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the mod said they will unban him if he remove the post in /r/viking

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[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reddit and Islamophobia name a better combo

[–] Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Denim and beans

[–] tim@infosec.pub 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Centralized, corporate information sources suck

Fedi FTW

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

No one is stoning anyone until I blow this whistle, even if they do say Jehovah

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Reddit has always been a fascist shithole... At least since the state murdered aaron...

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

state murdered aaron

I want a President do declare Aaron Swartz Day a day of national mourning and shame, with hopeful reflection on the immense value of open source & creative commons. Maybe with a public investment in open source commons like browser or mobile OS.

Yes this is my hobby horse and I am riding it

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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 26 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This made me realize that, throughout basically all of Viking history, Islam was already a thing. Curious.

[–] koetje78@feddit.nl 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Allah" is also simply the Arabic word for God, and was actually also used there before Islam.

Although there could be further clues that link these rings to Islam, of course.

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 days ago

Yeah, "Allah" is what Lebanese, Syrian, and other Arab Christians have called their Christian God as well.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Most likely they raided Spain when it was Al-Andalus.

Tho vikings did have a phase where they served as bodyguards in Byzantine empire. They definetely bought stuff from a muslim merchant.

Second point is more interesting because not one history teacher I had went over how focused mediveal muslims were when topic came to merchants. Last prophet in Islam was a regular merchant until he was past 40.

You can imagine trading becoming a core part of religious culture over time. To this day you can negotiate prices when buying anything from any religious muslim by saying "The Prophet used to bargain."

Possible, but they also just straight up had trade relations. Viking weapons were sometimes made with Arab iron, for example, because they had the best in the world at the time.

The only surviving account of a "Viking funeral" we have is from a Muslim traveler named ibn Fadlan traveling among the Volga Vikings.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_ibn_Fadlan

[–] groet@feddit.org 10 points 2 days ago

"Viking history" is pretty late. While Norse culture is much older, the (written) history about it only started when christian or muslim scholars started to write it down. And they only did that once the vikings started raiding and trading with the christian and muslim world at around 800 CE. They established trade networks and colonies along the big rivers of eastern Europe and reached the black sea and Caspian sea, which is most likely the origin of the ring the post is about.

Islam was founded 600 CE so yes, you are right.

[–] ILoveDurians@lemmy.cafe 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mod didn't even hesitate to go full mask off there. Bloody hell

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, it’s actually kind of rare to see a traitor lunatic just straight up admit to their bigotry so openly.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

A shitty mod that should lose their mod status and/or have the sub suspended temporarily.

  1. Doesn't give a warning, just goes straight to a ban. Lazy mod.
  2. Says the words "for allah" promotes terrorism. I'm critical of Islam but even I wouldn't make such an obviously bigoted claim.
[–] Corn@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Its not even Islamic, arab-speaking Christians say they worship Allah too, its literally just a translation.

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] nekbardrun@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Dios! Gott! Kami!

but can't say Allah... go figures....

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[–] mnhs1@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

These cancerous fuckers from another sub perma banned my 10 year old account. Because I only asked any content creators like Joey Swoll that comment on bad gym etiquettes. No explanation, no response, just nothing.. Reddit is even worse than X, Facebook. I hope it dies off completely as it's a tumor growing on the internet.

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

reddit sucks. But it is not worse then Facebook.

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

which cancer is worse

all of them, esp when we have a cure (Fedi/OpenSource)

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 26 points 2 days ago (13 children)

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.

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[–] Boo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The most absurd about this imo. is that Arabic is considered promoting terrorism, but Vikings are not.

[–] Grumpyleb@lemmus.org 10 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Don't you know, all us Arabs are terrorists, and anything in Arabic is immediately illegal!! FFS

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 156 points 3 days ago (10 children)

"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.

[–] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

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.

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[–] vxx@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The Moderators of a viking themed subreddit being racists? No way!

[–] bravesentry@feddit.org 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

they weren´t banned from r/viking, only from imadethis, if i read correctly.

[–] Cikos@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

thats correct. they will unban him from /r/somethingimade if they remove it from /r/viking

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How does this make any fucking sense?

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

It's a tacit admission of wrong-doing from the user. In other words, the mods will unban him as long as he agrees that they didn't make a mistake banning him, because all mods are vain, petty tyrants.

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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Remove it so they unban you.

Post it again, and add all this history too.

Immediately unsubscribe from their shit sub.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Just delete all the content and then stop posting: posting again has almost no effect as the mods have no social life and will manually delete the post within minutes, almost nobody would have the time to read it

[–] redditexcommunicado@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Check out my handle people. I was permabanned because a mod form one of the subs had a personal vendetta against me, he or she ended up reporting me to Reddit HQ citing racism when I had a civil and celebrated comment on the sub. The topic was regarding poverty as an identity amongst young people in my country, obviously I got permabanned so I decided to leave Reddit as a whole, since the Reddit mods do not want to establish any kind of conversation so I could explain the situation in a better way. I was a 17 year active user as well, I am sure the mod who banned me was not even there when I signed up.

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 99 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Islamophobia still get a pass on the internet. Especially on Reddit.

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 2 days ago

it very much also gets a pass IRL

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[–] F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd ban you for that damn arrow that tricked me into trying to swipe to the next picture... twice... ok thrice ffs

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I regularly write my God's name on things. It's an ancient Polynesian God, Fu'Ksa'Kes

It's important to be respectful for fu'ksa'kes

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 128 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Reddit is embracing the new christofascist dictatorship.

[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Allah

Etymologically, the name Allah is probably a contraction of the Arabic al-Ilāh, “the God.” The name’s origin can be traced to the earliest Semitic writings in which the word for god was il, el, or eloah, the latter two used in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). Allah is the standard Arabic word for God and is used by Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews as well as by Muslims. The association of the word specifically with Islam comes from the special status of Arabic as the language of Islam’s holy scripture, the Qurʾān: since the Qurʾān in its original language is considered to be the literal word of God, it is believed that God described himself in the Arabic language as Allāh (which is written as الله). The Arabic word thus holds special significance for Muslims, regardless of their native tongue, because the Arabic word was spoken by God himself.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 11 points 2 days ago (14 children)

I dislike all religion for obvious reasons. Example, god would never allow the mass starvation of children no matter which god. He doesn't work in mysterious ways. But freedom of speech to allow me to express my freedom to not believe in any god and to call god and any political party and or company stupid is Paramount to anything else.

I don't get it, I don't see any religious connotations and the rings look cool.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I got shadow banned from the entire site for making a popular post about diy Luigi prayer candles on witches vs patriarchy.

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