This guy was even more extreme than leaders of current Shia militias in Iraq. In december 2014, he was assassinated when stopped at a fake checkpoint.
He pursued a hard-line Shia discourse , and through the years he preached his ideology on Iraqi television. His ideas based on absolute loyalty to the supreme leader. But Iran seemed to prefer the softer and more sophisticated political methods to gain influence in Iraq and so eventually Battat was cast aside and even rounded up by Maliki and put in jail.
What I find interesting is his latest interview somewhere last year, in which he criticized Maliki and other Iraqi shia leaders for not taking ISIS seriously. It seems he also had subtle criticism against the Iranian policy for being ineffective.
Is it possible that he was killed by Iran? Or am I simply connecting the wrong dots?
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies ๐
It really does, I swear!
Buenosdillas
Theyโre on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
You take away their little brooms
There hasn't been a post all year!
Why
Itโs pronounced โNoel.โ
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
In this mini series of posts, I will be posting excerpts on the heretics, liberal philosophers and openly atheistic philosophers of the Golden Era from Pervez Hoodbhoy's book Islam and Science and other sources.
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 10 (Five Great Heretics) from the book, Islam and Science, by Prof. Pervez Hoodbhoy:
"AI-Kindi (801-873)
The founder of the Islamic Peripatetic school of philosophy and the author of
270 treaties ranging from logic and mathematics to physics and music, Abu
Yusuf Yaqub Ibn Ishaq al-Kindi is known as the 'Philosopher of the Arabs' in
recognition of his tireless efforts to make philosophy acceptable to theologians.
He is also the only great Arab Muslim philosopher of antiquity. A thorough
Mu'tazilite, he wrote that truth is universal and supreme, and that philosophy
is but another form of the message which the prophets have carried. The word
'truth' for AI-Kindi had a very definite meaning. It stood for what Plato,
Aristotle and other Greek sages had elucidated. The job of scholars was, in his
words, 'to complete what the ancients have not fully expressed, according to
the usage of our language and the custom of our times, so far as we are able.
As a rationalist, AI-Kindi proposed that certain passages from the Holy
Book whose literal interpretation would be in conflict with reality should,
instead, be understood as allegories to guide men of reason. Most ancient
philosophers, including AI-Kindi, believed that there exist two truths: one for
the stupid and uneducated masses, and the other for the cultured and the
educated. AI-Kindi was of the opinion that the former were only able to
appreciate simple things and so had to be enticed by the vision of houris and
other physical allurements. On the other hand, the latter were given the gifts of
logic and reason so that they might arrive at a deeper meaning of the Book.
AI-Kindi rationalized his efforts at allegorical interpretation in this manner.
To give an example of the allegorical reasoning that AI-Kindi believed in,
consider verse LV5 of the Qur'an. In this passage, the believer is told that the
sun, moon, stars, mountains, trees and beasts 'bow themselves' before God.
For the unsophisticated, this invokes an image wherein all creation literally
bends in prayer. But AI-Kindi gave an elaborate linguistic argument that the
Arabic word for 'bow' should be understood as meaning 'obey'. Thus, the
naive pict
... keep reading on reddit โกNothing, it just waved
Him: I can explain everything!
(It's his best joke yet I think)
