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I intend to make a video series about the Crusades “A Western Perspective”
And another series from the Muslim point of view
On the principle of one opinion and the other opinion, so that the picture becomes clearer to the viewer, and the dialogue is rich.
Because it takes a long time to talk about the Crusades, what is your opinion:
1- We divide the topic into several episodes, each episode lasting approximately 8–10 minutes.
2 - To make a full video, regardless of its length, whether two hours, three hours, or perhaps more.
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Sox and Tox Story:
There were two neighboring islands in the farthest oceans, one called (Aya) and the other (Paya), and people called “Soks” lived on the island of Aya. It was a fertile island with abundant plant life and tropical fruits, and it had many waterfalls and rivers that provided people with clean water and places for solitude and recreation. The surrounding seas are unpolluted and contain many fish and seafood. In addition, there was gold on the island, and the people of the Sox loved gold, especially women, and they used gold coins as money; Because everyone hoarded gold, and the tribe was led by a man called Saka, who minted gold coins, and they lived a cooperative life and there were no interest charges on lending and borrowing among them, and from time to time tidal waves and strong winds destroyed some of their possessions, especially their homes; However, the community quickly helped each other rebuild or repair damaged property. Otherwise, the community is safe and lives a harmonious life.
On the other hand, the island of Paya is inhabited by people called Toks, and their leader is an old man named Taka. Paya Island is also fertile, and most of the residents of Toks are farmers who work in rice fields or raise cows, sheep, and poultry.
Some of them are skilled at handicrafts and produce a variety of household items, and they also live safe and cooperative lives, helping each other in life; However, TOXIANS is not as sophisticated as SOXIANS in that they only engage in barter trading. TOXIANS realized that the SOXIANS were wealthier and healthier than them, and their cities were more advanced than them.
They always thought that SOX were more talented and advanced than them. Although they exchanged goods with the SOX from time to time, the idea of money never occurred to them. Despite this, their women loved gold, especially the gold jewels made by SOX.
One day, two men dressed in elegant clothes arrived on a ship on the shores of Aya Island, and their names were (Jajo and Sajo).
The generous people of SOX welcomed the two guests, and the people of SOX were impressed by the stories of Jajo and Sajo's extensive travels and showed them some gold coins from other parts of the world and some literature that seemed to be used as money by people from faraway places. The people of SOX had never seen paper before, and even these paper currencies contained pictures of bananas, their favorite fruit. In addition, the two strangers showed them a device that prints such money, wow! This caught the SOXIAN'S attention, they were in awe; Because they had never seen such a thing before, the people of the island loved Jajo and Sajo and asked them to live with them on the island.
Jajo and Sajo convinced the people that establishing an institution called a bank would greatly benefit the people. They explained that establishing a bank would provide a place to safely store their gold money while at the same time improving their economic conditions by making savings available for others to invest; Otherwise, it will remain idle, useless money. The SOX people, who loved helping others, saw it as a great idea, so Jajo and Sajo built a small building with a bank vault and began operating the first bank on Aya Island.
They celebrated the occasion by hosting a large banquet for the people of the island, in addition to a wonderful festival. People crowded to deposit their gold coins in the bank, and the depositors received a printed sheet of paper for each gold coin they deposited, with confirmation that they could recover the gold coin for every paper they delivered to the bank, and people were amazed at the paper money they obtained; Because it carried a picture of their leader Saka next to the banana tree, and there is no doubt that Saka was pleased as well!
The people deposited all the gold coins, a total of 100,000 pieces, and accordingly; A similar number of papers were issued, and people now began to use paper as money and found this more convenient than the heavier gold coins they were using.
Consequently; The paper money printed by Jajo became the dominant currency on the island, and no one used gold money after that. The people felt comfortable with the ease of movement in conducting their business and trade, and they trusted Jajo and Sajo with great confidence. Because every time they presented a banknote to retrieve the gold, their request was met, and the community respected and revered Jajo and Sajo.
TOXIAN people were amazed at the whole thing and begged Jajo and Sajo to help them too. Jajo and Sajo smiled and told TOX that they were indeed happy to do so. Then they constructed a similar building in Paya, and Sajo became its manager. The difference between Aya and Paya is that TOX did not have gold coins to deposit. Sajo told them that there was no problem with this matter, however, he would give 1,000 banknotes to each family that used them.
Since there are a hundred families in Paya; 10,000 banknotes were distributed, yet Sajo reminded them that by the end of the year, each family had to return 1,100 banknotes, a rate of 10% being considered a fee for the services provided, and the people of TOX found the banknote like magic; It made their commercial dealings easier compared to the swap trade system, and people began to spend much less time than before searching for parties to trade with. They were now qualified to specialize in the jobs they were good at, and their economy began to grow rapidly.
Now, Jajo and Sajo decided that it was time to do what was ((needed !!!)). Jajo noticed that in Aya, the people of SOX recovered only 10% of the deposited gold on average at all times, and 90% remained in the bank's vaults. Jajo noticed that the printed papers worked like cash; So, he printed 900,000 additional certificates that worked like money! Jajo calculated that the additional notes, totaling 1,000,000 would be unpaid and if they wanted to get the 10% back, the original 100,000 deposited gold would be ready for recovery. Jajo loaned these additional 900,000 notes to some “needy” SOX at a 15% interest rate.
The SOX soon realized that the prices of commodities were rising, and it confused them, ‘’and no one could understand why.” Some of those who borrowed from Jajo were unable to repay their debts, even though they worked hard to earn extra money.
The competitiveness of trade and business has increased. Society has become less merciful, compassionate, and less concerned with others than before.
The people of TOX also found similar things happening to them; At first, they did not notice the rise in prices, but they noticed that some people's behavior had changed, and they had become more competitive in their attitude and less concerned with their brothers from their island. Even with hard work and competitive behavior; They defaulted on their loans and could not obtain enough money to pay off their total debt. Now Sajo began confiscating real wealth from those who were late in repaying loans - such as land, cows, sheep, etc. - and among those who were late in repaying loans was their great leader, Taka; However, Sajo gave them and some other TOX people extra notes to reschedule their loan payments.
This increased their indebtedness, and then Taka defaulted again and scheduled his debts again, and now Taka began to avoid meeting Sajo, feeling ashamed and finding his former authority, pride, courage and dignity falling away.” On the contrary, Sajo found that his wealth was gradually increasing by acquiring other people's property. In fact, he found that the power, pride, courage, and dignity he had lost were acquired by Sajo.
After several years, Jajo and Sajo, who had previously arrived on the shores of Aya Island with nothing but a printing machine, now became the owners of most of the land and property on the islands of Aya and Paya, and the people were reduced to mere workers, some of whom live in poverty.
Some of them work long hours just to cover their needs, and now they no longer have much time to spend with their families or friends or to practice religious rituals, and social problems have spread. People no longer care about others, and it is obvious that we find poverty and other social problems such as crime, prostitution, etc. begin to spread, and their cultures change with the passage of days. Because Jajo and Sajo introduced a new “high” culture of “high” people who belonged to it, and this marked the end of the good, charitable people of the islands of Aya and Paya, who had previously lived a quiet and safe life before Jajo and Sajo arrived with that printing machine.
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Jajo and Sajo did not stop there, but they continued to spread their experiences to other peoples and societies, and their great dream was to become the world's supreme rulers by establishing a single global bank and a single global currency.
From the book: Stealing States.
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The emergence of the philosophy of history:
Ibn Khaldun can be considered the most important pioneer of the philosophy of history, in which he intended to link historical events and explain them. The first person to use the term (philosophy of history) was the French philosopher Voltaire, and he meant by the term the study of history from the point of view of the philosopher, that is, the study of history in a critical study that excludes myths and legends.
Definition: Philosophy of history can be defined as an attempt to provide a philosophical interpretation of human history as a whole. This is done by applying philosophy to history, and this is evident from the clarity of the three basic philosophical topics (existence - knowledge - and values) in the philosophy of history. In the field of knowledge, the philosophy of history deals with the possibility of knowing history, the source of historical knowledge, and the limits of historical knowledge. In a valuable topic, it examines the role of the moral factor in historical development, the possibility of moral judgment on history...etc., historical truth and its nature...etc.
Characteristics of the philosophy of history:
1) Totality: The philosophy of history is characterized by totality, meaning that it examines human history as a whole.
2) Reasoning: Reasoning is also characterized by its totality, meaning that it examines the basic factors that govern the movement of historical development. Western philosophy of history has mostly reduced it to one factor (the unilateral interpretation of history).
The difference between the philosophy of history and the science of history: The philosophy of history investigates human history as a whole (holism) by studying concepts prior to historical research (abstraction), while the science of history investigates specific historical facts in time and place (partial) by studying these historical facts using the method. Descriptive (objective). The difference between the philosophy of history and the science of history can be expressed that the philosophy of history is an answer to the question: Why the historical event? While history science answers the question: How is the historical event?
The mythical interpretation of history: The philosophy of history contradicts the mythical interpretation, which is the interpretation of all history, like the philosophy of history, but it is not based on reasoning as in the philosophy of history, but rather on absolute acceptance of the validity of the ideas to which it is attributed without verifying whether they are true or false. For example, history is interpreted by reference to unseen forces such as spirits or evil experience, as in the myths of the Iliad and the Odyssey among the ancient Greeks, or as among the ancient Easterners such as the Babylonians and Assyrians, and there is no room for everyone between the mythical interpretation and the religious interpretation. Because the mythical interpretation cancels out what is tangible (testimonial) with what is unseen, so saying that history is moved by unseen forces leads to a denial of the existence of a (tangible) factor whose movement is explained, while religious interpretation combines what is tangible (testimonial) and what is concrete (metaphysical), such as saying that history has laws. They are established (knowable) and that these laws are a formative manifestation of the divine will.
Some theories of the philosophy of history:
Theory of Divine Providence: Interpreting history by returning it to the will of a God, the most famous representative of which is Augustine, who saw in his book (The City of God) that the human race knew sin and disobedience, so it deserved the “disasters and wars” that befell it (here meaning the invasion of the barbarians and the Holy Roman Empire), and the solution is the establishment of a kingdom. God on Earth. This theory coincides with the (Islamic) religion in saying the divine role in history. But while this divine theory depicts an unseen force that destroys the will of man (as it says by force) and imposes the laws of nature, Islam imagines God as having an absolute will that limits the limited will of man. It does not cancel it (for history here is the result of absolute divine and limited human action) and it does not destroy the laws of nature, and perhaps it is a manifestation of the formation of this divine will. Therefore, the Qur’an expresses these laws in terms of divine laws. In other words, the theory of divine providence is based on mixing religious interpretation with mythical interpretation and the ancient Greeks’ perception of their gods. .
Hegel: He believes that absolute thought is the decisive factor in historical development.
Marx: He believes that the economy is the decisive factor in historical development
Humanistic philosophy: There are those who believe that the human being is the decisive factor, but some of them believe that what is meant by the human being is the group. Some of them believe that what is meant by humans is individuals (heroes, as according to Cardell).
Ibn Khaldun: He determined that man is the decisive factor in the movement of history, but he did not look at man as a qualitative unit of thought and matter. Rather, he focused on the material (physiological) aspect, as is evident from his focus on asaba (unity of lineage, i.e. blood bond), so he compared society to the organism. The neighborhood (begins as a child - a man - an old man), so the movement of history was not understood as development (growth through addition) but rather as transformation (growth without addition).
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