7 Points to Be a Free-Thinker

We all have a certain degree of admiration for those forward-thinkers who were ahead of their time or for those free-spirited individuals who had the courage, the will and the foresight to speak out their minds despite risking being labelled as non-conformists and cast to the outer fringes of society. Well, truth be told, that is never a real threat for free thinkers. Actually that is where they belong and makes them what they are. Free-thinkers breathe and thrive at the margins of society where structure and chaos cross at the borderline. If you want to be a free thinker, embrace chaos, novelty, disruptive change and non-conformity. Free-thinkers live on the brink of social breakdown. They live on the edge, away from the anaesthesia of normalcy and institutionalised control. They are not held captive by the rigid walls of the dominating worldview. They do not fear change, poverty or conspiracy. If you want to free your thinking and become an agent of change and novelty, there are a few things you need to recognise and understand.

1. Creativity is your natural birth right:

We stereotype creative thinkers as artists or bohemians who are different than the rest of us. Well that is plainly false. We are all endowed with the gift of creativity. Education, or rather schooling, has successfully stripped us from that natural disposition. It has moulded us into mechanistic and reductionistic images of humanity – into cogs in the wheel. The schooling system is designed to make people think within the same parameters – those laid down by the dominating view of society and culture.Students are discouraged to deviate and think freely outside of those parameters. They just have to follow curricula which channels them to examinations, higher institutions and eventually become part of the workforce. Yet creative thinking is your natural birthright. They only taught you how to unlearn it without even noticing.

2. Group thinking & Herd Morality are your enemies:

Group thinking is the silent enemy of free-thinking. We unconsciously follow the rhythm of the crowd. When the crowd shouts, we feel compelled to shout. When the crowd panics, we panic. Emotions, sentiments and ideas can be very contagious. So is thinking. It’s quite easy to follow the line of thought of your peers and those in authority. Yet as we become sedated with group thinking, we lose the power to claim the authenticity of our own mind. Besides thinking, we judge people and events as being right or wrong following the morality of the herd. We succumb to morally feel what the rest of the herd feels about an issue. Morality is a highly debatable philosophical idea but the short end of it is that herd morality limits our potential to be free-minded, responsible individuals.

3. Perspective is key:

The free-thinker knows the power of perspective. Perspective changes everything. What we feel or think about something can dissolve or flip the other way round just by changing perspective. Even the strongest of views and beliefs can change when a newer perspective is reached. What seems like loss can be seen as opportunity just by changing your perspective. Adversity can turn into a learning opportunity; problems can turn into a solution; what is failure from one perspective can be seen as a launching pad for success from another. When you think freely you know that there is always more than one perspective on a given situation. You just need to view things from another angle. I like to use the internal courtyard analogy. We are all windows in a circular building overlooking an internal courtyard. The perspective from my window is different than the others. Hence, if I want to have a better picture of the courtyard of life I need to look at it from other windows.

4. Knowledge is provisional:

Conservative, authoritarian, religious or institutional structures resist change forcefully because their worldview rests on the premise that their knowledge or beliefs are absolute. Even Science can and did fall in this trap at times. Yet the free-thinker is sure of only one thing – that knowledge is provisional. What we think we know today will be debunked or dramatically changed by what we know tomorrow. Free-thinkers run away from individuals or organisations who claim to know something, or worse, know everything. They are fully aware that we haven’t got the faintest clue yet, despite big leaps forward, about the world, life and the Universe at large.

5. Popping the time bubble:

Free-thinkers, especially visionaries and forward-thinkers have burst the time bubble. That means that they recognised that we view the world through the narrative of our time. That narrative changes over decades and centuries yet we are closed in a time bubble so to speak that limits us to see the world only within the narrative of our own time. The greatest innovators, futurists, visionaries and thinkers saw beyond that narrative. They burst the time bubble open and saw ahead of their time.

6. Defying institutional pressures:

Society had two major forces at play. One is a top-down control transmitted hierarchically through the institutions. The other is a force of change, novelty and innovation which is built bottom-up from individuals and slowly accepted and adopted by larger social structures. One crazy innovative idea from a free-thinker on the fringes of society can be taken up by some influencers and spread virally through the mass media until it becomes a norm. OK this is a simplistic overview but it’s enough to show the basic mechanics of social change. Free thinkers are those individuals on the fringes of society cooking up shockingly new ideas. They refuse to succumb to institutional pressures of uniformity and control. The institutional top-down forces are there mainly to preserve their status-quo, the stability of the social system and its identity hence they resist novelty and change. The power of the free-thinker on the other hand, lies in constantly defying these institutional pressures to abide to the rules and accepted norms of society.

7. Perception is to be altered not accepted:

Another powerful tool in the free-thinker’s toolbox is perception, or rather its bending and shifting. Philosophers have debated the nature of perception for ages. There are some who hold that perception gives us a reliable view of how our outer reality is and some other argue that perception is greatly influenced and fixed by our beliefs and knowledge. A classic example is colour perception. Colour is only a conventional label. What may seem plainly white to you, is only one of a large variety of hues for the Inuit eskimo who practically lives in a white world. They can differentiate between a wide range of ‘whites’ and they even have words to describe them. The perception is different and so is their reality. Free-thinking individuals understand how perception is fixed and limited by our consensual view of the world. Yet in reality, perception need not be fixed; It can be altered and changed. It comes to no surprise then that many free-thinkers turn to ancient traditions who had studied and tinkered with perception for millennia either by disciplined practices or entheogens.  Famous free-thinkers like Timothy O’Leary, Terence McKenna and Ram Dass come to mind.

Atheists are more intelligent - researchers say

People who don't believe in Gods tend to be more intelligent – and this is a fact which has been shown by multiple studies.

But the debate over why atheists are more intelligent goes back much further, to Greek and Roman times – and it’s not because one belief system is more ‘correct’.

A scientific paper by Edward Dutton of the Ulster Institute for Social Research in the UK, and Dimitri Van der Linden of the Rotterdam University in the Netherlands suggests an answer.

The authors suggest that the reason could be explained if religion is considered an instinct – one which intelligence gives people the ability to overcome.

It means that non-religious people may be better problem solvers.

That would explain recent survey data which supports the stance that intelligence seems to be negatively associated with being religious, the authors write.

‘If religion is an evolved domain then it is an instinct, and intelligence – in rationally solving problems – can be understood as involving overcoming instinct and being intellectually curious and thus open to non-instinctive possibilities,’ Dutton writs.

Dutton argues that being intelligent helps people to rise above their instincts during stressful times – a useful skill.

‘If religion is indeed an evolved domain – an instinct – then it will become heightened at times of stress, when people are inclined to act instinctively, and there is clear evidence for this,’ says Dutton ‘It also means that intelligence allows us to able to pause and reason through the situation and the possible consequences of our actions.’

When the religion of peace came to town!

Hidderaaca iyo Fagaagga

Saynisku waxa uu yiri dadku waa ‘xayawaan fekera’; Afrikaan daanyeer la haybwadaaga oo ka samaysan hiddosideyaal iyo unugyo oo kaladuwanaanta dadka iyo xayawaanka kale ay tahay un sida dadku u fekero. Nooluhu si kasta oo uu u ka la muuqaal duwan yahay haddana faraq weyn u ma dhexeeyo dhanka ayaanka abka. Sayniskuna waa halgedka ugu muhiimsan oo ugu saamayn ballaaran nolosha dadka oo dhaliyay caddaymo muujiya halka nooluhu ka yimid isla markaas horumariya ilbaxnimada u nugul aqoonta ka dhalata caddaymaha cilmibaarista. Teer iyo waagii dadku Afrika ka soo dhuyaalay ilbaxnimo kasta waxay isku dayeysay in ay tu kale ka horumarto mid walba oo cusub na ay taabsanaysay tallaabo horumarineed oo mudan waahyaheeda iyo astaanteeda oo sooyaalku xuso dhaqankeeda, bulshadeeda, aqoonteeda, iyo wixii la halmaala. 

Dhan walba oo ilbaxnimo haatan dhisan laga gorfeeyo iyo si walba oo tu soo jirtay dib-u-eegis loogu sameeyo ama hab walba oo siiyaalka saadaal looga dhiibto, waxa aan marnaba laga indhosaaban karin ta uu reer Galbeedku hormuudka ka yahay iyo saamaynta ay dunida ku yeelatay dhowrkii qarni oo la soo dhaafay. Horumarkaas isa soo tarayay qarniyada ayaa lahaa marxalado ka la duwan oo uu soo maray la na soo halgamay gaar ahaan qarniyadii 16-aad iyo 17-aad oo ahaa labadii ugu waxtar badnaa markii laga soo gudbayay waayihii mugdiga ay Yurub ugu gudubtay indhodillaacsigii sayniska. Labadaas qarni waxaa loogu yeeraa kacaankii sayniska oo u gogolxaaray gungaarka wacdaraha tignoolojiyadda dhisaalan maanta. Waxaa barbar socday ka la soocii kaniisadda iyo taliska oo ibo furay maan-ifaynta garashada cusub ku xukumtay maangalnimo oo sheekooyinkii duugoobay milge tiray oo ka dhaqan galay qaaraddaas oo dabadeed dunida kale tartiib-tartiib ugu fidayay.

Hidderaaca oo ay ku dhan yihiin tusaalooyinka tixraaca noolaha baa dhawrkii qarni oo la soo dhaafay sayniska u foofshay laamo dhaadheer oo mid walba mudnaanteeda leedahay, waa aragtida dheellitiran oo leh wax walba oo nool—geed ama xayawaan—abtirsi hore ayay leeyihiin oo hiddoside ku muujan. Habraaca baarista hidderaaca loo adeegsado waxaa ka mid ah; unug, bu’, DNA, qalfoof, xidid, iwm. (Haa, geedaha wax badan baan wadaagnaa oo dhirta aan calaajinno dabadeed dheefshiidkeenna aan dheellitirnayn hidderaac ahaan uu nafaqada ka nuugo waxaa noo dhexeeya hiddosideyaal ah noole ka yimid manoole [organic from inorganic].) 

Unugyadu waxay u ka la baxaan dhawr nooc oo uu nooc walba qaabilsan yahay hawl gaar ah; sida unugyada neerfaha, unugyada jirka, unugyada dhiigga, iwm. Waxaa mid walba ku jira bu’ ay ka koobmaan hiddosideyaasha—qaybo yaryar oo bu’da xiriirsan oo ah DNA—oo tiradoodu gaarayso 20,000 inta la og yahay. 

Hiddosiduhu waa anaani u nool keli ah in uu waaro haddii kale ma tarmo, tusaale ahaan ma jiro hiddoside u hawlan in uu ititibiyo asaaggiis ma na dhacdo in uu sidaas ku/u dhaxal reebo, hayeeshee qof ama noole dhan oo ka samaysan baa taakuleeya tolka ama istaakuleeyaan si ay u waaraan. Isdiiddada halkaas ka muuqata siyaalo ka la duwan ayaa aaraa’ looga bixiyay cilmibaaristu se ay tixgelisay labadu in ay yihiin sidii isku dhoon si nooluhu u bedbaado oo jiilal dambe u dhigo. Isdiiddooyinka noocaas ah aad ayay u badan yihiin sababta oo ah mar waxaa khaldanaan karta garashada dadka mar kale na sida wax loo fahmay oo aqoontuna ay kordhaysay qarni ba qarni. Marar waxaa lagu gabraartaa dano siyaasadeed ama diineed oo eel badan ka dhalatay oo hengelo dhigay. Saynisyahanno ahaa geesiyiin runta u hiiliyay baa qarniyo iilka loo jiidayay ka dib markii aqoontu ka hor timid wax hore loo rumaysnaa.

Tusaale ahaan waahyahaan dambe dood gabaabsi ah baa ka timid dhanka dhaqandhaqaalaha hantigoosadka oo isku dayaysay xoojinta hab siyaasadeedka midigta fog isla markaas laalaysa dhaqandhaqaalaha hantiwadaagga bidixda fog. Inkasta oo saynisku diidmo hoosta uga xarriiqay aragtiyahaas ka ma ay duwana su’aasha leh ‘haddii dadka iyo daanyeerku xigaal yihiin, sidee daanyeerku weli ku nool yahay?’ Taasu waxay la mid tahay ayada oo la yiri ‘awooweyaashaa/ayeeyoyaashaa haddii aad ka timid sidee baa ay weli ku nool yihiin?’ Haddaba su’aal walba jawaab ayay leedahay waxaa se khaldan un fekerka hore oo asna saxma marka jawaab habboon dhambalato bayooloji ahaan. Tusaale kale waa maaddada isballaarinaysa ee su’aalaha miiran ee saykoolojiga hidderaaca (evolutionary psychology) oo haatan u gayllan tixgelinteeda saynis ahaaneed.

Kolka la baaro noole ka samaysan unug iyo nude [unugyo badan/xubin] oo loo barbardhigo abtirsi hore iyo degaan waxaa daahu ka faydmaa firka nooluhu dhaxlay, sida uu ku waaray, halka uu ka yimid iyo dhaqankiisa. Degaan bayooloji ahaan waa geyi isku dhan oo uu noole ku dhaqmo oo qaabeeyaa nolosha oo jaadad ka la geddisan leh, tusaale ahaan degaanka berribiyoodku waa ka duwan yahay ta xammaaratada, labaduna wax badan baa ay wadaagaan. Berribiyood/xammaarato (amphibian/reptile) waa lafdhabarleyaal bad iyo berri ku nool oo ku abtirsada tiktaalik  — ama mallaay, noolaa 375 milyan oo gu’ ka hor oo ay ku abtirsadaan labaduba. Degaanka iyo cunnadu waa waxyaalaha ugu waaweyn oo ka masuul ah isbeddelka hidderaaca, waxaa kale oo aan lagamaarmayn bakteeriyada, cimilada, da’, iwm., kaalinta ay ku yeeshaan hiddoside oo isbeddel u horseedda.

Waa suurogal in uu isbeddel weyn oo leh bad iyo berri ka dhasho bakteeriya saamaysay hal hiddoside dabadeed dabargooyay ama tarmiyay noolaha oo dadku uu ku jiro. Waa na suurogal in ay dhintaan ama dabargo’aan qaybo waaweyn oo ay bedbaadaan xayawaan yaryar—sida shinnida. Taxankaas tiktaalik (mallaay) ka soo askumay dadku waa ka mid yahay, markaas caddaymaha saynisku waxay u garsheeganayaan in dadka loogu yeero ‘aadmi’ sababta oo ah hal qof oo Bariga Dhexe u dhashay oo Aadan la oran jiray saynisku ma caddayn, caddaymaha muuqda waxay dadka ugu abtiriyreen Geeska Afrika. Maragta ugu yar waa bakteeriyada caloosheenna dhex ceegaagta oo tiro xad dhaaftay; waxay ka timid meel iyo ab waxayna nagu tahay waageeni nagu larban la’aanteedna ma noolaan karno, maragta ugu weyn na waa dhammaystirka ahaanshaheenna bayoolojiyeed.  

Marka la oddoroso sida nolosha Dhulku ay ku bilaabatay, ayada oo la arko mar uu Dhulku nolol la’aa iyo mar uu nolol yeeshay, waa lagamamaarmaan in noolaha badda wax laga barto maadaama noloshu halkaas ka curatay. Habka curashada nolosha badda oo ku bilowday bakteeriya heshay ogsijiin iyo qorrax baa sababay nolosha berriga oo aan tallaabooyinkaas la’aantood suuroobin. Dhaqdhaqaaqii ay xammaaratadu berriga ugu soo guurtay waxa uu soo jiray malaayiin gu’ oo leh isbeddello aan sugnayn; nooluhu waa uu isa saameeyay, dabadeed saamoobay, dabadeed waaray oo hanaqaaday. Sidaas awgeed haddii uu yahay lohod aan laf iyo ricir lahayn ama shimbir biiba ama yaxaas ugaarsade ah bayooloji ahaan xiriir baa ka dhexeeya muuqda ama aan muuqan oo dhaqanwareegayay. Dhaqanwareeggii weynaa ayaa dhacay markii badda looga maarmay ukun debedda dhigan oo suurogelisay galtibbaxa nooluhu uga maarmay biyaha badda markii uu berriga nolol ka unkay; (i) waa uu soo xammaartay oo biyaha debedda uga baxay, (ii) waxa uu dhigay ukumo walxaha qoyan dhasha ugu kaydiyay, (iii) halkaas sidaas uga ab kobocday nolosha Dhulka oo tiradeedu hadda gaarayso ku dhowaad 9 milyan oo jaad.

Waxaa tixraaca soojireenku tilmaamay in 26-27-dii milyan oo gu’ oo kasta dhaco dabargo’ weyne xaalufiya nolosha meeraha Dhulka haddana ay dib u bilaabato tii oo tu hore ka duwan. Isbeddelkaas ayaa saameeya cir iyo dhul; gaasaska gibilweynaha ayaa beddela cimilada dabadeed halliga nolosha dhulka, ama waxaa dhulka ku habsada dibdheerrada ka yimid meereyaasha ay xiddigaha isku dhacaan ee qarxa oo iskujooggeenna qorraxeed ku soo firdha. Saynisyahannada qaar baa ku dooday dabargo’ weyne waa muhiim si nolol cusub u bilaabato taas oo looga tusaale qaadanayo Firdhadkii Qaraxweyne oo uunku ku dhisme bilaabay iyo hababka meereyaashu ay mar u dhashaan oo u jiraan bilaayiin gu’ mar kale na u dhintaan oo kuwo cusub abuurmo. Iskujoog qorraxeedkeennu waa un hal ka mid ah 200 oo bilyan oo ku yaal diillin-caanoodka iskujooggeenna xiddigaha tirada la og yahay keli ah, xiddiguhu na ayaga oo dhaqdhaqaaq joogtaysan leh baa jirka ay mar jiraan mar kale na ay dhacaan yahay goor kooban, markaas xiddig meel qotomay bilyan gu’aad baa gebi ahaan meerwareega. Haddana iskujoog xiddigeedkeenna sidaas u weyn baa ah un hal ka mid ah boqolaal bilyan dhisaalan uun weynaha.  

Saynisku waxa uu lahaa soojireen saadaal hore iyo xaqiijin dambe leh oo la isku afgarto in ay dheellitiran tahay, sidaas ayaa jeer ogaal cusub la daah-faydo waxaa duugooba oo ciidda loo miisaa garasho gablool ah oo qarni hore la rumaysnaa. Qarnigaan ogaal waxaa ugu baaxad weyn daah-furka hirarka cufisjiidadka (gravitational waves) oo ifiyay mugdi hore oo ku saabsanaa xiriirka fagaag-gooraysada uunka. Aragtida ku saabsan hirarka cufisjiidka oo ahayd saadaal uu lahaa saynisyahankii weynaa Albert Einstein boqol sano ka hor waa hubaal in ay beddeli doonto waxyaalo badan oo sooyaal/siiyaal ah sida qalabka dhulbaareyaasha ama cirbixiyeenku adeegsado. 

Iskujooggeenna qorraxeed jira 4.6 bilyan baa leh jir (mass) 99% qorraxda yahay. Cufjiidka qorraxda baa ka masuul ah meerwareegga jibinta, xiddigaha, meereyaasha, busta, iyo gaasaska fagaagga dhex wareega. Dhulka oo qorraxda u jira 93 mayl waxaa ilayska qorraxdu ku soo gaaraa 8 daqiiqo asaga oo soo maray in dhan 186,282 mayl halkii ilbiriqsi oo ku cabbiran dhexrooraha fagaagga. Sida meere qorraxda ugu dhow yahay ama uga fog yahay ayay u xawliwareeg dheer yihiin oo tusaale ahaan meesha Dhulku hal gu’ wareego, meeraha Dusaa waxay ku qaadataa 88 beri keli ah, halka meeraha Docay wareego 165 gu’. Isla sidaasna ayay ka la heerkul duwan yihiin sida ay qorraxda u ka la xigaan; kulka Dusaa waa +427c, meesha Docay qabow yahay -200c. 

Meereyaashu waxay ka samaysmaan gaasas dhagaxyo ku milmay oo cufjiid uu heerkulka tamarta qorraxeed ku sugay, tabtaas oo kale oo keennu ku curtay baa walxaha Dhulku ka samaysan yahay sida xadiidka laga helaa meereyaal kale balse ma maarayn karaan nolol inta la og yahay. Naytorojiinka dhiiggeenna ama ogsijiinka hawadeenna ama kalsiyuumka ilkaha waa walxo si walba uunka uga muuqda oo bus fagaag ugu ka la goosha xiddigaha samada sare markaas seeska noloshu waa bus fagaag helloontay heerkul sugan oo ku abtirsada bilaayiin xiddigood dhammaantood leh bilow iyo basanbaas. Taxanaha sidaas u xiriirsan wax weyn ayaa uu naga barayaa uunka bayooloji ahaan iyo kimistari ahaan oo ku saabsan haybta ay wadaagaan nolosha iyo xeerarka sayniska oo si murtiyaysan isugu laran.

Saudi Muslim Cleric: "Earth is flat"

BRILLIANT Saudi cleric tells his students that the Earth does NOT rotate because if it did, planes would never land at their destinations. He deserves Nobel Prize for Stupidity. His courage to publish such high-level nonsense needs appreciation. He is reading an ancient book for which he cannot be fully blamed but yet there is certain danger to this sort of study.

The tragedy for the Arabs, especially, has been who got the oil wealth. It wasn’t the sophisticates of Beirut or even the religious scholars of Cairo, but Bedouins with a bitter view of faith. The Saudis and their fellow fanatics in the oil-rich Gulf states have used those riches to drag Muslims backward into the past and to spread violent jihad. The Saudis build Muslims mosques and madrassas but not hospitals and universities.

The danger of this sort of study spreading to uneducated people is that they obtain certain sense of morality from these ancient texts. Morality is doing right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right. Today's religions were created by yesterday's ignoramuses. They do not belong in enlightened modernity, they belong in ignorant antiquity. But never attempt to correct today's religious ignoramus since people believe what they want to believe and do not wish to deviate from their comfort zones. An ancient saying bequeaths: Do not correct a fool, or he will hate you; correct a wise man, and he will appreciate you.

The Quraan emphatically states that it is a clear scripture [Q15:1], perfect [Q11:1] explained in detail [Q6:114 and 41:3]. Allah emphatically declared that he made Quraan very simple so that Muslims can understand very easily. If an illiterate Messenger (Q7.157-158, Q62:2-3) could understand Allah's word, surely even a failed school child could understand it too. Nowhere does Allah say that his words must be read with the help of its interpretations and commentaries. Therefore the apologists ' favorite statements about subject being taken 'out of context' morphs into a blatant lie here.

Quraanic interpretations and tafsirs have been invented by some wishful educated Mullahs only to hide its absurdities and contradictions. In fact, Quraan verses are mostly simple to understand and any junior school student can understand quite easily provided the reading material is given in a language they can understand. Therefore, claiming that Quraan is difficult to understand or is being quoted out of context is ludicrous and a lame excuse only to hide Allah’s myriad of inanities and flaws.

Allah's Ignorance of the North and South Poles: In polar regions, the longevity of day and night vary during summer and winter. The day gets shorter and shorter in winter until there are days or weeks of uninterrupted night. At the poles themselves, day and night alternately last for six months and all phases of the moon occur several times between sunrise and sunset. The author of the Quraan did not know about this and he only repeated earlier geocentric ideas.

It's not about intelligence or IQ it's simply about basic common sense, anyone not raised in the Biblical propaganda soup would not entertain these stories as anything other than what they are, a non technological people's attempt to make sense of a complicated world, in terms that made sense to them at the time. Yet they spread immensely through mechanisms we can all see and with predictable outcomes.

We’ve seen Saudi money at work in country after country, from Somalia to Kenya to Pakistan to Indonesia and beyond. Everywhere, their hirelings preach a stern and joyless world, along with the duty to carry out jihad (contrary to apologists’ nonsense, jihad’s primary meaning is not “an inner struggle,” but expanding the reach of Islam by fire and sword). The Wahabis initially form secretive organizations to lure unsuspecting individuals into their fold, of particular interest are the uneducated, the vulnerable, the poor, women and children. The secretive organizations only become apparent once Wahabism takes a foothold and the entire society/nation consists of bat crap crazy bearded men full of hate wanting to subjugate the vulnerable. On Kenya’s old Swahili Coast, once the domain of Muslim slavers preying on black Africans, we see a wretched Muslim slum where children, rather than learning useful skills in a state school, sat amid filth memorizing the Quraan in a language they could not understand. According to locals, their parents had been bribed to take their children out of the state schools and put them in madrassas. Naturally, educated Christians from the interior get the good jobs down on the coast. The Muslims rage at the injustice. The Christians reply, “You can’t all be Mullahs — learn something!” And behold: The Saudi mission’s accomplished, the society divided. What the Saudis care about is Islam in the abstract. Countless Muslims can suffer to keep the faith pure. Another phenomenon we witness is that the Saudis rush to plant mosques where there are few or no Muslims, or where the Wahhabi cult still hasn’t found roots. In many moderate parts of the Muslim wold, with its long tradition of humane Islam, religious scholars dismiss the Saudis as upstarts. Yet, money ultimately buys souls and the Saudis were opening mosques. And jihad violence is now an appealing brand.

The success of religion is directly proportionate to the failure of education everywhere in the world with particular peculiarity in the brown and black peoples of the world attached to the failed science of religion in modern times. Children in these communities need not be indoctrinated but inspired. Anyone who takes religion seriously should not be taken seriously. Religion reigns supreme by turning faith (the antithesis of reason) into a virtue and skepticism into a sin.

Muslims...The "good", the "bad" and the "ugly".....

The "good" Muslim

The first category is that of good Muslims. By good we mean true believers—those who follow the teachings of their prophet, the Quraan and the Sunnah to the letter, who try to emulate him in every way and are strict and pious Muslims. Since the teachings and the examples of Muhammad are full of violence and terror, the more one follows and emulates him the more radical one becomes. Muhammad raided and butchered people merely because they were not his followers. The good Muslims do the same. All the bombings and terrorism perpetrated by Muslims are replicas of Muhammad’s raids, or "ghazwa", as he called them. Taking Women as sex slaves, which the Islamic State and Boko Haram practice was also practiced by Muhammad and he sanctioned it in the Quraan (33:50; 23: 1-6; 70:30; 4:24; 66:1-2). He ordered the assassination of his critics, stoning the adulterers, chopping the hands of thieves and killing the apostates. So, the terrorists are actually good Muslims.

The "bad" Muslim

The second category is of bad Muslims. These are those who don’t practice their religion and are often ignorant of it. They may pray or chant the Quraan, but have no clue of its content. They read it for sawab (reward) without understanding it. These Muslims are ordinary people we all know. Like everybody else, some are good and some are not so good. Some of them are friendly, but they see themselves as superior, by virtue of their faith, and of “higher morals.”

Morality in Islam has nothing to do with what others understand by this word. Morality for women is to cover their hair lest it arouse sexual feelings in men. For men, it is not to shake hands with Muslim women lest it arouse them sexually, etc. Morality in Islam is primarily about genitals and their use. For example, while having sex out of marriage is considered immoral, stoning people caught in such act is not immoral. While looking at bare arms and legs of Muslim women is considered immoral, raping non-Muslim women is not immoral.

These Muslims migrate to the West to better their lives, but they segregate themselves, form isolated communities and warn their children to not learn the ways of unbelievers or take them as friends unless they intend to convert them to Islam. They give huge amounts of money to charity. But Islamic charity has nothing to do with charity. All that money goes to build mosques, print Islamic materials and promote Islam. If any of that is spent for the needy, it is to enlist them for jihad or support the families of the suicide bombers. The bad Muslims are the lifeline of Islam and the breeding ground for good Muslims. All Muslim terrorists, unless they are converts, are born in and emerge from this group. Without the moral and financial support of the bad Muslims Islam will cease to exist.

The "ugly" Muslim

Then we have the ugly Muslims. As we learned the good Muslims are not good at all, and the bad ones are not really bad people, the ugly Muslims actually look beautiful. Islam is a world down the rabbit hole. Nothing is what it is because everything is what it is not. The ugly Muslims are clean-shaven, handsome or attractive, eloquent, articulate, and highly intelligent, just the kind of people you want to hang around with. They are journalists, professors, regular guests and contributors to mainstream media. They know what to say to gain your approval and your applause. They are charming. Their words are reassuring and their faces are familiar. You like them and trust them. So why call them ugly? Because they lie! Their job is to deceive you and to make you believe that the “real Islam” poses no threat to you. These wolves in sheep clothing are the most dangerous group. Deception is deadlier than terror. Do you fear more a ferocious animal that you can see or a deadly virus that you can’t? The enemy within is a lot more dangerous.

Unlike the bad Muslims, the ugly ones are not ignorant of their religion. They know of Muhammad’s raids, rapes, assassinations, genocides, tortures, beheadings, but they deny them, twist the facts and defend him. They accuse the good Muslims of having hijacked their religion of peace when they know they lie. They claim to be reformers when they know that Islam cannot be reformed. Islam is what it is. To reform Islam one has to change the Quran. Over 70% of it must be scrapped, and the other 30% is just sheer nonsense.

These self-styled reformers don’t want to change the Quraan. They just want Muslims to practice it less. In theory it works. Even the deadliest poison in small doses is not lethal. But how can they convince all Muslims to not take their holy book seriously? This project is doomed from the start. This is either naiveté and wishful thinking, or a ruse to deceive the non-Muslims, to give them false hope so they can buy more time for Islam to take over the world, which is the goal of every Muslim, the good, the bad and the ugly. Maajid Nawaz and Reza Aslan are "ugly" Muslims.

Yididdiilada Dadkeenna

Ololihii doorashada madaxtinnimada Soomaaliya iyo loollameyaashii tartamay iyo xildhibaannada baarlamaanka ee codeeyay iyo madaxweynihii hore ee aqbalay tirsigii looga badiyay ayaa dhammaantood ah isbeddel siiyaalku tixgelin doono oo waayo badan la xusuusnaan doono. Qaabkii ay doorashadii 8-da bisha labaad, 2017-ka, ay u dhacday baa ahaa mid si walba u qurxoonaa oo qaarad walba, dal walba, magaalo walba iyo tuulo walba oo Soomaalidu ku nooshahay dunida ay si aan la koobi karin ugu riyaaqeen. Waxaa hal mar cirka isku shareeray yididdiillada dadkeennu u qabay hoggaan wanaagsan iyo dimuquraaddiyad wacan intaba.

Dhallinta oo ugu doorroonayd bulshada u hanqaltaageysay doorashada dareenkooduna aad u sarreeyay oo weliba si aan horay loo arag ugu kuurgalayay tartanka, isla markaas naawilayeen hoggaanka guulaystay gunaanadkii ayay doorashadu ugu muuqatay mid siyaalo badan uga duwanayd heerarkii/loollameyaashii/ololeyaashii hore, ayada oo ay markii hore liidatay filashadu sababo la xiriiray musuqmaasuqla baahiyay awgiis.

Lamafilaankii dhacay maalintaas waa ku yar yahay dunida saddexaad gaar ahaan Afrika. Waxa uu Soomaaliya geliyay safka hore marka loo eego hannaanka dimuquraaddiyadda dunida soo koraysa. Tobanleyaal gu’aad oo iin iyo aafo miiran leh baa hal mar isu rogay dharaaar bilicsan oo, ugu yaraan, la iloobay dhibkii iyo dhimashadii.

Isbeddelka sidaas ah culays weyn ayuu saarayaa madaxweynaha cusub oo badinayaa cadowgiisa, sababta oo ah damiirlaaweyaashii danaha gurracan lahaa oo isugu jiray sokeeye iyo shisheeye aan u turayn dalka iyo dadka oo ay riyada rumowday aydin ku tahay, waa col mar walba oogan oo fiiro iyo feejignaan gaar ahmudan. Haddii kale hog ayay gelaysaa yididdiilada dadkeenna.

Arrimaha Soomaaliya ku gedaaman,oo hawl badan sugayso, waa laga miro dhalin karaa yoolka ah in dalku caadi ku soo noqdo oo dadku nolol helo. Farogelinta dalalka deriska ah waxa ay tebaysaa in lagu xalliyo habraaca diblomaasiyadda iyo firfircooni joogtaysan oo u muujiyaya in Soomaaliya oo cagaheeda ku istaagta aysan waxyeello u gaysan doonin nabad sugiddooda.

Goor walba siyaasadda dalku waa in ay tixraacayso sixidda qaladaadkii hore soo na afjarayso wixii isafgaranwaa ah oo jira si loo tirtiro tuhun wixii jira—xataa haddii ay u baahato guddi heer qaran ah oo si joogto ah ugu hawlan samaynta/soocelinta xiriir togan. Garashada hagaagsan waxa ay tilmaamaysaa in inta uu jiro tuhun u dhexeeya Soomaaliya iyo dalalka la deriska ah ay adag tahay in dalku saldhigto. Dabcan Soomaaliya ma ay dooran karto deriska ay leedahay balse qaabka ay deriskaas u la dhaqanto ayay dooran kartaaxumaan iyo samaan.

Jeer aan hawshaas sida cad u muuqata lagu dhaqaaqin, in goor dambe laga cawdo farogelin shisheeyeed waxba ma tarayso—waa gedda Soomaalida in arrin la dhayalsado marka ay waxqabad mudan tahay hadhoow se goor dambe la calaacalo. In meel walba la la taagnaado dal hebel baa na burburiyay ama nabad noo diiday ayadu na waxba ma tarayso. Isla mar ahaantaas waa ay suurowdaa marka shaqadaas loo xilsaaro dad waayo’aragnimo leh in heshiis wacan la la yeesho dalalkaas oo ay dhammaato isximintu.

Kooxaha xagjirka ah oo sababay galtiga/soogelootiga waageeniga, waxa ay goor kasta diiradda saaraan oo abbaaraan dadka inta ugu aqoonyar oo ugu saboolsan, markaas cududda ugu weyn oo lagu la dagaallami karo waa waxbarashada dalka oo la tayeeyo oo runtii ah halis ka ag dhow nabad sugidda dalka. Dhaqaale darridii bilowday dagaallada sokeeyeed waxaa la talantaalli ahaa oo sii raajiyey jahliga faafay oo dhaqan galay oo Soomaalida nolosha la wadaagay gude iyo debedba.

Shacbiyadda madaxweyne Maxamed Cabdullaahi Farmaajo iyo yididdiilada dadweynaha oo dhinac ah iyo waxyaalihii laga bartay laylis ahaan dhibaatooyinkii dadku soomaray oo xalkooda lagu dhiirrado ayaa ah seeska laga bilaabi karo badbaadada isirka Soomaaliyeed. Sinnaanta, dhaqaalaha, arrimaha debedda, waxbarashada, iyo gebi ahaantood baahiyada jira haddii arrintu maanta joogto gorfaynta sidii waxa looga qaban lahaa waa guul!

Unreason

God has learned so much since then, things you’d think he would have known back in the day: like about germs, atoms, the shape of the Earth, the size of the Universe, etc, things "holy" books he has alleged written are wrong about. In more succinct terms it means gods don't write books, people do. But what happens when enlightened believers are confronted with these errors? They fume and point to their closest religious scholar who is arguably the least educated about the aforementioned subject(s). Free thinkers are not mocking religion, they are describing it, per the omnipresent and all knowing entity requiring the most irrational and delusional people to defend him. Here, as they examine, denounce, or satirize the gods, they are not dealing with a person, but with ideas. God was created by men in caves to explain thunder while trying to manage primitive society with little knowledge beyond their villages' borders. Now that we're not cave men and living in the era of science and knowledge we see the concept shrinking to the dust pin of historical mysticism, we need an additional level. Yet the people who still promote these stone age magical fairies have nothing to objectively feel proud/accomplished about, so they latch on to symbolic things to feel good about themselves.  

Islam and Christianity did not become major religions by the quality of their truths but by the quantity of their violence. Most religions were influenced by what they consider non-religions ... paganism. (Suppose the religious equivalent of a financial 'meltdown' is the flood ... god's meltdown ... a myth that the Abrahamic religions nicked from the pagan Mesopotamia.) No amount of prayer is going to turn a delusional fantasy into reality. Just as the gods of yesterday are the myths of today, the gods of today will be the myths of tomorrow. Religion has had several thousand years to prove it's right yet still can't do better than "wait until you're dead". There is no debating. The views are fixated. The gaps in the logic are to be ignored. Believing in a scheme of divine retribution for those who don’t believe what you believe is obviously atavistic. There is no benefit to the continuation of unreason, specifically for black/brown peoples of the world.

To call one god false then believe in another is inscrutable. Humans are supposed to experience doubt, once you experience 100% you are brainwashed beyond redemption. Human beings react to the environment and events around them in accordance with their world view/ideology, believing everything is the will of an all-powerful god is not going to inspire taking action to alleviate bad circumstances. Believers have little clue of what things like vision, hard work, sacrifice, resolve, foresight, humanity, determination, forgiveness, humility and courage mean. If you think your ideology is 'perfect' then you must search for blame externally because allegorical loquaciousness quickly discombobulates the believer more than the questioner.  

Religious 'logic' says everything must have a creator. Therefore, god must have a creator and that creator must have a creator and ... This is infinite stupidity. There is more depth to the phrase "man created god in his image" in that brain scans have found that talking about god activates the same regions of the brain as when talking about yourself by the neuroscience of religion (neurotheology). People are gripped by slogans with emotional resonance much more than they’re moved by arid data. How could anybody with half a brain believe such stories as: Muhammad splitting of the moon, a hell that matches the imagination of a 10 year old amateur horror story writer, a heaven to give Arab men erections, Muhammad flying to heaven on a flying mutant donkey, chopped up birds flying to Abraham, recording angels on your shoulders, sayings written down 200 years after Muhammad's death being claimed to be his actual words, life being a test of following a set of rules, an entire civilization being destroyed because they killed a camel, etc, etc,..?

The same phrases are repeated century after century. What's accepted and expected are repeated where each member nods enthusiastically. It's a validation mechanism to ensure nobody thinks outside the box, with Muslim-Imam-Level-Stupidity, a level of stupidity that's very rare anywhere in the world today, enforcing strict criteria for those under their grip. Muslim-Imam-Level-Stupidity begets believers remain under the control of Imams. Group-think engenders continuation of texts containing false articles and commands. And coercion or ostracizing and punishment of those who question monotheistic mysticism grandiosely professed by multitudes of ignorant followers. None of the fairy tales could regenerate without child-like followers who do not question. Religious tales were nearly always passed on verbally before the Bible and the Quraan were written.That is to imply the people who wrote the religious books only had knowledge of previous history from tales that had been passed on verbally hundreds or thousands of times.

What Muslims fail to appreciate is that a literalistic application would imply a static understanding of the Quraan. We would have to keep re-creating conditions prevalent in Mecca at the time of Prophet Muhammad. Whether "Every time their skin is roasted through we shall replace it with new skin," is literal or is a metaphor for some other unimaginable and unbearable torment whether physical, mental or spiritual makes exactly zero difference. It is still excessively cruel and sadistic and completely contradicts the claim that god is: "The Most Merciful of those who show Mercy." What one Muslim says doesn't matter because another will simply completely reject it and they'll both point to the allegedly infallible Quraan to support their views, and that is when they are not slaughtering each other on who has the right version of it. Unreason in the age of reason is in of itself a form of punishment.

Similarly, preachers re-create mystical illusions on Friday sermons every weekend asking god to destroy the non Muslims even when residing in the non Muslim countries. If the curses and blessings worked things would look like the opposite of what they are now. Fortunately curses and blessings don't build or destroy societies, under such pretense, and when things don't work out in Muslim societies the only option left is to flee to the infidels. In an environment ruled by choice if given the options of choosing where to live—to live in Sharia law compliant country or secular democracy—Muslims would overwhelmingly vote for the Sharia law and then flee to the secular democracy. Islam is a religion in its dark ages today, it has not yet experienced enlightenment similar to older religions, and nobody would be talking about it if it weren't for its violence and intolerance, and by then Muslims asking people to ignore it would be acceptable. Alas, the Quraan is printed, reprinted and passed to uneducated masses in the third world by the Saudis. While most of the world's population would cringe at the thought of going back, say, century; Muslims fantasize about going back to 7th century Arabia, all Muslim life is about that simple wish. It's all about backwardness. Scripture specifically states they aren't supposed to enjoy peace and comfort in "kufaar" lands, befriending them, associating with them. Roughly 80% of Muslims cannot read Arabic but consider the Quraan a miracle. The phrase “moderate Muslim” is an oxymoron. There are have two kinds of Muslims: Terrorist Muslims and ignorant Muslims. The former are those who know Islam well and live by its dictum. The latter have no clue about their religion and have an idealized image of Islam that has no bases in facts, they are under the illusion that Quraan exudes humanism like teachings of Buddha and Christ but with the particularity of being the only authorized version as it is sanctioned by Allah.


Believers often cannot and do not choose which religion they'll worship since it's chosen for them. They have to be told everything in a system of reward and punishment in which cultivation of personality or individual character building are omitted. Lack of individuality makes believers susceptible to committing atrocities against the (supposed) other, this makes religion the worst ideology humanity conceptualized. And while morality depends on the social environment it's individuality that best promotes empathetic consideration of the consequence of words and behavior. This makes many religious people's heads explode. They can't fathom a universe where people have to actually think, feel, and decide for themselves how to best behave. They require prophets and fraudulent clerics to tell them not to kill. There are, of course, "moderate" Muslims, but there are no theological basis for their arguments, and Arab imperialist Allah hates the "hypocrites" for they won't fight for him so that an Arab can rule supreme over them. Unreason won't permit a Somali person to understand that he/she doesn't have to be a Christian or Muslim and simply be content with one's origin!

When you have to ignore mountains of evidence to hold on to ancient myths; when you use words of others to preserve belief; when you refuse to use logic to protect fantasy, your willful ignorance does not make you a unique individual. It doesn't afford you special consideration. It means that you're just plain wrong. It means that you have nothing to add to intelligent conversation. "But I'm an expert on the bible and therefore intelligent," believed no rational thinker ever. Archaeological evidence dispels religious figures as magicians. Jesus has no historical record from the supposed era of his existence, no writings indicate a godly being, as is in other fairy tales, only magic for unsophisticated audience is apparent. It's notable that the invention of many gods occurred shortly before they were used to justify territorial conquests. Faith is a thought prison with restraints that are only seen after you are free. In Islam you grow up without a positive personal identity and are emotionally dependent on the collective because of this. Religion has always been about a collectivist view for social control. One reason that Christianity in the West has become so weak is that the elite don't need it any more. Today we do not thank gods for staving off tsunamis. Similarly, we don't sacrifice virgins to gods. Yet Muslims, for example, sacrifice an animal to Allah and then eat it (the idea behind "halal" meat). Meat not sacrificed to Allah ("meat not blessed by Allah") cannot be consumed. This practice will undoubtedly one day be considered a moral degradation just as burning witches is now considered immoral.

Top 15 Logical Fallacies

Christianity is a logical fallacy because god is basically sending himself to sacrifice himself to himself to save humanity from himself. Hindu mob recently lynched Indian Muslim for rumored killing of a cow. Hajj pilgrims—classic example of pedant ritualistic irrelevancy—threw stones at a wall supposedly containing "the devil" who has been residing there for 1400 years unmoved by previous stoning rituals even long before Islam was invented.   

(A logical fallacy is a flawed pattern of reasoning.)

#1. Argumentum ad ignorantium - Fallacy that something must be true because it has not been, or can't be, proven false.

(If you can't prove that god doesn't exist, that means he must exist.)

#2. Argumentum ad misericordia - Appealing to pity.

(Why are you so intent on destroying something that makes so many sick children happy!)

#3. Argumentum ad nauseum - Fallacy that something is likely to be true the more often it is said.

(God exists, how many times do I have to tell you?)

#4. Argumentum ad novitatem - Fallacy that something is right because it's new.

(Of course Mormonism is the true religion, Joseph Smith is the most recent prophet.)

#5. Argumentum ad populum - Fallacy that something is correct based on the amount of people who believe it.

(Look how many people believe Jesus is the son of god, they can't all be wrong! )

#6. Bifurcation - Fallacy of presenting a situation as having only two answers.

(Evolution is wrong, so that means creationism is right.)

#7. Circular Logic - The premise that what you are trying to prove is evidence of itself.

(The bible is the word of god because it says it is, and it can't be wrong, because after all, it is the word of god.)

#8. Cum hoc ergo propter hoc - Fallacy of asserting that simulataneous events must be causally related.

(With all these natural disasters happening how can you deny that god isn't punishing us?)

#9. Plurium interrogationum - Fallacy of demanding a simplistic answer to a complex question.

(If god didn't create the universe then explain what did?)

#10. Slippery slope fallacy - Fallacy that one event will inevitably lead to harmful consequences.

(If we let lesbians get married it will be the end of family values.)

#11 - Tu Quoque. The fallacy that flaws in one thing can be justified by pointing to flaws in another.

(Well the US army also killed innocents!)

#12 - Argumentum ad hominem. The fallacy that personal attack and insult is a substitute for refuting what someone says.

(You are mad, stupid, lost your job, lied when you were 17… )

#13 - Red Herring Fallacy: An argument that is irrelevant and intended to replace the lack of real arguments or to replace implicitly the subject of the discussion.

("If God is cruel then how come he gives people eternal paradise?")

#14 - No true Scotsman Fallacy used to take advantage of the ambiguity of a word:

Scotsman A: You know, laddie, no Scotsman puts sugar in his porridge.
Scotsman B: Is that so? I seem to recall my cousin Angus puts sugar in his porridge.
Scotsman A: Aye... but no true Scotsman puts sugar in his porridge.

-The fallacy lies in redefining the word "Scotsman" in order to exclude those who put sugar in their porridge.

#15. Argument from (personal) incredulity.

 ("I cannot imagine how this could be true, therefore it must be false!")