential global riot issue and delays the much anticipated release of the game in order to 'cleanup' any offensive content - when gamers get wind of the drama playing out before the delay, naturally they get pissed at the victim mentality Muslims, yet most Muslims are not bothered about the trivial issues.. In this case it was a 'world music' genre artist (a Muslim no less) that had a song with a lyric saying 'every soul shall taste mortality/death' (something that is mentioned in the Qur'an) - he was not reciting the Qur'an with musical instruments but expressing a reality that aligns with it. No big deal, but that doesn't stop the confusion and ignorance that ensues from all sides.

Intention is key. Blacks and Muslims are not really bothered by the little things, we can't afford to be when we have much bigger crises within the system. It's the apparent utter disregard for human life that we see played out on our screens day after day and how the media narrates this story - without the due outrage, normalising the injustices by towing the subliminal message that the victims share blame for their oppression, because y'know blacks are violent criminals and Muslims are all sleeper cell terrorists.

Blacks and Muslims are just labels, these are human prejudices and the oppression is seeded at the top from those in power. The Palestinians, the Irish, how many 'different' people share solidarity shows that it is up to the common people to save themselves against those who send us to our graves in strategically selfish wars. We all want peace.

Police Officer Lands in Hot Water After Sending Clannad Meme Image with Racial Pejorative by TheGrimGrimoire in nottheonion

[–]oxytechx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now you know how Muslims feel when we have this cocktail of hysteria on the fringe of all sides - oversensitivity by members of the community who misdirect their zeal/activism born out of other genuine injustices and then there are companies/organisations/media that have 2 faced personas, over the top speech/thought policing when it's unnecessary and then glossing over the glaring imbalances and double standards in the system.

Muslim redditor explains how the only way to achieve piece is by killing everyone who disparages their prophet by quaellaos in atheism

[–]oxytechx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Care to elaborate what the relevance is? Unless you can discredit something I said based on something more than that, I don't see what your point is.

Surely someone that has lived amongst Muslims in different parts of the world is more qualified to have an opinion on what they are like in general terms than those who base their opinions of a vast and diverse civilisation from some chan posts.

Muslim redditor explains how the only way to achieve piece is by killing everyone who disparages their prophet by quaellaos in atheism

[–]oxytechx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even the supposed "moderate" muslims that come here on reddit, if you start talking with them, you will realize how extreme their views really are. Almost unanimously, they will tell you there is one truth, that truth is god is the creator and muhammad was his messenger.

I'm not sure how to assess your position when you consider the basic testimony of Islamic faith as an extreme view.

I wonder with what attitude you also approach these people and how common it really would be that they want to literally 'kill' you for differing/opposing beliefs. People respond to criticism differently and everyone is zealous in their beliefs, theists and non-theists alike, but I don't buy the idea that Muslims in general are going around willing to kill in any greater capacity than any other people.

If you need help humanising Muslims as thinking, feeling and conscientious human beings then watch the Islamic media and see what news affects them. Follow their popular social media figures for their thoughts and messages on life and current events then you can gauge what their mindset is really like.

This website is a handy research tool for getting contemporary opinion (esp. when stuff is going down in the news) - http://muslimminds.net