Muhammad Rasheed's Blog, page 148
February 16, 2019
Challenging God Empty-Handed
Anonymous - If you died and went to hell for your atheism would you regret it?
Muhammad Rasheed - If I should reject Al-Islam—the religion aligned to the revealed message of the One God of Abraham as taught by the illiterate Arab Muhammad ibn Abdullah (peace be upon the prophets!)—then die in the doomed state of a ‘transgressor of faith’ and find myself condemned to hell, I would indeed regret my decision to reject my Guardian Lord in exchange for an empty ‘freedom’ based on the pathetically poor limits of modern day atheism’s “intellectual” rhetoric.
Unlike my fellow Quorans who have also answered the question from the atheist’s perspective, I do not approach the material from a typical rejected Pauline Christian doctrinal background, with its package of poorly researched understandings and endless strawman effigies. Islam’s greatest strength is that it holds the final revealed scripture of the One God as its central text; the Qur’an addresses many of the points that the average Christian-derived atheist feels the need to guess at. If I reject God it wouldn’t be because I was swayed to arguments of the body of atheist literature, since I find their arguments narrow-minded, silly, full of wild speculations and unjustified in the arrogance in which they are presented. If I became an atheist it would be only because I tragically betrayed my soul and succumbed to my own foolish personal weaknesses, not because I no longer believed God was God.
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February 15, 2019
Establishing the New Normal
Click for Artist's DescriptionFrank Gelly - What’s the difference between racism and cultural appropriation?Muhammad Rasheed - Racism is an economic system that subjugates a group targeted by racial phenotype to exploit/plunder them to feed to a favored group chosen along racial phenotype.
Cultural appropriation is one of the traits of exploitation/plunder used by the favored oppressor racial group.
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February 14, 2019
A Self-Serving Claim of Progress
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February 13, 2019
Taking Your Enemy as Teacher and Friend
Click for Artist's DescriptionAnonymous - What sucks about being a black person?
Muhammad Rasheed - The centuries of domestic terror and psychological warfare inflicted upon the Black American ethnic group has damaged us to the point of routine, uncritical acceptance of the opinions of diabolical Eurocentric white supremacists to our detriment. We remain subjugated in a state ripe for exploitation and plunder for no other reason than because we accept their word as true when we literally have zero reason to do so.
Personally, this is the worst thing about being a member of the Black community. I LOVE my people, but we MUST shake that off of us that we may fight the good fight and become truly free.
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February 12, 2019
The Fantastical Delusions of Universal Dominion
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Jerry Cates - Joshua Walters's answer to Would you rather have to fight a saltwater crocodile or a great white Shark?
I am always amazed at the irrational fear sharks invoke in most people. “DON’T SWIM IN THE OCEAN, A SHARK WILL EAT YOU!” is a reoccurring theme with the general public despite the facts. You are far more likely to be struck by lightning then to be bit, much less killed by a shark. Great answer by the way, love the pics and captions.
Muhammad Rasheed - "Irrational fear...?"
It's a giant mouth with 90 rows of saw blades for teeth held together by a ton of muscle.
Jerry Cates - Yes it is irrational.
People how are afraid of swimming in the ocean because of sharks are being irrational. Dispute what you see in movies, sharks do not “hunt" humans. Millions of people flock to the oceans every year to swim, surf and play in the water. How many shark attacks are there per year? Look it up. Furthermore how many deaths? If they were so intent on eating you, don't you think more would die from shark attacks? While you're at it, look up the numbers on traffic deaths, murders or even being struck by lightning, those are things you should be worried about. Bees & wasps kill far more people than sharks do. Yes, fear of swimming because of sharks is irrational.
Muhammad Rasheed - You don’t think it’s rational to fear a giant toothy mouth that could casually kill you by accident? lol
That kind of attitude seems irrational to me. We have our fear sense for basic self-preservation reasons. So we don’t go into the ocean hugging super-powerful apex-predators that can casually kill us by accident.
Jerry Cates - You misunderstand my comment. if I were to see a Great White while I was in the water, there would be fear and a great deal of respect for I would be in it’s realm. That being said, I would also dearly love to see one. Anytime one does something dangerous there is always a bit of fear, overcoming that fear is part of the thrill.
My comment was that someone who fears the ocean because there may be a shark lurking under the waves just waiting to eat them….THAT is an irrational fear. It also keeps people like that from enjoying life. Not that I mind, it keeps the ocean a little less crowded for the rest of us.
Muhammad Rasheed - I get you, Jerry. I think the missed-message conflict here is the difference between a healthy fear that prevents a rational person from violating reasonable, inherent risk response plans versus the thrill-seeker’s culture of routinely overriding that fear to explore potentially dangerous situations so often that it becomes “irrational” to not behave that way to the participants. I do think it’s cool that you brave the Big Blue to see such sights with your own eyes, but I also think it is irrational to actually think it is irrational for others not in that club to have a fear of that fundamentally alien environment that happens to be wrapped in centuries of “Jaws” propaganda. It is 100% rational to fear the ocean in that way when we’ve been programmed for generations to fear it. First, deprogram the people, then if they hold onto an actual phobia once they know better, then we can consider the fear over-the-top and irrational.
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February 11, 2019
Voice of the Blind
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February 10, 2019
Unworthy: Warriors of the Bad Fight
Click for Artist's DescriptionJoel Comm - Being offended is so 2018. Get over it.
Muhammad Rasheed - "What kind of America is this where I'm the one considered 'wrong' if I call a bunch of defenseless blackies 'n1993rs'? They should thank me for acknowledging them and grin and applaud!"
Joel Comm - Thank you for proving my point. You can’t tell the difference between someone deliberately being mean or vile, and a joke. #smh
Muhammad Rasheed - Was that your point? Because I was merely illustrating the point of the meme quote 'in character' and you seem to have gotten offended by it. I thought we were BOTH joking.
Your triggered reaction leaves me in doubt that you were joking. Explain.
Joel Comm - I wasn’t offended. I think you missed the point completely. Carlin wasn’t talking about being a racist idiot. He was talking about having to watch our speech for fear of what others might say or think. Especially as a comedian.
Muhammad Rasheed - I didn't miss Carlin's point, Joel. The point of my illustrative sketch is that only a very specific demographic of the populace complains about political correctness.
They're the folk whose BEST humor involves the 'n-word' and wearing blackface. Everyone else just adjusted.
Joel Comm - Ah, I see. You went to the ironic extreme by being absurd to make your point. Interesting approach.
Muhammad Rasheed - lol I'm an editorial cartoonist, Joel. That's my primary tool.
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February 9, 2019
Committed to Thick
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February 8, 2019
Yes, We Can 2.0
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Joel Gray - Will African-Americans ever receive or deserve reparations?
Muhammad Rasheed - The Black American ethnic group—descendants of the American chattel slaves—deserve Reparatory Justice for the generations of economic-based anti-Black systemic racism inflicted upon them since the early seventeenth century up into the present day. Of course that means the actual wrong of systemic racism also needs to be dismantled, otherwise we can realistically expect all of those Reparations payout checks to be plundered right back into the wealth coffers of the white racist aristocracy.
Currently, the new crop of Democratic politicians and the anti-racism activists are fighting to address the racism-caused economic disparities, and since the battle is being fought, it can be won. It’s hard to win if you never fight it turns out.
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February 7, 2019
On Code: Racism's First Line of Defense
Artist's DescriptionA Mrs. PhDology cartoon inspired by her 06 Feb 2019 Instagram post!
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