As I am wont to do most weekends, I commented on Ross Douthat’s latest column. It was about the rather large influx of Middle Eastern immigrants into Europe, and the rise in the incidence of rape, among other things. Douthat specializes in writing specious pieces that never quite fully go all the way, but are unequivocal enough for readers to see the picture in detail. Continue reading Current Conservative and Neoliberal View of Muslims? Rapists! | #Racism on Blog#42
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History, the Abrahamic God, Christianity, Judaism & Islam | #Truth and #AcademicFreedom on Blog#42
Professor Larycia Hawkins was fired from Wheaton College, an evangelical institution of higher learning in Illinois for stating these things: Continue reading History, the Abrahamic God, Christianity, Judaism & Islam | #Truth and #AcademicFreedom on Blog#42
Inequality and the end of #ISIS
There is a very strong case for calling ISIS a terrorist organization. However, unlike Al Qaeda, the people who founded ISIS built it on a foundation that is rooted on every last tenet of Islam. In fact, if we can accuse ISIS of anything, it is of being too punctilious in applying Islamic canon. In this sense, ISIS is no different than the extreme of any religion. While Christianity ended its crusades a few hundred years ago, it isn’t implausible for Islam to now wage its own version. It is, after all, the youngest of the major religions. Continue reading Inequality and the end of #ISIS
Islam and the West: A Conversation with Bernard Lewis | Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project
April 27, 2006
Hay-Adams Hotel Washington, D.C.
The relationship between Islam and the West will be a defining feature of the 21st century, particularly in the Middle East. How should U.S. policymakers engage with the Muslim world? Will the spread of democracy throughout the Muslim world blunt the militant forces generating terrorism? How will European governments and populations deal with their burgeoning Muslim populations, and how will this affect U.S. foreign policy priorities and alliances? Continue reading Islam and the West: A Conversation with Bernard Lewis | Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project
Iraq’s unique place in the Sunni-Shia divide | Pew Research Center
BY MICHAEL LIPKA
The Sunni-Shia divide: Where they live, what they believe and how they view each other
Continue reading Iraq’s unique place in the Sunni-Shia divide | Pew Research Center
What Is the Difference Between Sunni and Shiite Muslims–and Why Does It Matter? | History News Network
The Islam religion was founded by Mohammed in the seventh century. In 622 he founded the first Islamic state, a theocracy in Medina, a city in western Saudi Arabia located north of Mecca. There are two branches of the religion he founded.
The Sunni branch believes that the first four caliphs–Mohammed’s successors–rightfully took his place as the leaders of Muslims. They recognize the heirs of the four caliphs as legitimate religious leaders. These heirs ruled continuously in the Arab world until the break-up of the Ottoman Empire following the end of the First World War. Continue reading What Is the Difference Between Sunni and Shiite Muslims–and Why Does It Matter? | History News Network