Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon is a fact. — tim wood

2+3=5 is true. — tim wood

To be honest, you appear psychopathic to me. I'm not attacking or insulting you. You just do. — frank

Laws vary by state, but practicing medicine without a license is illegal in all states. Common sentences range from one to eight years in prison, depending on whether it's a misdemeanor or felony offense. Many judges will also impose fines in addition to prison sentences. — Criminal Penalties for Practicing Medicine Without a License

If you think you may have undergone medical "treatment" by someone who isn't in fact licensed to practice medicine, the first thing you need to do is report the person to local law enforcement. Since practicing medicine without a license is a serious crime, you need to get the police involved. This will hopefully lead to the offender’s arrest as quickly as possible, which is important because the offender may be continuing the fraud by "treating" or attempting to "treat" other victims.

Also, the patient should report the offender to the state medical complaint board. This board may be able to warn other potential patients and investigate how to prevent the problem in the future. For tips on where to go to make your report, see this page.

The patient may also file a lawsuit against the offender. — What to do as a victim of criminal unlicensed practice of medicine

Nobody uses sharia alone. — frank

Your government outlawed slavery without consulting a sharia judge. — frank

I doubt it. Viruses mutate all the time. — frank

The director of the OSTP, Kelvin Droegemeier, wrote in the letter to the president of the National Academy of Sciences, Marcia McNutt, that a widely disputed paper on the origins -- subsequently withdrawn -- had shown the urgency for accurate information about the genesis of the outbreak. The OSTP also supports providing wider access to scientific studies on the coronavirus. "There are still many unanswered questions about the virus, which your colleagues are working hard to resolve," he said. — White House asks scientists to investigate origins of coronavirus

The finding of 4 unique [HIV] inserts in the 2019-nCoV, all of which have identity /similarity to amino acid residues in key structural proteins of HIV-1 is unlikely to be fortuitous in nature. — Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag

I don't think the Chinese are being arrogant. They just don't believe in human rights. But neither do you apparently. — frank

If God approves of your daughter being sold as a sex slave, what's the problem? Are you in conflict with the Divine? — frank

And the Chinese government zaps people like you in the back if the head with a cattle prod for being hesitant about giving up Islam. — frank

Doctors in Thailand and Japan have used HIV medications to treat patients infected with the novel coronavirus with apparent success. — HIV treatments provide line of attack against coronavirus

Anyway, I didn't attack you. I just drew your attention to the ramifications of your disgusting beliefs. — frank

And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? 16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD. 17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. 18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. — Torah, Numbers 31:15-18 (KJV)

Hans Joachim Schoeps observes that the Christianity Muhammad was likely to have encountered on the Arabian peninsula "was not the state religion of Byzantium but a schismatic Christianity characterized by Ebionite and Monophysite views."[115]

Thus we have a paradox of world-historical proportions, viz., the fact that Jewish Christianity indeed disappeared within the Christian church, but was preserved in Islam and thereby extended some of its basic ideas even to our own day. According to Islamic doctrine, the Ebionite combination of Moses and Jesus found its fulfillment in Muhammad.[116] — Wikipedia on the views on the Ebionites of Hans Joachim Schoeps

We know they were gang raped because some escaped to tell about it. — frank

So if your daughter was captured and sold to the highest bidder, your god would approve. That's one fucked up religion you have, my friend. — frank

And relating this back to Islamic law, you'd see this as evidence of the righteousness of Islam's association with slave trading? If your mother was captured and gang raped as the Yazidi women were, you'd consider that this may be approved by God? — frank

In William Seabrook's book Adventures in Arabia, the fourth section, starting with Chapter 14, is devoted to the "Yezidees" and is titled "Among the Yezidees". He describes them as "a mysterious sect scattered throughout the Orient, strongest in North Arabia, feared and hated both by Moslem and Christian, because they are worshippers of Satan."

George Gurdjieff wrote about his encounters with the Yazidis several times in his book Meetings with Remarkable Men, mentioning that they are considered to be "devil worshippers" by other ethnicities in the region.

In H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Horror at Red Hook", some of the murderous foreigners are identified as belonging to "the Yezidi clan of devil-worshippers".[89] — Wikipedia on the historical perception of the Yazidi

- Their belief that Iblees is the peacock of the angels lead them to venerate statues of peacocks made of copper in the form of a rooster the size of a clenched fist. They take these statues around the villages to collect money.
-In their declaration of faith they say: “I bear witness that One is Allah and Sultan Yazid is the beloved of Allah.”
They prohibit the colour blue because it is one of the most prominent colours of the peacock.
The Yazidi prays facing towards the sun when it rises and when it sets, then he kisses the ground and rubs his face on it.
...
Then they began to venerate Iblees who is cursed in the Qur’an.
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From the above it is clear that the Yazidis are a deviant and misguided sect who are beyond the pale of Islam. Based on that, it is not permissible for a Muslim to marry a Yazidi woman, just as it is not permissible to marry a mushrik (polytheist) or Magian woman, and the like. No exception is made regarding disbelievers who are outside the pale of Islam, with regard to marriage, except in the case of the Jews and Christians, because they are originally People of the Book. As for the Yazidis and others, they have no Book in the first place; rather they are an apostate sect who combine all kinds of disbelief in one religion. — Religious advisory on marrying a Yazidi woman

Yazidis have suffered centuries of religious persecution, based largely on the false idea that they revere the sun as God and worship a fallen angel. Though Yazidis pray toward the sun, and worship seven angels, they are monotheistic, and there is little to distinguish their God from the Muslim or the Christian one.

Under the Ottomans, Yazidi villages were raided so often that the word firman, which means “decree” in Ottoman Turkish, came to mean “genocide” among Yazidis. When Saddam Hussein was President of Iraq, Yazidi villages were razed, and their inhabitants were resettled in planned communities and compelled to identify as Arabs.

By the time that Pir was in college, in the early two-thousands, the Yazidis counted seventy-two genocides in their history. — The Daring Plan to Save a Religious Minority from ISIS

I take this to mean that there are axioms outside the formal system of Islamic Law upon which the laws are based - and that these axioms come from Allah. Am I getting this correct - or am I at least close? — EricH

According to Islamic theology, human beings are born with an innate inclination of tawhid (Oneness). — Fitrah in the ontology of Islam

mathematics is an exercise of the human intuition, not a game played with meaningless symbols. — Intuitionism in the ontology of mathematics

But I think your goal was to show some biological basis for slavery in an ancient sex-slave trade. Your only backing for this is a mistaken notion about the difficulties of holding male slaves. I'm not persuaded. — frank

As Farges has argued, conquest also involves gendered representations of the sexuality of the enemy: It is as if the women of the conquered enemy belonged de facto and almost by right to the conqueror. Insofar as a woman is concerned, this form of belonging is implicitly perceived as being sexual. The anthropological dissymmetry between male and female provides the “natural” evidence of this stereotype: the sexual act is a possession of the feminine by the masculine and not the other way round. The conqueror says “this is mine” when he places his flag over the conquered city and rapes the women. In this sense, the two actions are homologous. — When Silence Reigns: Sexuality, Affect, and Space in Soldiers’ Memoirs of the Napoleonic Wars

A fruitless endeavor, for he soon learned the set of such functions was the empty set. :worry: — jgill

Adult male slaves have always been popular because they're stronger than females slaves. — frank

He offers a graphic account of his kidnapping into slavery at the age of 11, and describes being held captive along the West African coast for seven months before was subsequently sold to British slavers, who shipped him to Barbados and then took him to Virginia. — Childhood and Transatlantic Slavery

Evolution has such a preponderance of evidence on its side, that really the burden of disproof is on you. — Artemis

Repetition makes a fact seem more true, regardless of whether it is or not. Understanding this effect can help you avoid falling for propaganda, says psychologist Tom Stafford. 'Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth', is a law of propaganda often attributed to the Nazi Joseph Goebbels. Among psychologists something like this known as the 'illusion of truth' effect. — How liars create the ‘illusion of truth’

It involves formulating hypotheses, via induction, based on such observations; experimental and measurement-based testing of deductions drawn from the hypotheses; and refinement (or elimination) of the hypotheses based on the experimental findings.[1][2][3] — Wikipedia on the scientific method

You seem to be saying that Muslims have never really accepted that slavery is immoral. They've just been going along with it because their European dominators saw things that way. Once Europe is gone, they'll go back to slave trading. — frank

So the first slaves were sex-slaves? Interesting speculation. Is there any evidence for it? — frank

A major source of slaves had been Roman military expansion during the Republic. During the Pax Romana of the early Roman Empire (1st–2nd centuries AD), emphasis was placed on maintaining stability, and the lack of new territorial conquests dried up this supply line of human trafficking. Many captives were either brought back as war booty or sold to traders,[9] and ancient sources cite anywhere from hundreds to tens of thousands of such slaves captured in each war. The average recorded age at death for the slaves of the city of Rome was extraordinarily low: seventeen and a half years (17.2 for males; 17.9 for females). Julius Caesar once sold the entire population of a conquered region in Gaul, no fewer than 53,000 people, to slave dealers on the spot. — Wikipedia on slavery in ancient Rome

Knowledge is an end in itself. — Artemis

we harnessed evolution in the form of selective breeding — Artemis

Speciation is not a huge, insurmountable problem for the theory of evolution — Artemis

Nevertheless it's locked in to a world in which slave trading was ok. That world is gone and thus Islamic law is crippled. — frank

A working theory can't just be usurped because you're dissatisfied with some very minor evidenciary gaps. — Artemis

You haven't explained why it would be necessary though. — Artemis

All life on Earth shares a last universal common ancestor (LUCA)[10][11][12] that lived approximately 3.5–3.8 billion years ago. — Wikipedia on LUCA

Neither have you given me a good or better, evidence-based alternative theory. — Artemis

Why is evolving an apple out of a fish the kind of proof you need? When clearly it would just take too long and too many resources to do? I mean, you'd be dead before the experiments were concluded. — Artemis

It's kind of like demanding scientists create a whole new planet with functioning gravity before you accept the reality of gravity. — Artemis

Over the past few centuries, two theoretical frameworks have been developed that, together, most closely resemble a TOE. These two theories upon which all modern physics rests are general relativity (GR) and quantum field theory (QFT).

Nevertheless, GR and QFT are mutually incompatible – they cannot both be right. — Wikipedia on the physical ToE

Well, Alcontali is quiet on the question of STEM Nobel prizes by muslim scientists, so let me answer..... drum roll..... the answer is 2 (TWO!).
And one of them is Ahmediyya, a sect which is recognized by either Sunni or Shia as "muslim".
Yep, obviously a trememdous love for STEMM in those pious societies! — Nobeernolife

Taleb and Nobel laureate Myron Scholes have traded personal attacks, particularly after Taleb's paper with Espen Haug on why nobody used the Black–Scholes–Merton formula. Taleb said that Scholes was responsible for the financial crises of 2008, and suggested that "this guy should be in a retirement home doing Sudoku. His funds have blown up twice. He shouldn't be allowed in Washington to lecture anyone on risk."[4] — Wikipedia: Nassim Taleb's biography

"Bitcoin Is A Bubble." Krugman said that the cryptocurrency was an obvious bubble. He said its prices were going up because it was “some fancy technological thing that nobody really understands.” — Investopedia.com on Paul Krugman

What exactly about being able to change the attributes of species from generation to generation (as we do when creating new apples) is not convincing to you? — Artemis

Speciation is the evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become distinct species.

Chapter 6 of Darwin's book is entitled "Difficulties of the Theory." In discussing these "difficulties" he noted "Firstly, why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms? Why is not all nature in confusion instead of the species being, as we see them, well defined?" This dilemma can be referred to as the absence or rarity of transitional varieties in habitat space.[7]

Another dilemma,[8] related to the first one, is the absence or rarity of transitional varieties in time. Darwin pointed out that by the theory of natural selection "innumerable transitional forms must have existed," and wondered "why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth." — Wikipedia on speciation

If you are that particular kind of theist and you think all philosophical issues have been clarified by that kind of deity in a particular text. — Coben

Given that so many issues are not resolved by scripture or revelation, there is tremendous room for discussion. — Coben

U = a thing about which nothing can be known
U is possible because there's no contradiction in positing a U. So, it is possible for U to exist in one of the infinitely possible worlds (argument A) — TheMadFool

The Epistemology of Visual Thinking in Mathematics — Banno

So you accept Western psychological studies only when they suit you? — Gregory

Dunning and Kruger tested the hypotheses of the cognitive bias of illusory superiority on undergraduate students of introductory courses in psychology by examining the students' self-assessments of their intellectual skills in logical reasoning (inductive, deductive, abductive), English grammar, and personal sense of humor. After learning their self-assessment scores, the students were asked to estimate their ranks in the psychology class. The competent students underestimated their class rank, and the incompetent students overestimated theirs, but the incompetent students did not estimate their class rank as higher than the ranks estimated by the competent group. Across four studies, the research indicated that the study participants who scored in the bottom quartile on tests of their sense of humor, knowledge of grammar, and logical reasoning, overestimated their test performance and their abilities; despite test scores that placed them in the 12th percentile, the participants estimated they ranked in the 62nd percentile.[1][9] — Wikipedia on the Dunning-Kruger tests

And why are you asking for help to formalize your system on here? — Gregory

You believe in your religion despite the evidence. — Gregory

Again, you're a moron. — Gregory

It's a theory, actually. — Artemis

Talk is cheap. Show me the code. — Linus' Law

Talk is cheap. Show me the man-made speciation. — Al-Contali's law

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_evolution — Artemis

This Chihuahua mix and Great Dane show the wide range of dog breed sizes created using artificial selection. — Producing dog breeds as an example of natural selection

All life on Earth shares a last universal common ancestor (LUCA)[10][11][12] that lived approximately 3.5–3.8 billion years ago.[13] — Wikipedia on Evolution

By analysis of the presumed LUCA's offspring groups, the LUCA appears to have been a small, single-celled organism. — Wikipedia on LUCA

Speciation is the evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become distinct species. — Wikipedia on speciation

It has been suggested that laboratory experiments are not conducive to vicariant speciation events (allopatric and peripatric) due to their small population sizes and limited generations.[2] Most estimates from studies of nature indicate that speciation takes hundreds of thousands to millions of years.[3] — Wikpedia on laboratory speciation

Muslims have no problems whatsoever with STEM fields. — alcontali

Really? https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16258-how-to-stop-creationism-gaining-a-hold-in-islam/ — Nobeernolife

List of engineering universities in Pakistan

Islamabad
Abasyn University, Peshawar, Islamabad Campus[1]
Air University, Islamabad[2]
Bahria University, Islamabad (Main Campus)[3]
Sir Syed CASE Institute of Technology Islamabad[4]
COMSATS University Islamabad (Main Campus)[5]
Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science & Technology, Islamabad (Main Campus)[6]
Hamdard Institute of Engineering and Technology, Islamabad Campus (Hamdard University, Karachi)
Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad[7]
National University of Sciences and Technology (Pakistan), Islamabad
International Islamic University, Islamabad
Islamic International Engineering College, Islamabad (Riphah International University, Islamabad)[8]
Iqra University, Islamabad Campus (Iqra University, Karachi)
Capital University of Science & Technology, Islamabad
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad (Main Campus)[9]
National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad (Main Campus)
Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Islamabad[10]
Grafton College, Islamabad[11]

Punjab
COMSATS University Islamabad (Sahiwal Campus)[12]
Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Technology, Multan[13]
University of Engineering and Technology, Rasul[14]
Army Public College of Management Sciences, Rawalpindi (University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila)[15]
Dr. A. Q. Khan Institute of Computer Sciences and Information Technology, Rawalpindi [16]
COMSATS University Islamabad (Lahore Campus)[17]
Sharif College of Engineering and Technology, Lahore Affiliated with UET Lahore[18]
COMSATS University Islamabad (Wah Campus)[19]
National University of Sciences and Technology (Pakistan), College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Rawalpindi Campus[20]
HITEC University, Taxila Cantonment[21]
Information Technology University (Lahore)[22]
Institute of Advanced Materials, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan
Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore[23]
National University of Sciences and Technology (Pakistan), Military College of Signals, Rawalpindi Campus
National Textile University, Faisalabad
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad, (Lahore Campus)[24]
NFC Institute of Engineering and Fertilizer Research, Faisalabad (University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore)[25]
NFC Institute of Engineering and Technology, Multan)[26]
Swedish College of Engineering and Technology Affiliated with UET-Lahore, Rahim Yar Khan[27]
Swedish College of Engineering And Technology affiliated with UET-Taxila, Wah Cantt[28]
Rachna College of Engineering and Technology, Gujranwala (University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore)[29]
School of Engineering, University of Management and Technology, Lahore
University of Central Punjab, Lahore[30]
University of Lahore, Lahore (Main Campus)[31]
University College of Engineering and Technology, Multan (Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan)[32]
Bahauddin Zakariya University College of Textile Engineering, Multan (Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan)[33]
University College of Engineering and Technology, Bahawalpur (Islamia University, Bahawalpur)[34]
University of Agriculture, Faisalabad[35]
University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila (Main Campus)[36]
University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila (Chakwal Campus)[37]
University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore
University of Faisalabad, Faisalabad
University of Gujrat, Gujrat[38]
University of Wah, Wah Cantonment[39]
Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Engineering and Technology, Multan
University College of Engineering Sciences & Technology, Lahore Leads University
University College of Engineering & Technology, University of Sargodha
Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Rahim Yar Khan[40]
Quaid-e-Azam College of Engineering and Technology, Sahiwal[41]
University of South Asia, Lahore[42]
Namal Institute, Mianwali[43]
Government College University, Lahore[44]
Government College University, Faisalabad[45]
Imperial College of Business Studies, Lahore
GIFT University, Gujranwala[46]
Lahore College for Women University, Lahore[47]
University of the Punjab, Lahore[48]

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
CECOS University of Information Technology and Emerging Sciences, Peshawar[49]
National University of Sciences and Technology (Pakistan), College of Aeronautical Engineering, Risalpur Campus[50]
COMSATS University Islamabad (Abbottabad Campus)[51]
City University of Science and Information Technology, Peshawar
Gandhara Institute of Science and Technology, PGS Engineering College (University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar)[52]
Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - Swabi[53]
IQRA National University, Peshawar (Formerly Iqra University, Karachi (Peshawar Campus)[54]
National University of Sciences and Technology (Pakistan), Military College of Engineering (Pakistan), Risalpur Campus[55]
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad (Peshawar Campus)[56]
University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar (Main Campus)[57]
University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar (Jalozai Campus)[58]
University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar (Bannu Campus)[59]
University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar (Abbottabad Campus)[60]
University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar (Kohat Campus)[61]
Peshawar College of Engineering, Peshawar (University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar)[62]
Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology, Peshawar
Abasyn University, Peshawar (Main Campus)[63]
Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan
University of Engineering and Technology, Mardan[64]

Sindh
Muhammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi[65]
Habib University, Karachi[66]
Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, Karachi
Bahria University, Islamabad (Karachi Campus)[67]
Dawood University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi
Hamdard Institute of Engineering & Technology, Karachi (Hamdard University, Karachi)[68]
Iqra University, Karachi (Main Campus)[69]
Indus University, Karachi (Formerly Indus Institute of Higher Education, Karachi)
DHA Suffa University, Karachi
Institute of Business Management, Karachi
Institute of Industrial Electronics Engineering (Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), Karachi (NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi)[70]
Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro[71]
Mehran University College of Engineering and Technology, Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Campus, Khairpur Mirs (Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro)
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad (Karachi Campus)[72]
NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi[73]
National University of Sciences and Technology (Pakistan), Pakistan Navy Engineering College, Karachi[74]
Karachi Institute of Economics and Technology (PAF-KIET), Karachi[75]
Plastics Technology Center, Karachi (Constituent College of National Textile University, Faisalabad)[76]
Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering, Science and Technology, Nawabshah[77]
Quaid-e-Awam University College of Engineering, Science and Technology, Larkana (Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering, Science and Technology, Nawabshah)
Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi[78]
Sindh Agriculture University, Tando Jam[79]
Synthetic Fibre Development and Application Center, Karachi (Constituent College of National Textile University, Faisalabad)
Sukkur IBA University, Sukkur
Usman Institute of Technology, Karachi (NED University, Karachi)[80]
University of Karachi, Karachi[81]
Barrett Hodgson University, Karachi[82]
Nazeer Hussain University, Karachi[83]

Balochistan
Balochistan University of Engineering and Technology, Khuzdar[84]
Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences, Quetta (Takatu Campus)[85]

Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Mirpur University of Science and Technology, Mirpur, Azad Kashmir[86]
University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir[87] — List of engineering universities in Pakistan

After all, you can't even prove there is a God? You tried, you failed. Your only argument was "infinite regress is impossible", which I refute above in this thread — Gregory

As modern science get's more nominalistic, it breaks the spine of Islamic law, which can't handle all the questions that arise in our age. — Gregory

I do not know what you are waffling about about, and I suspect neither are you. — Nobeernolife

You accused me of not knowing islamic scripture and I pointed out I indeed read it. — Nobeernolife

Then you declared only islamic scholare are are able to interpret islamic scriptures (something that you denied earlier). — Nobeernolife

Let is just say that II sure as hell would not want to rely on a nuclear power plant designed by someone with your, err, logical thinking abolity. — Nobeernolife

....and every time I have quoted an islamic scholar, you said you don´t know them and anyway in islam there is no scholarly authority. Go figure. — Nobeernolife

he alim and ulema are not a "I'm better" aristocratics? — Gregory

If it is easy to check that a solution to a problem is correct, is it also easy to solve the problem? This is the essence of the P vs NP question. Typical of the NP problems is that of the Hamiltonian Path Problem: given N cities to visit, how can one do this without visiting a city twice? If you give me a solution, I can easily check that it is correct. But I cannot so easily find a solution. — Third millenium prize. One-million dollar prize for a proof why it seems to be like that.

Actually, I have read them all, plus plenty of interpretations by leading clerics (which you admitted to being completely ignorant of). — Nobeernolife

In Islam, the ulama (/ˈuːləˌmɑː/; Arabic: علماء‎ ʿUlamāʾ, singular عالِم ʿĀlim, "scholar", literally "the learned ones",[1] also spelled ulema; feminine: alimah [singular] and uluma [plural])[2] are the guardians, transmitters and interpreters of religious knowledge in Islam, including Islamic doctrine and law.[2]

By longstanding tradition, ulama are educated in religious institutions (madrasas). The Quran and sunnah (authentic hadith), are the scriptural sources of traditional Islamic law.[3] — Wikipedia on the Ulema

but most true hermaphrodites who are strippers or more are from the Orient — Gregory

While Iran has outlawed homosexuality, Iranian Shi'a thinkers such as Ayatollah Khomeini have allowed for transgender people to change their sex so that they can enter heterosexual relationships. This position has been confirmed by the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and is also supported by many other Iranian clerics.

Iran carries out more sex change operations than any other nation in the world except for Thailand. It is regarded as a cure for homosexuality, which is punishable by death under Iranian law. The government even provides up to half the cost for those needing financial assistance and a sex change is recognized on the birth certificate.[161] — Wikipedia on transgenders in Islam

Islamic scriptures are a wildly incoherent collection of oral transmissions. — Nobeernolife

In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability. Without the self-awareness of metacognition, people cannot objectively evaluate their competence or incompetence.[1] — Wikipedia on the Dunning-Kruger effect

Religious ideology is not a "serious STEM field". — Nobeernolife

assert Syllogism {
  all Socrates: univ, Man, Mortal: set univ |
      -- every man is mortal
      Man in Mortal
      -- Socrates is a man
      and (Socrates in Man)
      -- implies Socrates is mortal
      implies Socrates in Mortal
  }
check Syllogism

Well, if you want to base your argument not on any statements by clerics but solely on the literal contents of the Koran — Nobeernolife

You have expressed very consistently the need for a formal set of rules that are inspired by a transcendental source outside the system itself. — EricH

Are you saying that the only thing keeping you from performing such acts is the moral rules of your religion? — EricH

Can you acknowledge that you do not need a transcendental source to recognize that such actions are morally wrong? — EricH

Just out of curiosity - and in an effort to understand you better - do you consider yourself Sunni, Shiite, other? — EricH