Tuesday, September 13, 2016

REL 212 Week 11 Summer 2016

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We will have two ten-minute breaks: at 7:30 - 7:40; and, at 9:00 pm - 9:10 pm. I will take roll early before you are dismissed at 10:15 pm.





0:02 / 2:10 Septembers of Shiraz TRAILER 1 (2016) - Salma Hayek, Adrien Brody Movie HD

https://youtu.be/W3RiakSjAiE



Week 11 Discussion

"After It’s All Said and Done…" Please respond to the following:

Explain what religion is, and give your opinion as to whether religion is different from spirituality.
Identify three surprising concepts that you learned about religion in this course, and explain why they surprised you.





Septembers of Shiraz

Trailer, 2:10
 
Septembers of Shiraz is a 2015 American drama film directed by Wayne Blair and written by Hanna Weg. It is based on Dalia Sofer's 2007 novel The Septembers of Shiraz. The film stars Adrien Brody, Salma Hayek, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Anthony Azizi, Bashar Rahal and Alon Aboutboul. The film was released on June 24, 2016, by Momentum Pictures.

The film is based on the novel by Dalia Sofer.
 



Top 10, 6:47
 



Top Bizarre Religions, 5:25
 





 
Scientific Revolution By and For Christianity

What religious group promoted modern science?

Science, 1:27
 
Dr. Mark Kalthoff addresses the false assumption that the scientific revolution, at its core, was motivated by a reaction against medieval Christianity. In fact, most of the architects of the scientific revolution were churchmen themselves, who did the majority of their work as members of a tradition, not as dissidents.
This video is an excerpt from Hillsdale’s Online Course: “Western Heritage,” featuring Mark A. Kalthoff, Henry Salvatori Chair of History and Traditional Values, and chairman and professor of history.

https://youtu.be/PAhjlcevx2A


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAhjlcevx2A&feature=youtu.be
 


Religion and the Founders

Founders, 1:12
 
How is America a Christian country based on the Judeo-Christian ethic? 

https://youtu.be/UXmN_CLF_Ew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXmN_CLF_Ew&feature=youtu.be





UK Islamist School and Dawkins, 6:57

Are ancient religious books reliable sources for modern science and medicine? 

https://youtu.be/xtqUgehbu5Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtqUgehbu5Q&feature=youtu.be











Even as the distaste for Jews intensifies around the Western world and more and more members of the international community step up the pressure on Israel to stop being the cause of so much trouble in the otherwise idyllic Middle East, Israeli and Jewish scientists continue to clean up at the Nobel Prizes. It's nothing less than fascinating, in fact, that notwithstanding the lack of affection for Jews and the Jewish state that is evidenced in the Scandinavian media, Jews (who, after all, represent less than 0.2% of the world population) have managed to accumulate a staggeringly disproportionate number of Nobel Prizes over the decades – making up about 21% of the laureates in chemistry, 26% in physics, 27% in physiology or medicine, and 37% in economics.


Accomplishments: Jews vs. Muslims, 1:27

https://youtu.be/7Qpp02XYnDA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qpp02XYnDA




Meanwhile, Muslims number somewhere around 1.5 billion, a good 25% of the planet's population – have racked up only two Nobel Prizes in the sciences. One of these winners, Egyptian chemist Ahmed Zewail, got his Ph.D. in the U.S., where he's also done most of his research. The other, the late physicist Abdus Salam, who studied in Britain and spent much of his career outside of his native Pakistan, wouldn't even count as a Muslim in the eyes of most adherents of that religion, since he belonged to the relatively peaceable, tolerant, and civilized Ahmadiyya sect, whose members are (in Pakistan and many other Islamic countries) officially considered infidels and are the subjects of brutal persecution.



Nonetheless, there have been attempts at updating and reforming Muslim majority culture which led to advances in education.

Iran in fact was quite advanced during the administration of Reza Shah Pahlavi until 1979 and the Islamic revolution. The most forward leader in a Muslim majority society was Ataturk of Turkey. Although he was an authoritarian ruler he did eliminate the caliphate and founded the Republic of Turkey on a Western model of governance.



Reforms of Ataturk

Reforms, of Ataturk, 2:08
 
https://youtu.be/IgfEvDEgFZA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgfEvDEgFZA&feature=youtu.be




JFK and Ataturk, 2:54

Ataturk was recognized by Western leaders, such as JFK, as a model of forward thinking governance.
 
https://youtu.be/s3kvtIX4dAg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3kvtIX4dAg&feature=youtu.be




12-may-2011

Zionism vs. Islamism

Debate, 7:25
 
Debates within Islam for reform have touched off heated discussions.

https://youtu.be/Lw9OZiMbxoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw9OZiMbxoo&feature=youtu.be




Islam: Accomodation or Subjugation?

Hillary Khan, 3:04

Americans are far less aware of forces within the public sphere that are regressive. For example, in a celebrated exchange at the Democratic National Convention, a speaker was presented as an example of an outstanding American citizen. 
 
Khizr Khan is Muslim Brotherhood jihadist, promoter of Sharia, seller of U S citizenship to Muslims

Khizr Khan is Muslim Brotherhood jihadist, promoter of Sharia Law, tax filer for Clinton Foundation,
installer for Hillary's classified email server, former employer of Attorney General Loretta Lynch, abuser of EB-5 Visa program, and seller of U S citizenship to Muslims.

https://youtu.be/7O9GOmDGsNw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O9GOmDGsNw&feature=youtu.be





Hillary Sharia, 3:42
 
https://youtu.be/oKosd0xJadE

Would you say that Americans are very aware of sharia law?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKosd0xJadE&feature=youtu.be






Sharia America, 5:11

 
https://youtu.be/QzdOT2nOqLQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzdOT2nOqLQ&feature=youtu.be

Is the establishment of one religion over others consistent with the First Amendment?




Harold Koh, State Department, 5:08
 
Nonie Darwish talks to Fox News about The Obama Administration nominee for State Department Legal Advisor, Harold Koh, and his alleged statement that Islamic Sharia Law should apply in US Courts.

https://youtu.be/ppTo-TTtJQo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppTo-TTtJQo&feature=youtu.be

Should sharia law apply in American courts?






Sharia Court in Texas, 4:25
 
A religious nonprofit in the Dallas area offers Muslims the option of Sharia law to settle family and business disputes.

In England, sharia courts have been introduced and at least in the discussion stage of similar courts in the U.S.

https://youtu.be/jqIzgv11Pl0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqIzgv11Pl0&feature=youtu.be








Halāl (Arabic: حلال‎‎ ḥalāl, "permissible"), also spelled hallal or halaal, is any object or action which is permissible to use or engage in, according to Islamic law. The term covers and designates not only food and drink but also all matters of daily life.[1] It is one of five Ahkam—fard (compulsory), mustahabb (recommended), halal (allowed), makruh (disliked), haram (forbidden)—that define the morality of human action in Islam.[2] Mubah is also used to mean "permissible" or "allowed" in Islam.

Halal Chicken, 2:27
 
https://youtu.be/JlFfz0Dxh8E

A chicken is slaughtered halal at a market in Jakarta, Indonesia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlFfz0Dxh8E&feature=youtu.be






Halal
 
Partial list:
KFC
Outback Steakhouse
Popeyes
Safeway
Costco
Whole Foods Market
ShopRite
Trader Joe's
Vons
Wal-Mart

Facebook

Islamic (Sharia) Law in America, J. Christian Adams, Minnesota

2012, 18:31 James Lafferty, 12:56
 
Minnesota, Sharia Law, 4:26
 
Muslims in the USA want Sharia law and say they will not follow US laws.

https://youtu.be/uB6gps7dkUA

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uB6gps7dkUA

Muslims in the USA want Sharia law and say they will not follow US laws, 4:26

https://youtu.be/uB6gps7dkUA






Former Muslim immigrants to the U.S., who I know personally for example, became citizens because they were attracted to the liberties and freedom of America. It seems reasonable that Qader knew how to spell his own name: this is his signature on a portrait of Mohammed that he drew for me. 






Religiosity of 9/11 Islamists

911/hearings/hearing3/witness_emerson
 
Counter terrorism expert Steven Emerson testified:

"A special Hollywood broadcast after 9/11 noted that the attack of 9/11 was simply "pure evil" and had nothing to do with religion. In fact, the 9/11 attack had everything to do with religion."

last-night-document in Arabic Released by the FBI
 
9-11-handbook
 
The document was released by the F.B.I. and translated for The New York Times by one of the most prestigious translation companies in the U.S., Capital Communications Group, a Washington-based international consulting firm and by Imad Musa, a translator for the firm.

Obama’s Historic Cairo Speech


There is only one mention of the Constitution, in regards to Jefferson, and no reference to liberty, the American Republic, or the Bill of Rights. Rights, when mentioned, are coupled with human rights, as in the international or U.N. mandated variety, or, as in when governments determine which things are allowed for people.

In a previous Democratic administration it was stated:

"We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."


John F. Kennedy




Obama Editorial Promotes Islam
Promote Islam
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-oe-obama-terrorism-conference-20150218-story.html


Obama on Islam


"Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.”
Barack Hussein Obama
“It is important for Western countries to avoid impeding Muslim citizens from practicing religion as they see fit”
Barack Hussein Obama
“We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over so many centuries to shape the world for the better, including my own country.”
Barack Hussein Obama
“The contribution of Muslims to the United States are too long to catalog because Muslims are so interwoven into the fabric of our communities and our country”
Barack Hussein Obama
“I have lived in a Muslim-majority country… I know, because I am one of them.”
Barack Hussein Obama
“As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam.”
Barack Hussein Obama
“Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.”
Barack Hussein Obama
“And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States.”
Barack Hussein Obama
“And I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”
Barack Hussein Obama
“Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one’s religion. That is why there is a mosque in every state of our union, and over 1,200 mosques within our borders. That is why the U.S. government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab, and to punish those who would deny it.”
Barack Hussein Obama
“We are not nor have we even been at war with Islam”
Barack Hussein Obama
“Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation”
Barack Hussein Obama
“We Do Not Consider Ourselves a Christian Nation”
Barack Hussein Obama
“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
Barack Hussein Obama.....H/T BlueSky




Pat Condell, Goodbye To The First Amendment, 5:47
https://youtu.be/ozfaLzjjZyE
Condell on Sharia, 6:22
 
Pat Condell - Saudi Arabia sharia Islam treats women like cattle

https://youtu.be/srmIyiY-XU0






Scrub

Islamism from 9/11

9-11-memorial-stirs-debate-over-islamic-terrorists
 
muslim-group-wants-islamic-terrorists-scrubbed-from-911-memorial
 

George Washington Hires Islamist

Revolution Muslim, 2:50
 
Younus Abdullah Muhammad, NY Muslim: This is Islam! To Hell With Obama, America and Democracy!

https://youtu.be/sAorhgNqQoc



Mohammed
 
01/george-washington-university-hires-former-islamist



History of the Middle East

Middle East, 3:15
 
https://youtu.be/ZQ3IF8X-4zI





Invented religions

Falun Gong

Li Hongzhi, Falun Gong founder

Falun Gong: Spiritual Practice or Evil Cult? 5:42

Followers claim Falun Gong is a spiritual practice. But China says it is an evil cult. Hear from three practitioners in the United States. Watch more videos made by the VJ Movement reporters from around the world on http://www.vjmovement.com or subscribe to our Youtube

https://youtu.be/HoAKCVDCkAk



Falun Gong or Falun Dafa (literally, "Dharma Wheel Practice" or "Law Wheel Practice") is a Chinese spiritual practice that combines meditation and qigong exercises with a moral philosophy centered on the tenets of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance (Chinese: 真、善、忍).

The practice emphasizes morality and the cultivation of virtue, and identifies as a qigong practice of the Buddhist school, though its teachings also incorporate elements drawn from Taoist traditions. Through moral rectitude and the practice of meditation, practitioners of Falun Gong aspire to better health and, ultimately, spiritual enlightenment.

Falun Gong was first taught publicly in Northeast China in 1992 by Li Hongzhi.

It emerged toward the end of China's "qigong boom"—a period which saw the proliferation of similar practices of meditation, slow-moving exercises and regulated breathing. It differs from other qigong schools in its absence of fees or formal membership, lack of daily rituals of worship, its greater emphasis on morality, and the theological nature of its teachings. Western academics have described Falun Gong as a qigong discipline, a "spiritual movement", a "cultivation system" in the tradition of Chinese antiquity, or as a form of Chinese religion.

Although the practice initially enjoyed considerable support from Chinese officialdom, by the mid- to late-1990s, the Communist Party and public security organizations increasingly viewed Falun Gong as a potential threat due to its size, independence from the state, and spiritual teachings. By 1999, government estimates placed the number of Falun Gong practitioners at 70 million.[1] Tensions culminated in April 1999, when over 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered peacefully near the central government compound in Beijing to request legal recognition and freedom from state interference. This demonstration is widely seen as catalyzing the persecution that followed.

On 20 July 1999, the Communist Party leadership initiated a nationwide crackdown and multifaceted propaganda campaign intended to eradicate the practice. It blocked Internet access to websites that mention Falun Gong, and in October 1999 it declared Falun Gong a "heretical organization" that threatened social stability. Human rights groups report that Falun Gong practitioners in China are subject to a wide range of human rights abuses: hundreds of thousands are estimated to have been imprisoned extrajudicially, and practitioners in detention are subject to forced labor, psychiatric abuse, torture, and other coercive methods of thought reform at the hands of Chinese authorities.[2] As of 2009 at least 2,000 Falun Gong practitioners had died as a result of abuse in custody.[3] Some observers put the number much higher, and report that tens of thousands may have been killed to supply China's organ transplant industry.[4][5] In the years since the persecution began, Falun Gong practitioners have become active in advocating for greater human rights in China.

Falun Gong founder Li Hongzhi has lived in the United States since 1996, and Falun Gong has a sizable global constituency. Inside China, some sources estimate that tens of millions continue to practice Falun Gong in spite of the persecution.[6][7] Hundreds of thousands are estimated to practice Falun Gong outside China in over 70 countries worldwide.[8][9]

"New Age" Spirituality, Western movements of the 1970s and 1980s










Sacred Sites Sedona Arizona, 2:54

http://indigenousnativeamericans.com/

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Eagle Quetzal Condor Gathering: A Global Convergence of Wisdom Keepers and Planetary Advocates



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sedona, AZ – Indigenous Elders from North, Central, and South America will unite with Wisdom Keepers and Planetary Advocates from around the world for a historic event at the Eagle Quetzal Condor gathering in Sedona, Arizona - April 17th -19th, 2015 –– with extended presentations being planned through April 23rd. Tickets are $323, which includes all presentations, films, music and workshops. Registration check in will be held at 7 Centers Yoga, from 3-5:30pm on Friday April 17th. Tickets are limited to the first 225 people.

Because we are facing a global ecological crisis, the Indigenous wisdom of the Natural World is needed now more than ever. Re-establishing a harmonious relationship to the Earth is the only way humanity can move into the future in a sustainable way. Indigenous cultures throughout the Americas –– and the world –– have maintained a reciprocal relationship with the Earth, have protected the sacred sites and ancestral trade routes, and are now sharing that wisdom with the modern world in preparation for a new planetary era; an era where modern technology and ancestral wisdom are synthesized to create a thriving world for the entire Earth Community.

While there are over 50 Indigenous Elders planning on attending the gathering, there are select Elders and global Wisdom Keepers who will be doing formal presentations. Presenters include: Grandmother Margarita Nuñez Garcia (Jalisco, Mexico), Cristobal Cojti Gacia (Mayan Elder, Guatemala), Juan Gabriel (Peruvian Elder), Uqualla (Havasupi Tribe), Ruben Saufkie (Hopi Tribe), Grandmother Laura Espinoza Cuadras (Mexicali, Baja Mx), Carl Johan Calleman, PhD (Scholar and Author), Sensei Rendo Sugimoto (Japanese Elder), Alokananda (Tribal Alliance), and more…

This conference will also focus on environmental awareness in alignment with Earth Day. There will be two environmental films that address solutions to climate change. The first is Cowspiracy and the second is The Future of Energy. The two films compliment each other and together cover the two largest areas of society that need to be transformed in order to solve the climate crisis; animal agriculture and energy consumption.

There will be lively musical performances on Saturday and Sunday night by Wilkasara (Cusco, Peru), Ryan Whitewolf (Australia) and Bhushan Stone (Alaskan folk music) to bring all the people together to celebrate life. There will also be the great healing benefit of Yoga classes by Mally Pasquette (Traditional and Classical Yoga), and Tim Teh (Shaman’s Heart Yoga). In addition, Generation Wake Up will host a powerful young led workshop that focuses on youth empowerment and sustainability.

This event is hosted by ICSAW (International Center of Spiritual and Ancestral Wisdom) and co-hosted by ICCS (International Center of Cultural Studies)

Sponsors of Event: World Healing, Planetary Advocates, Suns of the Earth, All Nations Native American Church, Okleuueha Native American Church, Reviveolution, Oneness Community of New Mexico, Sedona Red Rock Adventures, Tribal Alliance, and Star Bear.

https://youtu.be/iLcZ-xlToaY


Opposition to new religious movements 489

"Jonestown" was the informal name for the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project formed by the Peoples Temple, an American religious organization under the leadership of Jim Jones, in northwestern Guyana. It became internationally notorious when on November 18, 1978, over 900 people died in the remote commune, at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, and in Georgetown, Guyana's capital city. The name of the settlement became synonymous with the incidents at those locations.

A total of 909 Americans[1] died in Jonestown, all but two from apparent cyanide poisoning, in an event termed "revolutionary suicide" by Jones and some members on an audio tape of the event and in prior discussions. The poisonings in Jonestown followed the murder of five others by Temple members at Port Kaituma, including United States Congressman Leo Ryan. Four other Temple members died in Georgetown at Jones' command.

The actions in Jonestown have been commonly viewed as mass suicide, although some sources, including Jonestown survivors, regard them as mass murder instead.[2][3] It was the largest such event in modern history and resulted in the largest single loss of American civilian life in a deliberate act until September 11, 2001.[4] In recent years, the Jonestown massacre has been the subject of several conspiracy theories.


Jonestown Death Tape: mass suicide, 48:24

The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) (November 18, 1978)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OkookcrAnSE



Branch Davidian siege

The Waco siege was a siege of a compound belonging to the religious group Branch Davidians by American federal and Texas state law enforcement and US military between February 28 and April 19, 1993.[4] The Branch Davidians, a sect that separated in 1955 from the Seventh-day Adventist Church, was led by David Koresh and lived at Mount Carmel Center ranch in the community of Elk, Texas,[5][6][7] nine miles (14 kilometers) east-northeast of Waco. The group was suspected of weapons violations, causing a search and arrest warrant to be obtained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

The incident began when the ATF attempted to raid the ranch. An intense gun battle erupted, resulting in the deaths of four government agents and six Branch Davidians. Upon the ATF's failure to raid the compound, a siege was initiated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the standoff lasting 51 days. Eventually, the FBI launched an assault and initiated a tear gas attack in an attempt to force the Branch Davidians out of the ranch. During the attack, a fire engulfed Mount Carmel Center. 76 people died,[8][9] including David Koresh.
Much dispute remains as to the actual events of the siege. A particular controversy ensued over the origin of the fire; a government investigation concluded in 2000 that sect members themselves had started the fire. The events near Waco, and the siege at Ruby Ridge less than 12 months earlier were both cited as the primary motivations behind the Oklahoma City bombing that took place exactly two years later.


Waco

Waco Faith, Fear and Fire CNN David Koresh Branch Davidian, 6:13

https://youtu.be/zzSBZdoJhik
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Combat Engineer Vehicle


 
 

   


Religilous

2:12

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gxc0XEoQpQ&list=PLA496B71E4A561D53

The documentary RELIGULOUS follows political humorist and author Bill Maher ("Real Time With Bill Maher," "Politically Incorrect") as he travels around the globe interviewing people about God and religion. Known for his astute analytical skills, irreverent wit and commitment to never pulling a punch, Maher brings his characteristic honesty to an unusual spiritual journey. Directed by Larry Charles (BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN, "Curb Your Enthusiasm"), RELIGULOUS will mark Charles' first feature project since the critically acclaimed, wildly successful BORAT. Jonah Smith and Palmer West of Thousand Words (A SCANNER DARKLY, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM) are producing.



Dawkins of God's Existence

Dawkins

How do religions deal with modern science, religious pluralism, gender issues, or slavery?




Religiosity of 9/11 Islamists

911/hearings/hearing3/witness_emerson
 
Counter terrorism expert Steven Emerson testified:

"A special Hollywood broadcast after 9/11 noted that the attack of 9/11 was simply "pure evil" and had nothing to do with religion. In fact, the 9/11 attack had everything to do with religion."

last-night-document in Arabic Released by the FBI
 
9-11-handbook
 
The document was released by the F.B.I. and translated for The New York Times by Capital Communications Group, a Washington-based international consulting firm and by Imad Musa, a translator for the firm.

A former student of mine (as in a mujahideen (Arabic: المجاهدين‎‎ is the plural form, a mujahid (Arabic: مجاهد‎‎), the term for one engaged in Jihad drew a picture of Mohammed and gave it to me as a present.

In English usage, it mostly referred to the guerrilla type military outfits led by the Muslim Afghan warriors in the Soviet war in Afghanistan, but now it often refers to other jihadist outfits in various countries. 




UK Islamist School and Dawkins, 6:57

https://youtu.be/xtqUgehbu5Q







Richard Dawkins: "Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science" | Talks at Google, 46:00

Richard Dawkins visited Google’s office in Kirkland, WA to discuss his book “Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science”.

From 1995 to 2008 Richard Dawkins was the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He is an internationally best-selling author. Among his books are The Ancestor’s Tale, The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, A Devil’s Chaplain, The God Delusion, The Greatest Show on Earth and The Magic of Reality. His most recent books are his two-part autobiography. Part 1, An Appetite for Wonder, released in 2013 and A Brief Candle in the Dark released in 2015.

To learn more about the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science, the mission of which is to promote scientific literacy and a secular worldview, please visit https://richarddawkins.net/


Yet a fourth meaning of secularism applies to countries such as the United States, India, and Turkey, where the modern constitutional separation of religion and state may be referred to as “secularism,” even though individuals may have strong belief structures. The United States has the largest percentage of church-going people in the industrialized countries of the world, yet its constitution insists on a wall of separation between the state and religion. In a secular democracy, the government is supposed to respect the rights of individuals to their own religious beliefs, thus protecting minority religions from oppression.

In all four senses, secularism is now under siege or waning. Many religions are undergoing a resurgence, either in their home regions or elsewhere, and political secularism is being threatened by politicized religious pressure groups.


    Religious pluralism 499

    Religion in politics 503

Obama’s Historic Cairo Speech


There is only one mention of the Constitution, in regards to Jefferson, and no reference to liberty, the American Republic, or the Bill of Rights. Rights, when mentioned, are coupled with human rights, as in the international or U.N. mandated variety, or, as in when governments determine which things are allowed for people.

In a previous Democratic administration it was stated:

"We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."


John F. Kennedy




Obama Editorial Promotes Islam
Promote Islam
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-oe-obama-terrorism-conference-20150218-story.html


Obama on Islam


"Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.”
Barack Hussein Obama
“It is important for Western countries to avoid impeding Muslim citizens from practicing religion as they see fit”
Barack Hussein Obama
“We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over so many centuries to shape the world for the better, including my own country.”
Barack Hussein Obama
“The contribution of Muslims to the United States are too long to catalog because Muslims are so interwoven into the fabric of our communities and our country”
Barack Hussein Obama
“I have lived in a Muslim-majority country… I know, because I am one of them.”
Barack Hussein Obama
“As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam.”
Barack Hussein Obama
“Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.”
Barack Hussein Obama
“And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States.”
Barack Hussein Obama
“And I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”
Barack Hussein Obama
“Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one’s religion. That is why there is a mosque in every state of our union, and over 1,200 mosques within our borders. That is why the U.S. government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab, and to punish those who would deny it.”
Barack Hussein Obama
“We are not nor have we even been at war with Islam”
Barack Hussein Obama
“Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation”
Barack Hussein Obama
“We Do Not Consider Ourselves a Christian Nation”
Barack Hussein Obama
“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
Barack Hussein Obama.....H/T BlueSky


Muslim Woman Beaten in Public Experiment
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EpDnw4Wevxs
Muslim Hate in Australia: Social Experiment
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wZVqUU_R9Vc



How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property—either as a child, a wife, or a concubine—must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science—the science against which it had vainly struggled—the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.   Winston Churchill

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property—either as a child, a wife, or a concubine—must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science—the science against which it had vainly struggled—the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.

Winston Churchill

Simon Deng: Slave of Islam, 5:57

Simon Deng
 
0:00 / 5:56 Simon Deng, Sudanese Activist, Enslaved at Nine Years Old

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Islam and Slavery


What Does Islam Teach About...

Slavery

Does Islam condone slavery? Does Islamic teaching allow Muslim men to keep women as sex slaves?

Islam neither ignores nor condemns slavery. In fact, a large part of the Sharia is dedicated to the practice.

Muslims are encouraged to live in the way of Muhammad, who was a slave owner and trader.

He captured slaves in battle; he had sex with his slaves; and he instructed his men to do the same.

The Quran actually devotes more verses to making sure that Muslim men know they can keep women as sex slaves (4) than it does to telling them to pray five times a day (zero).

Quran

Quran (33:50) - "O Prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and those (slaves) whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has assigned to thee." 

This is one of several personal-sounding verses "from Allah" narrated by Muhammad - in this case allowing a virtually unlimited supply of sex partners. Other Muslims are restricted to four wives, but they may also have sex with any number of slaves, following the example of their prophet.

Quran (23:5-6) - "..who abstain from sex, except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess..." This verse permits the slave-owner to have sex with his slaves. See also Quran (70:29-30). The Quran is a small book, so if Allah used valuable space to repeat the same point four times, sex slavery must be very important to him.

He was relatively reticent on matters of human compassion and love.
Quran (4:24) - "And all married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess." Even sex with married slaves is permissible.
Quran (8:69) - "But (now) enjoy what ye took in war, lawful and good" A reference to war booty, of which slaves were a part. The Muslim slave master may enjoy his "catch" because (according to verse 71"Allah gave you mastery over them."
Quran (24:32) - "And marry those among you who are single and those who are fit among your male slaves and your female slaves..." Breeding slaves based on fitness.
Quran (2:178) - "O ye who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the murdered; the freeman for the freeman, and the slave for the slave, and the female for the female." The message of this verse, which prescribes the rules of retaliation for murder, is that all humans are not created equal. The human value of a slave is less than that of a free person (and a woman's worth is also distinguished from that of a man).
Quran (16:75) - "Allah sets forth the Parable (of two men: one) a slave under the dominion of another; He has no power of any sort; and (the other) a man on whom We have bestowed goodly favours from Ourselves, and he spends thereof (freely), privately and publicly: are the two equal? (By no means;) praise be to Allah.' Yet another confirmation that the slave is is not equal to the master. In this case, it is plain that the slave owes his status to Allah's will. (According to 16:71, the owner should be careful about insulting Allah by bestowing Allah's gifts on slaves - those whom the god of Islam has not favored).

Hadith and Sira

Bukhari (80:753) - "The Prophet said, 'The freed slave belongs to the people who have freed him.'" 

Bukhari (52:255) - The slave who accepts Islam and continues serving his Muslim master will receive a double reward in heaven.

Bukhari (41.598) - Slaves are property. They cannot be freed if an owner has outstanding debt, but they can be used to pay off the debt.

Bukhari (62:137) - An account of women taken as slaves in battle by Muhammad's men after their husbands and fathers were killed. The woman were raped with Muhammad's approval.

Bukhari (34:432) - Another account of females taken captive and raped with Muhammad's approval. In this case it is evident that the Muslims intend on selling the women after raping them because they are concerned about devaluing their price by impregnating them. Muhammad is asked about coitus interruptus.

Bukhari (47.765) - A woman is rebuked by Muhammad for freeing a slave girl. The prophet tells her that she would have gotten a greater heavenly reward by giving her to a relative (as a slave).

Bukhari (34:351) - Muhammad sells a slave for money. He was thus a slave trader.

Bukhari (72:734) - Some contemporary Muslims in the West (where slavery is believed to be a horrible crime) are reluctant to believe that Muhammad owned slaves. This is just one of many places in the Hadith where a reference is made to a human being owned by Muhammad. In this case, the slave is of African descent.

Muslim 3901 - Muhammad trades away two black slaves for one Muslim slave.

Muslim 4345 - Narration of a military raid against a hapless tribe trying to reach their water hole. During the slaughter, the women and children attempt to flee, but are cut off and captured by the Muslims. This story refutes any misconception that Muhammad's sex slaves were taken by their own volition.

Muslim 4112 - A man freed six slaves on the event of his death, but Muhammad reversed the emancipation and kept four in slavery to himself. He cast lots to determine which two to free.

Bukhari (47:743) - Muhammad's own pulpit - from which he preached Islam - was built with slave labor on his command.

Bukhari (59:637) - "The Prophet sent Ali to Khalid to bring the Khumus (of the booty) and I hated Ali, and Ali had taken a bath (after a sexual act with a slave-girl from the Khumus). I said to Khalid, 'Don't you see this (i.e. Ali)?' When we reached the Prophet I mentioned that to him. He said, 'O Buraida! Do you hate Ali?' I said, 'Yes.' He said, 'Do you hate him, for he deserves more than that from the Khumlus.'" Muhammad approved of his men having sex with slaves, as this episode involving his son-in-law, Ali, clearly proves. This hadith refutes the modern apologists who pretend that slaves were really "wives." This is because Muhammad had forbidden Ali from marrying another woman as long as Fatima (his favorite daughter) was living.

Abu Dawud (2150) - "The Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) sent a military expedition to Awtas on the occasion of the battle of Hunain. They met their enemy and fought with them. They defeated them and took them captives. Some of the Companions of the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) were reluctant to have intercourse with the female captives in the presence of their husbands who were unbelievers. So Allah, the Exalted, sent down the Qur’anic verse: (Quran 4:24) 'And all married women (are forbidden) unto you save those (captives) whom your right hands possess.'" This is the background for verse 4:24 of the Quran. Not only does Allah give permission for women to be captured and raped, but allows it to even be done in front of their husbands. (See also Muslim 3432 & Ibn Kathir/Abdul Rahman Part 5 Page 14)

Abu Dawud (1814) - "...[Abu Bakr] He then began to beat [his slave] him while the Apostle of Allah (pbuh) was smiling and saying: Look at this man who is in the sacred state (putting on ihram), what is he doing?" The future first caliph of Islam is beating his slave for losing a camel while Muhammad looks on in apparent amusement. 

Ibn Ishaq (734) - A slave girl is given a "violent beating" by Ali in the presence of Muhammad, who does nothing about it.

Abu Dawud 38:4458 - Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib: “A slave-girl belonging to the house of the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) committed fornication. He (the Prophet) said: Rush up, Ali, and inflict the prescribed punishment on her. I then hurried up, and saw that blood was flowing from her, and did not stop. So I came to him and he said: Have you finished inflicting (punishment on her)? I said: I went to her while her blood was flowing. He said: Leave her alone till her bleeding stops; then inflict the prescribed punishment on her. And inflict the prescribed punishment on those whom your right hands possess (i.e. slaves)”. A slave girl is ordered by Muhammad to be beaten until she bleeds, and then beaten again after the bleeding stops. He indicates that this is prescribed treatment for slaves ("those whom your right hand possesses").

Ibn Ishaq (693) - "Then the apostle sent Sa-d b. Zayd al-Ansari, brother of Abdu'l-Ashal with some of the captive women of Banu Qurayza to Najd and he sold them for horses and weapons." Muhammad trades away women captured from the Banu Qurayza tribe to non-Muslim slave traders for property. (Their men had been executed after surrendering peacefully without a fight).

Umdat al-Salik (Reliance of the Traveller) (o9.13) - According to Sharia, when a child or woman is taken captive by Muslims, they become slaves by the mere fact of their capture. A captured woman's previous marriage is immediately annulled. This would not be necessary if she were widowed by battle, which is an imaginary stipulation that modern apologists sometimes pose.

Notes

Slavery is deeply embedded in Islamic law and tradition. Although a slave-owner is cautioned against treating slaves harshly, basic human rights are not obliged. The very fact that only non-Muslims may be taken as slaves is evidence of Islam's supremacist doctrine.

Of the five references to freeing a slave in the Quran, three are prescribed as punitive measures against the slaveholder for unrelated sin. They limit the emancipation to just a single slave. Another (24:33) appears to allow a slave to buy their own freedom if they are "good." This is in keeping with the traditional Islamic practice of wealth-building through taking and ransoming hostages, which began under Muhammad.

A tiny verse in one of the earliest chapters, 90:13, does say that freeing a slave is good, however, this was "revealed" at a time when the Muslim community was miniscule and several of their new and potential recruits were either actual slaves or newly freed slaves. Many of these same people, and Muhammad himself, later went on to become owners and traders of slaves, both male and female, as they acquired the power to do so (there is no record of Muhammad owning slaves prior to starting Islam). The language of the Quran changed to accommodate slavery, which is why this early verse has had negligible impact on slavery in the Islamic world.

The taking of women and children as slaves, particularly during the conquests outside Arabia, belies the notion that Jihad was being waged in self-defense, since the enemy's families reside neither with the Muslims nor (generally) on the battlefield. These were innocent people captured from their homes and pressed into slavery by Muhammad's companions and successors.

Contrary to popular belief, converting to Islam does not automatically earn a slave his freedom, although freeing a believing slave is said to increase the master's heavenly reward (Muslim slaves are implied in Quran (4:92)). As far as the Islamic courts are concerned, a master may treat his slaves however he chooses without fear of punishment.

By contrast, Christianity was a major impetus in the abolishment of slavery. Abolition had to be imposed on the Islamic world by the European West.

Given that there have never been abolitionary movement within the Islamic world, it is astonishing to see contemporary Muslims write their religion into the history of abolition. It is a lie.

There was no William Wilberforce or Bartoleme de las Casas in Islam. As mentioned, Muhammad, the most revered figure in the religion, practiced and approved of slavery. Even his own pulpit was built with slave labor. Caliphs since have had harems of hundreds, sometimes thousands of young girls and women brought from Christian, Hindu and African lands to serve Islam's religious equivalent of the pope in the most demeaning fashion.

One of Muhammad's closest companions was Umar, who became the 2nd caliph only two years after the prophet of Islam died. It is fair to say that he would have known Islam better than any contemporary apologist - those who say that slaves can only be captured in war and wars can only be waged in self-defense. He obviously did not agree with this.

Under Umar's authority, Arab armies in Egypt invaded Black Africa to the south and attempted to conquer the Christian Makurians who were living there peacefully. Although the Muslims were held off, the Makurians had to sign a treaty to prevent recurring invasions. The terms of the Baqt included an annual payment of 360 "high quality" African slaves. The treaty stood for 700 years with no mention of the slightest opposition from generations of Muslim clerics and scholars.

Umar himself was stabbed to death by a slave whose liberty he refused to grant. In this case, the slave was captured during the campaign against a Persia, one of many offensive wars waged by the Muslims against people who were not attacking them.

Modern day apologists trying to defend slavery under Islam generally ignore the basic fact that reducing people to property is dehumanizing. They distract from this by comparing the theoretical treatment of slaves under Sharia with the worst examples of abuse from the era of European slavery.  ("Fatwa 64 from ISIS instructs slave owners to "show compassion" and "kindness" to the women they rape.)

The first problem with this is that the actual practice of Muslim slavery was often remarkably at odds with the relatively humane treatment prescribed by Sharia. For example, according to the Ghanan scholar John Azumah, nearly three times as many captured Africans died in harsh circumstances related to their transport to Muslim lands than were ever even enslaved by Europeans.

A more insurmountable problem for the Muslim apologist who insists that slavery is "different" under Islam are the many examples in which Muhammad and his companions sold captured slaves to non-Muslim traders for material goods. The welfare of the slave was obviously of no consequence.

Some contemporary apologists interpret sex slavery as a favor done to the subject - a way in which women and children are taken care of in exchange for their sexual availability to the pious Muslim male.  Although morally repugnant in its own right, this is easily belied by the fact that slavery would be unnecessary if the arrangement were of benefit to the slave.

Another myth about Islamic slavery is that it was not race-based. It was. Muhammad's father-in-law, Umar, in his aforementioned role as caliph, declared that Arabs could not be taken as slaves and even had all Arab slaves freed on his deathbed. This helped propel the vast Islamic campaign to capture slaves in Africa, Europe and Asia for import into the Middle East.

The greatest slave rebellion in human history took place in Basra, Iraq beginning in 869. A half-million African slaves staged a courageous uprising against their Arab-Islamic masters that lasted fifteen years before being brutally suppressed. (See Zanj Rebellion)

Literally millions of Christians were captured into slavery during the many centuries of Jihad. So pervasive were the incursions by the Turks into Eastern Europe, that the English word for slave is based on Slav.

Muslim slave raiders operated as far north as England. In 1631, a French cleric in Algiers observed the sale of nearly 300 men, women and children, taken from a peaceful English fishing village:

"It was a pitiful sight to see them exposed in the market…Women were separated from their husbands and the children from their fathers…on one side a husband was sold; on the other his wife; and her daughter was torn from her arms without the hope that they’d ever see each other again." (from the book, White Gold, which also details the story of English slave, Thomas Pellow, who was beaten, starved and tortured into embracing Islam).

The Indian and Persian people suffered greatly as well - as did Africans. At least 17 million slaves (mostly black women and children) were brought out of Africa by Islamic traders - far more than the 11 million that were taken by the Europeans. However, these were only the survivors. As many as 85 million other Africans are thought to have died en route.

Most telling, perhaps, is that slavery is still practiced in the Sudan, Niger, Mauritania and a few other corners of the Muslim world - and you won't see any of those Muslim apologists (who shamelessly repeat the lie that Islam abolished slavery) doing or saying anything about it! 

In fact, a fatwa was recently issued by a mainstream Islamic source reminding Muslim males of their divine right to rape female slaves and "discipline" resisters in "whatever manner he thinks is appropriate".  Not one peep of protest from Islamic apologists was recorded.  In 2013, the same site prominently proclaimed that "there is no dispute (among the scholars) that it is permissible to take concubines and to have intercourse with one's slave woman, because Allah says so."

In 2011, what passes for a women's rights activist in Kuwait suggested that Russian women be taken captive in battle and turned into sex slaves in order to keep Muslim husbands from committing adultery. (Other calls for turning non-Muslim women into sex slaves can be found here).

After the Islamic State kidnapped and pressed into slavery thousands of Yazidi women and children in 2014, the caliphate issued an FAQ of sorts on slavery, which included rules on sexually molesting children: "It is permissible to have intercourse with the female slave who hasn’t reached puberty if she is fit for intercourse; however, if she is not fit for intercourse, then it is enough to enjoy her without intercourse." The best that "mainstream" apologists could muster in response was a letter appealing to "the reality of contemporary times", meaning that Islam has no fixed moral position on the rape of woman and children.

In 2016, a scholar at Egypt's al-Azhar, the most prestigious Islamic school in the Sunni world, stated that non-Muslim women could be captured in a time of war become "property" and can be raped "in order to humiliate them."

A 12-year-old girl taken captive by the Islamic State explained that her 'master' would pray before he raped her: "He told me that according to Islam he is allowed to rape an unbeliever. He said that by raping me, he is drawing closer to Allah." Other sex slaves have been forced to pray before the rape or recite passages from the Quran during. When a Yazidi woman begged a caliphate member not to rape a little girl, he responded, "She's a slave... and having sex with her pleases God."

A Quran memorization competition in 2015 offered slave girls as the top three prizes. Again, there were no voices of Muslim protest from elsewhere. As Uzy Bulut keenly observed, "A religion that encourages destructive rioting and killing over cartoons, but shows no sign of sorrow as little girls are sold and raped, does not have much to contribute to advancing civilization."

Since Muhammad was a slave owner and slavery is permitted by the Quran, the Muslim world has never apologized for this dehumanizing practice. Even Muslims in the West will often try to justify slavery under Islam, since it is a part of the Quran.



Video of Islamic State members at one of the caliphate's sex slave markets in November, 2014. A price list was released setting the rate Yazidi and Christian girls between ages 10 and 20 at $130. Women between the ages of 20 and 30 were being sold for $86; a 30 to 40 year was being sold for $75 and 40 to 50 year old women were listed for sale at a price of $43.

The price list began with these words: "In the name of Allah, most gracious and merciful. We have received news that the demand in women and cattle markets has sharply decreased and that will affected Islamic State revenues as well as the funding of the Mujaheddin in the battlefield. We have made some changes. Below are the prices of Yazidi and Christian women."

Jihadi Islamist Orphanage

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FILM
Lilies of the Field Official Trailer #1 - Sidney Poitier Movie (1963), 3:14
Lilies of the Field Trailer - Directed by Ralph Nelson and starring Sidney Poitier, Stanley Adams, Dan Frazer, Ralph Nelson, Pamela Branch. An unemployed construction worker (Homer Smith) heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior (Mother Maria), who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.
http://youtu.be/8aL0ml00S9Q


 Life of Brian (1979) Trailer, 2:38

Directed by Terry Jones

Written by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin
Brian is born in a stable on Christmas, right next to You Know Who. The wise men appear and begin to distribute gifts. The star moves further, so they take it all back and move on. This is how Brian's life goes. The Jews are looking for a release from the Romans, Spiritual and political decay, keep looking for signs and a group decides Brian is the Messiah. He cannot convince them he is not. He joins the Peoples' Front of Judea, one of several dozen separatist groups who actually do nothing, but really hate the Romans. While not about Jesus, it is about those who hadn't time, or interest to listen to his message. Many Political and Social comments.

Life of Brian - Original 1979 Trailer, 2:38

https://youtu.be/tOOVm4kY4lE



 REFERENCES





Jewish Hospitals Becoming Extinct

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Accomplishments: Jews vs. Muslims


Even as the distaste for Jews intensifies around the Western world and more and more members of the international community step up the pressure on Israel to stop being the cause of so much trouble in the otherwise idyllic Middle East, Israeli and Jewish scientists continue to clean up at the Nobel Prizes. It's nothing less than fascinating, in fact, that notwithstanding the lack of affection for Jews and the Jewish state that is evidenced in the Scandinavian media, Jews (who, after all, represent less than 0.2% of the world population) have managed to accumulate a staggeringly disproportionate number of Nobel Prizes over the decades – making up about 21% of the laureates in chemistry, 26% in physics, 27% in physiology or medicine, and 37% in economics.
Meanwhile, Muslims – who, if you haven't heard it lately, number somewhere around 1.5 billion, a good 25% of the planet's population – have racked up only two Nobel Prizes in the sciences. One of these winners, Egyptian chemist Ahmed Zewail, got his Ph.D. in the U.S., where he's also done most of his research. The other, the late physicist Abdus Salam, who studied in Britain and spent much of his career outside of his native Pakistan, wouldn't even count as a Muslim in the eyes of most adherents of that religion, since he belonged to the relatively peaceable, tolerant, and civilized Ahmadiyya sect, whose members are (in Pakistan and many other Islamic countries) officially considered infidels and are the subjects of brutal persecution.
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UK Islamist School and Dawkins

Septembers of Shiraz
Trailer
Septembers of Shiraz is a 2015 American drama film directed by Wayne Blair and written by Hanna Weg. It is based on Dalia Sofer's 2007 novel The Septembers of Shiraz. The film stars Adrien Brody, Salma Hayek, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Anthony Azizi, Bashar Rahal and Alon Aboutboul. The film was released on June 24, 2016, by Momentum Pictures.
The film is based on the novel by Dalia Sofer.

Question 1:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    Which is the Jewish holy day of atonement and cleansing?
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    Yom Kippur
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    Yom Kippur

Question 2:   Multiple Choice

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    The new “Arab Spring” resulted in __________.
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    more confusion as governments change over and over again
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    more confusion as governments change over and over again

Question 3:   Multiple Choice

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    Female initiates into the Khalsa take the surname
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    Correct 
    Kaur
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    Kaur

Question 4:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    The label “new religious movement” is __________.
    Given Answer:
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    more neutral than cult or sect
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    more neutral than cult or sect

Question 5:   Multiple Choice

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    In Islam, charity or almsgiving is known as __________.
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    Zakat
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    Zakat

Question 6:   Multiple Choice

  1. Incorrect
    A good example of an eccliesiastical court would be __________.
    Given Answer:
    Incorrect 
    Infallibility of the Pope
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    The Inquisition

Question 7:   Multiple Choice

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    Many religious require repentance from sinfulness, but Shinto requires __________.
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    purification
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    purification

Question 8:   Multiple Choice

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    Jesus died by __________.
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    crucifixion
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    crucifixion

Question 9:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    The name for God in Islam is __________.
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    Allah
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    Allah

Question 10:   Multiple Choice

  1. Incorrect
    The word kamikaze means __________.
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    Incorrect 
    War Pilot
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    Divine Wind

Question 11:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    Jesus taught spiritual lessons by telling stories called __________.
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    parables
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    parables

Question 12:   Multiple Choice

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    The covenant is a __________.
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    contract between God and God’s people
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    contract between God and God’s people

Question 13:   Multiple Choice

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    Which was not among the three central teachings of Guru Nanak?
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    Accept one’s caste distinctions without complaint
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    Accept one’s caste distinctions without complaint

Question 14:   Multiple Choice

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    The ethical principle of the Golden Rule is found in
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    All religions
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    All religions

Question 15:   Multiple Choice

  1. Incorrect
    The goal of religious pluralism is __________.
    Given Answer:
    Incorrect 
    uniformity and agreement among all religions
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    collaboration among religions for the common good

Question 16:   Multiple Choice

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    The Pentateuch refers to the __________.
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    Five books of Moses
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    Five books of Moses

Question 17:   Multiple Choice

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    Who founded Sikhism?
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    Correct 
    Guru Nanak
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    Guru Nanak

Question 18:   Multiple Choice

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    Reverend Sun Myung Moon founded the __________.
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    Unification Movement
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    Unification Movement

Question 19:   Multiple Choice

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    The sacred book of Islam is called the __________.
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    Qur’an
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    Qur’an

Question 20:   Multiple Choice

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    Islam traces its ancestry to the patriarch __________.
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    Abraham
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    Abraham

Question 21:   Multiple Choice

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    The scattering of Jews outside of the land of Israel is known as the __________.
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    Correct 
    Diaspora
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    Diaspora

Question 22:   Multiple Choice

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    The Rastafari religious group originated in __________.
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    Correct 
    Jamaica
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    Jamaica

Question 23:   Multiple Choice

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    The biggest annual Shinto festival celebrates the __________.
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    Correct 
    New Year
    Correct Answer:
     
    New Year

Question 24:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    Which apocalyptic religious movement was founded by Charles Taze Russell?
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    Jehovah’s Witnesses
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    Jehovah’s Witnesses

Question 25:   Multiple Choice

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    In Northern Ireland, interfaith efforts have attempted to directly address conflict between __________.
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    Correct 
    Protestants and Catholics
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    Protestants and Catholics

Question 26:   Multiple Choice

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    The god of rice is known as __________.
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    Correct 
    Inari
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    Inari

Question 27:   Multiple Choice

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    Which word most closely translates the Japanese word kami?
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    Spirits
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    Spirits

Question 28:   Multiple Choice

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    Which of the following is not one of the synoptic gospels?
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    John
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    John

Question 29:   Multiple Choice

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    Missionaries who spread the Christian faith in the first century were called __________.
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    Correct 
    Apostles
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    Apostles

Question 30:   Multiple Choice

Correct
Male initiates into the Khalsa take the surname
Given Answer:
Correct 
Singh
Correct Answer:
 
Singh


Question 1:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    The label “new religious movement” is __________.
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    more neutral than cult or sect
    Correct Answer:
     
    more neutral than cult or sect

Question 2:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    Many religious require repentance from sinfulness, but Shinto requires __________.
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    purification
    Correct Answer:
     
    purification

Question 3:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    The new “Arab Spring” resulted in __________.
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    more confusion as governments change over and over again
    Correct Answer:
     
    more confusion as governments change over and over again

Question 4:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    The biggest annual Shinto festival celebrates the __________.
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    New Year
    Correct Answer:
     
    New Year

Question 5:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    Islam traces its ancestry to the patriarch __________.
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    Abraham
    Correct Answer:
     
    Abraham

Question 6:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    The name for God in Islam is __________.
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    Allah
    Correct Answer:
     
    Allah

Question 7:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    Which word most closely translates the Japanese word kami?
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    Spirits
    Correct Answer:
     
    Spirits

Question 8:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    The sacred book of Islam is called the __________.
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    Qur’an
    Correct Answer:
     
    Qur’an

Question 9:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    The goal of religious pluralism is __________.
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    collaboration among religions for the common good
    Correct Answer:
     
    collaboration among religions for the common good

Question 10:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    Which apocalyptic religious movement was founded by Charles Taze Russell?
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    Jehovah’s Witnesses
    Correct Answer:
     
    Jehovah’s Witnesses

Question 11:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    The ethical principle of the Golden Rule is found in
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    All religions
    Correct Answer:
     
    All religions

Question 12:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    Which was not among the three central teachings of Guru Nanak?
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    Accept one’s caste distinctions without complaint
    Correct Answer:
     
    Accept one’s caste distinctions without complaint

Question 13:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    Male initiates into the Khalsa take the surname
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    Singh
    Correct Answer:
     
    Singh

Question 14:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    Which is the Jewish holy day of atonement and cleansing?
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    Yom Kippur
    Correct Answer:
     
    Yom Kippur

Question 15:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    A good example of an eccliesiastical court would be __________.
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    The Inquisition
    Correct Answer:
     
    The Inquisition

Question 16:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    Who founded Sikhism?
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    Guru Nanak
    Correct Answer:
     
    Guru Nanak

Question 17:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    Jesus died by __________.
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    crucifixion
    Correct Answer:
     
    crucifixion

Question 18:   Multiple Choice

  1. Incorrect
    The word kamikaze means __________.
    Given Answer:
    Incorrect 
    Sacred Shrine
    Correct Answer:
     
    Divine Wind

Question 19:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    Female initiates into the Khalsa take the surname
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    Kaur
    Correct Answer:
     
    Kaur

Question 20:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    Jesus taught spiritual lessons by telling stories called __________.
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    parables
    Correct Answer:
     
    parables

Question 21:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    The Pentateuch refers to the __________.
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    Five books of Moses
    Correct Answer:
     
    Five books of Moses

Question 22:   Multiple Choice

  1. Incorrect
    Which of the following is not one of the synoptic gospels?
    Given Answer:
    Incorrect 
    Matthew
    Correct Answer:
     
    John

Question 23:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    The god of rice is known as __________.
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    Inari
    Correct Answer:
     
    Inari

Question 24:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    The Rastafari religious group originated in __________.
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    Jamaica
    Correct Answer:
     
    Jamaica

Question 25:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    In Islam, charity or almsgiving is known as __________.
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    Zakat
    Correct Answer:
     
    Zakat

Question 26:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    Missionaries who spread the Christian faith in the first century were called __________.
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    Apostles
    Correct Answer:
     
    Apostles

Question 27:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    The scattering of Jews outside of the land of Israel is known as the __________.
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    Diaspora
    Correct Answer:
     
    Diaspora

Question 28:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    In Northern Ireland, interfaith efforts have attempted to directly address conflict between __________.
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    Protestants and Catholics
    Correct Answer:
     
    Protestants and Catholics

Question 29:   Multiple Choice

  1. Correct
    Reverend Sun Myung Moon founded the __________.
    Given Answer:
    Correct 
    Unification Movement
    Correct Answer:
     
    Unification Movement

Question 30:   Multiple Choice

Correct
The covenant is a __________.
Given Answer:
Correct 
contract between God and God’s people
Correct Answer:
 
contract between God and God’s people