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   Will Tuladhar-Douglas (yetiinabox@todon.nl)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 15:12:30 JST Will Tuladhar-Douglas

   I am reading _ Eichman in Jerusalem_ , and this time through, as an older person confronted by the systematic failure of ordinary people to recognise or act against the environmental crisis, for decades, it has un-wished-for explanatory force.

   My children don't understand why anyone would use a car, all those cars driving by every day, or buy water in a plastic bottle, why Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are used as examples of "good" entrepreneurs in their curriculum. I can see the corrupt business practices that meant we were offered a new gas boiler rather than a ground source heat pump in the government-backed scheme...but I don't understand it.

   #Arendt did. She understood evil. What a terrible gift.

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   djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Thursday, 12-Oct-2023 06:15:36 JST djsumdog

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   Why are her arguments dumb? I think they make a lot of sense. I’ve looked up some of what she’s said and I think it’s valid. Many of the functional parts of Shari’ah do seem to be borrowed directly from Roman law.

   her argument is that Muslim countries are poor?

   That’s not her argument at all. Most Muslim countries rely heavily on their oil wealth and import a lot of immigrants to work jobs in their welfare states. I think her argument is that the nations are successful due to their resources and not their legal systems (you still haven’t addressed Marte Deborah Dalelv, the Norwegian girl who was arrested in Dubai for reporting her rape)

   is conquering and converting people by force. This has been refuted so many times I won’t even bother.

   But .. it has. Christianity has done this too. There are religions that don’t depend on expansionism (Buddhism, Hinduism, Atheism) or civilizations that expanded without the excuse of their religion (Roman/Greek paganism) … but Islam and Christianity both have expanded by force.

   My grandmother had to leave what’s now Pakistan because the locals threatened to kill her and my grandfather if they didn’t eat beef to proove they were willing to convert form Hinduism to Islam.