Reddit is embracing the new christofascist dictatorship.
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"God": Based. Cool. Trad. The foundation of Western Civilization. Protected by the first amendment. Maybe we'd all be a little better of we honored him more.
"God" but in Arabic: Extremist. Scary. Woke. A corrupting influence on the global politics. Clear and present danger. We need to expunge it from our nation and the world.
Wait to they find out about Arabic numbers and start banning upvotes and downvotes
In Germany someone trolled a mayor candidate of one of the Nazi parties with that. He fell for it
https://www.politico.eu/article/far-right-german-candidate-promises-to-get-rid-of-arabic-numerals
The funniest part of this is they’re literally the same god.
It’s all different forms of YHWH, Judaism, Islam, Christianity.
It’s all the same god with the fanfic changed up a little.
Don't you dare attempt to explain that to an Evangelical Christian though
Wanna know something even funnier? Look up the word for "God" in Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke.
Jesud called God in a way similar to "Allah".

Even within the same religion it's the same word; Arabic Christians and Jews use the word 'Allah'
Islamophobia still get a pass on the internet. Especially on Reddit.
it gets a pass everywhere, the decades of propaganda against arabic people via, bush's wars had a generational effect. but criticism against christianity, is where they draw the line.
This is particularly dumb considering that Allah is the arabic translation for God. Even Christian arabs use Allah.
Yes. Before Bush Islamaphobia was still promoted to justify the Cold War. This is probably the one miserable thing that doesn't originate from Reagan.
Mods are always the actual dumbest most power tripping little fuckers. (InB4 banned from this com)
Edit: This is actually just straight up racist / xenophobic the more I think about it.
Mods are always [...]
You mean Reddit mods, right?
Mods are always
Generalizations are fun, aren't they?
the actual dumbest most power tripping little fuckers.
This is actually just straight up racist / xenophobic
No, more just anti-authoritarian like an ACAB teen. Racism would have been easy to spot if you'd called the mods a racial slur .
Remove it so they unban you.
Post it again, and add all this history too.
Immediately unsubscribe from their shit sub.
The most absurd about this imo. is that Arabic is considered promoting terrorism, but Vikings are not.
Don't you know, all us Arabs are terrorists, and anything in Arabic is immediately illegal!! FFS
Us Arabs? You're one of them! I'm terrified you're going to bomb me now on account of you being Muslim. Neo-nazi would be fine OBVIOUSLY
Doh! I gave away my cover, blast you meddling Butterfly!! *angry fist shaking
Sorry I can't understand you cos of your accent (as you're muslim you must be foreign, obviously). I'm just going to assume it was a jihad.
Wolowolowolowolowo. (In as much as a UK educated Muslim Arab accent as possible)
To be fair, only one of your examples exist in real life, why would media constantly try and ruin the image of Vikings? Ie. Roman republic and empire, loved by western culture, were basically ancient nazis.
reddit must be going hard on the anti-palestine rhetoric. if the mods wont ban you, the site filters would eventually. im seeing quite alot of shadowbannings that dont make sense.
Not even a new thing either, just much worse now. I know a mod who got banned for making a post about boycotting Israel in his own sub of very obvious anti Israel supporters.
Admin banned <1 hour, wiped his post with almost a hundred comments, and then threatened the other two or three mods to fall in line or face the entire sub getting banned or mod replaced.
About 4 years ago, left reddit shortly afterwards when a similar situation happened to r/dankvideos where the admin team nuked ~6 months worth of posts and banned the mod for not moderating content to their agenda.
Yeah that's a big reason why I left. The amount of institutional support for genocide on reddit is absolutely gross but unfortunately totally normal.
I wonder how this guy would react to the existance of the Arabic Christians.
The oriental orthodox and assyrian church of the east would blow their mind.
They'd react in wonder and reverence, then immediately forget about their existence for the rest of their life while continuing to actively support their literal genocide in Palestine.
The most incredible thing was that the guy got a reply from a mod. That never happened to me when I got banned from subs.
One thing I learned from reddit is that if you breathe wrong, you will get permabanned and accused of racism and if you try and argue your case, you will be ignored.
I don't miss that site.
Your friend's rings look really nice btw.
he's a very talented jewelcrafter. im not sure you can promote on lemmy but you can google his name and see his website
Your friend is very talented! Got a little chuckle out of the wolf head eating putin's head xD The little punk duck pendant 🤌 I love how he does so many different things and you can clearly see he's just having fun with his craft and challenging himself. His recreations of old jewelry is super fascinating. I hope he never stops making these little works of art 🤗
Lemmy is pretty much there now. Been banned from a few and you either get back a hostile explanation or none at all. Hurt feelings gets you banned. IMO Lemmy shouldn’t have a ban option for mods, let the downvotes do the talking
I mean with Lemmy you always have the option to invoke the Bender protocol.
I thought piefed was its own separate software?
it is, their own new one with blackjack and hookers and more Python, less Rust
Mods should be allowed to ban bot accounts, though.
Disgusting and such a clear example of the damage we do to another when we accept the all encompassing conditions of corporate social media without resistance.
When a social media website is being run for profit, this kind of shockingly ugly simplification of "foreign" ideas (Islam is NOT foreign to the US) is inveitable. In order to monetize at scale, the system demands this degree of ignorance, it is not optional nor an unintended side effect it is rather how "we" ensure the "right" history is recorded as a racist, xenophobic society choking to death on its own bigotry.
It is the same situation with mainstream corporate news. The more money you add, the more practiced and willful ignorance you get.
allah is just the name they use for their god
Christian Arabs use this name for God as well
This smells strongly of “brown religion bad”.
Jesus was a brown, middle eastern, palestinian jew.
i feel like we're in need of another Life of Brian or Blazing Saddles. I wish I were talented enough to write or film either
It’s not a name. It’s literally just the word “God” in Arabic.
Yes, this is ridiculous, we aren't even talking about an especially specific word or concept, you might as well call the word for "love" in arabic inherently extremist, threatening and violent.
Ask 1000 Christians what "god" means to them and get 1000 different answers, why would it be any different for Islam?
almost any comment against christianity=bad, even MEDIA/MSN dont touch this, but more than happy to frame muslims as a violent sexist religion, eventhough christianity has DONE ALOT worst.
Reddit sucks ass, and not in a good way.
* Cancels account
It really does, but lemmy really isn't much better, it just sucks in a different way :[
Lots of overlap between ‘viking enthusiasts’ and white supremacists unfortunately. This specifically seems more christofascist but obviously lots of overlap there too.
https://www.norwegianamerican.com/viking-symbols-stolen-racists/
Guy probably got confused when confronted with "conflicting" ideologies, i.e viking jewelry with Arabic inscriptions.
Such hypocrites. If it was about God or Jesus, no problem. Reddit hates people having different opinions. They prefer bots instead.
Allah is known in Christianity as God the Father, part of Trinity. Being an Abrahamic religion, Islam simply expands on Christianity, while describing much the same characters.
Except Muslims do not recognize the Trinity as a thing; God the Holy Spirit is to them Archangel Gabriel, and Jesus (Isa) is a prophet, not a Son of God.
If it was about God
The irony of this is that Allah literally means God.
A shitty mod that should lose their mod status and/or have the sub suspended temporarily.
- Doesn't give a warning, just goes straight to a ban. Lazy mod.
- Says the words "for allah" promotes terrorism. I'm critical of Islam but even I wouldn't make such an obviously bigoted claim.
Its not even Islamic, arab-speaking Christians say they worship Allah too, its literally just a translation.
Dios! Gott! Kami!
but can't say Allah... go figures....
Doesnt it need to be Kami-sama?
Some of us Atheists unironically wear religious stuff because it looks stylish, because the words sound cool, or because we like and appreciate the fandom of a particular story, even if we realize people made it all up. I can wear Dr Who swag for the same reasons.
It is like why people get Chinese character tattoos and "engrish" packaging and tshirts are popular in east Asia.
And similarly why you find a lot of Caucasians with Mandarin script tattooed on their skin. It's cool, they like the meaning, and they don't have to be Confucian or whatever
What are the odds that a Viking raider wore this ring ironically?
More likely it was because the Vikings worked as mercenaries around Europe and for the Byzantines. There is a railing in the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul with runes carved into it by bored Vikings. They would've picked up items from all over the world in the process. They've also found Islamic coins in hoards found in Scandinavia.
The owner of this ring probably didn't even know what was carved on it, it just looked nice.
https://www.cnn.com/2015/03/19/europe/sweden-viking-arabic-ring
I don’t think reddit would actually stand for this. We’re not that far down the road…yet.





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