legendary mark on history. She was known for dressing like a man in a suit of armor and leading the French troops against the in English in the Hundred Years War. Eventually being apprehended Joan was turned over to the English but tried by the French clerics who surprisingly supported the English. George Bernard‚ author of Saint Joan‚ wrote the play based on Arc’s life. A character in the play is the Inquisitor. The church court whose members decided Joan’s fate was to hear out the Inquisitor’s speech
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Boko Haram From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search Boko Haram People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد | Participant in the Nigerian Sharia conflict | Active | 2002– | Ideology | Islamism Islamic fundamentalism Oppose man-made law Support strict sharia law | Leaders | Mohammed Yusuf Abubakar Shekau[1] Mallam Sanni Umaru[2][3][not in citation given]Abu Qaqa - spokesman[4] Abu Zaid - spokesman[3] | Headquarters
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The Roots of Pakistan’s Political Crisis. Sadia Abbas It seemed too good to be true. Pakistan had a judiciary asserting itself. The media was feeding a nascent democracy movement. The military was being challenged. Even the intelligence services were being asked to produce those it had been “disappearing” for years. If you were accustomed to CNN quiescence and had grown up in a Pakistan with one state channel on which hyper-formal anchor-people mechanically read the news in an Urdu inaccessible to
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Cited: Max Weber‚ The Protestant ethic and the ‘’spirit’’ of capitalism and other writings. USA: Penguin Books‚ 2002. Print Max Weber‚ Essays in Sociology. NY: Oxford University Press‚ 1946. Print
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before the start of the war with Iraq in 2003. Ironically‚ 30 years ago Iran was one of America’s staunchest Middle East allies‚ until a revolution in January 1979 toppled Iran’s pro-Western monarchy and brought to power an anti-American Shiite Muslim cleric‚ Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Less than a year later‚ 66 Americans were taken hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. It was the first time many Americans had ever heard of ayatollahs or mullahs‚ but 30 years later‚ the 444-day hostage crisis is now
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Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi is a memoir in which she outlines her own life and the life of women in Iran. Throughout the novel‚ her focus remains on the role of women in Iran. She paints a portrait of her own self‚ whose drive and courage never allowed her to be silenced. She speaks of her experiences as a woman in Iran before‚ during‚ and after the Revolution of 1979. Her story begins as a child‚ before the revolution. She grew up in a very liberal home. Both parents were very intellectual
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Compatible With Women ’s Sports‚ Fitness and Health?” Huff Post Religion. Web. 22 Oct. 2012. God. “Al-Hij.” Holy Quran. Trans. Rashad Khalifa. Rev. III ed. Fremont: Universal Unity‚ 2001. 22 Oct. 2012 Pearlman‚ Alex. “Saudi Women Head to London‚ but Clerics still Oppose Sports for Girls.” Global Post. Web. 26 Oct. 2012. Khan‚ Mohammad Younis; Dr Asif Jamil; Dr Umar Ali Khan; Uzma Kareem; & Ghazanfar Imran. “Female Students Opinion about Women’s Participation in Sports. International Journal
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THE CANTERBURY TALES STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS Prologue 1. In lines 1-18 (which are all one sentence)‚ identify the time and the author’s main point. April; the main point is that according to the poet‚ people long to go on a pilgrimage in the Spring. 2. Why does the urge to go on pilgrimage hit people in the spring? Winter is over; it’s time for renewal. 3. Who is at the inn? Who arrives at the inn? What is the central idea? (Look in ll. 19-28). The narrator is at the inn; twenty-nine pilgrims
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Is Religious Fundamentalism always Totalitarian and Prone to Violence? Fundamentalism is “a belief in returning to the literal meanings of scriptural texts. Fundamentalism may arise as a response to modernization and rationalization‚ insisting on faith-based answers‚ and defending tradition by using traditional grounds.” Fundamentalists believe that their view is only one true view of the world which leaves no room for ambiguity and that this is the true correct belief (Giddens‚ 2009). Fundamentalist
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Islamic Attitudes on Homosexuality The life of a homosexual Muslim is certainly an interesting and conflicted one. A gay Muslim must struggle with the oppression of the conservative Muslim community‚ while trying to keep their own identity intact at the very same time. Inglehart and Norris assert that overall‚ Muslim nations have remained the most traditional societies in the world (65). This is certainly evident in the 2000-2002 World Values Survey (WVS)‚ where only 12% of Muslims in Muslim society
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