Getting the global Left to be apologists for Islam is the single biggest coup that Islamists have pulled off in the West. Using their own resources to target them.
Like having lambs carry the swords for their own slaughter. The Left are the #JihadCoolies.
Of course, Hindu "secular Left" in India are equally complicit #JihadCoolies as well.
It is worth recalling what happened to the Iranian Left after they collaborated in the Islamic takeover of Iran. The Leftists leaders were tortured and forced to publicly "confess" on TV.
The Islamic Regime of Iran tortured and forced the Leftists leaders (who'd helped in the "Islamic revolution") to "confess" and recant their ideology publically, because "The regime considered Marxism the main ideological rival of Islam." Marxism was akin to a religious rival.
"Kianuri was an Iranian Leftist, dubbed the 'Communist Ayatollah' ...he had often appeared on television praising the Islamic Republic as the best bulwark against U.S. imperialism."
This communist later recanted on TV...how Marxism was a foreign ideology which betrayed Iranians.
The Islamic Regime had turned on the Left soon after the Revolution, because the Left had started criticizing the regime for their persecution of the Bahai and of women. (note to "feminist" apologists for Islam).
You cannot ride the tiger of Islamism with the hope to "tame" it.
While out of power both Islamists and Communists attack "nationalism" they both become fiercely nationalist when in power. Both China and Iran are hyper-nationalist.
China considers Islam a "mental illness" and Iran executed or imprisoned Marxists after the Islamic Revolution.
Each totalitarian ideology, right-wing Christianity, Islamism and Marxism, knows how to deal with the other.
Plural indigenous societies don't understand the nature of totalitarianisms which seek to erase all others, so are at a loss to deal with them.
Marxism parallels religion was considered a "rival" by the Islamic regime—"Unlike liberalism, nationalism, and monarchism, it challenged religious metaphysics, held out a utopian future, and offered a comprehensive view of the past and the present."
By a combination of 1. Having a home team. There are plenty of Islamic universities in the world, unlike in India where the state destroyed Hindu scholarship. 2. Huge State funding to Western academia 3. Creating victim narrative
How @theliverdr pushes ideologically motivated garbage.
In a long post he claims that “science says” Giloy caused liver toxicity; in the same post he dismisses a study on Ashwagandha as garbage.
For the case against Giloy his reference is the propaganda rag, @thewire_in! 😏
The Wire article further references an “observational study” which has a total sample size of 6 people!
No doubt this study is conducted by other Liver doctors trained in allopathy alone; and specifically targeting Giloy “twigs.”
Other than the limited sample size, the AYUSH response states that it is very easy to confuse Giloy with a similar, but toxic, plant; the “scientific” study didn’t actually even check if the correct plant was used.
So this 6-person study with any randomized control or double-blind test, where motivated researchers isolate a perhaps pre-determined conclusion is called “science.” Now let’s see what this doctor calls “underpowered garbage” which was “never done methodically.”
Europeans, particularly Germans, were so desperate for an “Aryan” identity based on Hindu texts because they had very little history or identity of their own.
The Germanic tribes were barbarians with little durable language or culture. To lay claim to Sanskrit and related knowledge allows them to attach to a glorious history.
The Germans weren't successors of Rome. The Italians had history, the Greeks had history, even the British could harken to a Celtic history, what did the Germans have?
This is how they became "Aryan" laying claiming to Sanskrit and Indo-European origins.
Some direct excerpts from the translation of "al-jabr" by Mohammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, from which the term Algebra comes.
Note this translation is from 1831. After 1857 British and Western scholarship started denigrating Indian knowledge as an explicit policy.
Firstly, the translator Frederic Rosen makes explicit that Al Khwarizmi did not invent Algebra, and that this was "well-established" in scholarship, but that he was the "first Mohammedan" to write upon it. 2/
That Al Khwarizmi did not invent Algebra is attested by many, and even by the Al Khwarizmi himself in the preface where he states that the Caliph Al Mamun, encouraged him to write a popular work on the topic, implying that there were existing works he would use. Which were these?
Translator himself concludes that "at least part of the information is drawn from an Indian Source", based on his knowledge alone.
Many "modern" medicine are also extracts of herbs. But the pharma industry relies on dismissing the original because it can't be patented and yields much less profit.
And they'll attack scientific studies which don't fit their prejudice and pocketbook.
Here is an example of @theliverdr misleads and misreads even their own research in even simple things like whether drinking more water is helpful for health.
With his initial list of "debunking" why drinking water doesn't help, he cites the following article: