Thoughts.

“The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.” ~Terence McKenna

socialismartnature:

raw-r-evolution:

exallamsehtfes:

thepoliticalfreakshow:

peach-and-lime:

thebadassperger:

justinhoskie:

whatpath:

Yes, lets imagine a world WITHOUT MUSLIMS, shall we?

Without Muslims you wouldn’t have:

• Coffee

• Cameras

• Experimental Physics

• Chess

• Soap

• Shampoo

• Perfume/spirits

• Irrigation

• Crank-shaft, internal combustion engine, valves, pistons

• Combination locks

• Architectural innovation (pointed arch -European Gothic cathedrals adopted this technique as it made the building much stronger, rose windows, dome buildings, round towers, etc.)

• Surgical instruments

• Anesthesia

• Windmill

• Treatment of Cowpox

• Fountain pen

• Numbering system

• Algebra/Trigonometry

• Modern Cryptology

• 3 course meal (soup, meat/fish, fruit/nuts)

• Crystal glasses

• Carpets

• Checks

• Gardens used for beauty and meditation instead of for herbs and kitchen.

• University
• Optics
• Music
• Toothbrush
• Hospitals
• Bathing
• Quilting
• Mariner’s Compass
• Soft drinks
• Pendulum
• Braille
• Cosmetics
• Plastic surgery
• Calligraphy
• Manufacturing of paper and cloth

It was a Muslim who realized that light ENTERS our eyes, unlike the Greeks who thought we EMITTED rays, and so invented a camera from this discovery.

It was a Muslim who first tried to FLY in 852, even though it is the Wright Brothers who have taken the credit.

It was a Muslim by the name of Jabir ibn Hayyan who was known as the founder of modern Chemistry. He transformed alchemy into chemistry. He invented: distillation, purification, oxidation, evaporation, and filtration. He also discovered sulfuric and nitric acid.

It is a Muslim, by the name of Al-Jazari who is known as the father of robotics.

It was a Muslim who was the architect for Henry V’s castle.

It was a Muslim who invented hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes, a technique still used today.

It was a Muslim who actually discovered inoculation, not Jenner and Pasteur to treat cowpox. The West just brought it over from Turkey

It was Muslims who contributed much to mathematics like Algebra and Trigonometry, which was imported over to Europe 300 years later to Fibonnaci and the rest.

It was Muslims who discovered that the Earth was round 500 years before Galileo did.

The list goes on………..

Just imagine a world without Muslims. Now I think you probably meant, JUST IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT TERRORISTS. And then I would agree, the world would definitely be a better place without those pieces of filth. But to hold a whole group responsible for the actions of a few is ignorant and racist. No one would ever expect Christians or White people to be held responsible for the acts of Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma bombing) or Andreas Brevik (Norway killing), or the gun man that shot Congresswoman Giffords in head, wounded 12 and killed 6 people, and rightly so because they had nothing to do with those incidents! Just like the rest of the 1.5 billion Muslims have nothing to do with this incident!

Sources:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-islamic-inventors-changed-the-world-469452.html

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-01-29/world/muslim.inventions_1_hassani-inventions-muslim?_s=PM:WORLD

http://www.ummahedinburgh.co.uk/radio/files/Muslim-Invention-Article.pdf

Always reblog.

THIS.
And once again, learning more from tumblr than school and forcefully accepted understandings of the world

Here’s a novel idea: Imagine a world without bigots!

even better imagine a world without morons who never bother to study cultures other than their own so that they know better than to state dumb shit like this here 

co signed^

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Or, according to the logic of the original image, we could imagine a world without Christians. Hmmm, what would that look like.

Well, the Americas would still belong to the Native population, since there would never have been a genocide in these lands which killed tens of millions of people. Africa would be a prosperous land mass, as there never would have been tens of millions of slaves stolen from that continent, thus depriving the region of its most valuable resource, human labor. There would never have been World War I or II, as both were fought between Christian nations, and which caused the deaths of hundreds of millions of people.

We could really go on like this all day …

Of course, in truth, it is just as wrong to exclusively attribute all of these atrocities to a single heterogeneous religion such as Christianity, just as it is wrong to associate all atrocities that happen to be committed by those professing to be Muslim with the entire religion of Islam. There are many political, cultural, and social factors at play in any historical event.

thenamesellen:

thisbigcity:

thespacebetweenbuildings:

portraitsofqueenwest:

Queen St W near Dovercourt | April 2013

Urban break-up.

This is beautiful.