Monday 13 April 2015

Declaring a Jihad Against ISIS

Arabic script. Eghra, Read. The first Quoranic...
Arabic script. Eghra, Read. The first Quoranic word, in order of arrival. (Letter Qaf eight times, letter 'Alif sixteen times.) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Muslim Youth League UK (MYL), an active UK based Islamic youth organisation, has declared an ideological war against ISIS and other terrorist groups. Issuing a 7-point declaration on the 27th of March, at an event in Glasgow, they claimed the terrorist groups have 'no link with Islam or the Muslim community'.

The Youth League represents young Muslims from around the UK and works actively to promote unity and tolerance. It hopes to embolden other Muslim organisations to issue similar declarations that unequivocally condemn extremism.
The denunciation by the League comes at a time when ISIS recruitment is on the rise in the UK. Shaykh Rehan Ahmed Raza, president of Muslim Youth League UK and a community activist from Glasgow has said "our efforts are aimed at deterring further ISIS recruitment in Britain and defending the Muslim community, who feel their religion has been hijacked".

In their 7-point declaration against ISIS and other terrorist groups, MYL states:

"1. We declare their killing of human beings, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, to be un-Islamic.
2. Supporters of these groups have deviated from the teachings of Prophet Muhammad and the Quran.
3. The emergence of the terrorists, who would use the name of Islam to justify their atrocious activities, was prophesied by Prophet Muhammad. He declared them as being out of the ambit of Islam.
4. We challenge ISIS, similar groups and their supporters ideologically and intellectually.
5. We reject all generalised Islamophobic labelling of Muslims as extremists or terrorists by the media, politicians and the general public.
6. We ask Muslims from all walks of life, regardless of the school of thought to which they belong, to stand united against extremists who have hijacked the true teachings of Islam.
7. We call upon scholars and community leaders to raise a united and unwavering voice against extremism."

Social media has proven to be a key tool for ISIS to promote their message and recruit young Muslims. As a countermeasure, MYL have revealed their strategy to use twitter and other popular social networking sites to spread the true and peaceful image of Islam.
The barbarism and lack of respect for the sanctity of human life shown by ISIS is a challenge to every civilised value, not least to the tenets of Islam. As Muslims, the MYL will continue to oppose them at every opportunity.

Find out more about MYL UK:
Website - www.myl.org.uk
Twitter - www.twitter.com/MYL_UK
Facebook - www.facebook.com/MuslimYouthLeagueUK

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State and attitude of certain people to blame for radicalisation

We have seen the behaviour of the Western people going more and more away from the Judeo Christian values. Ethics of all sort are not any more important for lots of inhabitants of crowded areas where not everybody finds work and/or gets respected for whom and what he is.

In Great Britain almost three quarters of Muslims polled said they believe the “values of British society” are compatible with those of their religion, one in seven said they were not.Abotu the action of certain Muslims they do have comprehension for them disagreeing with the evolution of the British society. But Four in 10 British Muslims believe that police and MI5 are partly responsible for the radicalization of young people who support extremists, a survey commissioned by Sky News, has found.

Sky News said the survey is the first of its kind, setting out to determine what Muslims and non-Muslims think about controversial issues relating to radicalization, security and prejudice.

Police escort an Islamist demonstrator marching to protest outside the US embassy in London
Police escort an Islamist demonstrator marching to protest outside the US embassy in London Photo: CARL COURT/AFP


Three missing schoolgirls feared to be in Syria



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  6. Epicurus’ Problem of Evil
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  18. Religion…..why the competition?
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Wrong ideas about religious terrorism

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Lots of people do have a wrong idea about the amount of religious terrorism. Most badly affected is the Muslim community which has to cope with the bad name those fools of ISIS do give them.

Belgium and the United Kingdom have seen many people recruited, surprisingly also several women to come to Syria and help the jihad. The present going on series about those recruitments on BBC is a must see.

We can not ignore those militant groups in Muslim countries who make a big effort to radicalise and recruit Muslims living in the West. They even use for it a British girl from Birmingham to do that. West Europe has seen many leaving their capitalist soil for what they call the good cause. The United States of America looked at those happenings with a magnifying glass and got a terrible fear that  large-scale terrorist would strike on their home soil.

Such fears, however, have been largely unfounded, because Muslims in the United States have overwhelmingly ignored the calls to militancy, said Charles Kurzman, a researcher with the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security in North Carolina.
“We have not seen mass radicalization of Muslims in the United States,”
he said.
As part of a Triangle Center study, Kurzman, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill who researches Islamic movements, tallied a total of 250 American Muslims who have been arrested for — or who have engaged in — acts that might be called terrorism since 2001. That’s out of an estimated population of 3 million Muslims in the U.S.

Kurzman’s study found that the death toll as a result of all their plots was 50 — over a period of time in which 200,000 people were murdered in the United States.
Although comparisons are tricky, other studies suggest that right-wing violence claimed more lives in the U.S. than terrorism committed in the name of Islam.

There have been serious attacks, of course.  The 2009 shooting at the Fort Hood military base in Texas and the 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon were carried out by Muslim U.S. citizens who claimed to be avenging American military actions overseas.

Though we must not exaggerate such a Muslim violence and should be well aware there is much more intern violence by non-believing people going on. When we look at the figures for Belgium religious violence is negligible with less than 0.14% of more than 700 terrorist attack in one year. The only thing is that often such Muslim fed terrorism gets more attention in the media. Cases as the attack around the Charlie Hebdo got the fantasy of many heads turning wild.

Also in the United States there are less Muslim American terrorism suspects the last few years than two decades ago. Kurzman said the numbers have actually been declining, and over the last couple of years there have been almost no plots aimed at the United States.  Most of those arrested recently on suspicion of terrorism were attempting to travel to Syria or Yemen to join groups that the U.S. government considers terrorist organizations.

David Schanzer, a Duke University expert on homegrown terrorism who directs the Triangle center, said that while federal authorities spend “a disproportionate amount of energy” thinking about domestic terrorism, local police departments across the country have other things on their minds.
“They very much realize that the things that are threats to public safety in their communities are much more things like drugs, gangs, domestic violence,” he said.
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Acts of Terrorism Very Rare Among US Muslims, Study Finds
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  2. Atheists, deists, and sleepers
  3. Being Religious and Spiritual 2 Religiosity and spiritual life
  4. Being Religious and Spiritual 6 Romantici, utopists and transcendentalists
  5. Epicurus’ Problem of Evil
  6. Economics and Degradation
  7. Evil Never Ceases
  8. Caricaturing and disapproving sceptics, religious critics and figured out ethics
  9. Subcutaneous power for humanity 5 Loneliness, Virtual and real friends
  10. A world with or without religion
  11. , Being Charlie 2, Being Charlie 3, Being Charlie 4, Being Charlie 5, Being Charlie 6,Being Charlie 7, Being Charlie 8, Being Charlie 9, Being Charlie 10, Being Charlie 11
  12. It’s beautiful to watch the spread of #JeSuisCharlie across the world,
  13. Where do we stand in the backdrop of Charlie Hebdo Massacre ?,
  14. Charlie Hebdo, offensive satire and why ‘Freedom of Speech’ needs more discussion
  15. Faith because of the questions
  16. Religion, fundamentalism and murder
  17. Religion…..why the competition?
  18. Shariah and child abuse – Is there a connection?
  19. Why is it that Christians don’t understand Muslims and Muslims do not understand Christians?
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  21. Leaving the Old World to find better pastures
  22. Built on or Belonging to Jewish tradition #2 Roots of Jewishness
  23. Built on or Belonging to Jewish tradition #3 Of the earth or of God
  24. Collision course of socialist and capitalist worlds
  25. Robertson: God says U.S. will accept socialism
  26. Christian fundamentalism as dangerous as Muslim fundamentalism
  27. The imaginational war against Christmas
  28. Autumn traditions for 2014 – 4 Blasphemy and ridiculing faith in God
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  31. 112314 – A Peculiar People
  32. Maker of most popular weapon asks for repentance
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  35. 2013 Lifestyle, religiously and spiritualy
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  38. Truth, doubt or blindness
  39. A Church without Faith!
  40. Inequality, Injustice, Sustainability and the Free World Charter
  41. Re-Creating Community
  42. Daniel Guérin: Three Problems of the Revolution (1958)
  43. The trigger of Aurora shooting
  44. Intellectual servility a curse of mankind
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Friday 10 April 2015

Read the Holy Book on Portable Devices with the Free Bible Software


Read the Holy Book on Portable Devices with the Free Bible Software

The Free Bible software is launched to enable users to read the Holy Book on any portable device, mobile phones and computers.
ListFree.org (Press Release) - Tuesday, March 31st, 2015

The Free Bible software is launched to enable users to read the Holy Book on any portable device, mobile phones and computers. The free software has a simple interface which is quite straightforward. With a user friendly appearance, the program can be downloaded and installed with relative ease and simplicity.
The Free Bible software app is ingrained with a number of useful features. As it is a small tool, it requires minimum system resources and it can be installed easily on any computer with Windows OS. It has an easy layout which enables even novices to navigate through the program without any complications. Users can utilize the “Search” option to find any particular verse or chapter in the Bible. Users can add notes at the end of each chapter or bookmark any page in the Bible.

This software app also includes a dictionary for the convenience of the users. “The Free Bible is a handy software app that is quite amazing. I can now read the Bible when I am on the move on my laptop and even my mobile. Reading a chapter from the Bible early in the morning can be quite a rejuvenating experience for a busy person.”

The Free Bible software includes both the Old Testament and the New Testament. It also includes illustrative images and commentaries. This free software program is designed for users to enhance individual knowledge of the Holy Book. The program has a few simple features which are quite easy to understand. It can be downloaded without any complications onto any portable device within a few minutes of time.

To know more about the Free Bible, please log on to: http://download.cnet.com/Free-Bible/3000-2135_4-76169634.html
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The Free Bible is a small and handy software app that enables users to download and read the Holy Book on any portable device.
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Killing Jesus nabbed 3.7 million viewers on opening night — the biggest audience in history for a National Geographic product

Owned by Newscorp National Geographic Channel premiered "Killing Jesus" on Nat Geo MUNDO at the end of March.

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In Belgium, the last few days on several television channels people could watch the 3 hours docudrama National Geographic Channel’s adaptation of Bill O’Reilly’s book Killing Jesus.

Adapted from the book by Fox News host Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard, writer Walon Green brings the life of Jesus to life by focusing on his role in the geopolitical landscape of his time: Romans versus Jews, the local Roman leadership (Pontious Pilate played by True Blood star Stephen Moyer), the fallout from John the Baptist’s arrest and execution, and the prevailing tensions within the Jewish power structure.
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Fox News Channel star O’Reilly wrote Killing Jesus with Martin Dugard. Their two earlier books, Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln, also were adapted for NatGeo and had been the two most watched programs in the network’s history until March the 29°s Killing Jesus unveiling. Killing Kennedy nabbed 3.4 million viewers in its November 2013 launch, and Killing Lincoln had clocked 3.35 mil in February 2013. Before the Killing franchise came NatGeo’s way, NatGeo’s largest crowd came way back in August 2005 with Inside 9/11 which had logged an initial 3 mil.

Kelsey Grammer as King Herod the Great; Stephen Moyer as Pontius Pilate; Haaz Sleiman in the title role as Jesus; Rufus Sewell as Caiaphas; Emmanuelle Chriqui as Herodia; Eoin Macken as Antipas; and John Rhys Davies as Annas could get on March 29 3.7 million viewers across that Sunday night — the biggest audience in history with this product which was hailed by critics as “gritty and moving,” “beautifully subtle,” “compelling” and “thoughtful”. The channel noted that the 8 PM premiere’s 1.0 rating in adults 25-54 is the highest rating for that demo since the net’s November 2013 premiere of O’Reilly’s Killing Kennedy, which clocked a 1.1, and 300% higher than NatGeo’s Sunday 8-11 PM average this calendar year..

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