September 11th was a tragedy for Americans all over the country. It has left us as Americans with strict suspicion upon foreign specifically against Muslims. People tend to generalize against Muslims because of their religion, but they can be wrong. Many Muslims have separated themselves from their country to live in freedom in America and are harmless. The American government can be over protective of their country and be extremely thorough upon searching for evidence of the next threat. Racial
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Cultural Awareness As an Officer in the military one must remain on constant vigil. Vigilant against the enemy, against complacency, and no less important, we must remain vigilant against alienating those we seek to help. Working to rebuild a foreign land, thousands of miles from home away from your family and friends is already a tough job. Alienating the local population can only exacerbate the problems the military already has. Some of the more important areas of cultural understanding for
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Copyright © 2009, 2007, 2006 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course studies the major religions of the world. Topical areas include Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Indigenous Cultures, Islam, Judaism, and Taoism. Students will be objectively studying the origins and major figures and comparing and contrasting each of the major religions. During this course each student will visit a religious site and interview a person of an unfamiliar
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Week 5: Assignment 1 Religious Life on Planet Earth Anna Papp Prepared for Professor Laila Ghauri REL 212, Strayer University July 30, 2012 As an alien who has landed on planet Earth, I would have to base the criteria on what my location is. The first thing is to observe the area that I am in as it may be different than other parts of the world. To some, religion consists of explanations of existence (or ultimate meaning) based on supernatural assumptions and including statements about the
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ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY Christianity and Islam share much common ground, but when it comes to god they have different beliefs.Both trace their roots to Abraham. Both believe in prophecy, God's messengers(apostles), revelation, scripture, the resurrection of dead, and the centrality of religious community. This last element is especially important. Both Christianity and Islam have a communitarian dimension: what the church is to Christianity the"umma" is to Islam. Despite these
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English assignment 5 Multiculturalism in Britain Terrorism is a current threat worldwide. One of those countries who had the terrorism on close range is United States of America. We all remember the 9/11 terror attack, by the global militant Islamist organization, Al-Qaeda and the bombing attack in London in 2005. Terror can be different kind of goals, but mostly; political, religious or ideological goals and are mostly intended to create fear, and are directed to the civilians. This article
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| | | Islam Islam is known as one of the fastest-expanding religions in history. Many methods were used in order to spread this religion at such a rate.. Muslims were very reasonable people. They were tolerant, and offered many alternatives to the other religions of conquered lands. Mohammed once stated that another religion can either believe in Islam, or pay to keep his own religion. He would give the religions protection in exchange for obedience. Mohammed, however, threatens
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that of specifically being Muslim by religion. This is in exchange for establishing and maintaining a presence in a conquered land, as acquired by a Jihad, or holy war. The problem with this is that it gives people an opportunity to convert to Islam if it means free healthcare. The reason it is free is because according
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1. Why do we speak of ‘basic” rather than “primitive” religions? We speak of basic religion because basic religion came from prehistory or are practiced in remote places. And elements of the basic religions are found to some degree in all religions. Basic religions represent the majority of the total religious experience of humankind. While primitive religion carries with it connotations of being backward, simple, even childlike. Christian or Muslim or Jew may tend to look down on these religions
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Beitar Jerusalem, one of the greatest soccer team in israel with the most amount of fans. The teams fans are anti-arab, and chant racist comments in games towards arab players, every team involves arab players in israel but Beitar is the only team who never had an Arab player play for them. The owner Arkadi Gaydamak decieded to sign to Chechnyan players which were Muslim to change the view of the club and make a difference, some of the fans disagreed on the move and protested against it stating Beitar
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