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The portrayal of Saracens as quasi‐Jewish killers of Christ enables Christians not only to glorify those who defeat them in battle but also to inspire new military campaigns. The Muslim chronicler Izz al‐Din Ibn al‐Athir provides a vivid example of such rhetoric when recounting what happened after Muslim forces retook Jerusalem in 1187.
Ibn al‐Athir, perhaps drawing on firsthand knowledge, reports that the city’s patriarch aroused fellow Franks to avenge this loss by making a picture of Jesus that “portrayed Christ (peace be upon him) along with an Arab, depicted as beating him. They put blood on the portrait of Christ and said to the people, ‘This is Christ with Muhammad, the prophet of the Muslims, beating him. [Muhammad] has wounded and slain him.’”
Ibn al‐Athir inserts the customary Islamic honorific for Jesus, whom Muslims revere as a messenger of God, but provides no further editorial commentary: he trusts that his Muslim audience will recognize the preposterous nature of the allegation that Muhammad killed Christ. Preposterous though it is, this propaganda builds on longstanding Frankish rhetoric associating Muslims with Christ’s persecutors, and it provides powerful religious motivation for Christian warriors to avenge the maltreatment of their God.
Ibn al‐Athir credits this propaganda with raising “more men and money than there would be any way of counting” toward what academic historians call the Third Crusade; “even the women,” he emphasized, “answered the call in great numbers.” If Ibn al‐Athir is reliable, he provides valuable evidence regarding the broad impact of religious rhetoric designed to appeal to a specific subset of Christian society, namely fighting men.12
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A Flemish nazi wanted to have a talk at a university and it sparked a lot of protest. The university wanted to let it happen because ‘freeze peach’. Guy does the talk and now the university will press charges because surprise surprise the guy went on a racist white supremacist rant 🤯🤯🤯
Wait so let me get this correct. Nazi wants to talk… people get mad because Nazi wants to do Nazi things… University says Nazi can do Nazi things because “Freeze Peach” Nazi does Nazi thing, like everyone said the Nazi would do … now the University is shocked and pressing charges… If there was only a large group of people who told them the Nazi was a Nazi who would do Nazi things…
why would a nazi make racist remarks and calls for race war? such a mystery
Yup pretty much that
Next time it happens, appeal to the university’s sense of let’s-not-get-mired-in-a-legal-battle-it-could-be-really-expensive-and-bad-for-our-reputation. You know now (and likely knew before), they don’t have a sense of morality.
I have finished reading Leviathan Wakes by James S.A Corey
What’d you think of it? I read it last year cuz it was recommended and I enjoyed the beginning but as the book progressed I got less and less interested.
Do you have the same experience with many books? For maybe five or more years, now, I’ve only been able to enjoy a handful of novels past the first third-or-so. I just can’t keep up the momentum. Stress at work comes in periodic cycles, about every three weeks. It’s the way my industry is set up, with how deadlines fall. When that happens and I can’t read as much, I just lose interest in the characters 😔
No, I would say that in recent memory it was just that book that was like that for me. Without spoiling anything I think it had to do with the book being kind of grounded (within the sci-fi setting it set) and then it just wasn’t.
And yeah I could definitely understand losing interest in that way. You just kind of lose the connection to the book through lack of interaction with it. Not sure if it would work but it could help to go back a couple of chapters and start reading from there to kind of remember what you were reading and feeling earlier.
I might give the book a try, then. And that’s not a bad idea; I’ll see if it helps.
I loved it
I love not having any personal info in my Social Media accounts because you can tell when someone’s frustrated they don’t have a way to dox me or mock what I really believe in.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39529265
so funny people are arguing whether slave labour exists in US
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Don’t forget “be careful holding artillery shells”. The one in the middle looks super precarious.
A comrade is holding it off-camera. Comrades: the secret third (and fourth) hands of the active commie!
Suggested caption for the pic: tankie goals
He loves her and she tolerates him (she secretly loves him too):
where’s that? it looks super cool!
Rimyongsu Falls , Samjiyon City , Ryanggang Province , DPRK .
Remember to quote self quoting oppo wishing everyone a good week here
Now you can use your capybara video
Just Update the jerboa App and the feature were you swipe left or right to upvote/comment is super annoying. Is there any way to turn it off?
I also found it really annoying. Fortunately it could be turned off by going to Settings in the sidebar -> “Look and feel” -> and set “Preset for swipe gesture” to disabled.
thank you!
I upvoted this comment by swiping. Take that
Question to the comrades from China (or those who have been there recently):
What car brands are popular in Chinese cities? Not just Tier 1 cities, but smaller ones?
Asking because there’s an ever increasing number of Chinese brands in Russia, yet I keep seeing claims that Chinese citizens themselves prefer German and Japanese brands (Audi, Toyota, etc). I understand that they’re most likely made in China anyway, but it seems odd.
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I’ve seen them in dunk tank comments a few times. Don’t think we ever interacted though
Up we go, comrades!
Hi! I hope everyone else is having a marvelous Monday. :3
I needed this, I did not know I needed this, but I needed this.
Here’s another dose! :3
lmaoooo the other socialist party Vooruit just launched an Instagram post calling to vote for them instead of our marxist party because a vote for us IS A VOTE FOR PUTIN!!!
They are getting rightfully flamed for it
This is what happens when you have no real counter arguments and base everything off Putin bad against a party calling for no more NATO expansion
I don’t get how they expect that to even work. If they’re pushing a “Putin bad man” strategy, what separates them from the major parties who are doing that already? How do they expect to pull votes away from a major party with identical policy but far less political inertia?
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All of my local orgs are social clubs for well off middle class white kids who basically act like twitter ultras in real life. If one of them took a massive socdem turn I wouldn’t be surprised, but I also wouldn’t think they were infiltrated. Sometimes political groups just have poor political instincts, no government infiltration needed.
And it’s a self-selecting process too. Any group that is kind of terrible and incompetent won’t have competent people want to join, so they just kind of dig themselves deeper into their own incompetence.
They could have spend there time and energy to create a plan to work together for the benefit of the working class but instead decided to make a baseless claim
They’d rather govern with right wingers and neolibs than work with us, so…
And once more a social democrat is found guilty of mudering rosa
Typical “leftist” western group. I’m so tired of “idealists” who boil down to preserving the status quo.
