Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Repercussion of Conversation
How
far would you go to support you religion. Many who follow Islam believe that
the price of changing your religion is death. In countries where Islam is
considered to be the sole religion the percentage of death is high for the
people who attempt to switch religions. This thought comes from the hadith,
which is a compilation of sayings from the founder of Islam. There is a verse
in the Hadith that states, if anyone changes his or her religion he deserves to
be killed. This verse is understood and enforced in various ways. In some
countries women are detained in a room until they refuse their new religion but
the men are still killed. The issues ex-Muslims face in America are somewhat
different but can end with the same outcome. Ex-Muslims face the risk of being
sent back to their home country, and being stalked or harassed. They could be
sent back by the people who are closest to them, people like their families and
friends. These former Muslims do not go willingly but are often kidnapped. For
example a Saudi princess became a follower of Christ, shortly after a limousine
was sent to pick her up from the temporary residence she shared with her ailing
mother. Although there has been a plethora of kidnapping along with harassment,
no deaths have been reported for converted Muslims. The one thing that I find
surprising about the treatment of Ex-Muslims is that there are no reported
deaths in the United States. A person would expect to hear about ex-Muslims
being murdered by people who have harassed or stalked them. I believe that both
parties involved are attempting to avoid legal business by not reporting crimes
against ex-Muslims. According to the article converts do not file police
reports for fear of being caught not practicing Islam. To change my view on the
situation the United States should openly support those who come to this
country with the thought of having freedom of religion.
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
LRJ Prompt 1 Radix malorum est cupiditas, Feb. 4, 2015
To
answer his questions concerning a person’s relationship with money he used
information from a book, which deals with the relationship between money and
life; he also uses obtained from and interview with the book's author Jacob
Needleman. According to Needleman, the brilliant people allow money tear them
away from anything that is not directly related with money such as, love and
personal relationships. I feel that brilliant people tend to lose track of how
they became brilliant. I say this because they were brilliant before their
riches; the money they have now comes from their brilliance not vice versa.
Everyone has certain amounts of money they need to make them happy. Some people
feel like the amount of money they have is based off of what they know. These
people are addicted to the false feeling of success. Also, they are not content
with the hard work that had to put forth but satisfied with the amount of zeros
that fulfill their material needs and not what brought them to their success in
the first place. As stated before everyone has certain amounts of money
they need to make them happy. To me people risk so much because a void they
have cannot be filled with money. Needleman also answered Taylor’s question, “how
is it so that so many extremely wealthy people seem so unhappy?” Needleman felt
that those wealthy unhappy people were not honest with themselves about what
money really means to them. He made a valid statement about how people need to
be happy before they come in contact with their abundant supply of money. Some wealthy
people are unhappy because of how they came into their riches or what they lost
to obtain their riches.
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