Miyazaki has mentioned that he wanted to make a traditional JRPG. I wonder if a FromSoftware JRPG would capture it (💎) or just let it slip.

“There must be more to life than having everything” is what Siddhartha Gautama was thinking before he went on his journey.

“Enigmas never age . ”

Trump and Epstein may have enjoyed eating a būs (بوس) together. It’s a type of fish (🐟) that materializes when lightning hits the sea. Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi spoke about this.

“Grok, is this true?”.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a central part of modern American culture. The director of some of America’s most well-reviewed video games, who lived for a time in a West Bank settlement, has made the conflict a subtext for more than one of his projects.

The Rashtrakutas appear to have appointed a Muslim governor, one “Muhammad,” over the territory that included Sanjan in the tenth century.

Many different Indian and Islamic coins were found amongst the ruins of the Tower of Silence in Sanjan, including coins minted under the amirs of Sind. The Gujarati town of Sanjan is known in Parsi lore as a site of early settlement for Zoroastrian refugees from Iran.

Encyclopædia Iranica claims the “Sultan Mahmud” that the Zoroastrians fight in the Qissa-i Sanjan was the well-known Ghaznavid. Martina Palladino says this sultan was rather Sultan Mahmud Begarha of Gujarat’s Muzaffarid dynasty. (Looking at other sources, the latter is correct.)

These Zoroastrians must have been under the sovereignty of Muslim rulers, namely the Ghurids and their slave-general Nasir al-din Qabacha. One wonders about the extent of the Zoroastrian community over time and space in the Indus River Valley.

(Though Uch is now part of Pakistani Punjab, the city was mentioned as part of Sind in contemporaneous Islamic sources.) We can glean from the colophon of a Zoroastrian manuscript that there was a Zoroastrian community in Uch at the turn of the thirteenth century.

It’s well-known that a Zoroastrian community was established in Gujarat after the Arabs conquered Iran. Less known is that there was also a Zoroastrian community in medieval Uch, a city that is now located in southern Punjab.

This guy lives one of the most wretched existences: an overweight ex-Muslim Egyptian man who works for an Israeli think tank and has to advocate for the continuing brutal and humiliating subjugation of his fellow Arabs.

Kafiristan mentioned. A governor of Yarkand seems to refer to Kafiristan as a land “beyond Bolor.” From what I could gather, “Bolor,” in the Qing context, referred to Chitral. I’ve seen “Bolor” refer to other nearby regions or a much wider region of “Peristan” in other contexts.

My body is a machine that turns AIPAC donations (💵) into Judeo-Christian values.

Manchu-language texts from the Qing period could prove to be a fruitful and largely untapped source for the history of Islamic Inner Asia, including regions that are now part of Xinjiang, Tajikistan, eastern Afghanistan, and northern Pakistan.

Savarkar was anti-Muslim and anti-Black. He also idolized the Maratha Empire, which is somewhat ironic given that the prehistory of the Maratha Empire is essentially the history of the Sultanate of Ahmadnagar, where Muslims of African origin played a notable role.

I hope we get one-to-one combat between Woke Groke and rapist MechaHitler in the next episode.

In many ways, Savarkar was more influenced by twentieth century fascism than traditional Indian religion. Unsurprisingly, he was a huge fan of the Nazis.

More specifically, Savarkar suggested that Hindu men rape Muslim women as a form of “revenge” and, secondly, he believed the threat of rape for Muslim misbehavior would keep the Muslim community in line.