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Fact: That was before he was a Muslim. After inventing the religion and rising to power in Medina, he eschewed productive activities (Medina was a farming community) and turned to robbing caravans, plundering productive tribes in Medina (he ethnically cleansed Medina of Jews), and conquering Arabia.
Fact: Who doesn’t? The question is: how? Mohammad did it by plunder. The initial Islamic conquests weren’t to convert the infidel but to plunder, dominate, and exploit. As for the vaulted trade-routes: what was traded? Islam invented the intercontinental race-based slave trade plundering Africa, Eastern Europe andIndia
Fact: Everyone did! Go anywhere in the impoverished world and you’ll find markets where people bring their goods for sale. Of course, as Hernando DeSoto shows, in The Mystery of Capital, it takes more than informal markets to make Capitalism. It takes the rule of law, property deeds and property liquidity, lending with interest, etc. Islamic societies have been autocratic--exemplified by the rule of men and granting of privilege.
Fact: He was a fascist. Let’s not split hairs.
Observation: So did theWeimar Cape of Good Hope …”
Interpretation: Muslims were necessary middle men when they couldn't be avoided but they produce nothing and can’t compete when alternatives exist.
Fact: They author answers it himself: “Weber himself wouldn't have agreed with this comment -- he saw Islam as a religion of conquerors and plunderers, not hard-working laborers. Islam was an obstacle to capitalist development because it could foster only aggressive militancy (jihad) or contemplative austerity.”Turkey
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Fact: That is because the roots of Capitalism are individual rights, not merely markets, nor mere wealth, nor fortune. But this is an unknown ideal, as Ayn Rand noted 40 years ago, for most people who remain on the superficial level.
- Islam Coexists?
There is an enormous irony contained in the Boston Marathon bombing. When the jihadi Tsarnaev brothers car jacked a Mercedes, it had a "Coexist" bumper sticker. The Coexist bumper sticker is the religious symbol of the multicultural crowd —...
- Abc Whitewashes Islam
ABC’s 20/20 show on Islam was a complete whitewash. Diane Sawyer pretended to show both sides by allowing critics to raise questions about Islam’s defects only to have Muslims reply “oh, no, that’s not true.” There was no examination of the...
- Islam Will Take Over Rome
From Vlad Tepes: A few things worth noting about this video. The use of the term ‘Crusader’ or ‘Crusader Capitol’ is new in Islam. HIstoricaly the Muslims never felt the crusades where a noteworthy event. A minor skirmish in which Europeans lost....
- We Don't Need To Attack Iran Or Use Nukes" - An Interesting Comment From An Anonymous Commenter
The West doesn't NEED to attack Iran or use Nukes. As I hear MOST Iranians do not fully support the Government or the President or the Imams and Mullahs, but like the bullied Germans in the mid 20th century dare not disobey. Muslims NEED to be either...
- 'moderate' Makeover...
...of an Extreme religion. Islam is teaching us every day about what it actually is through the behavior of its most devout followers. One problem for ‘Moderate Muslims' is that they're referred to as 'Moderate Muslims', so as to distance...
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Fact: That was before he was a Muslim. After inventing the religion and rising to power in Medina, he eschewed productive activities (Medina was a farming community) and turned to robbing caravans, plundering productive tribes in Medina (he ethnically cleansed Medina of Jews), and conquering Arabia.
Fact: Who doesn’t? The question is: how? Mohammad did it by plunder. The initial Islamic conquests weren’t to convert the infidel but to plunder, dominate, and exploit. As for the vaulted trade-routes: what was traded? Islam invented the intercontinental race-based slave trade plundering Africa, Eastern Europe and
Fact: Everyone did! Go anywhere in the impoverished world and you’ll find markets where people bring their goods for sale. Of course, as Hernando DeSoto shows, in The Mystery of Capital, it takes more than informal markets to make Capitalism. It takes the rule of law, property deeds and property liquidity, lending with interest, etc. Islamic societies have been autocratic--exemplified by the rule of men and granting of privilege.
Fact: He was a fascist. Let’s not split hairs.
Observation: So did the
Interpretation: Muslims were necessary middle men when they couldn't be avoided but they produce nothing and can’t compete when alternatives exist.
Fact: They author answers it himself: “Weber himself wouldn't have agreed with this comment -- he saw Islam as a religion of conquerors and plunderers, not hard-working laborers. Islam was an obstacle to capitalist development because it could foster only aggressive militancy (jihad) or contemplative austerity.”
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Fact: That is because the roots of Capitalism are individual rights, not merely markets, nor mere wealth, nor fortune. But this is an unknown ideal, as Ayn Rand noted 40 years ago, for most people who remain on the superficial level.
- Islam Coexists?
There is an enormous irony contained in the Boston Marathon bombing. When the jihadi Tsarnaev brothers car jacked a Mercedes, it had a "Coexist" bumper sticker. The Coexist bumper sticker is the religious symbol of the multicultural crowd —...
- Abc Whitewashes Islam
ABC’s 20/20 show on Islam was a complete whitewash. Diane Sawyer pretended to show both sides by allowing critics to raise questions about Islam’s defects only to have Muslims reply “oh, no, that’s not true.” There was no examination of the...
- Islam Will Take Over Rome
From Vlad Tepes: A few things worth noting about this video. The use of the term ‘Crusader’ or ‘Crusader Capitol’ is new in Islam. HIstoricaly the Muslims never felt the crusades where a noteworthy event. A minor skirmish in which Europeans lost....
- We Don't Need To Attack Iran Or Use Nukes" - An Interesting Comment From An Anonymous Commenter
The West doesn't NEED to attack Iran or use Nukes. As I hear MOST Iranians do not fully support the Government or the President or the Imams and Mullahs, but like the bullied Germans in the mid 20th century dare not disobey. Muslims NEED to be either...
- 'moderate' Makeover...
...of an Extreme religion. Islam is teaching us every day about what it actually is through the behavior of its most devout followers. One problem for ‘Moderate Muslims' is that they're referred to as 'Moderate Muslims', so as to distance...