za3faran

Java/Kotlin would have given you what you needed, and more (better observability, performance, etc.)

You can get items at Costco that you do not need a lot of room for. Plus, you can meal prep and save time and money. It should not cost you $1500 per month to eat healthy food.

You still need a language/platform that performs well. Python and gang do not when compared to things like the JVM and .NET.

As you astutely point out, it's not easy, many companies are complicit, or at least the people and groups funding them.

Have you looked at the healthcare or green energy domains with smaller companies/start ups?

I salute you for your morality. If most people did this, those companies would change their position very quickly. After all, they only think about money.

Point is to refute the claim the current situation in some Muslim countries is caused by Islam, instead of it being a direct consequence of colonialism.

Slavery in the Arab world is a benign institution. Slaves are rarely used for industrial or agricultural labor. They are often treated as members of the family. Bright young slaves are educated and given positions of trust and are eventually freed. Mohammed Surur, the former Minister of Finance of Saudi Arabia, was born a slave. Two managers of one of Jidda's principal hotels were once slaves.

It's been reported in many places including western sources, nice try though.

You know that israel bombed jewish places of worship in Iran, right?

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/4/11/iranian-r...

It's always important to take what Orientalists write with a *huge* grain of salt - we have found mistakes countless times in their writings and assumptions. Case in point, the synopsis for the book has a mistake, and the entirety of the book builds on it. You can throw it into ansari.chat to get a good starting point on the fundamental misunderstandings it makes.

Indeed; one side of my family is Iraqi :)

Yep, I was thinking about it and it very well seems that /g/ is the most widespread pronunciation in the Arab word: Iraq, many parts of West Asia (parts of Syria, parts of Jordan, and parts of Palestine), the Gulf states, Yemen, and many parts of North Africa, even parts of Egypt.

Those who wrote about Tajweed (Quranic Recitation) early on mentioned a lot of those other dialects (including examples of tribes that utter them) which would not be valid to recite the Quran. ك to /sh/ or /ch/ is another one, those also exist today and existed pre-Islam.

During the time of Umar bin Abdul-Aziz.

Anytime!

The Qira'at include both: different pronunciations of the same word or letter, as well as a curated set of recitations for the same word. This is very well established and evident, so I'm not quite sure where you read there is a debate.

In fact, the same recording I linked to in my previous post has both kinds - Ayah #4 is recited as "Maalik youm id-Din" and "Malik youm id-Din" (long vs short vowel). Maalik means "owner/master of" and Malik means "King". Both were pronounced by Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and recorded and transmitted. The rest of the pronunciations in the recording were dialects (e.g. ص is pronounced 3 different ways: pharyngealized voiceless sibilant, pharyngealized voiced sibilant, and a voiceless sibilant like /s/ in English).

Much of these pronunciations exist to this day too.

Not all dialects were permitted to be recited. For example, the letter ق is never pronounced as /g/ when reciting the Quran, even though that pronunciation existed, and exists today in spoken Arabic.

Regarding Arabic and the Quran, you can read about how the most eloquent Arabs at the time submitted to the language of the Quran - even those who rejected Islam out of pride and arrogance. When it was evident to everyone that the language of the Quran dominated all, it was only natural that it became the standard for the language. Simultaneously, the Quran itself is understood and comprehended through the language spoken at the time, which is why pre-Islamic poetry and prose - among others - are used for things like linguistic exegesis.

That's not entirely accurate. The Quran, to this day, is recited in different "dialects"/recitations (Qira'aat), not just that of Quraish. In fact, Quraish did not use to pronounce the Hamzah (glottal stop) for example, in words such as Mu'min (مؤمن). However, the most popular recitation today (Hafs 'an 'Asim) recites with the glottal stop, as do some others.

Other kinds of pronunciation include the way the Alif Maqsoorah is uttered. For example the name Moses is pronounced Moosa or Moosé (or varying degrees in between) depending on the recitation. These kinds of recitations trace their ways back to how different tribes spoke.

You can hear an example of such recitations for the first Surah of the Quran here[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMVDdztN6fg

Correlation vs causation (post WWI colonization comes to mind, that continues to this day). Historically, there was a period of time when there were no poor people left to take Zakat, everyone paid their share, and no usurious transactions permitted.

I think it's easy to look around us to see why it makes complete sense to prohibit it.

All interest is usury in Islamic Law (and the laws before it such as Christianity and Judaism). There are ways to to put free cash into productive use without exploitation.

Loaning money as per Islamic Law is a charitable act, not one of exploitation.

The whole world saw US soldiers in the Gulf states hiding in hotels when US bases were struck.

The straw man is that their aim is to "wipe jews off the face of the earth".

What things are you referring to? Especially after the many features that Java gained after Java 8.

You still did not provide a source, and in fact, showed the opposite:

the elimination of Israel as a modern country

Which is very different than the victim playing by the settlers. I gave you a primary source, not straw man arguments.

The first thing I wrote is that they are two very different things, meaning that no, the same logic cannot be used to justify it. It's quite obvious to say the least.

Yea, Thai workers seem to be very well treated in israel /s: https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/01/21/raw-deal/abuse-thai-wo...

Claims without sources. The truth in fact, is eye opening to many israeli supporters:

https://x.com/incontextmedia/status/1720877046664986750

israel has been documented countless times directly targeting civilians, including reporters, sniping women, children, sexual assault, the list goes on. It's a quick search away to see a very, very long list of war crimes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/israelexposed/

Who said their aim is to "wipe jews off the face of the earth"? Always claims without citations. The reality is quite different however[1]

[1] https://x.com/incontextmedia/status/1720877046664986750

Two completely different things. Even the UN acknowledges a people's right to resist occupation. 9/11 was condemned by practically all Islamic Scholars.

The same civilians that are killing them day in and day out?

Let's not victim blame here. Would you have called the Indians evil for wanting to have liberty from the british occupiers? What about the many other european colonies in Asia and Africa, were the locals "evil" for wanting to resist and get liberty?

It's enough to hear what their genocidal maniac of a CEO says.