Other - Cultures & Groups - January 2007

The Guardian newspaper in the UK reports that the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia has instructed Muslims to hit their children if they don't pray.
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Here is the text of the story:

"Inside the Green Lane mosque in Birmingham, a preacher is recorded saying: 'Allah has created the woman deficient.' A satellite broadcast from the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, beamed into the Green Lane mosque suggests that Muslim children should be hit if they don't pray: 'When he is seven, tell him to go and pray, and start hitting them when they are 10.' Another preacher is heard saying that if a girl 'doesn't wear hijab, we hit her'."

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Here is the link:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1984530,00.html

2007-01-08 03:59:09 · 3 answers · asked by nobody 5

The continents are called North America and South America, named after our ol' buddy Vespucci. So there's Americans: Canadians, Peruvians, Chileans, Mexicans, Panamanians, Brazilians, and on, and on, que no? How do USers get away with calling themselves Americans?

2007-01-08 03:56:59 · 5 answers · asked by fjpoblam 7

In the 1950s most people in the UK, with the exception of Catholics in Northern Ireland, were happy to think of themselves as British.

Now it seems that most people consider themselves to be English, Scottish, Welsh etc. Why doesn't anyone want to be British anymore?

2007-01-08 03:49:39 · 5 answers · asked by Living in Britain 3

I'm talking about Blacks in Britain, Europe, South America, USA, Canada, and Europe. Most of them all have the same problem: POVERTY AND RACISM.
I don't think it's because they're all lazy and stupid either. I smell racism.

2007-01-08 03:47:31 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Which cultures in the world do you think will leave a mark forever? Meaning what cultures have the most distinctive food, music, traditions exc. I thought of China, India, Egypt, Brazil, Japan, Australia, Jamaica, Haiti, Trinidad, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Ireland, Germany and the Phillipines. What's your opinion?

2007-01-08 03:28:40 · 6 answers · asked by Virgo27 6

2007-01-08 03:18:51 · 10 answers · asked by Waineo G 1

Karloff Kristiano IS the biggest idiot in the world!

2007-01-08 03:13:55 · 1 answers · asked by weege 1

What happened aginst the black and whites in the1960.

2007-01-08 02:57:01 · 4 answers · asked by bossdrummer2009 1

What different 'youth tribes' are there today in the UK, what categorises someone in that tribe and who best exemplifies each tribe? EG I know that there are goths - maybe exemplified by Marilyn Manson - but what other 'tribes' are there out there? Please help as I am trying to put together a training event for youth workers and wish to include information on relevant youth culture.
Thanks in advance

2007-01-08 02:53:27 · 8 answers · asked by NORSE-MAN 3

2007-01-08 02:46:24 · 4 answers · asked by pazdon 1

2007-01-08 02:13:07 · 7 answers · asked by sally j 2

People who have been on welfare for 5 generations, squealing racism as a reason not to look for work, have been the parasites of America since the 60's. I say that welfare should be run like unemployment. The more you pay in, the more you get back. If you pay nothing, you get nothing. Also a time limit is needed and a cap on payments, including food stamps, at two chitterlings (children).

2007-01-08 02:12:27 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-08 02:10:38 · 9 answers · asked by Unconditional Love 1

2007-01-08 01:58:59 · 8 answers · asked by Chloelouise 2

2007-01-08 01:50:46 · 16 answers · asked by Alyssa 1

Or should we just ignore him?

2007-01-08 01:36:08 · 18 answers · asked by atomicseptic 1

I know a Muslim girl who do to medical reasons most likely can not have children. She is really an amazing girl who could have any guy she wanted (myself included). But she says she doesn't want to get married and she doesn't want to have kids.

I have seen her with kids and you can really tell she loves them, and more than once she has hinted that she would like to adopt.

She comes from a fairly relious Muslim family, and I am just wondering if it is normal for women in Muslim culture to feel like they should not get married because they can't have children.

2007-01-08 01:31:05 · 5 answers · asked by The Teacher 6

mexican-americans in san antonio city, texas and rest of south texas and el paso area would most be mestizo

2007-01-08 01:13:04 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Jewish is not a race it is a religion, there is no such thing as jewish blood. Could it be that some call themselves jews because they think they will be treated or thought of as special?

2007-01-08 01:08:13 · 8 answers · asked by Convince Pete 3

I am a 21 year old black woman and my cousin Tyrell feels like a social outcast and is getting shunned at home too. He lives in an all white community and he says he wishes he could be with a white girl. He says white girls at his school dont like him. The other day his sister walked in on him masturbating to a picture of skanky Lindsay Lohan and she told his parents and they said that he is forgetting who he is. I talked to him and he said he just loves white girls and cant help but to lust over them. He said he feels like an oreo cookie (black on the outside, white on the inside) because he masturbates to the blond and brunette cheerleaders and pretty white girls in his school. He said he does the same think as celebrities. Do you think white women are sold by the media as Greek Goddesses and is that why cousin Tyrell is warped?

2007-01-08 01:02:02 · 27 answers · asked by eraider101 1

Okay I grew up in Spain learning to speak Spanish German French as well as English. as a rather normal teen student in Madrid we moved to the states. only my level of education was will above what was offered in the public schools. Despite my father being born in the US. once people found out I was not I was seen as less intelligent regardless of my much better test scores...that was over twenty years ago, and it just gets worse as the years pass...so what do you think? What could Americans do to better their image to the world at large?

2007-01-08 00:57:14 · 13 answers · asked by BigBadWolf 6

2007-01-08 00:49:48 · 9 answers · asked by Nikki.babessssxoxo 1

2007-01-08 00:35:53 · 6 answers · asked by Parris Island 1

2007-01-08 00:32:19 · 8 answers · asked by JO 1

I had a Black friend tell me King Solomon sold slaves to America. America didn't even exist when King Solomon was alive.
Is it pure ignorance. Blacks are enslaving Blacks in Niger
today. Muslims enslaving Black Christians in Sudan. There
are women in this country that are Chinese and Latino,
who are brought here and forced into being sex slaves.
White women have been sold as sex slaves to rich rots
in the Middle East for forever.
There are "plantatians" in Brazil were men are taken to
to work and are forced into slavery. Child slavery in China.
The rapper KRS ONE said there are Blacks in New York
City that think all Whites are Italian. Like he said in his song.
YOU MUST LEARN!
Get an education. Knowledge is Power! Power to overcome the lies of the Devil. Like you're the only one who has problems.

2007-01-08 00:28:53 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-08 00:25:53 · 12 answers · asked by Brian W 1

2007-01-08 00:17:52 · 9 answers · asked by peaches 2

can anyone please give me examples when the majority was right and the minority wrong?

2007-01-08 00:16:17 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-08 00:14:31 · 3 answers · asked by Soundguy 2

2007-01-07 23:47:35 · 15 answers · asked by Soundguy 2