and that might mean not believing in giving charity and simply sharing from what God gives you, forgiving debts, believing charging interest is a sin, etc.

Christians generally do this apart from maybe the interest part- although it still isn’t really right to charge interest unfairly.

you pay tax.

Yeahhhh, that’s reason to be afraid of Islam. People don’t want an extra protection tax because they don’t follow Mohammed.

You wouldn’t have had to defend the incipient and persecuted Muslim community that the message of God was meant for through prophet Muhammed either, because you know, you don’t want to submit to God/“convert to Islam” so what do you care? And you’re not being forced. And this is after losing a war/battle these people started! Seems 1. more than fair to me. 🤷

Would Christians be allowed to evangelise in this society? Can a Muslim convert to a Christian without being murdered for it?

We have our deeds and you have your deeds.

The whole message of Christianity and Jesus as a whole is that you cannot work to gain heaven through deeds. By this logic, Buddhists and Hindus will also go to heaven because many of them are upright people.

Isaiah 64:6

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

I feel like techbros want to do exactly what people advise them NOT to do

“Yeah ai is good, but don’t use it for health advice” “Yeah giving an llm complete control of your browser is a bad idea”

It literally says to only allow “polytheists” to travel freely within the borders of an Islamic nation for four months. It says to take them away to attempt to convert them to Islam “so that he may hear the words of allah”

Could you explain what Jizya is?

It’s the two of them combined. The issue is if the immigrant is in another country, it doesn’t count. They cannot get a visa because they don’t have a job in the UK that meets that threshold. They cannot get a job because they don’t have a visa. You can’t even apply for a visa if someone is willing to immediately give you a job either that’ll put you above the threshold

I think that’s reasonable enough. Although if you want to get a sponsorship in the UK you have to be earning that amount anyway.

A £29k per year threshold for a British citizen to be with their non British spouse is insane and immoral

No, the visa can expire and then they’re forced to move back to the other side of the continent

The Home Office. You need to be earning at least £29k before they’d even consider giving you a visa

Do you know how difficult they make it for locals who want to marry immigrants? It’s so immoral I don’t know why more people aren’t outraged about it. I feel like the attitude is like “well that’s what you should expect for falling in love with an immigrant”

Once again, censorship reigns supreme

Removed by mod

They banned Dr David Wood for some reason

You could just have less releases but still develop everything openly…

There are a bunch of useful ways. For example, I was toying with a Minecraft server where people start a country and a local llm can come up with a country code based on their country’s name and the ISO-3166 standard in a few minutes

America has a fortress, why can’t China?

I thought that was obvious though? Still don’t like the headline though, it implies Farage was being a nonce.

Kinda funny how QAnon was all about how the leftists were a massive paedophile ring but it’s true about the right…

Epstein just had political analysis reports which were talking about Brexit. He wasn’t associated to Epstein.

Farage is mentioned in two distinct contexts within these documents. First, he appears in social media monitoring reports tracking Brexit discussions and public reactions to his ‘Breaking Point’ immigration poster during the 2016 referendum. Second, and more significantly, he is referenced in multiple reports analyzing Steve Bannon’s efforts to build a global network of nationalist and populist movements, appearing alongside figures like Viktor Orbán, Marine Le Pen, and Donald Trump. These documents describe Farage attending political events and fundraisers in the United States. One document also quotes him praising Putin’s handling of Syria.

Nigel Farage has no direct connection to Jeffrey Epstein or the abuse allegations. His name appears in these documents because the files include wide-ranging political research and social media monitoring conducted during investigations. The documents mentioning Farage focus on Brexit politics and the international populist movement rather than Epstein’s activities.

So it’s a massive nothingburger. Sounds like epstein was subscribed to some form of political mailing list or something.