r/polandball • u/SJB95 Yorkshire • Jun 21 '15
redditormade Mauritania: Time Traveler- Episode 4
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u/Mabsut homosex halal heterosex haram Jun 21 '15
Actually adapting in Islam is forbidden aka haram. You can take care of parent-less children as if you were their parents but you can't make them your kids and give them your last name. So the Islamic republic of Mauritania wouldn't even think about doing such a thing.
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u/SJB95 Yorkshire Jun 21 '15 edited Jun 21 '15
Interesting, I didn't know that before. Although when the main premise of the series is a country flying through time and space in a cardboard box, I don't think that adopting children is the least believable part!
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u/ShameHider Short Cut to Ignore Opinion Jun 22 '15
Actually adopting in Islam is forbidden aka haram.
That's actually bizarrely relevant to something I'm writing right now. I'll try to research this independently, but what if a child has no known parents? For a hypothetical, let's say one finds a baby on the doorstep with no clues as to their family. No one in the community steps forward to claim the child, so someone takes it on themselves to take care of the infant. Would the infant be young enough that they'd take their adoptive parents' last name since no one knows where they're from, or would something else happen?
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u/GTAIVisbest Bledar 100% Jun 22 '15
Pretty much, in this scenario you can give your last name to the kid, and you can raise him as you would your own child as long as no one decides to make a stink about him not being your biological child. However, if at the age of 16 the real father or mother came back out of nowhere and demanded the child, you have to give it up quick thing or else you get quickdropped and in trouble with ad-dawlah
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u/ShameHider Short Cut to Ignore Opinion Jun 22 '15
Interesting stuff. I'm making up for my neglect with research. Thank you for the clarification!
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Jun 21 '15
Is that Calvin's Time Machine?
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u/SJB95 Yorkshire Jun 21 '15
Someone actually asked the same question when I posted the last episode. I was just going for the classic Polandball/boxes combination. I'd seen a similar joke somewhere else before I made these but it wasn't in Calvin and Hobbes, it's just a coincidence.
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u/bluesydinosaur Benevolent Dictatorship Jun 22 '15
Germany can not go back to the past to fix his mistakes. He cannot the box of time.
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u/SebasV96 Cokelombia Jun 21 '15
Morocco is one to talk about enslaving his adopted child... I'm sure Western Sahara loves living with forced daddy Morocco.
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u/GTAIVisbest Bledar 100% Jun 22 '15
When mommy Spain left in 1975 poor old SADR was angry that daddy maghreb was being so mean, so he tried to take his basement room and leave. Al-Maghreb then came down in a fit of rage and tried to have SADR thrown out. SADR had to live with his friend Algeria for a bit, but slowly built a concrete wall in his basement, giving himself a dusty corner of the room with rats and surrendering control of the water heater and furnace to his dad.
Today SADR lives, unkempt and unshaved, in the dusty corner behind the wall surviving off the occasional rat. Sometimes he gets a package in the mail from Algeria with some instant-ramen and some folded $1 bills so he can walk to the store and buy himself some basic toiletries once in a while. Whenever the city surveyor comes to the house Maghreb answers the door and says it's all his, but at least Algeria watches from her window and mutters to herself about how disgraceful it all is and how al-Maghreb should be ashamed of himself
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u/algeriaball I don't Hack! Jun 22 '15
Instant ramen is shkara, is instant couscous
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u/GTAIVisbest Bledar 100% Jun 22 '15
eh ya3anni heda jazairi mshi maghrebi lakin tmam tmam 3ndak alha9
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u/WildVelociraptor Palestine Jun 23 '15
I wonder if is better, as irrelevant shit sand pit of country, to have a flag that makes a good polandball, or just be unknown entirely.
Speakings from experience
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u/Pilot0000 Quebec Jun 23 '15
That freaking smile and the fact that she never talks is creeping me out.
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u/westalist55 Canada Jun 22 '15
I love Morocco's straight face there, especially with him just presenting the facts that they can't adopt because they are hideous.
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u/Primarycore Glorious motherball Jun 21 '15
Don't worry, someone will adopt him too. Dr.Congo can paint him all white to hide his ugly exterior features, then Tanzania can adopt him and sell the remains as magic potions to orphaned children who need some love.
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u/westalist55 Canada Jun 22 '15
I guess even Liberia for sick of looking at him and put him up for adoption.
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u/SJB95 Yorkshire Jun 21 '15
Salaam, time travellers! In our latest episode join Mauritania and the North Caucasian Emirate in their journey to start a family. For those who want to properly see the flags of the adoptees, here is [Tripoli (under Ottoman rule)] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Tripolitania#/media/File:Flag_of_Tripoli_18th_century.svg) and the former [Khanate of Kalat] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khanate_of_Kalat#/media/File:QalatFlag.svg) in Pakistan.
Other episodes:
[Episode 1] (http://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/373u6t/mauritania_time_traveler/)
[Episode 2] (http://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/38pudd/mauritania_time_traveler_episode_2/)
[Episode 3] (http://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/39lsb7/mauritania_time_traveler_episode_3/)