Religion and the Brain

Religion

Six Questions That Will Bring Your Teaching Philosophy into Focus

Six Questions That Will Bring Your Teaching Philosophy into Focus - See more at: http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/philosophy-of-teaching/six-questions-will-bring-teaching-philosophy-focus/#sthash.PO2MFCRP.dpuf

Teaching - this is considered creative

http://youtu.be/4cn4RTbNE0M

This is considered creative teaching but I hope no one expected to learn about real numbers; I did not learn a thing. This is entertaining but not learning.

U.S. Immigration Islamist Threat

Danger

A new study shows that the number of immigrants in the United States jumped 3 percent in three years — to a record 41.3 million in 2013 — and that the nearly 300,000 who came from Muslim countries pose a major national security threat, the report's co-author told Newsmax on Thursday. "All of that does raise national security concerns, and I don't think there has been any consideration of that," said Steven Camarota, research director for the Center for Immigration Studies. The Washington-based nonprofit organization released the study on Thursday. It is based on an analysis of Census data from 2010 to last year. Camarota conducted the study and co-authored it with CIS demographer Karen Zeigler. "The primary threat from a group like ISIS to the homeland is through our immigration system," Camarota said, referring to the Islamic State terrorist group that has beheaded three Westerners in recent weeks. "No one's suggesting that they're going to launch a missile and hit New York, but rather they're going to board an airliner and blow it up," he added. "They're going to park a car in a public place, they're going to go on a shooting spree, or any one of those things. "Our immigration system is a vital part of national security. Everybody doesn't seem to recognize that," Camarota said. "The question is, what are the implications of our rapidly growing Middle Eastern population? The numbers certainly raise it." The CIS report shows that the United States was home to a record 41.3 million legal and illegal immigrants last year. That was up nearly 1.4 million from the 39.9 million in 2010, while the number was 31.1 million in 2000. By comparison, the U.S. immigrant population stood at 9.6 million in 1970. About 16 percent of the U.S. population last year was foreign-born, whether in the country legally or illegally, according to the data. That's about one in eight residents, or one of every six adults. "Those numbers reflect two basic facts: an extremely high level of legal immigration, a very permissive legal immigration system — and they also reflect a failure to control illegal immigration," Camarota said. "Somewhere between a fourth and a third of those immigrants are here illegally." The largest number of immigrants in the United States are Mexicans, with more than 11.5 million living here illegally and legally last year. The number of Mexican immigrants fell by 126,126 — or 1 percent — over the period because of some dying and others leaving the country, Camarota said. According to the study, the Middle Eastern population grew by 207,758 in the period, or 13 percent, to more than 1.8 million last year. That compared with 1.6 million in 2010 and 1.1 million in 2000. Leading the growth from that region was Saudi Arabia, with 43,878 immigrants — nearly double the number who were in the U.S. in 2010. The analysis shows that 88,894 Saudis lived in this country last year. Iraq was next, with about 41,094 immigrants, for a 26 percent increase to a total of 200, 894. But the total number of immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries totaled 295,743 in the period, according to the CIS study. That was up by 13.5 percent. The total number of immigrants from primarily Muslim countries in the U.S. was more than 2.4 million last year, compared with 2.1 million in 2010 and 1.5 million in 2000.

Japan to Market Robots First: U.S. Falls Behind in Tech, Again

Robot

gulp

Bomb the U.S.

Denver Common Core Enforces Sharia

Common Core

Lost in America: Visa Program Struggles to Track Missing Foreign Students

Lost

French Muslims Kill Over Satire

Imam promoting violence.
Are you Jewish?
O'Reilly
Freedom of Speech
–The two Muslim brothers who murdered 12 in the worst jihad attack in Europe since the London bus bombings had both been known by the intelligence services — The younger of the two brothers, 32-year-old Chérif Kouachi came to the attention of French authorities over 10 years ago –Cherif had dreamed of attacking Jewish targets in France. –His Paris imam urged him to kill American troops in Iraq as it “presented a better outlet for his commitment to jihad.” —Cherif was first arrested in 2005 in connection with a case centered on Farid Benyettou, a 26-year-old janitor-turned-imam who gave sermons calling for jihad in Iraq and justifying suicide bombings. —Among Mr. Benyettou’s would-be recruits was Chérif Kouachi, then 22, who was detained as he prepared to leave for Syria, the first leg of a trip he hoped would take him to Iraq.
Here’s the money quote, questions are being raised about “how Chérif Kouachi, so well known to the police for so many years, and his brother had managed to conceal their intentions. Part of the answer may be that they appear to have moved smoothly between normal immigrant society and an extremist Islamist underground.
Sounds like there is little difference between “normal” Muslim society versus “extreme Islamist underground.” Did no one in “normal Muslim” society speak, see, or hear anything wrong? if not? Why not?
The Religion of Peace
Cartoons
Muslim Children Cheer Kosher Market Killers

Richard Dawkins
Greg Gutfeld
Cartoonists Respond
French writer Voltaire enraged many in 18th century France with caustic depictions of royalty and the Catholic Church. The German magazine Simplicissimus in its 70-year existence saw cartoonists jailed and fined for ridiculing figures from Kaiser Wilhelm to church leaders, Nazi grandees and communists.

“Muhammad Orders the Execution of Critics,”  David Wood, Answering Muslims, January 11, 2015

When Muhammad entered Mecca, he ordered his followers only to fight those who refused to surrender to him, except certain people who were to be executed whether they surrendered or not. In our earliest detailed biographical source on the fall of Mecca, Ibn Ishaq lists eight people who were to receive the death penalty. The charges against four of the eight were “insulting Muhammad.” One of the four critics was eventually pardoned; the others were killed.

Politicians, the media, and Muslim groups assure us that Muhammad never retaliated against people who insulted him. Too bad these modern apologists weren’t there to tell Muhammad how tolerant they would one day imagine him to be.

Here’s the passage from Ibn Ishaq, with details on the critics underlined. Pass it on

“Enforcement Of Shari’a Law In The Muslim World For Insulting Islam, Prophet Muhammad: A Review Of Recent Arrests, Imprisonment, Flogging, Death Sentences,” MEMRI

In Arab and Muslim countries, defaming Islam and the Prophet Muhammad is still defined as an offense against the shari’a that entails punishment. Recent examples of enforcement include the arrest of Saudi intellectual Dr. Turki Al-Hamad and Saudi blogger Hamza Kashgari; another Saudi liberal, Raef Badawi, was sentenced to public flogging, and both Mauritanian blogger Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir and Iranian blogger Soheil Arabi were even sentenced to death. 

These recent cases were preceded by well-known assassinations or assassination attempts against individuals accused of insulting Islam or the Prophet, such as the fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989 against the author Salman Rushdie, which called to kill him for his book The Satanic Verses (this fatwa still holds in Iran); the assassination attempt against Nobel laureate Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz for irreverent allusions to Allah and the Prophet in his book Children of Our Neighborhood; the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh for his film Submission, which shows Koranic verses written on the body of a woman; and fatwas permitting the killing of the artists responsible for the Danish cartoons published in 2005.    

Historic Perspective: Punishment Of Prophet’s Defamers Based On Koranic Verses, Hadith, Authoritative Sirah Literature (Biographies Of The Prophet)  

According to the shari’a, defaming the Prophet is an act of blasphemy, the punishment for which is death even if the accused repents. This law is a Koranic decree, for Koran 9:61 says: “Those who hurt Allah’s Messenger will have a painful punishment.” The same Surah also states: “…Say: “(Go ahead and) mock! But certainly Allah will bring to light all that you fear. If you ask them (about this), they declare: ‘We were only talking idly and joking.’ Say: ‘Was it at Allah and His verses and His Messenger that you were mocking? Make no excuse; you have disbelieved after you had believed. [Koran 9:64-66].” In addition, the Sira literature (biographies of the Prophet) and the Hadith include many instances in which Muhammad ordered to kill his maligners or praised his followers for doing so. In the Muhammad’s era, writing poems against him was considered an unforgivable crime, and many poets were killed for this, including the Jewish poet Ka’b bin Al-Ashraf, who would ridicule the Prophet. According to a hadith, he was killed by Muhammad bin Maslama at the behest of the Prophet himself and with his blessing. Another poet who composed a poem against Muhammad, the Jewess ‘Asma bint Marwan, was assassinated by ‘Umayr bin ‘Adiy, who was later praised by the Prophet for executing her. Some sources state that Muhammad asked who would kill this woman on his behalf, and a member of her tribe volunteered. Two more poets killed for this crime were Abu ‘Afak, assassinated by Salem bin ‘Umayr, and  the Meccan poet Sarah, whom the Prophet ordered to kill on the day Mecca was conquered.

Prominent medieval Islamic scholar Ibn Taymiyya, considered by many to be the father of the modern fundamentalist Islamic movements, wrote on this issue: “Mocking Allah, His verses or His Messenger is blasphemy.” He wrote further: “Whosoever curses the Prophet, be he a Muslim of an infidel, must be put to death. All [religious] scholars take this view.” The late Saudi mufti ‘Abd Al-‘Aziz Ibn ‘Abdallah Ibn Bazz said: “Anyone who curses Allah or His Messenger Muhammad in any way is a heretic apostate.”

- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2015/01/muslims-follow-muhammads-example-in-slaughtering-those-that-insult-islam.html/#sthash.HiSSIa10.dpuf

Islamisation of Paris Warning, 2010
Submission - by Theo van Gogh (MIRROR) [English w/ Dutch captions], 10:59
Original video description:
Short film by Dutch movie maker Theo van Gogh in association with Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
The film deals with the oppression of women in many Muslim countries. Van Gogh was killed by a Muslim fanatic in 2004 because of the film. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is planning the second part of the film.
"Submission" is the translation of the Arabic word "Islam".
http://youtu.be/neQcqyUAhr8?list=PLr-Yh2nOIpxEDZetiPsE3fnx7ZTBGfyLO
"The jihadist who murdered Theo van Gogh didn't act on his own" 1:51
The 2nd of November, exactly ten years ago is the day Holland will not easily forget. It is the day writer and filmmaker Theo van Gogh was killed by muslim fundamentalist Mohammed Bouyeri. In broad daylight Van Gogh was stabbed and killed whilst cycling on a busy street in Amsterdam. Holland was never the same afterwards.
http://youtu.be/nnhO1R3A1ns
The 12 Original Jyllands-Posten Muhammad Cartoons, 1:48
http://youtu.be/vbbfxZOyw8U
Richard Dawkins
Piss Christ
Three Books
Bill Maher
Imam regrets role in Mohammed cartoon protests, 5:06
http://youtu.be/UTWSdyB2CC0
Ahmed Akkari was a controversial radical Muslim religious leader, who helped stoke worldwide anger against Danish cartoons showing Mohammed with a bomb in his turban. Now he has undergone an equally radical transformation of tolerance. Seven and a half years after the cartoons controversy, the former imam says the drawings were justified as free expression. 09/02/2013 FOCUS An exclusive in-depth report from a FRANCE24 correspondent, followed by comment and analysis with the author and the anchor in the newsroom in Paris. FRANCE 24 INTERNATIONAL NEWS 24/7 http://www.france24.com
O'Reilly
'The Future Must Not Belong To Those Who Slander The Prophet of Islam', :44
http://youtu.be/T6uZFSj_ueM

FBI Breaks Law and Engages in Propaganda

Federal law makes it illegal for the government to engage in domestic propaganda.

Three Peer Reviewed Studies Demonstrate American Mosques Pro-Violence

Violence

Religious Breakdown of Congress

Congress

No Global Warming

No Global Warming

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/no_warming_for_19_years?nk=aefec96439b81de690d12c4b30598f62

Ian Hunter: Lisa Ronson single

New

Foreign Ownership of U.S. Government Debt Passes $6 Trillion

Foreign Ownership
 
For the first time in the nation’s history, foreign interests now own more than $6 trillion in U.S. government debt.



 

Fair DUI Process

Checkpoint

Islamist Palestinians on the Holocaust

Islamist Palestinians on the Holocaust

Question

Churches and Politics

Churches

World Consumption of Alcohol

Cheers

Ein glueckliches neues Jahr

Ein glückliches neues Jahr

Eutychismenos o kainourgios chronos

Felix sit annus novus

Ia manuia le Tausaga Fou