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Etwas älteres Hotel. Gut gelegen in der Nähe des Bahnhofs.
Relax wrote on June 18, 2012
Good location, but room was small for a double room. Reception staff was friendly.
Kah Lock Ong wrote on May 21, 2011
Nice hotel close to the railway station and quiet. Approximatel a 10 min walk to the old city along the river bank. Spacoius room, staff were very helpful, happy to recommend.
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A good hotel conveniently located near the main rail and bus stations. Excellent staff who were extremely helpful.Good facilities, quality breakfast and little noise despite it being on a main street leading to the station. I can recommend this hotel
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Great hotel not far from train station or the river. Rooms were nice & spacious & the breakfast was excellent. Would definitely stay here again.
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3 out of 5
Etwas älteres Hotel. Gut gelegen in der Nähe des Bahnhofs.Review by: Relax
Date stayed June 18, 2012
3.4 out of 5
Good location, but room was small for a double room. Reception staff was friendly.Review by: Kah Lock Ong
Date stayed May 21, 2011
4.6 out of 5
Nice hotel close to the railway station and quiet. Approximatel a 10 min walk to the old city along the river bank. Spacoius room, staff were very helpful, happy to recommend.Review by: Anonymous
Date stayed July 18, 2010
4.4 out of 5
A good hotel conveniently located near the main rail and bus stations. Excellent staff who were extremely helpful.Good facilities, quality breakfast and little noise despite it being on a main street leading to the station. I can recommend this hotelReview by: Grahame Barrett
Date stayed July 12, 2010
5 out of 5
Great hotel not far from train station or the river. Rooms were nice & spacious & the breakfast was excellent. Would definitely stay here again.Review by: Kate Sitoco
Date stayed October 11, 2009
4.8 out of 5
Booked 4 rooms here for a group of 8 friends travelling together. The location is very convenient to the train station which was our mode of travel but a good 15 minute walk to the old city. We used the bus system also to get to the old city which was also easily accessible. Hotel is beautiful, rooms are very spacious by European standard. Only complaint is that the showers are situated such that is almost impossible to shower without causing a flood on the bathroom floor - explains why the floors are plastic (at least in the rooms we stayed in). Breakfast was good - nice selection and excellent service. We also ate lunch in their restaurant on arrival and had an excellent meal for a very reasonable price. We also had excellent service from the front desk personnel who helped us book a Mozart Dinner and provided excellent directions and recommendations on things to do. I would definitely recommend this hotel to others and would stay here again in the futureReview by: Lynette Little
Date stayed May 29, 2009
4.8 out of 5
Very friendly staff. Clean and comfortable. Good value when booking via Internet.Review by: Anonymous
Date stayed April 25, 2009
5 out of 5
Very good hotel.I made a good choice for me and my family;we had 2 triple rooms in the new annex building of the hotel,which is just across the street from the old one and everything was perfect.Secured entrance of the building,of the aisle,of the room. Very good breakfast.Review by: iuliana halagian
Date stayed December 31, 2008
4 out of 5
Small and clean hotel with very good breakfast at very nice location (10 min walk to the Salzburg centre). Friendly staff helps us with all required infos and their advices made our Salzburg visit additionally pleasant.Review by: Anonymous
Date stayed December 30, 2008
4.2 out of 5
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Date stayed December 25, 2008
4.2 out of 5
Excellent position hotel if you are taking a rail journey. We stayed for one night as we were travelling to Mayrhofen. Easy access to the City.Review by: john hinton
Date stayed April 4, 2008
4.6 out of 5
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Date stayed February 6, 2008
4.8 out of 5
a lovely family run hotel. The staff was so kind and helpful and could not do enough for you. The food was lovely and the buffet breakfast was excellent with plenty of choice. We had a room on the sound of music floor and the room had everything you would need. The hotel is about 25 mins walk to the old town - but it is situated a 2 min walk away from the bus station and train station - also a taxi back from the old town cost us about 5.60 euros. I would definately recommend this hotel and if we ever go back to salzburg again i would certainly stay here. Also a lovely touch at breakfast on the first morning, the owner of the hotel came round and presented chocolates to the mothers staying there (which happened to include me and my mum).Review by: fiona cleall
Date stayed December 20, 2007
4.2 out of 5
Nice hotel just outside the Old Town of Salzburg which meant a quieter stay. Transport via Bus No. 5 using a 24 hr ticket of E3.40 was very convenient. Only gripe was the lack of air conditioning (a fan was provided) in the hot muggy days of July. Other than that, it was a pleasant stay and a very well stocked mini bar!Review by: Lorwai Tan
Date stayed July 15, 2007
5 out of 5
We were delighted with the exceptional friendliness of the hotel staff. The girls on reception were incredibly helpful and very welcoming. The location was brilliant - very easy walking distance to the main train station and bus departure points. Staying at the Hotel made our stay in Salzburg even more delightful!Review by: JANICE RANAWAKE
Date stayed June 18, 2007
4.6 out of 5
I would stay here again most definately. We were given a bedroom and lounge with seperate bathroom, so very spacious. It was handy to buses which were easy to hop on and off. Staff were helpful. The breakfast was average and typical for continent however the evening meal in the restaurant was superb. The meals were excellent and the two gentleman serving very polite and helpful. Try the fillet steak with pepper sauce mmmmmm!Review by: Ruth Chambers
Date stayed March 27, 2007
4.2 out of 5
This hotel was in a good central location. Very close to train station, within walking distance. Breakfast was good and staff very friendly.Review by: Eve Russell
Date stayed March 11, 2007
4.2 out of 5
Just spent four nights here. Very good value for money. Location could be a problem as it is a good ten minute walk to the oldtown. Got upgraded to a suite at no extra charge. Would recomend the Salburg Card also the Snow shuttle bus.Review by: Ian Waddington
Date stayed February 19, 2007
4.4 out of 5
made very welcome.staff great.food good.nice quite spot,3 mins from station,and 20 min level walk to town. for the money I would rate it 9/10. we would return any time.Review by: david bennett
Date stayed February 6, 2007
3.4 out of 5
Nice and pleasant hotel, but we didn''t feel it quite deserved the 4 star rating. Room was large and clean and facilities were good. Breakfast only average. Staff were friendly and helpful. Location is 15 minutes walk from the old town, we did wish we''d stayed a little closer. Overall 6.5/10.Review by: Anonymous
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honorable mentions: Hal (Malcolm in the middle), Homer Simpson, Cartman, Peter and Stewie Griffin, Peter Capaldi and Claire and Noah Bennet(Heroes), Frasier, Ron Swanson and Tom Haverford, Dwight Shrewt, Barney Stinson, Shawn and Gus, all the Seinfeld peeps, Baby Sinclair (Dinosaurs), Vincent Nigel Murray (Bones), John Snow and Tyrion, Jack Mccoy (Law and Order)
Cool video, but probably wouldn't label it a pump up for 2014-2015, In those type of videos I think it should be focused almost solely on kids who are coming back. This was more just a bunch of highlights from last season, as carlos, shazier, roby, philly, hall, etc. starred in many of the highlights
For me #1 is Ron Lewis vs. Xavier. Not only was the shot ridiculous, but the team went on all the way to the NC game.
Great win for USA.
Side note: Datsyuk = still amazing, even on one leg
Is this a serious comment? lol
nope the last meeting was 2006 and we won by 30.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but how could you possibly know that?
Is there a reason we're not interested in Toledo Central Catholic linebacker Chris Green? I've seen him rated pretty highly by some services
Players of the half:
Jamal Marcus
Philly Brown
Braxton Miller
Jeff Heuerman
Cameron Johnston
Joshua Perry
Armani Reeves
I don't think they were literally suggesting they want this to happen. It was just something fun to look at....
Thanks! I enjoyed reading it over :)
I always felt like Paul Haynes and Taver Johnson were very underrated positional coaches. Tough guys to replace. Remember they were the guys who turned some unheralded recruits (malcolm jenkins, donald washington, chimdi chkwa) into some pretty good players...Heck you could even give them some credit for Roby
No, he made another one, first half, real short pass from scott basically under the bucket. It was a thing of beauty
ummmm....did I miss lattimore committing?
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Just when it looked like James Spader was going to spend his entire career playing yuppie slime balls, he turned around and got typecast as a yuppie saint. Max Baron, his character in White Palace, is a variation on the polite, bourgeois, erotically repressed nice guys he played in sex, lies, and videotape and Bad Influence. Max isn't a control freak, exactly. He's in mourning his beautiful young wife, whom he loved since they were children, died nearly two years ago, and he has never gotten over it. Enter Nora (Susan Sarandon), a spunky working-class lush who comes on to Max in a bar, practically drags him home, and then, when he refuses to sleep with her, proceeds to seduce him anyway (if that's the word) by waking him up with a round of surprise oral sex. At this point, Max knows he's in love (or at least serious lust).
There's just one problem: Outside of bed, he and Nora have nothing in common. Just how different are they? Well, he's 27, she's 43. He's Jewish, she's Catholic. He's an intellectual who listens only to classical music, she's a yahoo who loves the Oak Ridge Boys. Most important: He's a successful advertising man, she's a waitress at the ultrascuzzy White Palace hamburger joint. Can these two possibly have a genuine relationship?
The very fact that their personalities unfold in such tidy dichotomies tells you: Of course they can. Set in St. Louis, White Palace is a piece of 1970s-style whimsy it's Harold and Maude played almost straight and Spader and Sarandon bring it a shaggy sense of fun. I'm not sure I've ever seen an actor do sex scenes with quite the quivering spontaneity Spader brings to them. He's like a teenage virgin; even when he finally pounces, he seems surprised by his own actions. And Sarandon shows some of the comic vibrancy she had in Bull Durham. Her Nora is full of high spirits and low funk, a deeply pragmatic woman whose no-nonsense demeanor extends to sensuality. She knows what she wants and takes it; Sarandon makes Nora's very slatternliness seem radiant.
Overall, though, White Palace is a mixed bag. It's yet another bogus movie about class differences the sort of film that says we shouldn't judge people by their cultural backgrounds, then keeps prodding us (like a sitcom) to laugh at their most superficial traits.
The movie is onto something when it shows us Max's embarrassment at the prospect of having Nora meet his friends. Spader plays these scenes with an honesty that's cringingly funny, and Sarandon goes right to the heart of Nora's anger. Yet if the whole point is that Max is being selfish (and that the shame is mostly in his head), why do his friends have to be a collection of pretentious, judgmental geeks? The filmmakers stack the deck; they're too eager to score points off these people. What's more, they fall into the trap of using Nora's working-class status as an automatic symbol of her ''integrity'' (and of her free sexuality, too). Spader and Sarandon make White Palace worth seeing, but too often they're fighting the movie's smugness. B-


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The most important traits of a good mens watch
If you're thinking about buying a new mens watch, or better yet, you've owned one, then I think you might have probably known about what could be the best set of traits that a good watch should have for you. If you can identify those traits, chances are good that you will bet much better at picking up a good product or keeping it working for a long time.
So, what is the first trait a good watch should have? Well, the very first task that a watch should complete is timekeeping and this is the one you should pay attention to the most. If you want to know more about this aspect, ask the seller which type of movement it has. Oftentimes, Quartz powered watches are the most accurate and reliable ones. So, you should go with this type of movement if you want a precise mens watch.
Another aspect that can make or brake the deal here is the watch crystal or the dial window. Why this is important? The reason is because your little timepiece will be exposed to many potential threats throughout the day. And if you're not careful, the watch might get scratched and damaged. And a good crystal is what it needs to protect itself.
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Re: Static electricity references27 June 2007 at 1:29pmThere are a lot of references on static electricity which will provide the information. Two good books are:
Avoiding Static Ignition Hazards in Chemical Operations
Electrostatic Ignitions of Fires and Explosions
There are codes and standards in most countries, for example, NFPA 77 "Recommended Practice on Static Electricity". There are equivalent codes and standards in other countries (UK, Australia, New Zealand, for example).
There is an enormous literature on static electricity, including at least one journal devoted to the subject (Journal of Electrostatics). I have over 100 references in my own files.
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Servings:this makes enough for a 8 or 9 in. pie
I got this recipe somewhere and I can not credit the person responsible. However this crust is really the best ever (tastes like "real" crust but better!)
1 cup cashews (saoaked for at least 4 hours)
1 cup cashews unsoaked
1 cup hemp seeds
1 cup water
Put ingredients in a food processor and blend until desired consistency(you may need to add more or less water) for a "kick" you can add cinnamon or ginger to it.
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Submitted by mham on July 23, 2008 - 2:36pm.
I really wanted to make this tonight however it says to soak the cashews for 4hrs. so I think I will wait to make this tomorrow after work...just curious how different would the crust be with only soaking for 1 hr.? Thanks
Submitted by Mysticbutterfly21 on July 22, 2008 - 9:06am.
If you add fresh sliced strawberries on top it tastes just like strawberry shortcake!
Submitted by Carmentina on July 21, 2008 - 1:05am.
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Jason Momoa is rumored to be in negotiations for Batman Vs. Superman, with it said either Aquman or Martian Manhunter.
Speaking with MTV in the following interview, Momoa says it's all just rumors and he is flattered.
We were just told Jason Momoa is up for Martian Manhunter and not Aquaman.
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Discussion in 'The GatorTail Pub' started by anstro76, Sep 18, 2013.
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Booooooy oh boy in my single day's I'd have given Maggie all she could have handled.
She's cute.
glad I checked out the thread I thought it was a Tennessee week post, boy was I surprised (quite pleasantly)
Damn, Maggie cleans up good
Gorgeous. I love that show.
Does it start this Tuesday????
October 13th it's always on Sundays
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I thought I read it came on Tuesday... Wondered why it would start on Tuesday instead of Sunday.
there's a trailer coming out maybe that's on tues
I absolutely LOVE this show! Can't wait until next Sunday night!
Norman Reedus isn't bad to look at either
He definitely has a loyal following. Every pic he posts on instagram gets many thousands likes and comments.
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Can't wait!!
Yep....all these other chicas after my man :laugh:
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Section 9105 of The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act Of 1985 (Public Law 99-272) amended Section 1886(d)(5) of the Social Security Act (the Act) to add new subparagraph (F), known as the Medicare Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) adjustment provision, which became effective for discharges occurring on or after May 1, 1986.
A hospital can qualify for the Medicare DSH adjustment by using one of the following two methods:
The primary method for qualifying for the Medicare DSH adjustment pertains to hospitals that serve a significantly disproportionate number of low-income patients and is based on the disproportionate patient percentage (DPP), which is equal to the sum of the percentage of Medicare inpatient days (including Medicare Advantage inpatient days) attributable to patients entitled to both Medicare Part A and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and the percentage of total patient days attributable to patients eligible for Medicaid but not eligible for Medicare Part A. If a hospital's DPP equals or exceeds a specified threshold amount, the hospital qualifies for the Medicare DSH adjustment. The Medicare DSH adjustment is determined by using a complex formula (the applicable formula is also based on a hospital's particular DPP).
The alternate special exemption method for qualifying for the Medicare DSH adjustment applies to hospitals that are located in an urban area, have 100 or more beds, and can demonstrate that more than 30 percent of their total net inpatient care revenues come from State and local government sources for indigent care (other than Medicare or Medicaid). These hospitals are also known as "Pickle" hospitals as defined under Section 1886(d)(5)(F)(i)(II) of the Act. If a hospital qualifies under this method, the statute provides for a specific Medicare DSH adjustment.Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 and Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 Provisions that Impact Medicare Disproportionate Share Hospitals
Section 402 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003 further amended Section 1886(d)(5)(F) of the Act so that for discharges occurring on or after April 1, 2004, regarding hospitals under the primary qualifying method, the Medicare DSH payment adjustment percentage formulas for large, urban hospitals apply to additional types of hospitals (e.g., thereby increasing the DSH payment adjustment percentage for hospitals such as rural hospitals with fewer than 500 beds and urban hospitals with fewer than 100 beds). In addition, Section 402 of the MMA imposed a 12 percent cap on the DSH payment adjustment for certain hospitals (exempted from the cap are hospitals classified as Rural Referral Centers [RRC], urban hospitals with 100 or more beds, and hospitals located in rural areas with 500 or more beds). Per Section 5003 of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, as of October 1, 2006, Medicare Dependent Hospitals (MDH) are also exempt from the cap. Under the primary qualifying method, the formulas to establish a hospital's Medicare DSH payment adjustment percentage are based on certain hospital-specific information including its:
Under the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) at 42 CFR Section 412.106(a)(1)(i), the number of beds in a hospital is determined, in accordance with 42 CFR Section 412.105(b) by dividing the number of available bed days during the cost reporting period by the number of days in the cost reporting period. In addition, for purposes of Medicare DSH, the number of patient days in a hospital includes only those days attributable to units or wards of the hospital furnishing acute care services generally payable under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and excludes patient days associated with:
Under Section 1886(d)(5)(F) of the Act, additional Medicare DSH payments are made under the IPPS to acute hospitals that serve a large number of low-income patients or to hospitals that qualify as "Pickle" hospitals. The disproportionate share adjustment percentage for a "Pickle" hospital is equal to 35 percent. The adjustment formulas under the primary qualifying method are not applicable to "Pickle" hospitals. Under the primary qualifying method, a PPS hospital is eligible to receive Medicare DSH payments when its DPP meets or exceeds 15 percent. The chart on page 3 depicts Medicare DSH payment adjustment formulas for hospitals qualifying under the primary method.
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Can Jesus Save Islam?
The Promising Effects of Christ on Other Cultures
by David Marshall
Since the attack on the World Trade Center, two questions have troubled public consciousness. First, what ails Islam? And second, what can set it right?
We have come to recognize, in retrospect, that the problem is not a matter of one or a dozen isolated incidents. Much of the Muslim world has been revealed as a mosaic of "failed societies" that suffer from poverty, dictatorial governments, and feudal power structures that oppress women and religious minorities. Furthermore, as Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington infamously pointed out, "The borders of Islam are bloody": These problems are not retained within Islam but have sparked a series of clashes from Nigeria to Indonesia, Mindanao to Xinjiang.
Observers have offered a variety of explanations and suggestions. Oddly, though, the simplest and most obvious answers to these two questions have seldom been mentioned: the names of the two great Muslim prophets, Mohammed and Jesus.
In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, a consensus quickly became evident that Mohammed would not be implicated in the problems of modern Islam. At heart, Islam is "good and peaceful," said George Bush, "incredibly tolerant," claimed Tony Blair, and "a religion of peace and moderation," according to Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad. Following the lead of scholars like John Esposito and Edward Said, journalists agreed. Terrorists "warp the words of Islam's founding texts to channel noble thoughts into ghastly deeds."1 Mohammed "reiterated the need for tolerance to people of all denominations."2 In fact, "Nothing in the Koran, Islamic theology or Islamic law in any way, shape or form justifies ramming two airliners into civilian buildings."3 Even conservative scholars like Bernard Lewis and Bat Ye'or shied away from blaming Mohammed himself, preferring publicly to ascribe the militant interpretation of the doctrine of jihad to later Islamic jurists. Huntington saw high birth and unemployment rates as the problem, contemptuously denying that "seventh-century religious doctrines" could affect how folk behave today.4
Others claimed that the West was the real culprit, for the Crusades, colonialism, support of Israel, or indifference to democracy in the Middle East. Anak Agung Banyu Perwita argued in the Jakarta Post that conflicts in the Muslim world were the fault of the United States for its support of "friendly tyrants."5 Dr. Yuzo Itagaki, who heads the Islamic study group in the Japanese Foreign Ministry, claimed that the Muslim world had only been held back from democracy by "adroit regional control maintained by Western powers" for the past hundred years.6 Some Westerners have also spoken quietly, or not so quietly, of how the continued vitality of Israel is proving inconvenient for international relations.
"He who thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall," is always good advice. If the cat scratches, it may be that someone has stepped on her tail. No one denies that America has big boots and often walks clumsily. Wrong actions by Western or Israeli governments may indeed contribute to Middle Eastern trouble, as Western actions have hurt other parts of the world. Looking further back, one could also argue that, with Mohammed's jihad, Constantine's twisted theory of the cross, "Conquer by this!" came home to Christian lands to roost.
But the tone of much of the discussion so far strikes me as unbalanced. Surely the claim that Islam has no effect on how Muslims act is neither realistic nor fair even to terrorists. It is absurd to think that middle-class Middle Easterners fly airliners into skyscrapers because of a slump in the GNP, or that the West is so monolithic, powerful, and sly that it can manipulate dozens of sovereign and hostile states behind the scenes, so as (for example) to place the Ayatollah Khomeini in power to ruin Iran, or control the Arab uprising in the West Bank from behind the scenes, as has been alleged in some quarters in the Middle East. And what should we make of the desire to blame Jews for the troubles of the Arab world?
The name of Mohammed, by contrast, has been remarkable by its absence.
Mohammed's Legacy
While he was seldom more violent than necessary to further his ends, it is unfair to his many victims to describe Mohammed as a man of peace. According to the Qur'an and Muslim traditions, he personally led dozens of raids, retaliatory strikes, pre-emptive attacks, and invasions against neighboring peoples. He invented the doctrine that all holy warriors go to heaven. "No one who fights this day . . . with steadfast courage . . . shall meet his death without Allah's bringing him to paradise!"7 When expedient, he had prisoners tortured. Once, he was about to execute a man for too publicly expressing doubt about his prophetic abilities. The man asked, "Who will take care of my sons?" "Hell!" was the prophet's cold reply.8 After surviving a siege, the prophet had all 700 or 800 Jewish men of the tribe of Banu Qurayza murdered as potential rebels, selling the women and children as slaves (but keeping one comely widow for himself).
In The Scapegoat, Rene Girard argued that every society gains a sense of community by unified violence against the innocent. A town or nation gains cohesion and closure in troubling times by joining together for a good, therapeutic murder. Girard found evidence of scapegoating both in historical writings (of the persecution of Jews during the Middle Ages, for example) and in the founding myths of various cultures (such as the deaths of Romulus, Zeus, and Balder). Girard argued that in times of stress, society seeks cohesion by justifying the ritual murder of those in its midst who stand out in some way. In the same literature, he found evidence of post-mortem cover-ups. He concluded: "Human culture is predisposed to the permanent concealment of its origins in collective violence."9
In the modern era, the world is forming a single civilization, an "international community" or "global village." Girard's theory, it seems to me, helps explain the public (mis)education program since September 11 about the origins and nature of the faith Mohammed taught, and perhaps the intense interest in Israel of late as well. In the interest of world peace, it becomes tempting to paper over the original nature of Mohammed's movement and to look for a common, ritual enemy on whom to focus collective and coalition-building blame. Perhaps it is possible to strengthen Western-Islamic solidarity by the ancient and proven ritual of scapegoating the Jews.
The simplest answer to why the Islamic world is in trouble is obvious but unwelcome. Mohammed modeled one-man rule in the name of God. Why be surprised to see dictators in the Arab world he did so much to shape? The prophet sometimes killed the innocent. Should we feel shocked if terrorists acting in his name do likewise? Mohammed promised that "the way to Paradise is lit by the flash of the swords." Can we be sure terrorists who blow themselves up are acting in an impious manner? When threatened by an Arab army from Mecca, Mohammed had the Qurayzah Jews of Medina slaughtered. Is it then surprising when Saddam Hussein, beleaguered by American and Arab forces, launches SCUD missiles at Israel? The prophet took the wives of his enemies, kept his women under de facto house arrest, married a nine-year-old child, and allegedly said that hell was filled with women who did not respect their husbands. Should we be shocked to find the status of women low among his followers today?
The theory that the life of Mohammed really does influence those who follow him appears to be too simple, and too dangerous, for orthodox consideration. We make historical allowances for Mohammed, as we did for Marx and his followers, as for all successful revolutionaries with innocent blood on their hands.
What is the solution to the problems of contemporary Islam?
Possible Answers
Apart from an occasional salute to the founder of modern Turkey, Kemal Ataturk, most solutions offered to the dilemma the Muslim world faces have involved an institution or historical era, rather than a person or idea. Many point to the Golden Age of Islam, from the rise of the Abbasid caliphate in the eighth century to the Mongol sack of Bagdad in 1258, during which Muslims established a creative and dynamic empire. Others say that what Islam needs is a Reformation or Renaissance.
One of the most thoughtful suggestions of hope for the Muslim world came from Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times. He noted that other non-Western societies had also gone through periods in which they radically rejected the values of the West. Yet Asia did transform itself, beginning in Japan in the nineteenth century with the Meiji reforms. "The Islamic world today is ripe for its own Meiji period, and it should find the experience of Asia reassuring," Kristof argued. "The lesson of the Far East is that it is possible for a troubled civilization to regain its footing only by integrating sweeping change into its society, and that this embrace of modernity does no dishonor to a national heritage."10
While the kind of civilizational change Kristof suggested certainly is possible, the question of "natural heritage" is more complex in the case of Islam than with East Asian societies. For one thing, Islam is not a nation. For Muslims, honor means fidelity to divine words, not treasured traditions set among sacred mountains and streams. Also, as Kristof pointed out, Japan closed itself to the outside world for over 200 years, boiling Christians in hot springs, before the Meiji reforms. And after Meiji came the cataclysm of World War II. For both China and Japan, the path to modernity tracked twice across totalitarianism. And much of Asian heritage and beauty were lost through the process of modernization. Few who endure the drab, artificial ugliness of a modern Japanese city will wish the Meiji solution on the rest of the world with wholehearted enthusiasm.
But more importantly, what did the Golden Age of Islam, reforms in China, Japan, and India, and the European Reformation share in common? A specific and surprising common theme, to the best of each of those reforms, was the person of Jesus.
I think I am justified in speaking of Jesus as an answer to this question for two reasons, aside from my own Christian faith. First, apart from his divine status in Christianity, Jesus has shown signs of a healing touch even within Muslim culture. And second, his example and teachings have been instrumental in the reform of non-Christian cultures that have been promoted as models for Islamic reform.
A strict bifurcation between "Islam" and "Christendom" is too easily assumed. In reality, Mohammed influenced medieval Christianity. "Medieval" can almost be defined as the period of European history when the cross lay in the shadow of the crescent. When we say that such and such a Muslim regime is "medieval," we mean it resembles the West at the period when the West most resembled Islam. The war-like Germanic tribes tended to interpret even Jesus' fishermen followers as warriors: They hardly needed Mohammed to teach them to fight. But the Crusades did represent a European breakthrough of sorts, prompted by Islamic practice. Historian Edward Peters notes, "Before the late eleventh century, no one had worked out a doctrine whereby fighting itself might be considered a penitential and spiritually meritorious act."11 Moors in southern Europe and Turks in Palestine provided inspiration for the Christian discovery of such a device, with the pope plagiarizing, for example, Mohammed's promise that holy warriors go to heaven.
Muslim Interpretations of Jesus
Just as Mohammed influenced Christianity, Jesus had a deep and possibly redemptive effect on Islam, even when he was only partially understood and ambivalently accepted. Called "Messiah," or "Breath of God," Jesus is depicted in the Muslim holy book as a miracle-working messenger of God. The Qur'an emphasizes that it is "not for God to take a son." But it speaks of Jesus in strikingly exalted terms:
Like the Buddha of legend, the Quranic Jesus spoke from the cradle, answering those who rebuked Mary for her out-of-wedlock pregnancy:
The Qur'an emphasizes the kindness of Jesus:
It also depicts him as a great miracle-worker:
One Arab Christian scholar argues that the Qur'an even sets Jesus above Mohammed:
In the centuries after the birth of Islam, Muslim thinkers nursed this tradition into a core of extra-canonical teachings. Tarif Khalidi, fellow of King's College at Cambridge and director of the Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, notes that "the range and continuous growth of the Jesus corpus has no parallels among other prophets in the Muslim tradition."14 In his fascinating and elegant book, The Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature, Khalidi collected more than 300 sayings, or logia, ascribed to Jesus in the Muslim community. Many of these sayings had been collected by famous scholars: the influential pietist theologian Ahmad ibn Hanbal, and early Sufi apologist, Abu Nu'aym al Isbahani, and the naturalist and scholar Abu Uthman al-Jahiz, who influenced the early Bagdad court.
While in some of these sayings the words of Jesus could have come from a stern Mohammed, or even a Middle Eastern Confucius, in many early logia there was an emphasis on aspects of Jesus' personality and teaching that will be familiar to readers of the New Testament. Many emphasized his poverty and servant-hood: "Jesus used to prepare food for his followers, calling them to eat and wait upon them, saying: 'This is what you must do for the poor'" (logion 49). They described how he answered evil with good. Some developed the Quranic reference about Jesus bringing the dead to life through his prayers. In one apocryphal story, a woman was in hell, until she was raised to life and found salvation, thanks to Jesus. A later story reported Jesus affirming—but only in a dream—that he was crucified, contrary to Muslim dogma. Khalidi notes, "It is as if, even though he is a Muslim creation, the Islamic Jesus, once created, maintains some distance from the strict orthodoxy of his creators."15
Jesus & Islamic Culture
The Muslim empire conquered Persia, North Africa, most of Byzantium, and much of India by the sword. But having founded a mighty empire, the new community required gentler methods of social cohesion. Mohammed himself, having justified his teaching in terms of Jewish and Christian revelations, pragmatically affirmed those revelations and the people who followed them, thus allowing the basis of a multi-ethnic, pluralistic empire with room (sometimes congested) for Jews and Christians to contribute. Unlike the Huns or Franks, the Arabs began their conquests with a book in their hands, a book that affirmed other books.
Early Sufis found in Jesus a counterpoint to blind subservience to the state. Many were especially attracted to the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus-sayings provide an oracle from within Islam that contrasted with the prophet Mohammed's own example. One collected by Abu Uthman al-Jahiz spoke, for instance, against aggression:
Attacking and carrying away was precisely how the early Muslim community, under Mohammed, sponsored its vast expansion. But according to the prophet Jesus, such actions betray lack of faith. Similarly, couldn't one argue from within the Islamic Jesus tradition that the harsh enforcement of Islamic law in countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia betrays a lack of confidence in God?
The Muslim Jesus commented obliquely on family life:
Mohammed had fourteen wives. One gets a taste of harem politics from how A'isha described her husband's first wife: "Why do you have to be always remembering that toothless old Qurayshite with her red mouth? Fate made her die and God has replaced her with a better!"16 Of course, Mohammed held the trump card in domestic affairs: divine affirmation. "If he divorces you, perhaps his Lord will give him instead better wives than yourselves."17 The second-rate wives, the jealous, the complainers, would then be out the door. V. S. Naipaul has written acerbically about the effect sanctified "tom-catting rights"18 has had on families in countries like Indonesia and Pakistan:
Huntington has a point when he argues that an excess of unattached young men in the Arab world encourages violence—as it did in the time of the caliphs. Warfare was the solution then and is an obvious solution today for social unrest resulting from the rage of the "half-orphans."
The Muslim Jesus favored the poor:
Poverty, of course, does not cause violence. It is patronizing to assume the poor cannot make wise spiritual choices. In fact, many of the "best" terrorists have come from the "best" families, as did bin Laden.
Chinese philosopher Lin Yutang once described Jesus and Lao Zi as "spiritual brothers," both of whom "built their kingdom upon poverty of spirit." The same could not be said of Mohammed, who built his empire on military expansion. Even between Jesus and Lao Zi there was a difference. Showing, not telling, is the deepest form of teaching. Lin noted, "Jesus showed what [poverty of spirit] meant by washing his disciples' feet. That may be something Lao Zi planned to do, but there is no record that he ever got around to doing it."20
Jesus & India
As the early twentieth-century scholar J. N. Farquhar argued in The Crown of Hinduism, as did Vishal Mangalwadi more recently in many books, Jesus has inspired much reform in India. Indian society seems to have been fairly egalitarian, and certainly was inventive, in very ancient times. But whether due to defensiveness after Muslim invasions or to the logic of new religious doctrines such as karma and caste, Indian society grew steadily more oppressive. Lower castes and untouchables were treated as less than human. From about the sixth century, girls were married before ten years of age, often to much older men. When young upper-caste ladies were widowed, they were encouraged to throw themselves on the funeral pyre of their deceased husbands or were confined indoors for the rest of their lives.
Followers of Jesus in India, both the famous "Clapham sect" of Evangelical reformers within the British government and East India company, and missionaries like William Carey, helped to largely put a halt to the burning of widows, pioneered education for men and women, founded orphanages and homes for widows, rehabilitated lepers, and introduced education for untouchables. A Hindu newspaper described the impact of the best missionaries:
The Hindu poet, Satyendranath Datta, felt Jesus himself belonged in India:
In Modern Religious Movements of India, Farquhar described new sects that emerged in India up to the turn of the last century and beyond. He described the wide-ranging influence Jesus had on contemporary Indian religious movements, overtly (as in the Christian-influenced reform society, the Brahma Samaj) and covertly (in nationalistic reactions, like Vivekinanda's Ramakrishna Mission). He concluded that even sects that had no use for missionaries and claimed that the West knew nothing it hadn't learned from India adjusted to the Christian challenge by affirming such untraditional teachings as the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of men, social reform, missionary zeal, and, especially, the person of Jesus. He concluded: "While most of the material used in the reconstruction is old, Christian principles have guided the builders."
Jesus & China
In China, too, modernization involved, in great part, coming to grips with Jesus. The first and most radical attempt to bring China into the modern world was made by the Tai Ping cult, an eclectic and revolutionary blend of Christianity, Confucianism, and traditional Chinese spiritualism that almost overthrew the Qing Dynasty. Many of the second wave of reformers, in the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth century, considered themselves followers of Jesus, including Nationalist presidents Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kaishek, and Li Denghui.
What role did missions play in raising the status of women in China? Hu Shi, the great Chinese educator and reformer, wrote with bitter hyperbole:
The missionaries didn't learn to "look at women as people" from Marx, Rousseau, or Jefferson. They learned it from the man who spoke gently to the woman at the well, restrained men with stones in their hands, and, as scholar Walter Wink has pointed out, radically challenged the patriarchal social mores of his day in regard to women in "every single encounter with women in the four Gospels."24
Jesus & Japan
The figure of Jesus has also had a sweeping effect on Meiji and modern Japan. Christian teachings affected Japan indirectly through their influence on the West (from which Japan borrowed), more directly through missionaries (like the "American Samurai" Leroy Janes) and the students they taught, and through a remarkable and influential series of converted samurai and sons of samurai, who, in effect, took Jesus as their new feudal lord. One samurai convert, Kyoto-based educator Niijima Jo, whose students included a number of influential post-war thinkers, said, "I love Jesus more than anything else. I cast my whole self to him and try to do right before him."25
In essence, Jesus reformist movements in Japan provided reformist and highly patriotic alternatives to the Japanese version of jihad for thoughtful young samurai. The students of Niijima and other "Christian samurai" not only involved themselves in practical reforms—schools, hospitals, disaster relief and reconstruction, labor and peasant unions—they also provided a radical intellectual counterpoint to imperial absolutism.
In popular magazines, public lectures, and books by a series of essayists and novelists, followers of Jesus argued for a middle class, the autonomy of the individual, and in later years, the duty of individual Japanese to take responsibility for war crimes. University of California historian Irwin Scheimer notes:
Scheimer describes how Christianity "for the first time" allowed Japanese a sense of social identity independent of, and sometimes critical towards, the state. He quotes Motoda Sakunoshin, president of Rikkyo University in the first decade of the twentieth century:
The government, reacting against such pernicious ideas, eventually relapsed into totalitarianism, using the power of economic modernization to conquer its neighbors. With defeat, Japanese society underwent a second baptism in Christian tutelage under General McArthur (at which time Christian and Christian-influenced students of Niijima and Uchimura Kanzo became especially prominent).
A month after the attack on the World Trade Center, I met one of my Japanese students in our school library. She said she was preparing a report on women and religion. "What in particular?" I asked. "The Taliban," she said. "That's an interesting topic," I replied, innocently. "By the way, do you know how long women have been educated in Japan?" She hemmed and hawed, and guessed, "Since the war?"
In fact, improvement in the status of, and education for, women largely began with the return of Jesus to Meiji Japan. (Catholic missionaries had shown Japan a similar face of Christian compassion three hundred years before.) The Salvation Army played a major role in liberating Japanese prostitutes. Like their Lord, nineteenth-century missionaries felt that a woman who wants to learn has chosen the "better part." They introduced women's education, including the first women's college in the city of Nagasaki, where I live.
Jesus the Answer
If, as Kristof points out, the Meiji restoration brought renewal to Japanese civilization, and if Jesus played a vital role in that renewal, what is to stop him from playing an equal or even greater role in the reformation of a religion that already affirms him as "Messiah" and "Breath of God"?
The Muslim Jesus spoke of divine love:
The Christian gospel, "wherein," says the Qur'an, "is guidance and light" (5:46), shows how Jesus modeled that forgiveness. What better hope for reconciliation can there be than the example of the one who not only spoke the Sermon on the Mount (from which this logion is clearly adopted), but forgave his enemies from the Cross?
The last words spoken by the first of their followers to be martyred dramatically define the examples offered to the world by the two great Muslim prophets. Echoing the hot temper of his teacher, Khubayb ibn 'Adi, the first Muslim martyr, pointed at his enemies and thundered: "Allah! Count them well. Kill them all, one by one, and let not one escape!"28 By contrast, as Stephen was dying, he repeated the words Jesus had spoken a short time before from the Cross: "Lord, do not hold this sin against them" (Acts 7:60).
We have been reminded that Christians have not always lived up to that example. True enough. But there is no denying the impact that example ultimately had on world civilization. As Girard put it, "Jesus' victory is thus, in principle, achieved immediately at the moment of the Passion, but for most men it only takes shape in the course of a long history secretly controlled by the revelation."29 The seed of Jesus' life has taken two thousand years to take root and grow in world consciousness. Important aspects of that example have sometimes been understood more quickly by non-Europeans and even non-Christians, like Gandhi.
The greatest challenge for the Muslim world, as for other civilizations today, is to find a way to adopt the best of modern, liberal freedom, while preserving the best of true spiritual tradition. Certainly in the quest for a solution to this puzzle, Muslim reformers would be wise to look at anything that works—the Turkish model, the Malaysian model, the medieval caliphate, the East Asian model. But considering the role Jesus played in the rise of Europe, in the Meiji renewal of Japanese civilization, in China and India, and within Islam, let us not forget him. Is it unreasonable to hope, given the power the example of Jesus had in the Far East, that even qualified faith in the "Breath of God" might breathe life, not into a single Muslim woman, as in the apocryphal Muslim story, but into all of Islamic civilization?
1. The Economist, September 22, 2001.
2. Birhan Wazir, Japan Times, October 2, 2001.
3. Theresa Watanabe (Los Angeles Times), then quoting Dr. Hamid Dabashi, chair of the department of Middle Eastern Languages and Culture at Columbia, Japan Times, October 2, 2001.
4. Newsweek, December 2001–February 2002, p. 9.
5. Asahi Shimbun, September 24, 2001.
6. Asahi Shimbun, November 24, 2001.
7. Maxine Rodinson, Mohammed (Penguin, 1961), p. 167.
8. Ibid., p. 168.
9. Rene Girard, The Scapegoat (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), p. 100.
10. "Islam's Arc Is Ripe for a Meiji Period," International Herald Tribune, January 9, 2002.
11. Edward M. Peters, The First Crusade, the Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and Other Source Material (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979), p. 8.
12. This and subsequent quotations are from The Koran, translated by Arthur J. Arberry (Oxford University Press, 1955), p. 51. Chapter and verse references in parentheses are the standard references in most translations.
13. Anis A. Shorrosh, Islam Revealed: A Christian Arab's View of Islam (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1988).
14. Tarif Khalidi, The Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001), p. 29.
15. Khalidi, op. cit., p. 44.
16. Rodinson, op. cit.
17. Ibid., p. 283.
18. V. S. Naipaul, Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples (Vintage Books, 1999), p. 251.
19. Ibid., p. 95.
20. Lin Yutang, Xin Yang zhi Lu, p. 243.
21. J. N. Farquhar, The Crown of Hinduism (Oxford University Press, 1913), p. 279.
22. Vishal Mangalwadi, Missionary Conspiracy (OM Publishing, 1996), pp. 96–97.
23. Gu Weiming, Jidujiao Yu Zhongguo Shehui (Peoples' Publishing Co., 1996), p. 313.
24. Walter Wink, Naming the Powers: The Language of Power in the New Testament (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1984) p. 129.
25. Inwin Scheimer, Christian Converts and Social Protest in Meiji Japan (University of California Press, 1970), p. 146.
26. Ibid., p. 112.
27. Ibid., p. 121.
28. Rodinson, op. cit., p. 190.
29. Girard, op. cit., p. 207.
David Marshall teaches in the Multicultural Exchange department of Siebold University, a small state school in southern Japan. He is the author of Jesus and the Religions of Man and True Son of Heaven: How Jesus Fulfills the Chinese Culture (both published by Kuai Mu Press).
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High Point University's economic impact:
- Money spent at passport partners in academic year of 2012-13: $559,760
- Total number of money spent at passport partners so far in 2013: $290,350
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HIGH POINT — When a customer walks into Beamer Tire and Auto Repair, Doug Beamer can usually tell if they are a High Point University student.
They're young.
Some have Yankee accents.
Their license plates are often from out of state.
And they drive really nice cars.
It's no secret that students (OK, their parents) pay a lot of money to attend High Point University. The average tuition is about $45,000.
While there are exceptions with scholarships and other unique cases, many of these students from all over the country and the world come from wealthy families.
And many have a lot of money to spend in High Point.
In stores and restaurants around the city you'll see that purple sticker in the window that reads, "We LOVE High Point University." Bright purple HPU shade umbrellas and the purple HPU flag are spotted outside local businesses, too.
Those businesses are Passport Partners with HPU. They accept special, pre-paid cards from students and staff. Parents put money in the students' cards at the start of the school year to spend at those businesses. Last school year, more than $500,000 from those cards was spent at local businesses.
Faculty also use these cards. Sometimes they'll find a bonus from their boss on the card.
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From tanning beds and hair salons to barbecue and urgent care, there are more than 85 of these business partners all over the High Point area.
Last week, Passport business owners and employees attended an appreciation luncheon with college President Nido Qubein at HPU.
Qubein talked to the group, spotlighting HPU's impact on local businesses.
"We want our students to spend money here in High Point and support you," Qubein said.
There are about 5,500 students and employees this school year. The total payroll for HPU employees is about $90 million a year.
"That's how much access to cash you've got," Qubein told the group, adding that he encourages his staff to live in High Point.
Qubein asked the businesses to make HPU students and staff feel welcome, fly the HPU flag and build near the university.
Qubein talked about HPU's growth:
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• HPU has purchased 700 houses to make way for expansions
• In the last few years 48 buildings have been built on campus – all built by Triad companies
• HPU spent $850 million on those buildings, borrowing less than a sixth of the money
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