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dknepper

Jerusalem synagogue attack sparks fear of descent into religious war | World news | The... - 0 views

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shared by dknepper on 18 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • four rabbis and a Druze policeman were killed by two Palestinian cousins in a morning attack
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  • No one expected this to happen here. We are religious here. And we believe God has a plan. Which is why you will not hear people here shouting for revenge and arguing about whether we should talk peace or not talk peace or fight. We leave that to the politicians.”
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  • Pope Francis voiced dismay at the “alarming increase in tension in Jerusalem” and appealed to both sides to take the “courageous decisions” needed to achieve peace.
  • much of the tension since the summer was being driven by still strong anger among Palestinians over the murder of teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir, as well as a deep anxiety over perceived Jewish encroachment into the Noble Sanctuary, known to Jews as the Temple Mount.
  • The situation is worsening already hostile relations between Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas.
  • “wave of Palestinian terror starting to resemble a religious war”, Amos Harel in Haaretz has blamed both sides, the Israeli government for contributing “to the emphasis on the religious component of the conflict by demonstrating helplessness in the face of recent efforts by right-wing [Jewish] activists to change the status quo regarding Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount”. On the Palestinian side, he added: “Defending al-Aqsa Mosque [on the holy site] provides an appropriate excuse for the recent terror perpetrators.”
  • edietterick on 18 Dec 14
     
    This article discusses the Israeli-Palestine conflict and how that has turned into many cruel acts of violence. What would possess someone to kill these men, especially on the stairs of a holy place?
  • dknepper on 18 Dec 14
     
    Four rabbis and a policeman were killed by 2 palestinians inside of a jewish synagogue, and many people fear that the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is becoming a religious war, since they have different beliefs. Why would the Palestinians decide to attack the Israelis?
alexandergray

Religion makes Israeli-Palestinian conflict more volatile | CCTV America - 0 views

www.cctv-america.com/...stinian-conflict-more-volatile

religion conflict

shared by alexandergray on 18 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • Religious leaders have asked both sides to back away from a blood feud based on religion.
  • Muslims and Jews feel threatened by a possible loss of control over sites that both consider sacred. Both turned houses of worship into battlegrounds.
  • “A religious war usually is motivated by a belief that God is on your side. God is a very potent actor in international relations. You are ready to make great sacrifices. You have great patience, which means you are ready to fight for a long time if God is on your side,”
  • alexandergray on 18 Dec 14
     
    The religious aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is explored in light of a recent firefight. Why would both sides take shelter in their respective religious places of worship? Wouldn't that be against the rules both religions have to bring a conflict into a religious place? 
aspidle

BBC News - Why segregated housing is thriving in India - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...world-asia-india-30204806

housing india Migration

shared by aspidle on 18 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • A range of old reasons like caste and cultural differences - and some relatively new ones such as migration and religious tensions
  • Segregation has inevitably led to curious business opportunities. Sensing that mixed neighbourhoods were fast disappearing and even well-to-do-Muslims were finding it a problem to buy property,
  • So despite the fact that more than a third of India's Muslims live in cities and towns - making them the most urbanised community of a significant size - poverty and discrimination continues to easily push them into ghettos.
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  • In the end, segregated housing - now increasingly driven by religious discrimination - is a blight on India's progress.
  • aspidle on 18 Dec 14
     
    This article discussed the effect of discrimination to the point of migration. It shows the extremities of the living areas in India. These tensions create a term that Loic Wacquant used, "neighbourhoods of exile." The dangers and unsafe environments that many people live in are definite push factors.    
nwalseman

Hostages in the Sydney cafe siege: 'We're not getting out of here' | Australia news | T... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...e-were-not-getting-out-of-here

Religion Conflict ISIS Australia

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  • he saw that his dictated phone calls to media outlets weren’t being played live to air as he insisted, the videos he had forced his hostages to shoot weren’t being broadcast, and his inchoate demands weren’t being heard.
  • He screamed at them that he was a representative of Islamic State and that this was a terrorist attack
  • He told them there were bombs in the building, and that they must do as he instructed.
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  • The woman alerted police, who quickly surrounded the building. Martin Place, busy for a year-end Monday morning, was hastily evacuated.
  • In exchange for a public declaration from the government that his was an act of terror committed on behalf of Islamic State, he was prepared to release two more. And for a black
    • nwalseman
      nwalseman on 18 Dec 14
       
      ISIS is an extremist Islamic group which directly relates to religion and religious conflict.
  • final prisoner.
  • a black flag that carries the Islamic Shahada – the creed that states “there is no God but God, Muhammad is the messenger of God” – written in white calligraphic Arabic
  • lamic State flag he was prepared to release a
  • our Isis brother has been very fair to us”.
  • he wants an Islamic State flag delivered to us here.
  • The second is that he wants the politicians to announce the truth which is that this is an attack by Islamic State on Australia. And if that’s done then two of us will be allowed to go.
  • Monis grew weary, one or more of his hostages attempted to wrestle the gun from his control.
  • It was 3:37pm, and the siege had run nearly six hours. The men decided to take their chances.
  • Officers threw volley after volley of flash-bangs into the building, filling the cafe with disorienting light and smoke.
  • Paramedic crews who had followed the police inside then brought out patients on stretchers, at least one receiving CPR.
  • Monis lay dead.
  • id two of his victims, 38-year-old barrister Katrina Dawson, a mother of three, and 34-year-old Tori Johnson, the manager on duty who had been speaking with Monis just over 16 hours earlier on that unremarkable Monday morning.
  • nwalseman on 18 Dec 14
     
    Was this man sent from ISIS or was he only claiming to be associated with ISIS? It does not make sense that ISIS would stretch itself so thin after rising up and beginning its conquest.
bbaker2

Sectarian tensions high, say Australian Muslim leaders - CNN.com - 0 views

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australian muslim leaders Ethnicity

shared by bbaker2 on 18 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • Muslim community leaders in Australia say sectarian tensions are soaring, as radicalized Sunni youth, inspired by ISIS, seek to import the religious conflicts wracking the Middle East.
  • a 47-year old Shia leader was shot in the shoulder early Monday morning, as worshipers observed the Shia ritual of Ashura.
  • Shia community focused around the Islamic center in Greenacre, south-west Sydney
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  • "Anyone who speaks against the fighting in Syria and advocating the government to take action against people in Iraq and Syria -- they are threatened and attacked."
  • brutal Syrian conflict, and the appeal of ISIS to radicalized Sunni youth in Australia.
  • Sunni extremist group, which controls large swathes of Syria and Iraq.
  • Sectarian tensions were a new phenomenon for Australia's Muslim community
  • bbaker2 on 18 Dec 14
     
    Sunni extremists, who are supporting ISIS, have launched attacks against Shia Muslims in Australia to bring religious conflict from the Middle East. Why are they launching attacks on groups within the same religion as them? Why do Sunni extremists feel the need to get Australia involved in the religious conflicts from the Middle East after they've managed to avoid conflict for a long time?
  • dkessler701 on 18 Dec 14
     
    The Shiites and Sunnis have been fighting ever since the death of Mohommad over who would be Mohommad's sucessor.
  • jbasom on 18 Dec 14
     
    I think that Sunni extremists and Shia Muslims, even though they are both Islamic, have different beliefs, and they each believe that they are correct. The Sunni extremists, are exactly what they say they are...extremists; AKA people who will go to extreme measures to fight for what they believe. If something the Shia Muslims are saying or doing is counteracting what the Sunni extremists believe, they will quickly result to violent action to try to put an end to it. Also, if they can "take over" Australia and make it Islamic, more specifically Sunni, then they will have more money and power...which is the reason this is such a large territorial conflict.
lexihoffman

Mistrust Threatens Delicate Balance at a Sacred Site in Jerusalem - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...sacred-site-in-jerusalem-.html

shared by lexihoffman on 18 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • along
  • Amid roiling unrest over a contested Old City holy site, the
  • this month declared that the name used for the site by Jews, the Temple Mount, was “null and void.” Instead, the
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  • The real struggle over the site, however, is not over semantics but over sovereignty, between two peoples who seem unable to find a way to simply share.
  • must be called Al Aqsa Mosque or the Noble Sanctuary.
  • group said, the compound — “a symbol for all
  • Palestinian leaders,
  • contend that threats to the holy site were the prime motivation of the violence.
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  • The attacks
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  • have shattered Israelis’ sense of security but in many cases only strengthened their assertions of ownership.
  • Jewish presence at the site
  • “The Israelis try to force it — it’s not through negotiation, it’s not through discussion, it’s not through any rational means: They use the police, they come in a brutal manner to take over the place,” said Ali Qleibo,
  • “The security argument is also a religious argument, it’s an argument about the No. 1 principle in Judaism, which is thou shalt not spill blood.”
  • lexihoffman on 18 Dec 14
     
    In this current event, territory conflicts among Jews and Palestinians arise due to their different beliefs dealing with the city of Jerusalem and the boundary between the two religious groups. What will the Jews and Palestinians do to resolve their disputes over this issue?
  • jfoster98 on 18 Dec 14
     
    Maybe the Jews and Palestinians will create a peace treaty of sorts and divide the use of the territory equally. More likely though, they will probably go to war about it. Why do all disputes end in a war these days?
  • mkuhn24 on 18 Dec 14
     
    I agree, it seems that when attempts at a peace between groups fail, they immediately resolve to violence. In the end, do they believe that the death toll is worth the fight? In many cases it seems that there could have been multiple solutions to solving conflict when people went to war.
mkuhn24

Syria Explained: How it became a religious war - 0 views

religion.blogs.cnn.com/...ot-religion-and-that-aint-good

Religion

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  • mkuhn24 on 18 Dec 14
     
    The existing war in Syria is expected to become more violent due to the major religious grudges that have increased over time. What other reasoning do you think supports the fact that religious wars are twice as likely to recur and twice as deadly to combatants?
lqmorris

Boko Haram attacks aim at Islamic 'establishment' - CNN.com - 0 views

www.cnn.com/...index.html

religious conflict

shared by lqmorris on 18 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • Boko Haram has targeted the Muslim "establishment" in Nigeria, accusing it of not defending the interests of Nigeria's 80 million Muslims, of corruption and of "perverting" Islam.
  • The group has also assassinated senior Muslim political and religious figures in northern Nigeri
  • the Nigerian military faces multiple problems. It has been plagued by indiscipline, desertion and mutinies, with some commanders attacked by their own men.
  • lqmorris on 18 Dec 14
     
    The conflicts have resulted in Nigeria from religious extremist groups whose beliefs may not fall in line with the places they are invading and taking over. Why is the president doing little to help and why has the military collapsed? 
dkessler701

5 Dead in Synogogue Attack by Muslim Fundamentalists - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...rusalem-synagogue-complex.html

Political Geography

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  • dkessler701 on 18 Dec 14
     
    On november 18th, two muslim Palestinians entered a synagogue and both shot and chopped, with meat cleavers, 3 rabbis, another nearby Jew, and shot a Druze police officer responding to the attack, leaving 5 dead and the 2 Palestinians.
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  • dkessler701 on 18 Dec 14
     
    This has been part of a string of attacks by lone Palestians in the past 2 month, other instances include ramming cars into civilians leaving many injured and 1 child dead, stabbings in supermarkets, and acid attacks leaving 7 israelis injured.
  • dkessler701 on 18 Dec 14
     
    After previous attacks between the IDF and the terrorist group, HAMAS, during Operation Protective Edge left over 2,000 people dead, primarily on the Palestinians, tensions have been higher than ever and revenge is fresh in many people's minds.
  • dkessler701 on 18 Dec 14
     
    Why might Palestinians think that supporting members of a confirmed terrorist group in political office be the solution to their problems?
jlandis3

Gov't plan to select Syrian refugees by religion criticized | Ottawa Citizen - 0 views

ottawacitizen.com/...efugees-by-religion-criticized

Religion Ethnicity Ethnic Conflict

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  • UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres has not commented on the Conservative government’s push to prioritize religious minorities as a condition for resettling thousands more Syrian refugees over the next two years.
  • UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres has not commented on the Conservative government’s push to prioritize religious minorities as a condition for resettling thousands more Syrian refugees over the next two years.
  • Instead, the UN has been quietly resisting Canada’s request, as its policy is to help the most vulnerable, no matter their religious background.
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  • In his letter to Guterres, NDP foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar notes the UN urges countries not to select refugees with “discriminatory selection criteria” such as ethnicity or religion.
  • In his letter, Dewar says the NDP agrees with the UN that “refugee applications should be assessed on the basis of need, not on the basis of religion, ethnicity, or any other characteristic.”
  • jlandis3 on 18 Dec 14
     
    The article specifically relates to why territorial conflicts arise among religious, ethnic, or national groups, in this instance it is more focused on religious groups, because it shows that these conflicts sometimes come from feelings that certain religions attract conflict, so there is a desire for a country to separate themselves from religions associated with conflict. Will any countries place sanctions on Canada, if they feel that Canada is being discriminatory?  This current event connects to a main APHUG concept of asking the why of where.  Why is Canada discriminating against certain groups with certain religions from Syria?
Mr. Reidy

U.S. Census looking at big changes in how it asks about race and ethnicity | Pew Resear... - 4 views

www.pewresearch.org/...-asks-about-race-and-ethnicity

Ehnicity

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      Mr. Reidy on 18 Dec 14
       
      What does this article suggest about ethnicity distribution or any other APHUG concept, such as language, religion, migration?
  • Mr. Reidy on 12 Dec 14
     
    Interesting article about how the US Census records ethnicity and race.
mdamschroder

The Object of Al Shabaab Terror: To Set Up a Caliphate in Kenya | George Kegoro - 1 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...caliphate-kenya_b_6304950.html

Religion terror

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  • Since the Westgate attack, all the major acts of terrorism in Kenya have seen the targeting of non-Muslims, while sparing any Muslims caught in harm's way.
  • Assessing the recent terrorist acts in Kenya, the president explained that "the obvious intent is to create hostility and suspicion across ethnic and religious lines and to drive non-Muslims from certain parts of this country."
  • This new situation justifies the assertion by Kenyatta that Al Shabaab's ultimate objective is to establish a caliphate extending to parts of Kenya that are contiguous with Somalia.
  • mdamschroder on 18 Dec 14
     
    In Kenya, the Muslim extremist group known as Al Shabaab is committing terrorist attacks against those who are not Muslim, attempting to drive them out of Kenya, securing the territory for themselves. How does Kenya's isolation lend itself to these sort of attacks? Who should be intervening to stop this group?
Gemma Standley

"No Justice, No Respect": Why the Ferguson Riots Were Justified - The Intercept - 2 views

firstlook.org/...spect-ferguson-riots-justified

Ethnic

shared by Gemma Standley on 17 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • When the St. Louis County Prosecutor, during a bizarre press conference, announced the decision not to indict Darren Wilson, I was standing 10 feet away from Michael Brown’s mother Lesley McSpadden. I, along with a few thousand other people, saw the hurt on McSpadden’s face before she collapsed in agony after weeping and complaining about the injustice of the criminal justice system.
  • White Americans who label the demonstrators criminals and thugs should think twice before uttering such poppycock. White privilege was neither produced nor maintained by peaceniks.
  • Those same people appear to be incapable or unwilling to see Brown’s humanity or the broader rationale behind the protests, which have spread across the country and even touched Europe.
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  • No justice. No respect.
  • If anything, Ferguson awakened some of us from the fatuous dream that America had morphed into a racial Shangri-La.
  • Gemma Standley on 17 Dec 14
     
    After the killer of Michael Brown was not indicted by the Grand Jury, riots in Ferguson began demanding justice for African-Americans. How does this relate to the distribution of ethnicities in the United States, specifically African-Americans?
carke1

Amid Violence, Iraq Fractures Again Along Religious Lines : Parallels : NPR - 2 views

www.npr.org/...es-again-along-religious-lines

Religion

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  • carke1 on 17 Dec 14
     
    -Violence arose between the Shiites and the Sunnis in Iraq because ISIS was murdering anyone who wasn't a Sunni. A while back the Shiites drove the Sunni's out of their houses but now it's the opposite.  -Why can' t these two groups get along since they are part of the same religion?
Mr. Reidy

Look Inside Pakistan School Reveals Horror, Devastation of Taliban Attack - ABC News - 1 views

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shared by Mr. Reidy on 17 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • Seven Taliban gunmen stormed the Army public school with bombs strapped to their bodies Tuesday, officials said.
Mr. Reidy

New flights from New York to China take an icy route - Travel Maven Blog ... posts from... - 0 views

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China

shared by Mr. Reidy on 12 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • Mr. Reidy on 12 Dec 14
     
    What themes of geography does this article suggest?
Mr. Reidy

http://www.census.gov/population/estimates/nation/popclockest.txt - 0 views

www.census.gov/...popclockest.txt

Migration

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  • Mr. Reidy on 08 Dec 14
     
    What was the US population numbers like in 1917?
dvannostrand

Sign in - Google Accounts - 15 views

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Folk and Pop Culture Diffusion Lax is life

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  • dvannostrand on 12 Nov 14
     
    Come check out how Americas FIRST ever sport diffused from America across the world. These videos are filled with information and hilarious. In every video someone gets tackled.
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  • dvannostrand on 12 Nov 14
     
    Made by Mr. Alec Martin. Sir Brendan Johns, and Dylan Van Nostrand
  • jbasom on 13 Nov 14
     
    I think your website is very original...to say the least. The videos, while they were funny, were also very informative. Overall, it looked really good!
  • cpeytonj on 13 Nov 14
     
    Very funny videos! Good information and organization of the website. Great work.
  • owencourtney on 14 Nov 14
     
  • Gemma Standley on 14 Nov 14
     
    Your videos were hilarious and informational! I thought it was very interesting that lacrosse had diffused all the way to Japan. Good job!
  • dkessler701 on 14 Nov 14
     
    Loved the video and a more in depth view on lacross' origins in North America. Great quality!
  • edietterick on 14 Nov 14
     
    You're videos were muy chistoso y comico! They were also informative! Your site was also informative and I learned a lot! Btw Alec is a boss at 'table tennis'
  • jennabohrer on 14 Nov 14
     
    I liked this website a lot! The videos were entertaining and informative. Good job!
  • Mr. Reidy on 18 Nov 14
     
    Impressive! "Top of the mornin' to ya!"
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