Ghouse on Steve Malzberg Radio show New York

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MIKE GHOUSE ON STEVE MALZBERG SHOW, NEW YORKhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9stJR-wVPPw
Mike Ghouse, President of the Foundation for Pluralism, on Stabilization of Egypt – YouTube

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    Mike Ghouse, President of the Foundation for Pluralism, joined Steve to discuss Obama’s calling for election 

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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/07/20137222343142718.html

Published on Jul 2, 2013
Mike Ghouse, President of the Foundation for Pluralism, joined Steve to discuss Obama’s calling for election in Egypt and even as a Republican, he is glad Obama has finally taken “one right step” in this foreign policy decision.

Morsi needs to go or mend to reflect the public sentiment of freedom, and not fascism or oppression. He rammed the constitution through, just like Obama did with his health care bill the first time – unless we have consensus, decisions fail to become sustainable. Texas Senate tried to do the same – The Brotherhood and the Republican right wingers forget that the government is of the people, for the people and BY the people, without their consensus, nothing should be placed. Read my article this evening at Dallas Morning News about the morality of protesters and senators.

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Mike Ghouse is a speaker, thinker and a writer on pluralismpolitics, peace, Islam,IsraelIndiainterfaith, and cohesion at work place. He is committed to building aCohesive America and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day atwww.TheGhousediary.com. He believes in Standing up for others and has done that throughout his life as an activist. Mike has a presence on national and local TV, Radio and Print Media. He is a frequent guest on Sean Hannity show on Fox TV, and a commentator on national radio networks, he contributes weekly to the Texas Faith Column at Dallas Morning News; fortnightly at Huffington post; and several other periodicals across the world. His personal site www.MikeGhouse.net indexes his work through many links.

Sean Hannity, Pamela Geller and Mike Ghouse on Egypt

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Here are a variety of clips within 2 hours of the show – a total of 150 items have made it on the search engine, here are a few…Its amazing passion with the people on the right, if they spend half that energy in peace making, they can change the world.

Except the mediaite, none of them are moderate groups… where are the moderates? I am surprised at the missing left

Mike Ghouse

Pamela Geller And Hannity Muslim Guest Erupt In Shouting Match: ‘How Dare You Accuse Me Of Murder!’

 Sean Hannity tonight brought attention to Egyptians taking to the streets to protest the regime of President Mohammed Morsi. Pamela Geller andMike Ghouse got into an angry, heated back-and-forth when Geller confronted Ghouse for claiming her New York subway anti-jihad ads were responsible for someone losing their life in the subway. She shouted at him, “How dare you accuse me of murder!”

After slamming President Obama for helping the Egyptian government, Hannity touted how he said from the very beginning that instituting a president with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood would turn out badly for Egypt. Ghouse said that it’s wrong for the U.S. to be aiding Egypt, and agreed that Obama should not be offering his support for the Morsi regime. He called Morsi a “bully,” Hannity called him an “Islamic extremist” (though Ghouse disputed the necessity of including the “Islamic” part).
Geller noted how Morsi fully believes that Obama will ultimately not side with the protestors, saying the American president is consistently “on the side of jihadic Islamic supremacist regimes” from Libya to Egypt. Geller also explained that she was banned from England for her outspokenness on these issues. She then confronted Ghouse about accusing her and her anti-jihad ads of causing the death of someone in the subway system, demanding an apology from him.
Ghouse refused to apologize, noting that last year he warned of the “dangers of those ads,” but Geller insisted that the ads said nothing about Islam, just about jihad and “savages.” Ghouse shot back, “You owe an apology to the people who you are hurting and saying bad things about it.” Geller countered, “You’re saying the truth hurts people, don’t you see how irrational your logic is?” She shouted, “How dare you accuse me of murder!”
Watch the video below, courtesy of Fox News:
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Pamela Geller And Hannity Guest Erupt In Shouting Match Over Islam

Pamela Geller and Mike Ghouse
got into an angry, heated back-and-forth when Geller confronted Ghouse for
claiming her New York subway anti-jihad ads were …

Pamela Gellar Explodes on Muslim Guest Over Criticism
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4 mins ago – Things got heated on “Hannity” Monday night when
Mike Ghouse, a practicing Muslim, seemingly accused anti-radical Islam blogger
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Sean Hannity, Buck Saxton and Mike Ghouse on Nationally Syndicated Radio

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Broadcasted over 250 Radio Stations – list at http://www.hannity.com/stations
4:00 PM EST – It was about Egypt between Hannity, Buck Saxton and Mike Ghouse

http://www.hannity.com/guest/ghouse-mike/10804 This is not updated

… When I get the chance, I will write the notes or just copy from the internet

Mike Ghouse is a speaker, thinker and a writer on pluralismpolitics, peace, Islam,IsraelIndiainterfaith, and cohesion at work place. He is committed to building aCohesive America and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day atwww.TheGhousediary.com. He believes in Standing up for others and has done that throughout his life as an activist. Mike has a presence on national and local TV, Radio and Print Media. He is a frequent guest on Sean Hannity show on Fox TV, and a commentator on national radio networks, he contributes weekly to the Texas Faith Column at Dallas Morning News; fortnightly at Huffington post; and several other periodicals across the world. His personal site www.MikeGhouse.net indexes his work through many links. 

Great thanks to poets, speakers, audience, sponsors, volunteers and supporters of the Urdu Hindi poetry session on pluralism

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Thanks to the audience, participants, poets, speakers, organizers, sponsors, volunteers and panelists for their effort, support, enthusiasm and the energy to stay through the event.  The program did start ten minutes ahead of time at 7:50 PM,  and closed at 11:30 PM as scheduled. With your support we can regain the tradition of respecting the time and starting and closing the Mushaeras/ Sammelans on time.  

URL – http://urduhindimushaeraonpluralism.blogspot.com/2013/06/great-thanks-to-poets-speakers-audience.html

We thank each one of you for making this program successful in sowing the seeds of pluralism in our thoughts, minds, and consciously making it a part of our thinking in our day to day life. It is a good beginning, and a small step in respecting the otherness of others, but a giant leap for the those who always had their hearts open, but had not found a medium to express it. Indeed, the air was filled with the energy of pluralism. We applaud you for taking this step. 

The documentary on the Pluralism in poetry, the pictures, the reports and the book will be out as soon as possible.  We missed doing the interviews for the documentary, and we will do that after July 4th. Let us know if you can make it.

If you have a poetry that reflects Pluralism in culture, politics, religion, society, customs, familial relationships and other aspects of life, please share, some of it will go into the book and some to the website. Your esteemed comments and hope will make it to the book and the site.

Pluralism is simply an attitude of respecting the otherness of others and accepting the God given uniqueness of each one of us.  It is about doing our share of work in creating societies where no one has to be nervous, apprehensive or fearful of the others. 

If any one of you is planning to write a report about the program, we will share it here on this site at this time. You are welcome to write your comments here.

Dr. Qaisar Abbas will be writing a report. His opening and closing statements were incredible, and reflected the ideals of this poetry session, he addressed the nature and purpose of the program and had summarized it very well. Dr. Raghunath Singh’ scholarly study on Pluralism was exciting to hear, it is the same energy being reflected in research as well as the common man’s life – to communicate and get along. Shabnam Modgil’s poem that she starts her daily Radio program is pluralistic indeed. We thank the panelists for their wisdom. I will be compiling the report as well, this is the initial report. 

Our team’s enthusiasm and moral support for each other is worth emulating. Each one of us contributed to the success of the event, and we need to thank each other for the support.

The most exciting thing for me personally was that our esteemed poets focused and wrote on the theme, it’s not only here in Dallas, but Dr. Kalia Humdum, a Pakistani Canadian, Dr. Teja Singh from India wrote incredible poetry. Fateh Ali Chatur delivered Dr. Chakradhar poem flawlessly. Dr. Hashmi, Hillol Ray and Dr. Rosho’s poems were mentioned but will be included in the booklet. As an MC of the program,  I could not include Nishi Bhatia’s poem due to the flow of the program, indeed, I skipped many of the anecdotes I wanted to share about Pluralism. All the poets were incredible.

Our long term plan is make this theme to become a household theme in the next ten years. One day, it will be reflected in the movie songs, Kavi Sammelans’ and Mushaera’s – and gradually germinate into other languages. A decade from now, you can take pride in seeding a thought that you invested in nurturing a culture of inclusiveness, co-existence and pluralism. Would you be willing to propagate this idea, and willing to spend your time? 

Who does not want to live in a world where there is less conflicts and acceptance of each other for whatever we look like, talk like, wear like, believe like? Shouldn’t we do something about it? Here is one such small step that you can do on your own or join us in walking together.

Everyone on the list spoke except Dr. Basheer Ahmed, and we will have him write for all of us to hear him out, its a great anecdote.  Dr. Shamsa Qureshi’s inclusion was not planned but accidental and was good. My poetry would not have been read, had we not managed our time effectively. There were two of our friend poets who wanted to recite in the last minute, but I guess they did not realize we had finalized the program a week ahead of the date and there was simply no room to add them, unless we dropped someone, and that would have been the wrong thing to do. Everyone in the town was asked to participate, not once, but at least thrice and a few over 7 times on the theme, and thank everyone who wrote the poetry and spoke on Pluralism.

We also thank Naheed Shad, she is the one of the four poets and speakers in this entire program who did what she said she would do without follow up, the other three are Saeed Qureshi, Shah Alam Qureshi and Fateh Ali Chatur with two follow ups each. If there was no information with the name on the slide presentation,  it was because we failed in getting the information.  We have made at least seven follow ups to every one, and only one call to Naheed. We appreciate this and honor you, Mrs. Naheed Shad for respecting our call and ask you to be on the Panel in the next Mushaera with a special permission in behalf of our team.

We thank the sponsors (Desi alphabetical order):  Dr. Basheer Ahmed, Shri DD Maini, Desi Roots school of Indian Music and Hindi by Anand Punjabi,  FunAsia Center –  in Kind, Irfan Ali, Javed Rashid, Javed Samuell Gill, Rashid Jetpuri, Mani Rahman of Rahman Financials, Mike  Ghouse, Dr. Qaisar Abbas, Syed Moeenuddin. We have collected a sum of $ 1525 v projected expenses $2000. To complete the book and documentary, we need more funding. All the funding over $100.00 will be listed in the book as supporters.

We encourage you to donate at: http://americatogetherfoundation.com/donate/
Foundation for Pluralism is a part of the America Together Foundation.

Thank God, every one delivered the message beautifully – and it was a delight to observe and admire the humility in our poets, each one of them was focused on sharing his or her message.

My apologies for not following the Mushaera/ Sammelan tradition to the letter, as I was focused on the message. Next time around, we have to increase poet/speaker’s time to 6 minutes and plan on fewer items, and hope to do the program in two and a half hours with 20 items. It will be on time. 


Thanks to FunAsia for the live broadcast, tea and pakoras, thanks to Zia Khan for the pictures and thanks to Vijay Gurow for filming the event. Thanks to AG Chini and Amin Tirmizi for the interview on their shows and thanks to Shabnam for the announcements on FunAsia Radio.

We thank John Hammond, Farrukh Hamid and Shabnam Modgil of FunAsia for their dream to bring the communities together, indeed that is a similar to the dream of all of us – bringing the communities together, getting along, minding our own business and doing our share of good. 

Above all thanks to the audience, whose presence was mighty encouragement to us, they sat through the end of the program. I have the registration information and will send them an email to thank them.

We thank the following poets, speakers, sponsors, volunteers and organizers.

  1. Dr. Qaisar Abbas
  2. Dr. Raghunath Singh
  3. Shabnam Modgil
  4. AG Chini
  5. Amin Tirmizi
  6. Anand Punjabi
  7. Dr. Harbans Lal
  8. Irfan Ali
  9. Javed Samuell Gill
  10. Noor Amrohvi
  11. Dr. Basheer Ahmed
  12. Shri D D Maini
  13. FunAsia
  14. Javed Rashid
  15. Mani Rahman
  16. Farooq Wazir Ali
  17. Syed Moeenuddin
  18. Zia Khan
  19. Vijay Gurow
  20. Dr. Kundawala
  21. Amer Suleman
  22. Dr. RajKumar
  23. Dr. Teja Singh
  24. Ashok Chakradhar
  25. Fatehali Chatur
  26. Dr. B. D. Kalia Humdum
  27. Ahmed Rahi
  28. Rehmat Raza
  29. Kundan Sharma
  30. Shah Alam Siddiqi
  31. Zohra Chisti
  32. Dr. Taj Hashimi
  33. Dr. Ravi Kumar Rosho
  34. Hillol Ray
  35. Naheed Shad
  36. Saeed Qureshi
  37. Tariq Hashmi
  38. Younus Ijaz
. . . . .

A big thank you from the team, if you could, please share your comments here at  this link:

http://urduhindimushaeraonpluralism.blogspot.com/2013/06/great-thanks-to-poets-speakers-audience.html#comment-form

The team: Dr. Qaisar Abbas, Dr. Raghunath Singh, Shabnam Modgil, Irfan Ali, Amin Tirmizi, AG Chini, Dr. Harbans Lal, Anand Punjabi, Noor Amrohvi, Javed Samuell Gill and Mike Ghouse

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URDU-HINDI Poetry on Pluralism by Dallas Morning News & Huffington Post

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Urdu-Hindi is the most commonly understood language among the Desis, or South Asians, according to Mike Ghouse, president of the America Together Foundation. To promote understanding of the language and also to come up with an Urdu-Hindi word for pluralism, Ghouse is holding a program on “Pluralism: Urdi-Hindi Poetry” from 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday at the Richardson Civic Center, 411 W. Arapaho Road.
FunAsia will broadcast the event live and filmmakers will tape the event for a documentary. Ghouse also plans to publish a booklet with poetry on pluralism from the event. To learn more, call 214-325-1916 or visit urduhindimushaeraonpluralism.blogpot.com.
<<<<<< NOTE: This link also contains info about Hindu America foundation, they were first introduced in dallas by the us eight  years ago in a program called shanti-shanti bringing all the seven Hindu temples together. It was on June 17, 2005. Report and pictures at : http://www.foundationforpluralism.com/Shanti-Shanti_2005Report.asp

>>>>>> More details below http://urduhindimushaeraonpluralism.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-purposeful-event-urdu-hindi-mushaera.html

Congratulations to the LGBT community. Thanks to the Supreme Court for upholding civil rights of Americans

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Thanks to the Supreme Court for upholding freedom of individuals. That is the only institution that safeguards the liberties of Americans; of you and I. I am glad to see them live up to it. Freedom is precious and must be cherished.

America has always led the world in cultural advancement of accepting the otherness of others, and respecting the uniqueness of another individual, this is one more feather in her cap. 

Religious conservatives may find it difficult to live with this decision. But they will understand it,  if they were subjected to harassment and persecution, like many in the world. 

Let us not place God unnecessarily between one human and the other, and not make a villain out of him, we are all his children. God does not ask any one to meddle in others affairs as long as they mind their own business as you do yours. 

The gays and lesbians have always been there and will continue to be there, and the world will not come to an end because of their freedom. It is not their choice to be gay, its as natural to them to be attracted to the same gender as it is for the heterosexuals to be attracted to the opposite gender.

Bishop Robinson, a gay Anglican priest in New Hampshire who retired last year, was awed, yet sober: It is really about respect, and the respect of the society in which one lives. You don’t realize it if you’ve already got it, but if you don’t have it and then you get it, it’s an amazing gift. 

Liberty and freedom continue to win in America. God bless America. I am proud to be an American. 

Mike Ghouse is a speaker, thinker and a writer on pluralism, politics, peace, Islam, Israel, India, interfaith, and cohesion at work and social settings. He is committed to building a Cohesive America and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day at www.TheGhousediary.com. Mike has a strong presence on national and local TV, Radio and Print Media. He is a frequent guest on Sean Hannity show on Fox TV, and a commentator on national radio networks, he contributes weekly to the Texas Faith Column at Dallas Morning News, fortnightly at Huffington post, and several other periodicals across the world. His personal site www.MikeGhouse.net indexes everything you want to know about him.

Texas Faith: Is belief overrated?

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The Hindus invariably invoke and bow to Ganesh aspect of God, the remover of obstacles, and the Muslims say, ”Bismillah” – to start in the name of God who is merciful…. .Some of us feel sanctimonious when we are in our place of worship. Ironically, arrogance creeps in instead of humility. We become the righteous ones, and everyone else becomes a loser, as if God has signed a deal with us behind others back. In the process we make a villain out of God. No matter what faith we profess, arrogance is the same. That leads to conflicts between us and the other soul – Mike Ghouse
 
Texas Faith : Is belief overrated?
Dallas Morning News | Published on June 25, 2013
By Bill McKenzie 

A couple of weeks ago, Keven Willey, the Morning News‘ editorial page editor, passed along this essay from Stanford anthropologist T. M. Luhrmann, author of “When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God.” As you will see from this link as well, Luhrmann gets into several lines of thought about belief and how we arrive at it religious convictions.

 
What I would like you to comment upon is this part of her New York Times essay:
 
“The role of belief in religion is greatly overstated, as anthropologists have long known. In 1912, Emile Durkheim, one of the founders of modern social science, argued that religion arose as a way for social groups to experience themselves as groups. He thought that when people experienced themselves in social groups, they felt bigger than themselves, better, more alive — and that they identified that aliveness as something supernatural. Religious ideas arose to make some sense of this experience of being part of something greater. Durkheim thought that belief was more like a flag than a philosophical position: You don’t go to church because you believe in God; rather you believe in God because you go to church.”
 
Applying that thinking to religion in general, not just churches, here is the question for the week:
 
Is belief overrated?
 
MIKE GHOUSE, President, Foundation for Pluralism
 
Indeed, belief is overrated. It is not necessarily our belief in God that drives us to be good being. Rather, it is the necessity of co-existence.
 
We are taught to thank God, and give credit to God for all the good that happens in our lives. Dale Carnegie explains the wisdom in his best seller, “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” It was the idea to inculcate humility in us. Humility builds bridges and sustains relationships, whereas arrogance destroys it.

Among most people of faith, God remains an integral part of our language and culture. The traditional Baha’is, Jewish and Muslims have devised short phrases to utter for just about everything that happens in their lives between birth and death.

 
If you ask a Muslim how he or she is doing, out comes the response, “Alhamdu Lillah I am fine.” That means praise the Lord. If they commit to do something, they will always add, “Insha Allah” – God willing.” And no matter what they do, they say, ”Bismillah” – start in the name of God who is merciful. The Hindus invariably invoke and bow to Ganesh aspect of God, the remover of obstacles.
 
The eternal question remains, “You don’t go to church because you believe in God; rather you believe in God because you go to church.” I have battled with this thought for ages. Is it the essence or the ritual that makes one religious? Ritual becomes cultural part of our psyche, and we do things without meaning it. Many of us are cultural Christians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims or others.
 
Some of us feel sanctimonious when we are in our place of worship. Ironically, arrogance creeps in instead of humility. We become the righteous ones, and everyone else becomes a loser, as if God has signed a deal with us behind others back. In the process we make a villain out of God. No matter what faith we profess, arrogance is the same. That leads to conflicts between us and the other soul.
 
The essence of religion is to create societies where no one fears the other and people mind their own business. That is achievable through humility, not arrogance.
 
The shallower your faith, the greater your claim to the superiority of your faith, as if you are trying to offset the deficiency. At that point, belief is indeed overrated.
 
 
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Mike Ghouse is a speaker, thinker and a writer on pluralism, politics, peace, Islam, Israel, India, interfaith, and cohesion at work place. He is committed to building a Cohesive America and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day at www.TheGhousediary.com. He believes in Standing up for others and has done that throughout his life as an activist. Mike has a presence on national and local TV, Radio and Print Media. He is a frequent guest on Sean Hannity show and Bill O’Reilly show on Fox TV, and a commentator on national radio networks, he contributes weekly to the Texas Faith Column at Dallas Morning News; fortnightly at Huffington post; and several other periodicals across the world. His personal site www.MikeGhouse.net indexes all his work through many links. 
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Muslims Celebrate Shab-e-Baraat, a night of Marathon self- reflection

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Muslims Celebrate Shab-e-Baraat, a night of Marathon self- reflection
Shaban 15, 1434 | June 24, 2013
Every one of us is laden with guilt from time to time, doing something or the other; being angry at your child; saying things you should not have said; and deviating from the standards you have made a part of your own life – all these things accumulate and build up inside us and expressed in different formats without being conscious.

We need to release this pent up negative energy, the Creator God through religions has devised a system to do so – it’s called repentance, the Catholics have a format of confession – the Jains do it through the festivities of Paryushan. This night is a Muslim confession night with the creator God within the confines of his or her own mind.
 

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The Daily Times, “This
is the best night of prayer and worship of God to seek His forgiveness for sins
and blessing to achieve success in this world and hereafter. The significant
distinction of this night, according to Islamic belief, is that it falls on the
night of Shaban 15 in which all births and deaths in universe are written in
the ‘Loh-e-Mehfooz’ for the forthcoming year. “

Religiously it is described differently to people with
different needs.  Most people just want
to observe and not want to know the details, there is nothing wrong with it, it
is just another way of doing it.  How
many men actually read the manuals when they assemble their furniture or
electronic devices? They just do it.

Although it is between the individual and his own self and God, it is always good
to do things in groups – nothing different than going for a walk, gym or
bicycling.  Muslims usually go to the
Mosque and spend the whole night praying, meditating and contemplating. It is
the night to clean the slate and start all over again.

This is also a night when you seek forgiveness for others,
other than yourselves, your loved ones, the people who are alive and those who
are gone. Muslims have a beautiful universal prayer that includes literally
every soul – when it says, all the living and the dead.  Muslims invariably commemorate the loved ones
who are no more in this world.

Last
night was that night, the 15th night of Shaban, the 8th
month of Muslim calendar. This night is called by various names:
·        
Lailat al-Baraa (Arabic: ليلة البراءة‎, Night of Innocence)
·        
Lailat al-Du’a (Arabic: ليلة الدعاء‎, Night of Prayer or
Supplication
)
·        
Neem Sha’ban (Persian: نيم شعبان‎ in Afghanistan and Iran.
·        
Nisf Sha’ban (Arabic: نصف شعبان‎, Mid-Sha’ban) in Arabic
speaking countries.
·        
Nisfu Sya’ban in Malay speaking countries.
·        
Shab e Baraat (Urdu: شبِ براءت‎ ) Marathon night of reflection
·        
Berat Kandili in Turkish

For the last 20 years, Mike has being writing the essence of
festivals of all religions and traditions in easy to understand and relatable
language for everyone, including people of the faith that celebrate the
festival. This is basic enough for people of others faiths to catch the
drift.  More at www.mikeghouse.net  and the various links at the site. Mike Ghouse
is a speaker, thinker and a writer on Pluralism, interfaith and building cohesive
societies.

SPANK your wife 'to correct misbehavior' – The Christian Movement.

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It is disgusting to read that a group called Christian Domestic Discipline is actually teaching how to spank the wife, this is not acceptable. For years, many a Muslims also believed in this non-sense.

This is the practice of  insecure men, regardless of what religion they wear, they abuse religion to justify their bad acts.  We should not let any one abuse religion, be it Islam, Christianity, HIndu or the other.  Religion does not sanction this abuse and disrespect to a fellow being. This will eventually stop if each one of us condemns it.

Discipline: In CDD, husbands spank their submissive wives in order to correct misbehavior


Aren’t there men out there who abuse their spouses and yet call themselves Muslims, Christians, Buddhists,  Hindus, Sikhs, Jews and others?  It is not the religion, it is them!
On the other hand, what’s wrong with these women who subject themselves to such humility. Spanking, controlling, and abusing some one who is dependent and weaker than you is the thing of insecure men, this has got to go, if they do it, it is because who they are, and not because of their religion.

I can never forget a guest Imam in Dallas, who was in an interfaith meeting responding with a smirk on his face,  to a Christian couple’s question, “that the man can beat his wife with a small thing like a tooth pick or Miswak (a pencil size branch of tree to brush the teeth) and he ascribes that to Quran, and adds, you cannot hurt, but you can discipline. Those guys were appalled. I reacted instantly that he needs to refresh his knowledge, he is not current with the research work. He continues to bullshit Muslims.

Indeed, that was what the “men” had interpreted for ages to justify their rotten behavior. No one can claim that there aren’t men in their religions like that.

In case of Islam, this is  not true as it does not reflect the life of the prophet nor does it add up to the respect given to woman in Quran and by the prophet.  You can read more about it at – http://quraan-today.blogspot.com/2009/05/wife-beating-quraan-434.html and http://worldmuslimcongress.blogspot.com/2008/01/wife-beating-434.html and there are a few more articles in those sites. Indeed, that verse in Quran has been misinterpreted for ages, it took a woman to fix it. Thanks to Dr. Laila Bakhtiar and Edip Yuskel for the two revised translations of Quran to truly reflect the teachings of the prophet and common sense wisdom of Quran.
URL- http://nabsites.net/demo/spank-your-wife-to-correct-misbehavior/ 
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The ‘Christian’ movement that tells husbands to SPANK their wives ‘to correct misbehavior’

PUBLISHED: 10:52 EST, 22 June 2013  

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2346393/The-Christian-movement-tells-husbands-SPANK-wives-correct-misbehavior.html#ixzz2X3wzun2x
 

A growing number of married American couples are agreeing to allow husbands to keep their wives ‘in line’ by taking to corporal punishment.
The trend is called Christian Domestic Discipline and much of what is known about the practice is published on the website Learning Domestic Discipline, published by husband and wife CDD duo, Clint and Chelsea.
The website states: ‘It is an arrangement between two adults who share the belief that the husband is the head of the household and with that position comes the right to enforce his authority.’
Clint and Chelsea have also written a 50-page packet on the practice called Beginning Domestic Discipline.
Manifesto: Learningdd.com is a source of a lot of information on the new painful Christian trend

Manifesto: Learningdd.com is a source of a lot of information on the new painful Christian trend

Discipline: In CDD, husbands spank their submissive wives in order to correct misbehavior
In the packet they describe CDD as a ‘practice between two consenting life partners in which the head of household (HoH) takes the necessary measures to achieve a healthy relationship dynamic.’
That translates to all methods of punishment, not exclusive to spanking. Clint and Chelsea advocate lecturing, removing privileges, corner and bedroom time – essentially the ways most people discipline their children. 
For CDD enthusiasts, this type of punishment isn’t sexual in nature.
Vera (anonymous last name),  who is in a CDD relationship with her husband told The Daily Beast that the practice is in no-way sexual. 
‘The pure CDD people don’t go there. A lot of folks think of Fifty Shades of Grey – but this is not that.’
Spanking is clearly the bread and butter of this kind of relationship. Eighteen pages of the CDD manifesto are dedicated to spanking and how to properly go about administering spanks. 
Tools: A hairbrush is one of the listed items sanctioned for spanking on in the Beginning Domestic Discipline packet

Tools: A hairbrush is one of the listed items sanctioned for spanking on in the Beginning Domestic Discipline packet
Paddle: A wooden spoon is another spanking tool. In the packet, Clint and Chelsea warn that one of the cons with this tool is that it 'can break easily'

Paddle: A wooden spoon is another spanking tool. In the packet, Clint and Chelsea warn that one of the cons with this tool is that it ‘can break easily’
Clint and Chelsea talk about all aspects of spanking such as the ‘awkward’ first spanking, the various tools that can be used to administer the spankings, what position the wife should be in and the pros and cons of spanking over or under clothing.  
Corporal punishment at home obviously leads to questions about whether or not this is domestic abuse. Clint and Chelsea stress in their packet that CDD should only practiced by consenting adults and that the HoH should never punish while angry. 
‘If the HoH becomes angry, they must do whatever it takes to get themselves back to a calm, reasonable, rational, level-headed, and collected state before making any decision or carrying out any punishment.’ 
But as evidenced on many forums dedicated to CDD, the practice has turned violent in cases. 
‘I wanted the spankings to stop and my husband told me it was either DD and marriage or divorce. I chose divorce. I couldn’t handle the pain of spankings anymore, emotionally or physically,’ a woman named Michelle wrote on a popular CDD blog found in reporting by The Daily Beast. 
What’s scarier is how little fear is expressed in these forums.
XOJane writer Laura Rubino investigated the issue and trolled the internet looking for horror stories but was surprised when she ‘didn’t find as many of those as I was expecting to.’
‘Most of the women who write about their CDD experiences online are not complaining. Many of them report feeling extremely calm and relaxed after being disciplined, and believe it is an expression of their husband caring about them and their marriage, enough to help them modify their behavior,’ Rubino said. 
The punishment, Rubino said, offers these women a clean slate and they don’t have to worry about passive aggressive tension after a fight. 
While many of these women rave about CDD, it’s not something that Rubino would voluntarily sign herself up for.
‘Walking around my own home, conscious of the fact that any perceived transgression could result in physical pain and a surrendering of control of my body? That would stress me the f*** out. I don’t find that sexy at all. Scary, yes. Hot? Not so much.’
Jim Alsdurf, a forensic psychologist who has written a book on abuse in Christian homes, agrees. 
‘No fool in his right mind would but this as a legitimate way to have a relationship. A relationship that infantilizes a woman is one that clearly draws a more pathological group of people.’ 
Even conservative Christians aren’t behind this trend. Radio host Bryan Fisher told The Huffington Post that he finds no basis in Christianity for such a relationship. He described the trend as ‘horrifying,’ ‘ bizarre,’ ‘unbiblical’ and ’un-Christian’.
‘God in the New Testament clearly asks wives to arrange themselves under the leadership of their husbands (in Greek, the word ‘submit‘ means ‘to arrange under.’) But there is no place where husbands are instructed to make their wives do it or punish them if they don’t.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2346393/The-Christian-movement-tells-husbands-SPANK-wives-correct-misbehavior.html#ixzz2X3wgC6iZ
 
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World's 'most racially intolerant country is not India = the survey is flawed and must be questioned

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I am outraged at this map about India. Not because I am an Indian, but because it is flawed. I have consistently stood up against wrong surveys and mis-representation of people, all people.  This is the second international survey that is so much out of the line this year. 

The first one was about the Sharia Survey by Pew on April 30, 2013 – and I have appeared on Fox News on May 1st to refute it and have written about it in Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ghouse/a-few-talking-points-about-sharia-after-losing-a-sean-hannity-shouting-match_b_3200730.html

 

India is pegged as the most racially intolerant country in the world, and this is not acceptable, off hand these are the questions; 

First of all, the question about race is flawed. To a typical Indian, there is only one race in India. However, the majority of Indians are not aware of the existence of all the anthropological races in India – Caucasian, Mongoloid, Negroid and the Brown, although the awareness has increased since globalization started. They may have colored the question differently or it was misunderstood.

Secondly, it is rather religion that is the cause of discrimination* than race in the subcontinent. Race, religion, language and caste are excuses to exploit the greed of humans. We should call it greed than race.  “Rang aur Nasl, Zaat aur Mazhab, Jo bhi aadmi say kamtar hai” (color, race, caste and religion are inferior to humanity) are all clubbed in many a songs as discriminating factor.  

Thirdly – depending on the strict race question, Pakistan has ranked as a tolerant nation, because in theory rarely a Muslim believes in superiority of one race over the other, as the Prophet had said in his last sermon**, but do they really follow the Prophet?  Had they followed, they would speak up against injustice and harassment of Hindu women, Sikhs and Christians, and stop the killing of Ahmadiyya and Shia Muslims. 
  
Pakistan is shown a higher degree of tolerance than India. No doubt, India does not have an impeccable record on religious discrimination, but it is much better than many of the other nations. India should realistically rank as more tolerant nation.

* Although discrimination is illegal in India as in the United States, but it is practiced widely where as in the US individuals have recourse with Law. India does not have an Equal Opportunity and Housing discrimination department to access. Urbanization is removing the barriers, but it would be the law on the side of the discriminated, that will change the society. 

** A survey is warranted here in the United States, a good percentage of Desi Americans (subcontinentians -south Asians of all religions) living in America are racist pigs, I am sick of their racist remarks. This needs to go, and I get stared at with contempt when I speak up against racism. 

I protest the survey and ask the Surveyors to reconsider the data and club the Rang aur Nasl, Zaat aur Mazhab, Color and race, caste and Religion as one item and redo the survey and rank the nations. 

May be the civility of nations index is warranted based on how they treat their minorities – race, religion, ethnicity, culture and language. 

The survey is flawed, and India does not deserve to be # 1 in negative way. This is my protest and if I get the support, I will take it further.

Mike Ghouse

The Book “Standing up for others” will be released on July 4th.  Mike Ghouse is committed to build cohesive societies and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day.

 
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The Telegraph, UK
Saturday 22 June 2013
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/10061025/Worlds-most-racially-intolerant-countries-mapped.html

Swedish economists have stated that India, Jordan and Bangladesh are among the least tolerant countries in the world, while Britain is among the most accepting.

The World Values Survey asked respondents in more than 80 different countries to state the type of people they did not want as neighbours.

Over 40 per cent of respondents in India, Jordan, Bangladesh and Hong Kong said they would not want a neighbour of a different race.

The British were among the most tolerant, along with former colonies the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. People in Latin American counties were also prepared to embrace racially diverse neighbours.

The data from the survey by Niclas Berggren and Therese Nilsson wasmapped by the Washington Post by Max Fisher.

In India, 43.5 per cent said they did not want someone of a different race as their neighbour. In Jordan it was 51.4 per cent, while in Hong Kong and Bangladesh, over 70 per cent said someone of a different race was their biggest concern in a neighbour.

Europe showed widely varying results, with France coming out as notably racially intolerant at 22.7 per cent. Former Soviet states such as Belarus and Latvia proved to be more tolerant than many of their European neighbours, according to the study.

Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15/a-fascinating-map-of-the-worlds-most-and-least-racially-tolerant-countries/

• Wide, interesting variation across Europe. Immigration and national identity are big, touchy issues in much of Europe, where racial make-ups are changing. Though you might expect the richer, better-educated Western European nations to be more tolerant than those in Eastern Europe, that’s not exactly the case. France appeared to be one of the least racially tolerant countries on the continent, with 22.7 percent saying they didn’t want a neighbor of another race. Former Soviet states such as Belarus and Latvia scored as more tolerant than much of Europe. Many in the Balkans, perhaps after years of ethnicity-tinged wars, expressed lower racial tolerance.

• The Middle East not so tolerant. Immigration is also a big issue in this region, particularly in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which often absorb economic migrants from poorer neighbors.

• Racial tolerance low in diverse Asian countries. Nations such as Indonesia and the Philippines, where many racial groups often jockey for influence and have complicated histories with one another, showed more skepticism of diversity. This was also true, to a lesser extent, in China and Kyrgyzstan. There were similar trends in parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

• South Korea, not very tolerant, is an outlier. Although the country is rich, well-educated, peaceful and ethnically homogenous – all trends that appear to coincide with racial tolerance – more than one in three South Koreans said they do not want a neighbor of a different race. This may have to do with Korea’s particular view of its own racial-national identity as unique – studied by scholars such as B.R. Myers – and with the influx of Southeast Asian neighbors and the nation’s long-held tensions with Japan.

• Pakistan, remarkably tolerant, also an outlier. Although the country has a number of factors that coincide with racial intolerance – sectarian violence, its location in the least-tolerant region of the world, low economic and human development indices – only 6.5 percent of Pakistanis objected to a neighbor of a different race. This would appear to suggest Pakistanis are more racially tolerant than even the Germans or the Dutch.

Update: I’ve heard some version of one question from an overwhelming number of readers: “I’ve met lots of Indians and Americans and found the former more racially tolerant than the latter. How can these results possibly be correct?” I’d suggest three possible explanations for this, some combination of which may or may not be true. First, both India and the U.S. are enormous countries; anecdotal interactions are not representative of the whole, particularly given that people who are wealthy enough to travel internationally may be likely to encounter some subsets of these respective populations more than others.

Second, the survey question gets to internal, personal preferences; what the respondents want. One person’s experiences hanging out with Americans or Indians, in addition to being anecdotal, only tell you about their outward behavior. Both of those ways of observing racial attitudes might suggest something about racial tolerance, but they’re different indicators that measure different things, which could help explain how one might contradict the other.

Third, the survey question is a way of judging racial tolerance but, like many social science metrics, is indirect and imperfect. I cited the hypothetical about Swedes and Finns at the top of this post, noting that perhaps some people are just more honest about their racial tolerance than others. It’s entirely possible that we’re seeing some version of this effect in the U.S.-India comparison; maybe, for example, Americans are conditioned by their education and media to keep these sorts of racial preferences private, i.e. to lie about them on surveys, in a way that Indians might not be. That difference would be interesting in itself, but alas there is no survey question for honesty.

Correction: This post originally indicated that, according to the World Values Survey, 71.7 percent of Bangladeshis and 71.8 percent of Hong Kongers had s
aid that they would not want a neighbor of a different race. In fact, those numbers appear to be substantially lower, 28.3 percent and 26.8 percent, respectively. In both cases, World Values appears to have erroneously posted the incorrect data on its Web site. Ashirul Amin, posting at the Tufts University Fletcher School’s emerging markets blog, looked into the data for Bangladesh and discovered the mistake. My thanks to Amin, who is Bangladeshi and was able to read the original questionnaire, for pointing this out. His analysis is worth reading in full, but here’s his conclusion:
The short answer is, yes, someone did fat finger this big time. “Yes” and “No” got swapped in the second round of the survey, which means that 28.3% of Bangladeshis said they wouldn’t want neighbors of a different race – not 71.7%.