Explaining Mali’s Wars
A primer on Mali.
Mali is complicated with many competing groups, cultures, and tribes. One part of the story is that Muslims got radicalized and became terrorists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkgpyAtRxY0
Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
A primer on Mali.
Mali is complicated with many competing groups, cultures, and tribes. One part of the story is that Muslims got radicalized and became terrorists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkgpyAtRxY0
A man ran around London stabbing people who he thought were Jewish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZm-xdkZqhc
How some Iranians feel about the Iran war and the regime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYtUWFoSWCk
If we take the literal purported lives of certain historical religious figures like Muhammad as a way to live our own lives, then that leads to immoral and barbarous behavior. It is better to see them as inspirations in some spiritual or mystical way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5slk97ss2Q
The Arab world remains very divided because loyalty to tribe and clan remains important.
The Arab world is pulled by three horses in different directions: tribal culture, Islam, and modernism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVeRnP2sE0U
Islamic sacred writings were written hundreds of years after the life of Muhammad, and Muhammad claimed to have received revelations from God that conveniently allowed him to do things that were politically expedient for him, and would change as his political needs changed.
“Islam is a militaristic political system that preaches the subjugation of all of humanity and their submission to Allah who created all humans just so they worship him”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbWPfkTKzlQ
“Neil deGrasse Tyson Asks Sam Harris A Question – Beyond Belief 2006”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deH7BX3fMIQ
Europe was the second-fiddle Christian land until Muslims conquered the heart of Christianity. The Crusades were a delayed response to these invasions as well as continued invasions of lands controlled by Christians.
Muslims from where Algeria is now, raided and enslaved Europeans for hundreds of years. Algeria demands reparations for French colonialism, but hypocritically ignores 300 years of Algerians raiding and enslaving Europeans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld668oa9b_w
Many stories Islam tells about Muhammad and Mecca are not based in history. They appear to have been created hundreds of years later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDQh2nk8ih4
History of India and Pakistan fighting each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gkJ6LCnCA8