Over the past few years, I've found myself, over and over, thinking and writing about some of what I've noticed happening re the Muslim religion. I hadn't paid much attention to the Muslim religion - and even recently, that isn't what caught my attention. It had to do, not with a religious text, or religious beliefs - vital though those are. It had to do with ACTION. Actions were happening that didn't make sense to me.

The action that triggered me to write: the massive response to a small Danish cartoon. The cartoon showed the Muslim prophet with his turban turned into a bomb - and Muslim rage was detonated worldwide.

Right from the start, something burst open within me as Muslims raged and protested, demanded that all Danish products be taken off shelves, burned an embassy. And most of the Western response was very sympathetic. No, no, no, one mustn't offend someone's religion. Intolerable.

The Rage of the "Righteous"

the first of several explorations
which can be considered articles on terrorism -
an underlying concern is how to stop terrorism

Something in me could not keep silent. What was happening just did not make sense.

Muslims: millions of Muslim women - 75 million, worldwide, I have read - with their genitals mutilated, many of these women as a consequence dripping urine all their lives.

Muslims: suicide bombers and Muslim death squads murdering thousands and thousands of Muslims in the name of the Muslim religion.

Muslims: repressing non-Muslims in country after country - so that in Egypt, which prides itself on its supposed religious tolerance , the number of Christians has dropped dramatically - from 40% to 10%, or so I've heard - over the past half century.

Muslims: finally moved to outrage by something truly outrageous, a tiny cartoon in a small publication in a tiny country. Muslim moderates, like other Muslims, claiming to be deeply offended by the cartoon. And non-Muslim Westerners, by and large, being very sympathetic to the poor offended Muslims.

All I can say is, get your priorities straight. It was Jesus who said, long ago when a woman was about to be stoned to death for adultery: Let whoever is without sin cast the first stone. I think it was Confucius who said, Clean the garbage from your doorstep before worrying about the mote of dust on the window ledge of your neighbor.

It was Hamlet who said, "Something's rotten in the state of Denmark." But I found nothing wrong with Denmark - except the outrage over the cartoon, and the West widely acquiescent or perhaps blinded by fear.

The Rage of the "Righteous"

the first of several articles on terrorism -
the start of an exploration on how to stop terrorism
by understanding mindset

But it wasn't that simple. So many barriers. First, I had to see what was happening, to see at least a little of it, instead of accept what I was hearing - what a huge offense, no wonder Muslims were offended, etc. I had to be moved to write. And then, there were several other huge barriers:

First, how do I put things where people can find my ideas? I had no idea how to do that. So part of my journey was finding my way in an unknown world, the world of the web. That was intimidating and difficult.

The second barrier, fear. That barrier came when I thought of succeeding, being heard. Islam, religion of peace. I heard that intoned over and over. Islam - massive violence, jihad, threats and murder. A colleague agreed with my views on the Danish cartoon, but did not think it was safe to make them public, not even in my classes. My partner too did not know if it was worth it, to speak out.

I thought of Nazi Germany, where people could whisper at home - unless of course they were denounced even for that, for example by their children.

Yet I wanted to speak. Something is profoundly wrong if there's the threat of violence against those who speak out. I think of Galileo and Copernicus, of Solzhenitsyn speaking out on Soviet repression. A powerful history of the need for speech - and for the need for the courage to speak out.

The journey. One step. Then another. Then still another. Most recently I've pulled all my steps together - like someone who's slowly moved from one place to another, and then takes a look around and finds out: I can't believe how far I've come.

This exploration has continued to more and more articles on terrorism, on Western tolerance, on Middle East religions, as well as on the benefits of critical thinking for everyone.

(Note: I more often say Middle East religions than Middle East religion, as there are various variants of Islam, which in fact often see other variants as different, wrong, evil. However, all the branches do go back to the same source, so some people may want to see all the branches of Islam as one Middle east religion. But to go back to more central points ...)

For those who see a sharp divide between the widespread Muslim response to the Danish cartoon and suicide terrorism, Muslim violence and so on, I suggest: think again, or rather, look some more. For all the actions are fueled by the powerful Middle East religions where many parts are not for freedom of thought but for obedience to authority and adherence to the words of the imam - and where masses of people live, on a deep psychological level, blinded by fear, according to accounts of those who have struggled to leave the grip of that kind of Islam.

I suggest: break the obedience to authority, break living blinded by fear, and one has broken many Muslim basic beliefs of those within the kind of Islam widely called fundamentalist in the West.

CLICK HERE FOR ...
The Rage of the "Righteous"

For those who care about,: how to stop terrorism,
Middle East religions, Middle East facts, Islam basic beliefs.
These explorations can be considered articles on terrorism -
the concern is how to stop terrorism.

Welcome to the exploration, and to my journey.

Articles on Terrorism. Core Question: How to Stop Terrorism.
The Path: see Middle East Religions, Islam Basic Beliefs,
Middle East Facts THROUGH ACTIONS - like with the Danish Cartoon.

ARTICLES ON TERRORISM exploring
MIDDLE EAST FACTS, FACT MUSLIM RELIGION, TERRORIST IDEOLOGY

ARTICLES ON TERRORISM exploring
RELIGIOUS TERRORISM, SUICIDE TERRORISTS, SELF RIGHTEOUS SUICIDE
DEFINITION FOR TERORISM, RADICAL MUSLIM

ARTICLES ON TERRORISM exploring
BENEFITS OF CRITICAL THINKING,
MUSLIM CARTOON, ARAB ANGER, ISLAM BELIEFS, ISLAM PEOPLE, ISLAM CULTURE
EUROPEAN RELIGIONS, DENMARK RELIGION, RELIGION IN GREAT BRITAIN,

ARTICLES ON TERRORISM, exploring more deeply
HOW TO STOP TERRORISM, MIDDLE EAST RELIGIONS, ISLAM BASIC BELIEFS,
RELIGIOUS TERRORISM, RADICAL MUSLIMS.

ARTICLES ON TERRORISM need to start with
GOOD THINKING, PART OF THE BENEIFTS OF CRITICAL THINKING,
PSYCHOLOGY OF VIOLENCE, RELIGIOUS TERRORISM,
HEALTHY PRIORITIES, CHANGE YOUR PRIORITIES, ORGANIZE PRIORITIES.

THE ARTICLES ON TERRORISM think about
CURRENT EVENTS MIDDLE EAST, MIDDLE EAST SOLUTION,
TYPES OF RELIGION, COMPARISON OF RELIGIONS, RELIGOUS TERRORISM
COMPARE RELIGIONS, AND COMPARING RELIGION DARE TO COME TO CONCLUSIONS.

ARTICLES ON TERRORISM keep going on, look at
HOW TO STOP TERRORISM, MIDDLE EAST RELIGIONS, ISLAM BASIC BELIEFS,
RADICAL MUSLIMS, ISLAM BELIEFS. ISLAM PEOPLE. ISLAM CULTURE.

ARTICLES ON TERRORISM:
DEFINITION TERRORISM, TERRORISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST,
MUSLIM CARTOON, MUSLIM CARTOONS, RADICAL MUSLIM. MUSLIM VIOLENCE.
ARAB ANGER. SLOW DANGER. ISLAM FAITH. ANTI ISLAM. TERRORIST TACTICS.

HOW TO STOP TERRORISM? THE ARTICLES ON TERRORISM explore ...
SUICIDE TERRORISTS. SELF RIGHTEOUS SUICIDE. RELIGIOUS TERRORISM.

THE ARTICLES ON TERRORISM also look at ...
RAGE DISORDER. WAKE UP RAGE. RAGE ANGER.

THE ARTICLES ON TERRORISM also see ...
NARCISSTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER. ACQUIRED SITUATIONAL NARCISSISM.

HOW TO STOP TERRORISM? Explore and then explore some more.

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How to Stop Terrorism? And How to Stop Bad Thinking?

I am brimming with ideas, questions, thoughts.

And around me, most often I have come up against walls. One must be tolerant. One must not question religion. One must be accepting. I have slowly dragged myself out of the swamp of unthinking tolerance. It never felt right to be there. But it has taken a long time to put my ideas together.

I identified with Al Gore, in his journey in An Inconvenient Truth. He was trying to convey his truth for twenty years - his growing truth, his ever more inconvenient truth with the evidence mounting ever higher. What I admired most: he didn't give up. He kept working at saying his truth in an ever better, clearer way. No one would have faulted him for giving up, faced with the dragon of a presidential campaign scuttled by someone from the left as well as a stupid crook on the right - stupid but very powerful and with powerful friends and family. But he did not give up. And now there it is, An Inconvenient Truth, for all to see.

Of course he hasn't been alone in what he's been seeing - and likewise I'm not alone.

So what have I seen, and what am I trying to convey?

I'm trying to convey what seems to be a good route in the quest to figure out how to stop terrorism. Here's some of what I look at:

DEFINITION OF TOLERANCE. WHAT IS TOLERANCE.

The West's insistence, these days, on tolerance is just an dangerous as its previously generally closed mind to the equality of women and men, of people of all races and sexual orientations. It has just taken its generally closed mind and, having let in a few truths, kept parts of its mind as closed as ever. Rigidly closed. That's not just stupid but dangerous.

HISTORY OF MUSLIM RELIGION. RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE. RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE.

I'm not great at going out and getting facts. I am good at mulling over the facts that do come my way. So one fact that hit me in the face was that there was huge Muslim outrage over a small Danish cartoon but no huge Muslim outrage over Muslim murder of others (mainly Muslims, at that), over massive amounts of genital mutilation, etc. Instead of outrage at millions of mutilations, over and over I heard that Westerners had no right to pass judgment over other cultures. Strangely, that argument was not used to say we had no right to judge Communist repression, Nazi horrors. Once again, that made no sense. I was not given any grounds, by the way, as to why I should be selectively blind, selectively able to evaluate information (Communism - good to judge; Islam - bad to judge).

Though the disproportionate outrage over one cartoon was enough of a fact for me to see that something very wrong was going on, it makes sense to do much more exploring of facts - such as on the history of the Muslim religion.

MORE TO GET INFO ON:
FREEDOM OF RELIGION IN AMERICA AND EUROPE,
AND ALSO THE HISTORY OF RELIGIOUS REPRESSION AND RELIGOUS WARS.
TERRORIST IDEOLOGY. MIDDLE EAST FACTS. MIDDLE EAST RELIGIONS.
CURRENT EVENTS MIDDLE EAST. MIDDLE EAST SOLUTION. TYPES OF RELIGION.
ISLAM BASIC BELIEFS. ISLAM BELIEFS. ISLAM PEOPLE. ISLAM CULTURE.
ARTICLES ON TERRORISM. DEFINITION TERRORISM. TERRORISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
MUSLIM CARTOON. MUSOIM CARTOONS. RADICAL MUSLIM. MUSLIM VIOLENCE.
ARAB ANGER. SLOW DANGER. ISLAM FAITH. ANTI ISLAM. TERRORIST TACTICS.
SUICIDE TERRORISTS. SELF RIGHTEOUS SUICIDE. RELIGIOUS TERRORISM.

THERE ARE STILL OTHER AREAS:
RAGE IDSORDER. WAKE UP RAGE. RAGE ANGER.
NARCISSTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER. ACQUIRED SITUATIONAL NARCISSISM.

AND FINALLY, OVER AND OVER, AND THROUGHOUT;
THE BENEFITS OF CRITICAL THINKING,
OF RECOGNIZING WHAT IS A LOGICAL FALLACY,
WHAT ARE LOGICAL FALLACIES
(such as, we have hurt others with past judging, so all judging is bad).

I do pay attention to facts. My bigger pleasure, though, is thinking about them, puzzling things out.

So a tiny fact - the unwarranted tempest about a cartoon - was enough to set me off on an exploration of a religion, of ways of thinking, manipulations of reality, a slow danger.

I have explored most fully my home culture - the West - because it is much of that culture which has stayed silent, as if paralyzed by its rhetoric of tolerance and acceptance, as if trapped in a poisonous web - so that the ideology of tolerance and acceptance, instead of freeing and opening minds, has been used - not only to not think - but to attempt to shut up people, like myself, ready and eager to explore - rather like Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark, managing to get out of even a pit of writhing snakes. Here the snakes hiss, you must not be judgmental, you have not right to judge another religion, who are you to know, all opinions are equal, every religion is equal.

Not easy, when one does not want to intone accepted doctrines.

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			WESTERN TOLERANCE and ISLAM seen through my curious eyes ___________ Muslims, a Danish Cartoon ... and Me THE BEGINNING: The Rage of the "Righteous" Over the past few years, I've found myself, over and over, thinking and writing about some of what I've noticed happening re the Muslim religion. I hadn't paid much attention to the Muslim religion - and even recently, that isn't what caught my attention. It had to do, not with a religious text, or religious beliefs - vital though those are. It had to do with ACTION. Actions were happening that didn't make sense to me. The action that triggered me to write: the massive response to a small Danish cartoon. The cartoon showed the Muslim prophet with his turban turned into a bomb - and Muslim rage was detonated worldwide. ** Right from the start, something burst open within me as Muslims raged and protested, demanded that all Danish products be taken off shelves, burned an embassy. And most of the Western response was very sympathetic. No, no, no, one mustn't offend someone's religion. Intolerable. I sat down and wrote. Out came: The Rage of the "Righteous" the first of several explorations which can be considered articles on terrorism - an underlying concern is how to stop terrorism Something in me could not keep silent. What was happening just did not make sense. Muslims: millions of Muslim women - 75 million, worldwide, I have read - with their genitals mutilated, many of these women as a consequence dripping urine all their lives. Muslims: suicide bombers and Muslim death squads murdering thousands and thousands of Muslims in the name of the Muslim religion. Muslims: repressing non-Muslims in country after country - so that in Egypt, which prides itself on its supposed religious tolerance , the number of Christians has dropped dramatically - from 40% to 10%, or so I've heard - over the past half century. Muslims: finally moved to outrage by something truly outrageous, a tiny cartoon in a small publication in a tiny country. Muslim moderates, like other Muslims, claiming to be deeply offended by the cartoon. And non-Muslim Westerners, by and large, being very sympathetic to the poor offended Muslims. All I can say is, get your priorities straight. It was Jesus who said, long ago when a woman was about to be stoned to death for adultery: Let whoever is without sin cast the first stone. I think it was Confucius who said, Clean the garbage from your doorstep before worrying about the mote of dust on the window ledge of your neighbor. So why this focus on the mote of dust? And why this Western nicety-niceness? It was Hamlet who said, "Something's rotten in the state of Denmark." But I found nothing wrong with Denmark - except the outrage over the cartoon, and the West widely acquiescent or perhaps blinded by fear. SO WHY THE OUTRAGE? I came to my first answers in: The Rage of the "Righteous" the first of several articles on terrorism - the start of an exploration on how to stop terrorism by understanding mindset **** But it wasn't that simple. So many barriers. First, I had to see what was happening, to see at least a little of it, instead of accept what I was hearing - what a huge offense, no wonder Muslims were offended, etc. I had to be moved to write. And then, there were several other huge barriers: First, how do I put things where people can find my ideas? I had no idea how to do that. So part of my journey was finding my way in an unknown world, the world of the web. That was intimidating and difficult. The second barrier, fear. That barrier came when I thought of succeeding, being heard. Islam, religion of peace. I heard that intoned over and over. Islam - massive violence, jihad, threats and murder. A colleague agreed with my views on the Danish cartoon, but did not think it was safe to make them public, not even in my classes. My partner too did not know if it was worth it, to speak out. I thought of Nazi Germany, where people could whisper at home - unless of course they were denounced even for that, for example by their children. Yet I wanted to speak. Something is profoundly wrong if there's the threat of violence against those who speak out. I think of Galileo and Copernicus, of Solzhenitsyn speaking out on Soviet repression. A powerful history of the need for speech - and for the need for the courage to speak out. The journey. One step. Then another. Then still another. Most recently I've pulled all my steps together - like someone who's slowly moved from one place to another, and then takes a look around and finds out: I can't believe how far I've come. More on the exploration, the many steps taken. This exploration has continued to more and more articles on terrorism, on Western tolerance, on Middle East religions, as well as on the benefits of critical thinking for everyone. (Note: I more often say Middle East religions than Middle East religion, as there are various variants of Islam, which in fact often see other variants as different, wrong, evil. However, all the branches do go back to the same source, so some people may want to see all the branches of Islam as one Middle east religion. But to go back to more central points ...) For those who see a sharp divide between the widespread Muslim response to the Danish cartoon and suicide terrorism, Muslim violence and so on, I suggest: think again, or rather, look some more. For all the actions are fueled by the powerful Middle East religions where many parts are not for freedom of thought but for obedience to authority and adherence to the words of the imam - and where masses of people live, on a deep psychological level, blinded by fear, according to accounts of those who have struggled to leave the grip of that kind of Islam. I suggest: break the obedience to authority, break living blinded by fear, and one has broken many Muslim basic beliefs of those within the kind of Islam widely called fundamentalist in the West. CLICK HERE FOR ... Islam, a Danish Cartoon ... and Me THE EXPLORATION CONTINUES CLICK HERE FOR ... The Rage of the "Righteous" For those who care about,: how to stop terrorism, Middle East religions, Middle East facts, Islam basic beliefs. These explorations can be considered articles on terrorism - the concern is how to stop terrorism. Welcome to the exploration, and to my journey. signed, Elsa March 23, 2008 copyright Elsa Schieder, 2008, 2011, all rights reserved Click here to go to the first of the articles on terrorism, The Rage of the "Righteous". Click here to go to another of the articles on terrorism, Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who Is That Horror in the Hall**? Click here to go to an overview of all the pieces. Articles on Terrorism, Articles on Terrorism, Articles on Terrorism Articles on Terrorism. Core Question: How to Stop Terrorism. The Path: see Middle East Religions, Islam Basic Beliefs, Middle East Facts THROUGH ACTIONS - like with the Danish Cartoon. 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ARTICLES ON TERRORISM need to start with GOOD THINKING, PART OF THE BENEIFTS OF CRITICAL THINKING, PSYCHOLOGY OF VIOLENCE, RELIGIOUS TERRORISM, HEALTHY PRIORITIES, CHANGE YOUR PRIORITIES, ORGANIZE PRIORITIES. THE ARTICLES ON TERRORISM think about CURRENT EVENTS MIDDLE EAST, MIDDLE EAST SOLUTION, TYPES OF RELIGION, COMPARISON OF RELIGIONS, RELIGOUS TERRORISM COMPARE RELIGIONS, AND COMPARING RELIGION DARE TO COME TO CONCLUSIONS. ARTICLES ON TERRORISM keep going on, look at HOW TO STOP TERRORISM, MIDDLE EAST RELIGIONS, ISLAM BASIC BELIEFS, RADICAL MUSLIMS, ISLAM BELIEFS. ISLAM PEOPLE. ISLAM CULTURE. ARTICLES ON TERRORISM: DEFINITION TERRORISM, TERRORISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST, MUSLIM CARTOON, MUSLIM CARTOONS, RADICAL MUSLIM. MUSLIM VIOLENCE. ARAB ANGER. SLOW DANGER. ISLAM FAITH. ANTI ISLAM. TERRORIST TACTICS. HOW TO STOP TERRORISM? THE ARTICLES ON TERRORISM explore ... SUICIDE TERRORISTS. SELF RIGHTEOUS SUICIDE. RELIGIOUS TERRORISM. THE ARTICLES ON TERRORISM also look at ... RAGE DISORDER. WAKE UP RAGE. RAGE ANGER. THE ARTICLES ON TERRORISM also see ... NARCISSTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER. ACQUIRED SITUATIONAL NARCISSISM. HOW TO STOP TERRORISM? Explore and then explore some more. Read ARTICLES ON TERRORISM ... How to Stop Terrorism? And How to Stop Bad Thinking? I am brimming with ideas, questions, thoughts. And around me, most often I have come up against walls. One must be tolerant. One must not question religion. One must be accepting. I have slowly dragged myself out of the swamp of unthinking tolerance. It never felt right to be there. But it has taken a long time to put my ideas together. I identified with Al Gore, in his journey in An Inconvenient Truth. He was trying to convey his truth for twenty years - his growing truth, his ever more inconvenient truth with the evidence mounting ever higher. What I admired most: he didn't give up. He kept working at saying his truth in an ever better, clearer way. No one would have faulted him for giving up, faced with the dragon of a presidential campaign scuttled by someone from the left as well as a stupid crook on the right - stupid but very powerful and with powerful friends and family. But he did not give up. And now there it is, An Inconvenient Truth, for all to see. Of course he hasn't been alone in what he's been seeing - and likewise I'm not alone. So what have I seen, and what am I trying to convey? I'm trying to convey what seems to be a good route in the quest to figure out how to stop terrorism. Here's some of what I look at: DEFINITION OF TOLERANCE. WHAT IS TOLERANCE. The West's insistence, these days, on tolerance is just an dangerous as its previously generally closed mind to the equality of women and men, of people of all races and sexual orientations. It has just taken its generally closed mind and, having let in a few truths, kept parts of its mind as closed as ever. Rigidly closed. That's not just stupid but dangerous. HISTORY OF MUSLIM RELIGION. RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE. RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE. I'm not great at going out and getting facts. I am good at mulling over the facts that do come my way. So one fact that hit me in the face was that there was huge Muslim outrage over a small Danish cartoon but no huge Muslim outrage over Muslim murder of others (mainly Muslims, at that), over massive amounts of genital mutilation, etc. Instead of outrage at millions of mutilations, over and over I heard that Westerners had no right to pass judgment over other cultures. Strangely, that argument was not used to say we had no right to judge Communist repression, Nazi horrors. Once again, that made no sense. I was not given any grounds, by the way, as to why I should be selectively blind, selectively able to evaluate information (Communism - good to judge; Islam - bad to judge). Though the disproportionate outrage over one cartoon was enough of a fact for me to see that something very wrong was going on, it makes sense to do much more exploring of facts - such as on the history of the Muslim religion. MORE TO GET INFO ON: FREEDOM OF RELIGION IN AMERICA AND EUROPE, AND ALSO THE HISTORY OF RELIGIOUS REPRESSION AND RELIGOUS WARS. TERRORIST IDEOLOGY. MIDDLE EAST FACTS. MIDDLE EAST RELIGIONS. CURRENT EVENTS MIDDLE EAST. MIDDLE EAST SOLUTION. TYPES OF RELIGION. ISLAM BASIC BELIEFS. ISLAM BELIEFS. ISLAM PEOPLE. ISLAM CULTURE. ARTICLES ON TERRORISM. DEFINITION TERRORISM. TERRORISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST. MUSLIM CARTOON. MUSOIM CARTOONS. RADICAL MUSLIM. MUSLIM VIOLENCE. ARAB ANGER. SLOW DANGER. ISLAM FAITH. ANTI ISLAM. TERRORIST TACTICS. SUICIDE TERRORISTS. SELF RIGHTEOUS SUICIDE. RELIGIOUS TERRORISM. THERE ARE STILL OTHER AREAS: RAGE IDSORDER. WAKE UP RAGE. RAGE ANGER. NARCISSTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER. ACQUIRED SITUATIONAL NARCISSISM. AND FINALLY, OVER AND OVER, AND THROUGHOUT; THE BENEFITS OF CRITICAL THINKING, OF RECOGNIZING WHAT IS A LOGICAL FALLACY, WHAT ARE LOGICAL FALLACIES (such as, we have hurt others with past judging, so all judging is bad). I do pay attention to facts. My bigger pleasure, though, is thinking about them, puzzling things out. So a tiny fact - the unwarranted tempest about a cartoon - was enough to set me off on an exploration of a religion, of ways of thinking, manipulations of reality, a slow danger. I have explored most fully my home culture - the West - because it is much of that culture which has stayed silent, as if paralyzed by its rhetoric of tolerance and acceptance, as if trapped in a poisonous web - so that the ideology of tolerance and acceptance, instead of freeing and opening minds, has been used - not only to not think - but to attempt to shut up people, like myself, ready and eager to explore - rather like Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark, managing to get out of even a pit of writhing snakes. Here the snakes hiss, you must not be judgmental, you have not right to judge another religion, who are you to know, all opinions are equal, every religion is equal. Not easy, when one does not want to intone accepted doctrines. Elsa, brain trainer always looking with ideas cooking March 24, 2008 copyright © Elsa Schieder 2008, 2009 - all rights reserved publishing house - FlufferDuff Impressions 2009, 2011 THE IDEA EMPORIUM with ARTICLES ON TERRORISM and much more: THE IDEA EMPORIUM MORE ... Register for FREE updates. Why register? Click here for 3 good reasons. top of page Elsa's Adventures in Internet Land ______________________________________________________________ home about site map privacy policy terms of use contact ______________________________________________________________ design, site construction - Elsa Schieder copyright © Elsa Schieder, 2006-2012 - all rights reserved copyright © elsas-word-story-image-idea-music-emporium.com, 2006-2012 - all rights reserved CLICK HERE TO CONTACT Elsa ______________________________________________________________

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DEFINITION OF TOLERANCE. WHAT IS TOLERANCE.

HISTORY OF MUSLIM RELIGION. RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE. RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE.

Articles on Terrorism. Core Question: How to Stop Terrorism.
The Path: see Middle East Religions, Islam Basic Beliefs,
Middle East Facts THROUGH ACTIONS - like with the Danish Cartoon.