org/~/media/Files/Middle%20East%20North%20Africa/Iraq%2 Syria%20Lebanon/Syria/128-syrias-mutating-conflict.pdf 3. “Independent Alliances”‚ Tentative Jihad: Syria’s Fundamentalist Opposition‚ International Crisis Group‚ accessed November 2‚ 2012. http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/Middle%20East%20North%20Africa/Iraq%20 Syria%20Lebanon/Syria/131-tentative-jihad-syrias-fundamentalist-opposition.pdf 4. “The Issue of Sectarianism”‚ Syria’s Mutating Conflict‚ International Crisis Group‚ accessed November
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During a catastrophic‚ historic event‚ people often try to find meaning behind it and look towards their own faith for unanswered questions. Bruce Lincoln’s book “Holy Terrors” shows amidst a horrific catastrophe where that line of politics and religion can be drawn between parties‚ and how one’s interpretation of events can be skewed when maximalist religion begins to overpower politics. Jerry Falwell‚ a Catholic maximalist states about the September 11th attacks‚ “I really believe that the pagans
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Islamic jihad groups are expressly single-minded in killing as many Americans as possible. These killers also have a specific target; but the target is so broad that any death will suffice. In fact‚ the more deaths that are caused the the better the outcome in their
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This research paper is about the Crusades‚ what were they‚ who was involved‚ what were the reasons behind them‚ and more. “The Crusades were a series of Holy Wars launched by the Christian states of Europe against the Saracens.”[1] Saracens was the word used to describe a Moslem during the time of the Crusades. The great military expeditions known as the Crusades were Christian nations of Europe who got together to rescue the holy places of Palestine from the hands of the Mohammedans. “They
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Emile Durkheim’s Study of Suicide Critical Questions to be Answered 1. Why was Durkheim’s work on suicide considered so important? 2. What are the important points of Durkheim’s research process? a. Definition of Suicide b. # of Suicides c. Collection of Statistics d. The main point or theory of his research 3. What is Egoistic Suicide? Give an example to help support your answer. 4. What is Alturistic Suicide? Give an example to help support
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Gaza http://www.vox.com/2014/7/17/5902177/9-questions-about-the-israel-palestine-conflict-you-were-too http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/12/world/meast/who-is-the-isis/ The Gaza–Israel conflict‚ taking place in the region of the Gaza Strip and southern Israel‚ is a part of the long-termIsraeli–Palestinian conflict. It began in the summer of 2006 and is ongoing. Palestinian militant actions escalated in the Gaza Strip following the overwhelming election to government of the Islamic political party Hamas in 2005[5] and 2006
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Christopher Taylor Religious and Ethnic Groups paper June 8TH 2014 I have chosen to write about the Muslim/Islam religion. Racial/Ethnic group‚ I have chosen to write about Hispanic and Latino population. Islam is a monotheistic religion based on revelations received by the prophet Mohammed in the 7th century A.D.‚ which were later recorded in the Quran (or Koran)‚ Islam ’s sacred text. Islam has spread rapidly throughout the centuries and today the religion is‚ by some measurements‚ the
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Christianity and Islam had their origins in the Semitic Near East and had spread widely throughout both regions by 1200 CE. This is because both were easy to convert to and traveled along the trade routes of the Roman Empire prior to its collapse and through jihad by the caliphs that followed Muhammad after his death. A difference between these two religions in regards to their spread was how people converted. Early in Christianity‚ people came to the religion based on the efforts of missionaries. Later as Christianity
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Arabic verses. They encourage others who don’t know Islam as well as themselves to believe that Islam promotes terrorism and killings. God and Prophet Muhammad have said clearly that Muslims cannot kill innocent people and that there is no fitnah‚ jihad or exception to that. In the Qur’an‚ the very first verses show how Muslims should not become a terrorist in the
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Week 1: August 27 2012: What is Terrorism? Lectures will be complementary to the readings‚ not reproductions. JB’s own background: * Historian‚ not very interested in abstract models‚ concepts or theories * Started out studying Medieval Islamic history‚ later shifted to modern European history and extremist groupings (also right wing‚ neo-fascist etc.) * Before 9/11‚ warned about the threat presented against the US by jihadist groups but not taken seriously – of course‚ this changed
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