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There are about 6 million registered Palestinian refugees. Under Islamic law, zakat (an obligatory charity contribution) is required from Muslims in all countries to support the poor people and those who in need. In addition, the Prophet Muhammad repeatedly stressed the importance of helping orphans and socially unprotected people.
Considering these religious obligations, a question arises: why wealthy Muslim nations (such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates), not invite and absorb on own territories all Palestinian refugees?
The unreadiness of these Arab countries to accept large-scale refugee populations is not primarily due to a lack of financial capacity or available zakat funds. Instead, it is driven by a complex set of political, strategic, and economic ideas: 1. geopolitical disbalance of moving a nation to the new place. 2. Destabilization of local security. 3. Economic loss.
But the most important reason they dont take refugees is that moving them to new place will automatically give Israel all the former Palestinian lands.
This situation raises a fundamental question: are these nations prioritizing geopolitical interests and regional influence over immediate, direct humanitarian assistance to their fellow Muslims in need as Muhammad said ^..^
It’s interesting that all myths both ancient and modern are built on the same three ideas: a myth of origin, a myth of the end of the world, and a myth that lifts up a religious group, saying they are special.
Myth of origin: a religious explanation of how people or clan began.
Myth of the end of the world: an explanation of why the life of a people or clan is finite and will end.
Myth of prestige: a way to show that people, tribe, or city is special and better than others – by saying that gods or divine forces helped create these people or a hero.
This idea comes from the work of Daniel Hook.
Under “myth of prestige” we can put all those ideas like “God is with us and because of this we will win” “we are the true believers,” “we are the chosen ones” – while everyone else is not.
This three-part idea works well not only for old religions but also for all kinds of modern religious and sectarian movements.
Ah!! In the era of communism, the main question between equally equal comrades was: “Who will cook for the comrades and who will clean the toilets for the comrades cos there’s no monetary system any longer?” because none of the comrades liked to do it. Now, in the era of robots, these two main questions are solved. Food income and outcome supply are solved. So no wonder why the communism+capitalism hybrid China is leading now.
In modern society, more questions arise when we look at monarchies like the UK, Japan, or Thailand. I simply don’t understand why they need this atavism in the form of a king or queen. I don’t understand it mostly because I have never believed in inherited power from kings to their children. I wonder, why does Thailand need a king? What significant thing did the Queen of the UK actually do? Why not prove that they can govern a country based on their own life experience and earned authority, instead of inherited power? Are these monarches capable of ruling the country in big external debt for example, or solve crisis periods non militarily?
lol.. after these words about Thai kings i can be person non grato there.. and if enter Thailand i will be jailed for many years for insulting their King. I lived there – I know.
Ah! And I want to remind you that women workers on 8 March 1917 in Russia wanted King to return men from WWI and wanted food (bread), which was not enough in the city St.Petersburg cos all (additionally emissioned by king!!!) money were spent on war. And still we celebrate now 8 March as Women’s Day in Russia, but many forget that it was meant to celebrate the progress of equal human rights between men and women-workers (work, voting, etc.), and not the stupid day when women put on pink pants.
I have no idea why I’m writing this, but I simply dont support the idea of hereditary monarchy. And I’m also a bit drunk ^..^
P.S. So… these fiat and electronic money emissions.. what do? I really believe that every banknote or electronic unit must have individual No and if paper installed unique chip by which they can be searched by banks.. not people should be chipped, but money, every banknote.
All these electronic money, incl Etherium and all other (the exception is bitcoin) can be emissioned extra… means owner of this currency can easily add a few zeros.. I also believe that all modern nongov banks and services like PayPall have no problem of adding a few zeroes and extracting these additional money rom online to offline owners’ bank accounts.
So, what i want to say, people dont need Dollars and Euros and local electronic currencies that pollute (printed daily by owners basing on nothing valuable like gold stock) and slowly destroy\pollute local economies of all other countries of the world. I believe people need chipped fiat money – mostly dollars.. and electronic money of all the countries of the world are better be copied from bitcoin which cant be additionally emissed and for this reason bitcoin is called digital gold.
P.S. Sorry for this drunk history digging. I’m 45 and really need glasses to read from the tel and notebook, hope they will be ready soon.
Have a good day,
Vika Magnitskaya
