without knowing what Islam is all about‚ has identified a new enemy‚ "a new demon that has replaced the Red menace of the Cold war‚ i.e.‚ radical Islam" (Agha 6). This "radical Islam"‚ a stereotype common to western thought‚ portrays Muslims as fundamentalists or potential terrorists. These thoughts and ideas are the product of anti-Islam propaganda of the western media. Journalists who have no idea about the Muslim World are the one who are talking the most about how evil and barbaric is Islam and
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Therefore the teaching is flexible enough to be applied to almost every situation. However it could be argued that teachings such as this are not specific enough to give strong guidance in a moral decision‚ particularly those which are life changing. Fundamentalist Christians would agree that St. Paul’s teachings are not too rigid as they believe that we should abide by the exact word of the Bible‚ as this is God’s word and not try to attempt to alter them in any way.
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Of Gods and Men tells the story of nine Trappist monks‚ seven of which‚ are tortured and executed by Islamic fundamentalists. They had received several threats from these fundamentalists. They were not sure of whether or not to leave their monastery‚ but ultimately decided on staying. Due to this decision‚ their monastery was invaded and they were held hostage by the Islamic fundamentalists. They were eventually executed. These monks were real Christians‚ Cistercians and I liked their community.
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At the turn of the twentieth century North Carolina’s government fell under the control of the Democrats’ White Supremacy rule. The Jim Crow laws‚ enacted by North Carolina’s legislature in 1899‚ formally required segregation in all public facilities and transportation. Disenfranchisement‚ an attempt to restrict African Americans’ rights to vote‚ allowed Democrats to apply a poll tax and a literacy test. This combination successfully restricted an enormous portion of African-American voters and
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themselves to wear a head covering or veil. The belief concerning the oppression of Muslim women has resulted from the negative connotation of head coverings associated with Islam. Many people are convinced that Islamic head coverings represent fundamentalist Islam and oppression of Muslim women. This belief is highly misinformed and untrue. Muslim women who choose to veil do so to represent their dedication to their religion. In the past there were many Middle Eastern and African countries that banned
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Sociology of Religion- Final Assignment 2013 1. One of the definitions of secularization is the transformation of a society from close identification with religious values and institutions toward nonreligious (or irreligious) values and secular institutions. The Secularization thesis states that as society progresses‚ particularly through modernization and rationalization‚ religion loses its authority in all aspects of social life and governance. Max Weber described this process as the "disenchantment
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world’s economies were also suffering due to the depletion of resources from the war‚ and the reparations owed from the treaty. The Christian response to this‚ and other crises of the time‚ was quite interesting. While Henry Fosdick’s “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” advocated less for doctrine and more towards a social gospel that Walter Rauschenbusch’s “Christianity and the Social Crisis” emphasized‚ Clarence MacArtney’s “Shall Unbelief Win” did not agree with Fosdick. Much of What Fosdick argued
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THE WEST AND ITS OTHER: LITERARY RESPONSES TO 9/11 MOHAN G. RAMANAN University of Hyderabad mohan1949@rediffmail.com 125 Terror is now a part of our lives. Whether it is the bombing of defenceless villages in Afghanistan or Iraq‚ or the slaying of Daniel Pearl‚ terror is perpetrated by different people for different purposes. Terror is the employment of strategies to instill fear and insecurity in the victim. This can be achieved by the deliberate targeting of women and children as
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During the late 19th century and the early 20th century‚ Islam in the Middle East was introduced to its greatest threat yet; modernization. Conflicts within the muslim community and the rapid development of the surrounding world‚ has left the muslim society in the dust. The technological/scientifically dominant Ottoman empire went through expiration and was left with the remnants of its broken empire. Western civilizations then modernized and quickly became more superior in its European trade‚ technological
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NYT Bestsellers taking on religion. So again‚ major segments of humanity‚ including the whole developed world‚ are on the edge of another huge and almost instantaneous paradigm shift. Like the belief in a flat Earth in 16th century China‚ fundamentalist religion is just about over. Unfortunately‚ most people don’t know it yet. Eighty percent of the world’s people still believe that the creator of the Universe dictated a book. Many believe this so strongly that they will kill other people
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