Society & Culture - 9 February 2007

2007-02-09 21:32:04 · 16 answers · asked by good 1 in Religion & Spirituality

All the universes and their orbits are just a natural thing?

The perfection of the sun providing just the right heat, and the moon and its perfect pull on the ocean, is all just natural forces in action. How big of a camel am I to swallow? (strain at a nat--creation, and swallow a camel--evolution) do you agree?

2007-02-09 21:32:02 · 7 answers · asked by Lover of God 3 in Religion & Spirituality

How and why do you think children and/or youth develop problem behaviours? How do you know when a child or youth is troubled? What do you think child and youth care practitioners need to do to help children they work with? Give examples.

2007-02-09 21:29:51 · 2 answers · asked by stranger 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2007-02-09 21:28:44 · 13 answers · asked by peaceathome 2 in Religion & Spirituality

How are you celebrating this valentine's ?

2007-02-09 21:28:02 · 5 answers · asked by Syed A 3 in Valentine's Day

i have heard many speakers speaking tat govt is not doing this and tat...... r they following wat govt laid do they know tat they is a rule in india not to cut trees , not to spit on roads .... and there is fine for all these . r these rules working ?if not wat can be done to make i work? population cant make it hard to make it work because China is more populated than us.

2007-02-09 21:27:58 · 3 answers · asked by shalini 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2007-02-09 21:25:06 · 15 answers · asked by GODZILLA 3 in Religion & Spirituality

proverb

2007-02-09 21:24:40 · 15 answers · asked by shafeeqvga 1 in Mythology & Folklore

proverb

2007-02-09 21:24:34 · 12 answers · asked by shafeeqvga 1 in Mythology & Folklore

the 22 islamic countries divided into three parts, Jazeera, Fertile Crescent and North africa/

2007-02-09 21:24:09 · 4 answers · asked by yanuarfebri 1 in Religion & Spirituality

What does your faith mean to you? ie. "I believe in God, who...."
"I believe in Jesus Christ, who..." "I believe in the Holy Spirit, who?" To gather this info is part of my Religious Studies course work...to find out what the abovve mean to different people. Any sensible answers would be a great help. Thankyou.

2007-02-09 21:23:33 · 6 answers · asked by fowlersofyork 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-02-09 21:22:24 · 7 answers · asked by charlie h 1 in Other - Holidays

proverb

2007-02-09 21:20:29 · 7 answers · asked by shafeeqvga 1 in Mythology & Folklore

2007-02-09 21:19:59 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2007-02-09 21:19:49 · 19 answers · asked by Lynne 3 in Languages

purpose of their growing? Will they be taught of what happened during the pre-heaven era? If so, what would be the purpose? Will there still be continents, countries, cities, different languages? Will physical infrastructure of each continent and country reflect current status? Will people still fly to visit others? Will people still be doing 9-to-5 work or something like that? Will we be allowed to go on holiday? Will new technology be inveted? Will we still have competitive games, if so, in what form -country-based etc?

NB: I am no believer in afterlife, but would like to know how it would look like for those who believe in it!

2007-02-09 21:16:56 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-02-09 21:16:43 · 10 answers · asked by tom33 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

proverb

2007-02-09 21:16:17 · 9 answers · asked by shafeeqvga 1 in Mythology & Folklore

2007-02-09 21:15:36 · 16 answers · asked by GODZILLA 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-02-09 21:12:21 · 2 answers · asked by Deepali 2 in Other - Society & Culture

Kaffur being a non believer in Islam.
muslim being a brainwashed sheep.

I'm all for being a Kaffur/Infidel!

2007-02-09 21:12:21 · 19 answers · asked by Mohammed A 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I just heard my bf ordered me a real-original voodoo doll. OMG it s very scary. isn t this kinda spells forbidden by all religions?? I cannot return this present by I cannot use it??Is it a sin?

2007-02-09 21:11:20 · 7 answers · asked by Ldn. 2 in Mythology & Folklore

2007-02-09 21:09:44 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Just tell me where you found them and I'll read there info if it is true. I did some reseach I found one "Zarzuela" the other 2 are Moro-moro and Carillo those are Phil. Folk Dances. If any of you find 10 and other 2 Folk Dances and there info will be choose the best answer. Good Luck to all of you!

2007-02-09 21:08:48 · 8 answers · asked by MIngfang47 2 in Mythology & Folklore

2007-02-09 21:07:41 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Most answer with out reading my detail, i would hope people would be more dilagent. but just ask people are quick about christians, i assume most just want to express their personal anger toward christianity. my question was gear toward RELATIVISM! and once abain my point was proved. why most can go about believing in whatever their whims tells them will be easy or complementing to their lives, christians are riden off as intolerent...
yet most define tolerance as the ACCEPTANCE of (blank), while the definition would be...
"The capacity for or the practice of recognizing and respecting the beliefs or practices of others. Leeway for variation from a standard. The permissible deviation from a specified value of a structural dimension, often expressed as a percent."
the key is the difference in respecting and the hot word ACCEPTANCE yet according to this phlosophy, are you not supposed to respect at least christians too? not even accept, meary respect yet is see Hypocrasy for this bashing

2007-02-09 21:07:38 · 8 answers · asked by todd w 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-02-09 21:07:28 · 20 answers · asked by sandeep s 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-02-09 21:06:58 · 5 answers · asked by sandeep s 1 in Religion & Spirituality

The Times --February 09, 2007
Our mosques are importing jihad
Mary Ann Sieghart
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article1354063.ece

Gina Khan was born in Birmingham 38 years ago to Pakistani parents, she has run away from an arranged marriage, dressed herself in jeans and dared to speak out against the increasing radicalisation of her community.

"There are mosques springing up on every street corner, she says, pointing them out to me as we drive to her tiny house in Birmingham, near the district where nine men were arrested last week on suspicion of plotting to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier.

[Two suspects have since been released without charge, a man has been accused of plotting to kidnap and kill a member of the British Armed Forces, four other men have been charged with terrorism offences
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=GAAPIE1HHYUODQFIQMFCFF4AVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2007/02/09/nterr209.xml]

Over the past 15 years, she says, there has been an influx of jihadist thinking into her part of Birmingham. Bookshops sell radical literature and the mosques preach separatism and hatred. The Government and the white Establishment have allowed it to happen. And she is outraged about it. "It's all happening on your doorstep," she says, "and Britain is still blind to the real threat that is embedded here now".

"I truly believe that all these mosques here are importing jihad. The radical teaching is filtering through, and these mosques are not regulated. They are supporting everything that is wrong about Islam. We within the community knew this. People are lying. They are in denial. They knew they were bringing in radicals."

"But there are still more English and British people, no matter what, and if they got together and wanted to stamp out this radicalism, they could. I am wasting my time talking to my own people; that is why I am sitting here talking to you, to open your eyes."
Khan is particularly worried about how mosques are brainwashing children and young people: "To me, it is starting to look like a cult." And her local community certainly seems to be in denial. "After the raid I went to the corner shop here, and they were all saying it was a conspiracy. I turned round and said, 'No, it is not. Let us be honest'.
"They say we're being victimised. We're not. The truth is coming out at last, but it's 20 years too late."

Three issues in particular enrage her: forced or arranged marriages for teenage girls, polygamy and the veil. Khan herself was pressurised into marriage at the age of 16 by her father, against her mother's wishes. "I was manipulated by my dad's side of the family into a teen marriage — you know, you are a passport for someone from Pakistan. My mum wanted me to study and make something of my life because she knew what this country had to offer."
Khan married and became pregnant, but after her baby died she says that she suffered terrible postnatal depression and left the marriage. Her family disowned her, as did the Muslim community.

The mosques, she says, collude in these marriages, as they do in the informal polygamy that she claims is rife in Muslim communities. "It is still very, very common here, polygamy. This is Pakistan I have just brought you back into" she says, gesturing at the streets of terraced and semidetached houses. ...

So, although polygamy is illegal in Britain, it is still, says, Khan, being practised with a Muslim seal of approval. The "marriages", after all, are being sanctioned in the mosques.

Having banned teen marriages and the veil, cracked down on polygamy and ensured women's representation in mosques, Khans next priority as prime minister would be to get rid of faith schools and teach Britishness more effectively. Although her children are taught well at an excellent Catholic school, she fears that Muslim schools exacerbate separatism. "Britishness should be compulsory in schools, taught by English teachers. And we should let kids know how valuable their British passports are around the world."

"Compared with Third World countries, compared with every Muslim country, we Muslims are a lot safer here, I know that still. I would not want to leave and move to Pakistan or anywhere on my own as a woman with a grown daughter. I know that now, though it may have taken me a lifetime to realise it. I am so lucky to have been born here.
"We are women, we are treated equally here. If I am raped or sexually abused, the cruellest things that can happen to a woman and leave a residue on your life, this is a country that supports you. I do not have to hide. They are going to help me, give me counselling. What are they going to do in a Muslim country? Stone me. I need four witnesses. They are going to ostracise me, as if I am dirty."
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"Muslim women aren't suppose to make waves. I didn’t even hear my own screams and tears for 34 years. I have now stepped back and decided to understand and challenge my religion."
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the veil, teen marriage, polygamy, 4 witnesses (the rapists perhaps ?) for proof or, if not, the stoning of the raped woman, and so on, are all part of Koran/Hadith and Sharia-laws, they are state laws in Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, parts of Indonesia and Malaysia.

but, sure, in the name of "open mindeness", "non-biogtry", "non-racism", "multi-culturalism" we should not condem this things so as not offend the "muslims' sensibilities" but rather twist our legal system to "accomodate" them

2007-02-09 21:06:47 · 6 answers · asked by Analyst 7 in Religion & Spirituality

I feel I have been lied to, by lying myself.

2007-02-09 21:03:24 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality