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“Kur’an’a göre insanlar "hür" ve "köle" olmak üzere yaşam sürerler. "Köle" insan, başkasının mülkü sayılan, onun hizmetinde olan, onun tarafından yönetilen, alınıp satılabilen insan demektir (dişi köleye "cariye" denir). Köle olmayan, ya da kölelere efendilik yapanlar ise “hür” sayılırlar. Ancak ne var ki Kur’an’ın "hür" olarak tanımladığı insanlar dahi aslında gerçek anlamda hür (özgür) olmaktan uzaktırlar: gökten indiği söylenen buyrukların uygulayıcısıdırlar; yani özgür iradeye sahip olarak is görme olasılığından yoksundurlar. Çünkü Kur’an’a göre Tanrı insanları (ve cinleri) esas itibariyle kul diye yaratmıştır. "Kul" sözcüğü Kur'an'da "abd" olarak geçer ki esas itibariyle "köle" anlamındadır.”

“Kur'an'daki ”Dinde zorlama olmaz" buyruğu, esas itibariyle dinsel uygulamada kolaylık sağlamayı amaçlar; "hoşgörü" ya da din ve vicdan özgürlüğüyle ilgisi yoktur. Örneğin dinin gerektirdiği şeyleri yerine getirmek hususunda hiç kimseye gücünden fazlasını yüklememek ya da ibadet ve namaz gibi işlerde bazı kolaylıklar sağlamak, dinde zorlama olmaz anlamına gelir. Araplar, zahmetli şeyleri sevmedikleri ve genellikle zora gelemedikleri için, Muhammed onları bu yönleriyle ele almış ve kazanmaya çalışmıştır.”

“Kurdish autonomous region of Iraq is clearly a 'client' state of the West, of Turkey and to some extent, Israel. It is shamelessly capitalist, taking land from its own people, cheating them, just in order to pump and refine huge quantities of oil. It treats Syrian refugees like animals, forcing them to make anti-Assad statements. It is turning ancient Erbil into some bizarre shopping mall with nothing public in sight. Its military top brass is mainly US/UK-trained and indoctrinated. And it provokes Baghdad, day and night.”

“Kurds are going to have to strike a bargain with Bashar Assad that will keep them in the Syrian state and under some kind of Syrian authority, so that they can have the protection of international legitimacy and the Syrian army against the Turks. How they can bargain with Assad is unclear. What kind of negotiations they can come to, unclear. We will see whether they get something like the Kurds in Iraq, which is a large measure of autonomy, or something less than that. That will be one of the big negotiations to come out of this process.”

“Kurogane: That's what you want, isn't it? Underneath that constant grin, you're keeping everyone away. So that nobody gets involved with you. But look. Just now you checked to see if the kid had a fever, and you're relieved that the princess doesn't see the wretched condition of this world. And in the last country, you used your magic. Fai: *smiling* I said it, didn't I? I wasn't going to die. And so... Kurogane: Yeah, but that was all about you not dying on your own account. Dying for somebody else... That's a whole new question. Back then, if you hadn't done anything, we would have been captured, and if we handled it wrong, we might have died. But you decided to use magic on your own. You involved yourself in their lives. Fai: *no longer smiling, looks depressed* I... I don't want to make anyone unhappy because of their involvement with me.”

“Kurt (Cobain) was a fan of my standup, which was pretty weird. I know when people hear that, it's kind of like finding out that Jimi Hendrix really liked Buddy Hackett, but he interviewed me at a college radio station before they broke and did Bleach. And then, like, about two years later, I was opening for Nirvana at these huge sports arenas.”

“Kurt Cobain OD'd on heroin before committing suicide, but he also OD'd on fame. Cobain was like Basquiat: They both wanted to be famous, and were brilliant enough to make it happen. But then what? Drug addicts kill themselves trying to get that feeling they got from their first high, looking for an experience they'll never get again. In his suicide note, Cobain asked himself, "Why don't you just enjoy it?" and then answered, "I don't know!" It's amazing how much of a mindfuck success can be.”

“Kurt Cobain was a musical lyric genius. He was the Edgar Allan Poe of songwriting.”

“Kurt Russell said another brilliant thing. He had starred in umpteen movies by that point. And he said, "Generally speaking, in every film I've done, there are only about three or four scenes that I can really do something with. For the rest of it, it's not so much that you don't have to prepare, but there's not much you can really do. You just do what is asked of you in those scenes. You don't want to do too much."”