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Mahathir Exposes Ridiculousness of Censorship

The US ambassador to Malaysia, Kamala Shirin Lakhdir, said on Friday she “strongly disagreed” with Mahathir’s statement.

“Freedom of expression is a right, calling for violence is not,” she said in a brief statement.

But actually doing violence is a right. 

The entire concept of justice centres on violence, the police and army. If we forbid calling for violence of any kind, you will let Hitler rule the world and ban all religious books, or any books and movies that show any violence.

What a ridiculous statement from the Trump administration that prides itself on law and order.

Australian High Commissioner in Malaysia Andrew Goledzinowski wrote even though Mahathir was not advocating actual violence, “in the current climate, words can have consequences”.

Caricatures or pictures, do not have any consequences?

Isn't a picture worth a thousand words?

Malaysia’s Mahathir: Post on French killings taken out of context

Mahathir, 95, sparked widespread outrage when he wrote on his blog that ‘Muslims have a right to be angry’.

Mahatir said Twitter and Facebook removed the post, despite his explanation, and slammed the move as hypocritical [Yuriko Nakao YN/Reuters]

30 Oct 2020 Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has denied promoting violence after saying Muslims have a right to “kill millions of French people” and criticised Facebook and Twitter for taking down his posts.

Mahathir, 95, sparked widespread outrage when he wrote on his blog on Thursday that “Muslims have a right to be angry and kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past”.

The comments came as an attacker, alleged to be a refugee from Tunisia, slashed people with a knife in a menuLIV in Nice, France, killing three and wounding several others.

Twitter removed a tweet from Mahathir containing the remark, which it said glorified violence, and France’s digital minister demanded the company also ban Mahathir from its platform.

“I am indeed disgusted with attempts to misrepresent and take out of context what I wrote on my blog,” Mahathir said in a statement.

He said on Friday critics failed to read his posting in full, especially the next sentence that read: “But by and large Muslims have not applied the ‘eye for an eye’ law. Muslims don’t. The French shouldn’t. Instead the French should teach their people to respect other people’s feelings.”

He said Twitter and Facebook removed the post despite his explanation, and slammed the move as hypocritical.

“On the one hand, they defended those who chose to display offending caricatures of Prophet Muhammad … and expect all Muslims to swallow it in the name of freedom of speech and expression,” he said.

On the other, they deleted deliberately that Muslims had never sought revenge for the injustice against them in the past,” thereby stirring French hatred for Muslims, he added. On Twitter, however, that sentence was not deleted. A Mahathir staff member said the entire post was removed by Facebook.

Facebook Malaysia said in an email it removed Mahathir’s post for violating its policies. “We do not allow hate speech on Facebook and strongly condemn any support for violence, death or physical harm,” it said.

The comments by Mahathir, a two-time prime minister, were in response to calls by Muslim nations to boycott French products after French leader Emmanuel Macron described Islam as a religion “in crisis” and promised to crack down on radicalism following the murder of a French teacher who showed his class a cartoon depicting Prophet Muhammad.

The US ambassador to Malaysia, Kamala Shirin Lakhdir, said on Friday she “strongly disagreed” with Mahathir’s statement.

“Freedom of expression is a right, calling for violence is not,” she said in a brief statement.

Australian High Commissioner in Malaysia Andrew Goledzinowski wrote even though Mahathir was not advocating actual violence, “in the current climate, words can have consequences”.

Mahathir’s second stint as prime minister lasted from 2018 until he quit in February 2020. He has been viewed as an advocate of moderate Islamic views and a spokesman for the interests of developing countries.

But at the same time, he pointedly criticised Western society and nations and their relationship to the Muslim world.

 Jazeera Media Network

Capitalism vs Socialism

[20/09, 18:26] +60 13-278 0723: Corvette 

 

A man named Tom Nicholson posted on his Facebook account the sports car that he had just bought and how a man approached and told him that the money used to buy this car could've fed thousands of less fortunate people.

His response to this man made him famous on the internet.

 

READ his story as stated on Facebook below:

 

A guy looked at my Corvette the other day and said, "I wonder how many people could have been fed for the money that sports car cost?

 

I replied I'm not sure;

it fed a lot of families in Bowling Green, Kentucky who built it,

it fed the people who make the tires,

it fed the people who made the components that went into it, it fed the people in the copper mine who mined the copper for the wires, it fed people in at Caterpillar who make the trucks that haul the copper ore. It fed the trucking people who hauled it from the plant to the dealer and fed the people working at the dealership and their families.

 

BUT,... I have to admit, I guess I really don’t know how many people it fed

That is the difference between capitalism and the welfare mentality.

 

When you buy something, you put money in people’s pockets and give them dignity for their skills.  When you give someone something for nothing, you rob them of their dignity and self-worth.

 

Capitalism is freely giving your money in exchange for something of value.

Socialism is having the government take your money against your will and

give it to someone else for doing nothing.

 

Well written and thought out.

 

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[20/09, 22:15] Othman Ahmad: Be careful. Not the whole truth.

Capitalism is about capital. Money invested to do business. It is not about buying something. The capital may not even be about building anything. It is the buying and selling of shares. You can say the elected government do not interfere, so no army, no police, no public hospitals. All must be run by capitalists, or corporate people, who form companies to run these operations for profits. People do not pay any tax but if you want anything, must still pay. Zero goverment.

Socialism is about governments spending tax money for the people. If people feel that health is important, the tax is used for health. For police, and army. No need for the public to pay for some of these government al services, because, collectively, people pay from taxes. Big government.

Which is better? Islam follows which?

Some say none of these, but these are the only options available. Just like one is black, other white, in a black and white world.

I say Islam is 98% capitalism because zakat is only 2%, the lowest tax in any nation on earth. Even USA, the so called capitalist nation, taxes at 30%.

Europe, 40%. So Malaysia, with 20% tax is actually more capitalist.

It is correct that Capitalism is giving money in exchange for something of value, but do you want that for the Army? Actually, early Muslim armies and Medieval armies were recruited like that. Even Bomba or Fire brigade was corporatised.

In Rome, the privatised Fire Brigade, do not start putting down fires until the owners agree to sell their properties. Do you want this?

As for buying a sport car, it is not a socialism to stop people from buying the car. In socialism, the buyer also pays extra in the form of tax. That tax is used to educate and keep healthy the people making the car. Sick and uneducated workers cannot make beautiful and powerful cars.

The Actual Place of Kaabah and Masjidil Haram, Petra

https://youtu.be/TIw1OPH6QvM

I believe him but need to confirm by going to the old mosques that still point to Petra. Not Jerusalem or Mecca.

However, according to the article below, the direction pointing to the Kaabah was due to the method of calculating  the orientation. An interesting comment is that despite the errors, Islam was the only religion that need to calculate this orientation, making it the best in the world.

This approximate direction, based on astronomy is used a lot by us. For example, we are told topray towards sunset, before the coming of gps.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330221815_King_The_Petra_fallacy_The_Petra_fallacy_-_Early_mosques_do_face_the_Sacred_Kaaba_in_Mecca_but_Dan_Gibson_doesn't_know_how_Comparing_historical_orientations_with_modern_directions_can_lead_to_false_re

Another issue was the hijrah incidence. I don't believe that the distance was from Petra to Medinah. That is too far.

Another issue is that, Prophet Muhammad is Quraish, which is  definitely arabic. Petra is not Arabic.

Mount Kilimanjaro using Icon A5 in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

Mount Kinaballu using Icon A5 in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

Getting Started with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

 

Get it

 https://www.flightsimulator.com/

Get it from the above.

You can also get it from Steam but it is more expensive there.

 How to get the best game at the moment, Microsoft Flight Simulator for us$1 or actually rm32, for a month. get a us address from comGateway. Put that address into your microsoft account. buy xbox MYR 41.72 ( MYR 41.72 ( $10 ))gift for rm32 from kk gamezone in Shopee. He will send a redemption code within minutes in the chat, and use it to pay xbox pass by redeeming.  Do not enter any backup payment. If you had, like me, remove them first.

I just want to experience Microsoft Online gaming experience. It is very bad compared to others. The best is still Steam. GOG is good for complete games, untouched by any protection but little online, although GOG Galaxy is attempting to beat Steam.

Steam can share games with 4 others but cannot play at the same time. xbox app, may need to setup family accounts.

Although downloading 100GB it was reported to take 3 hours even with 500Mb/s line like mine. It was an hour, still downloading.

How to control the planes

https://www.shacknews.com/article/119877/microsoft-flight-simulator-2020-controls-and-keybindings

https://www.shacknews.com/article/119877/microsoft-flight-simulator-2020-controls-and-keybindings

How to find interesting places

https://www.polygon.com/microsoft-flight-simulator-guide/21372477/find-famous-landmarks-points-of-interest-poi

 How to get points

 https://stevivor.com/guides/microsoft-flight-simulator-achievements-list/

How to view and take photos

 https://flightsimulator.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016003159

 Photogrammetric Cities

https://se7en.ws/all-341-photorealistic-cities-in-microsoft-flight-simulator-2020/?lang=en