If you could work remotely with Anglo companies in France, it would be ideally. Imagine a UK salary with the cost of living divided by half.
See previous note. If we like the guy who’s leaving, we buy him a round of drinks. That’s it.
The work culture is very different in France. It’s very chill. If someone’s leaving the company, we just take him out for drinks. We get drunk and start talking shit about management even if the HR is there. Sometimes we even flirt with the HR, because it’s mostly beautiful women.
No, no and no. Christmas is family time.
Yes. It checks out. Another thing in which they’re not consistent: they claim to love martyrdom, but at the same time muslims are permitted to lie to avoid “the evil of the infidels”.
I always keep saying how much they resemble the jews.
We must return. Hit the gym people.
We must do better.
It proclaims itself to be the true word of God, and it proclaims that Jesus was just a mortal man, who was not crucified, did not die, and was not resurrected. Is that not a heresy?
Originally, it meant war to save Islam. Only the prophet and his successors, which is what caliphe means in arabic, could call for it. And it is considered as the most guaranteed way to paradise. “Jihad fi sabil Allah” is the full expression and it translates to “struggle towards god”. Many caliphes called for it. What comes to mind is Saladin at the end of his reign, to remove the last remnants of the crusader states.
The last official call for jihad was by the last ottoman sultan in ww1.
The interpretation as an “internal struggle” came as an attempt to reform the concept of “jihad”, hoping to shift the mindset of muslims from external war against others, to internal war against sin. But it hasn’t succeeded, and since there isn’t any official reference for religious authority in islam, like what we have in the Pope as Catholics, any sheikh can just be his own reference and interpret “jihad” however he sees fit.
“Internal war” when it’s beneficial to appear peaceful, and “external war” when in a position of strength for example
If I’m to summarize my position, it is a Christian heresy, inspired by Arianism.
You play the Devil’s advocate very well. But I personally am not an outsider. I’ve lived in muslim communities, I’ve read their quran in the original arabic. I’ve seen what it says, and I’ve seen how they interpret it, because it’s not always the same.
There are nuances and I’ve noticed them. Many of the “kill the infidel” verses are meant to be in self defense, if one is to interpret those verses honestly. Such honest interpretations are extremely rare, but I digress.
However, there are other verses that call openly for killing the infidels. The quran would be casually listing requirements to be a good muslim, and then out of nowhere, kill the infidels. And it also says to not worry about the sin of committing murder when killing the infidels, for “if you throw an arrow at an infidel, it’s as if god himself threw it”.
Many sheikhs I’ve spoken with about this particular point double down unapologetically on their beliefs “yes ideally we should kill all the infidels”. Other sheikhs say that it is a “last resort” sort of strategy, and that muslims should prioritize less brutal ways to spread islam, but these sheikhs still cannot bring themselves to and denounce and disobey this commandment to kill infidels.
One sheikh in confidence admitted to me that he believes the quran is not infallible, and that human error has been introduced to it. In confidence obviously because he would’ve been branded as an “infidel” himself, and that might’ve put him in danger. He was an exception, whose like I’ve yet to encounter again.
That is true. I can confirm this.