The one barely covering her breasts talking about the Bible. Apropos.
If people just ignored these obvious trolls the itbernet would be a lot better, but everyone needs to win their stupid internet argument.
lol partially naked woman for the world to see talking about the Bible.
The Bible takes place almost entirely in the middle east and I would guess this guy’s mental reel of it looks like an Imagine Dragons concert.
I have seen multiple images like this and I always like them:
Are mecca and medina even in that circle? Yemen definitely isn’t. Image is definitely false.
There is some debate over where Mecca is currently situated and where it may have been located historically.
Wat. I think you’re talking about the two different names for the same location… Mecca is in its correct location. Where the Kaaba is.
This kind of surprised me but Wikipedia says mecca at least isn’t referenced in the Quran: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecca#:~:text=Mecca is generally considered "the,was first revealed to Muhammad.
Not true: https://quran.com/48?startingVerse=24
Do you know why there are sources discussing that it isn’t? Admittedly can’t really even find something reliable worth citing but see some historical Islam groups discussing Makka and Bakka as mentioned in the Quran and attributes to modern Mecca. But this doesn’t seem to be in any mainstream articles or easily found academic paper
I’m not really familiar with the subject but curious what’s the nuance I’m missing since it feels like there’s a weird historical debate here I’d like to read up on
I’m not sure. It’s the first I’ve ever heard of it. The Western academic approach to Islamic studies is historically rooted in refuting Islam’s credibility instead of objectively studying it, so you’ll hear all sorts of wild assertions and conclusions that would make a five year old Muslim laugh. It may be improving these days, but I don’t keep current with this stuff. Anyways, Mecca is literally in the Arabic text of the Quran, so it’s not some translator filling in the gaps with interpretation:
My headcanon is that the Old Testament was a god specifically of the Jews and some upstart god took over (possibly after murdering him) in the New Testament days and then proceeded to spread his influence to non-jewish people while aggressively eliminating any opposition. Wherease in the old days people believed in various gods, this one started of campaign of montheism, depriving the rest of them of faith and eliminating them one by one. Nowadays he’s kicking and screaming because the rise of atheism in many parts of the world which used to be his strongold is depriving him of energy and thus he finally faces annihilation.
