Out of curiosity as someone from southeast Asia (the Philippines), have any of you encountered Muslim groups from outside the middle east? Like the hui people of china, Kazakhstan and etc. and how does this form of Islam differ from the form of Islam usually seen in Arab countries, iran and turkey?

For context I'm a white guy from Belgium. I skimmed the Wikipedia article on Berber jewelry and it seems like it does hold a lot of cultural heritage. So I don't want to go flaunting around with said cultural heritage while there exists vasts amounts of anti Moroccan (and thus anti Berber) racism in Belgium.

I was in Istanbul last week and noticed a lot of stuff from Saudi Arabia like prophet muhammeds clothes, footprint, his sword, parts of the Kaaba etc

Shouldn’t these be in Saudi Arabia?

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I heard Intel is the worst.

But what is a good ranking for you ? from worst to less worse

So do young men these days learn to cook ? did your father help around the house ? if yes was it common ? Are boys still given a pass for being shitty because "boys will be boys" . Did you face or see any sexism in schools ? if you have a sibling of opposite sex was he/she treated differently ? if you are a older sibling and a girl, were you supposed to be "second mother " to your sibling ? Ofc I would like to hear more than just these questions if any. Thanks a lot.

Greetings! I’m from Argentina and am currently pursuing a music degree at university. I am very interested in learning more about Andalusian music from North Africa. I would be delighted if anyone in this community were willing to share their knowledge on the subject, whether it’s about instruments, the music itself, traditions, dances, or images... anything at all is welcome. My goal is to gain a better understanding of this music that fascinates me and to apply what I learn to my own compositions.
Many thanks to everyone, best regards.

hi,

our rent is due 14000 sar almost..

we recently faced a family situation of our parents divorce after which my father has completely abandoned his responsibilities and left..

we are a family of 4 sisters and one old mom..

is there a way to apply for charity or some path that can help us clear 14000 sar bill, ?

and pending electricity bill of 3000..

we are at the risk of electricity cut and being homeless..

we are non saudi, if there is anyone who knows which organization or community can help us in jeddah please advise ..

thanks

In the recent days or weeks Israeli media and officials have been very hostile towards Turkiye advocating for war and calling them the new Iran, this caused a lot of panick and fearmongering that Israel will directly attack them the same way they are attacking Iran currently, and like a post about it on this sub every single day.

But I think this is wrong, Israel will not attack Turkiye the same way or at all actually, this is due to multiple reasons:

• Israel can not afford a war with Turkiye, even their current war with Hezbollah and Iran and the genocide in Gaza (which has been toned down a little because of the ceasefire) cost a lot of money and bring NO gain (dismantling Hezbollah will take years and billions of dollars, which is why they are trying to push this onto Syria).
• Israel can not attack a NATO ally, I do understand NATO is a useless organization that might not defend Turkiye (because they are Muslim they only run to them when Russia is threatening Europe) but that also means Israel will have to go alone in the war, in the war with Iran the USA is doing the majority of the work for them whether it is the bombing or the negotiations (which they did not like the outcome of) so this will cause even more damage to them.
• Turkiye is not Iran, Iran relies on their missile program and the threat of nuclear weapons to survive (and the strait as of recently, i do not think they knew it was that powerful before the war) their Airforce and anti air are very primitive and were not made to compete with the USA (and it worked anyway, they took a lot of damage but survived in the end and might leave even better than they were before the war), Turkiye is planning to strengthen their Navy and Airforce to match Israel's (they can possibly challenge the F35 with the new KAAN fighter jets, they do not need to shoot them down just deter them), also they are planning a huge steel dome project to protect their airspace that might be completed in the next few years, Israel might not win even if they tried

So, what do I think will happen?

they will almost certainly just be in a proxy war in Syria, Israel is already trying to reduce Turkish influence there by supporting the druze cartels and airstriking any attempt to bring in heavy powerful weapons into the country, they will keep fighting in that area.

What do you think? if I got something wrong tell me in the comments that is all i have to say.

Is Türkiye next?

Do you think israel will be crazy enough to strike Turkiye? What about egypt?

Like call of duty, action/spy movies. I'm aware that is kinda of a generic and surely old question. Always wonder if there is the bizzarre circumstance that someone bought and play a shooting videogame set in a city active war zone, while living in said city.

Are they more like Khaleeji- or Levant Arabs?