• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    12 hours ago

    Nitpick: You (or the original creator) mean Muslim poets. “Islamic” describes ideas and the like, not people.

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      He wrote poetry about Islam. Also he was Persian, not Arab. (In another comment you said to call him an Arab poet)

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      Isn’t that the point here? This character is describing the person by mentioning the type of poetry they create. If I call someone a “rock singer”, I am not calling that person a rock; I am describing their art.

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        An Arab poet. The Arabic language is cooked to the Muslim faith and it is the uniting factor. Usually languages are called after the region, but in this case is the other way around.

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          I would understand that as someone from the Arab ethic group, the Arabic language and Islamic religion being separate (but overlapping) considerations.

          (Rumi is best known for writing in Persian.)

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      To be fair, it’s the same thing. No one is born Muslim. Islam is a sect of Yahwism that people are either forced into through child abuse, or join “willingly” to deal with substance abuse.

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          Oh i don’t belong to a cult. And I don’t hate people who do. I just think children shouldn’t be mentally and physically abused by them.

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            Sure sounds like it. Calling all believers of a faith cultist is peak cult. Atheism can be a cult too.

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              I use the word cult objectively here. Yahwism is a cult because Yahweh was once a god in a pantheon of gods, a religion. A bunch of cultists branched off this religion and Yahwism was born. Later they splintered into the different sects we have today.

              Atheism can be a cult in the same way not playing football can be a sport. It’s not a group, it’s just being normal.

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                My faith is special and different from everyone else’s, and is the only true / correct one

                - Most belief systems, including atheism

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                  There’s no faith here. No dogma. No system. I see deeply broken people mutilating children and talking to ghosts and I think they need help.

                  Are you seriously saying that a child born outside of a cult, is by default also in a cult?

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                    Your phrasing is deeply biased and not conducive to an objective debate. You flat out make outlandish claims while using dehumanizing or devaluing speech.