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What caused the changes of fortune of the "ruled by Muslims border" in the ex-West Roman Empire? From Medina to entire south Mediterranean coast exponential growth, Pyrenees crossed not that long after then suddenly (by Granada standards) Christian polities became much harder to invade or convert and started retaking (some zones and eras much more miles per generation than others). Perhaps different polities'/rulers' casualty tolerances was one reason for these speed differences?
Why was Granada last not Strait of Gibraltar? Was a "Granada last" strategy overwhelmingly better i.e. cutting off quick trips from Africa sooner or would "strait last" have been almost as good?
Why'd it take till a siege of Vienna in 1683 for the tide to turn on that side of Europe? Wasn't Austrian tech better than Ottoman by 1682?
Why are a relatively high percent of Balkan Muslims less observant or even just cultural Muslims? Proudly i.e. Albanian but not very religious.
Why are Kurds less strict than downriver? i.e. less strict female clothing.
Why are most Afghans traditional and hyper-Islamic on most things or at least not against that enough to flee but traditions that have been haram 1,000+ years are common for hardcore Taliban? (opium and sex with "willing" sometimes even extremely unwilling boys). Why are there photos of only headscarf/no hair cover/even miniskirts but now you have to avoid dancing, cricket, weather stations, girls schools and female skin (or almost that strict)?
What's the mechanism(s) for strictness seemingly being roughly inversely correlated with distance from Makkah? i.e. look at Indonesia Sagittarian Milky Way ( talk) 02:48, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
I'm not a native English speaker and in my native language (German) the jurists say “Früchte des vergifteten Baumes”, which translates literally to “Fruits of the poisoned tree”. Is that tree “poisonous” or “poisoned” now? Or is there no semantic difference? Are the german jurists trying to say something with this wrong translation? What is the contemporary opinion in the U.S.A about those fruits? Are they poisoned by Judge Felix Frankfurter? Or are they just rubbish, that caused that last Iraq war? Homer Landskirty ( talk) 10:36, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
Once that is established – as was plainly done here – the trial judge must give opportunity, however closely confined, to the accused to prove that a substantial portion of the case against him was a fruit of the poisonous tree." [1] I don't know who came up with the German translation, which is not wrong but ambiguous: just like the English verb poison, the German verb vergiften can mean "to administer poison" (e.g., to an animal), but also "to make poisonous" (e.g., food, or a well). In connection with the story of Adam and Eve and the forbidden fruit, I see "
Frucht des giftigen Baumes", [2] as well as metaphorical "
Früchte des giftigen Baumes" in reference to the legal doctrine. [3] -- Lambiam 17:25, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
By the way, during much of the 19th century, the idea that the "upas tree" was virulently poisonous (maybe even at a distance) was fairly well-known (this appears in Charles Dickens' writings, etc). The Wikipedia article is Antiaris#Poison... AnonMoos ( talk) 23:03, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
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What caused the changes of fortune of the "ruled by Muslims border" in the ex-West Roman Empire? From Medina to entire south Mediterranean coast exponential growth, Pyrenees crossed not that long after then suddenly (by Granada standards) Christian polities became much harder to invade or convert and started retaking (some zones and eras much more miles per generation than others). Perhaps different polities'/rulers' casualty tolerances was one reason for these speed differences?
Why was Granada last not Strait of Gibraltar? Was a "Granada last" strategy overwhelmingly better i.e. cutting off quick trips from Africa sooner or would "strait last" have been almost as good?
Why'd it take till a siege of Vienna in 1683 for the tide to turn on that side of Europe? Wasn't Austrian tech better than Ottoman by 1682?
Why are a relatively high percent of Balkan Muslims less observant or even just cultural Muslims? Proudly i.e. Albanian but not very religious.
Why are Kurds less strict than downriver? i.e. less strict female clothing.
Why are most Afghans traditional and hyper-Islamic on most things or at least not against that enough to flee but traditions that have been haram 1,000+ years are common for hardcore Taliban? (opium and sex with "willing" sometimes even extremely unwilling boys). Why are there photos of only headscarf/no hair cover/even miniskirts but now you have to avoid dancing, cricket, weather stations, girls schools and female skin (or almost that strict)?
What's the mechanism(s) for strictness seemingly being roughly inversely correlated with distance from Makkah? i.e. look at Indonesia Sagittarian Milky Way ( talk) 02:48, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
I'm not a native English speaker and in my native language (German) the jurists say “Früchte des vergifteten Baumes”, which translates literally to “Fruits of the poisoned tree”. Is that tree “poisonous” or “poisoned” now? Or is there no semantic difference? Are the german jurists trying to say something with this wrong translation? What is the contemporary opinion in the U.S.A about those fruits? Are they poisoned by Judge Felix Frankfurter? Or are they just rubbish, that caused that last Iraq war? Homer Landskirty ( talk) 10:36, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
Once that is established – as was plainly done here – the trial judge must give opportunity, however closely confined, to the accused to prove that a substantial portion of the case against him was a fruit of the poisonous tree." [1] I don't know who came up with the German translation, which is not wrong but ambiguous: just like the English verb poison, the German verb vergiften can mean "to administer poison" (e.g., to an animal), but also "to make poisonous" (e.g., food, or a well). In connection with the story of Adam and Eve and the forbidden fruit, I see "
Frucht des giftigen Baumes", [2] as well as metaphorical "
Früchte des giftigen Baumes" in reference to the legal doctrine. [3] -- Lambiam 17:25, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
By the way, during much of the 19th century, the idea that the "upas tree" was virulently poisonous (maybe even at a distance) was fairly well-known (this appears in Charles Dickens' writings, etc). The Wikipedia article is Antiaris#Poison... AnonMoos ( talk) 23:03, 9 July 2023 (UTC)