Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Cell Phone Manufacturing in Pakistan
Cell phone manufacturing in Pakistan has exploded within the last few years producing over 12 million phones of which just under 5 million were 4G capable smartphones in the first half of 2021 alone. These cell phones are manufactured by 26 major brands from Pakistan’s own Qmobile to foreign giants like Samsung. The growing cell…
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How a Focus on Real Estate is Killing Start-up Culture
The Search for Startups The Search for Startups will be a new series on what helps and discourages start-up culture. This week we’re focusing on how a focus on real estate investment pulls us back Within much of the Ummah today it is evident that from Morocco to Makassar start-up culture is lacking behind the…
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Hijab: The West’s war on modesty
Hijab in the West’s domain is portrayed as a symbol of oppression and patriarchy. At the mere thought of women donning the hijab, liberals and post modernists automatically conclude that her husband or her father is a domestic tyrant. What we forget is that some of the women also believe that hijab is protection, hijab…
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Mobile Data, a Great Equaliser?
Mobile Data, A Great Equalizer? Chances are if you’re reading this you probably have a connection to the internet, and it’s probably not too bold a claim to say that you use the internet on a daily basis. It is this very constant usage of the internet that we start to take it for granted,…
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Islam and Non Muslims: Is compromise of ethics necessary for mutual respect and coexistence?
When the protest is ironic
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Is the arrival of the Mahdi nigh?
The Muslim world by and large has embraced the fact that our state of affairs is so weak and have individualised to such an extent that a lot of those pious among us have stopped making any efforts to drive towards change. Despite having a firm belief in the faith and regularly fulfilling their individual…
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Muslims should stop apocalyptifying the metaverse and just jump right into it. Here is why!
The metaverse is a fictitious version of the internet that allows users to access permanent online 3-D virtual environments using traditional personal computers as well as virtual and augmented reality headgear. Metaverses are already existent in some form on platforms such as VRChat or video games like Second Life. Since Facebook bought virtual reality company Oculus…
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Why do Muslims migrate to Western countries?
The far left, white supremacists “Muslim” secularists and various ethnonationalist groups in Muslim countries always tend to bring up the question of why Muslims immigrate to secular western nations instead of going to Sharia abiding Muslim nations despite expressing favourable attitudes towards Sharia and disdain or lack of fanaticism towards secularism. This question comes with…
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In The Medieval Ages, How did Muslims Fight Against Armored European Knights
originally taken from this Quora answer https://qr.ae/pGZzld With this: And later on, this: It is a misconception that Muslims were lightly armored. In fact, heavy cavalry played an instrumental part in the Battle of Ain Jalut when the Mamluks defeated the Mongols. Secondly, heavy cavalry wasn’t invincible as we see in the Battle of Agincourt,…
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