why was sufism created in greece?
sufism: wisdom of all faiths - sufi inayat khan. the word sufi comes from a persian word meaning wisdom. from the original root many derivations can be traced; among them the greek word sophia is one of the most interesting. wisdom is the ultimate power. in wisdom is rooted religion, which connotes law and inspiration.
yes. theodor herzl was a self proclaimed atheist. in fact, he hated judaism and religious jews. below is a list of his quotes along with information on him: 

words of theodor hertzel (the father of zionism) and other zionist leaders 

theodor hertzlthe term "zionism" was first introduced in 1893 by nathan birmbaum, but theodor hertzel, an austrian jew born to a prosperous, emancipated budapest family, is recognized as the founder of the zionist idealogy when he published his book in 1896, "the jewish state", where he declared that the cure for anti-semitism was the establishment of a jewish state. as he saw it, the best place to establish this state was in palestine. 

while hertzel claimed that the establishment of a "jewish" state would cure anti-semitism, he also promoted anti-semitism to further his cause.

quotes from hertzel and other zionists demonstrate their philosophy and the lengths to which they are willing to go to accomplish their goals:
 
in the diary of hertzel, page 14, he writes a way to solve the problem of anti-semitism was to speak to the head priest of vienna to get an appointment with the pope, to make a mass conversion of all the jews of austria to catholicism. he continues: "it should be done on a sunday, in the middle of the day, with music, and pride, publicly. we are the last generation that held on to the faith of our for-fathers. the conversion would be in st. stephen's cathedral." (how could you honor a jew that wanted to abolish judaism?) 
in the bi-weekly diary, "temurah", no.2, pg. 12-13, "i didn't circumsize my son hans, and this will bring the geula closer." 
ibid. "simple goyim are better than rabbis, and the highest are the goyish priests." 
in his article "deutche tsytung newspaper" hertzel writes: "the jews make countries fight each other and when they want, make peace. but whatever happens, they get rich from this." (hitler said this also). 
diary, page 16: "antisemitism helps to build this kind of jew, education that will bring to assimilation." 
diary, page 68: "an idea rose on my heart to bring on anti-semitism and to obliterate jewish wealth. 
in the book "hertzel", this is a quote: "i bless every jew that converts to christianity and my son, the sooner the better, to save him from anti-semitism. 
after the dreyfus affair, hertzel saw the engraned jew hatred and that the goyim would not accept the jews with open arms, then he came up with zionism, after being convinced by the british goyim on the land of israel. he himself originally wanted other lands, one of them being argentina. 
in his book, "altnoyland", "its understood that i have to remember (or mention) to discard negative jewish things, like the yiddish language and observing mitzvos." 
doctor amnun raz kavkotzikin -- historian at the university of ben gurion says: "the country of hertzel is a western european anti-eastern (sephardic) and anti-religious." 
chaim chassas, in the newspaper of the zionist's, ha'arutz, 1943, "zionism and judaismm is not one thing but two different things. and of course two contradicting one another. zionism starts at the place where judaism is destroyed...one thing is certain, zionism is not a continuation or healing of wounded judaism, but rather an uprooting." 
doctor tom shagav, historian and newspaper writer, "zionism saw itself as competition as to religion, to define a jew without torah. a zionist could be a jew without any faith, even a kofer." 
doctor faul shaul landau, the personal secretary of hertzel, saw to it that all of hertzel's writings were published against the will of the other zionists who feared the open anti-semitic element of his writings. 
zev japotinsky in his article "outside the camp", in the newspaper "chadashot haaretz" 22/10/1919: "in the national home we will announce that those jews who have on themselves the rust of gulles, and deny to shave off their beards and payos will be 2nd class citizens and will not have the right to vote." 
ben gurion, in his book "yehudi ve' od", "the disapora is ending and everyone is coming, this still does not make a nation but a mixed multitude and dust of man, without a language and education, without roots. to change dust of man to a cultured nation is not an easy job." 
ben gurion: "if i could save all the children of germany by bringing them to england and only half to israel, i would choose the second." 
yoel bronde/eichman offered him a deal to save a million jews for money and the sochnute decided not to, and they were murdered. 
wusshishkin, head of the jewish national fund in the 1920's (there is a street named after him in jerusalem), "what's the difference between jews getting killed in the diaspora and the land of israel? they [of the disapora] are sacrifices of a dying nation. there was no purpose in their death, just like there was no purpose in their life. not so with the sacrifices in our land, we look at them with pride." 
yitzchak greenbaum, zionist responsible for because they had a huge hold on the agriculture at the time. mainly tobacco and cotton. why do you hate other races user the differences between sunni and shī‘ah sects of islam started out as political over a dispute of who should become the leader after muhammad's death. over time, differences have evolved in theological issues as well as socio‑political attitudes. 

immediately following the death of muhammad in 632 c.e., the issue of who would become his successor caused a major rift. ali and aisha are the central figures at the origin of the shī‘ah-sunni split. muhammad's daughter fatima married ali, her father's first cousin. ali was opposed by aisha, muhammad's child-bride who was the daughter of abu bakr. 

the term shī‘ah ( شيعة‎) is a shortened form of shī‘aht ali (شيعة علي) , which means "the followers of ali" - and at the time of ali's death in 661 c.e., that is probably all it was: a party or tendency of people who supported ali's claims to the caliphate. shī‘ah do not worship ali as some people mistakenly believe. shī‘ah feel that ali should have been the first caliph and that the caliphate should pass down only to direct descendants of mohammed via ali and fatima, they often refer to themselves as ahl al bayt or "people of the house" [of the prophet]. sunni ( سني) comes from sunna ( سنة) the arabic word meaning traditions of the prophet. sunni are also referred to as ahl ul-sunna wa-l-jama'ah (arabic: أهل السنة والجماعة) (people of tradition and congregation) which implies that the sunni are united. shī‘ah sects include twelvers, ismaili, alawi and zaidiyyah.

beliefs "aqeedah" ( عقيدة) —
sunni have two sets of enumerated creeds, the six articles of belief and the five pillars of islam. on the other hand, shī‘ah twelvers have the roots of religion and the branches of religion. 

the six sunni articles of belief (see shi'ah roots) are:
o- tawhīd ( توحيد) (monotheism) allah is the one and only one worthy of all worship. 
o- nubuwwah (prophethood) and rusul (messengers) sent by allah. 
o- kutub (books) allah (including the qur'an) 
o- mala'ika (angels) 
o- qiyâmah (يوم القيامة) (day of resurrection and judgment) (qur'an 71.18) (qur'an 31.34, 74.47) (qur'an 72.130) (qur'an 74.9) (qur'an 74.38)
o- qadar (fate) 

the five shī‘ah "usūl al-dīn" (roots of religion) are: 
o- tawhīd ( توحيد) (monotheism) allah is the one and only one worthy of all worship. (tawhid is derived from the root a,h,d = one)
o- nubuwwah (prophethood)
o- adalah (justice)
o- imāmah (leadership)
o- qiyâmah (يوم القيامة) (day of judgment)
(qur'an 71.18) (qur'an 31.34, 74.47) (qur'an 72.130) (qur'an 74.9) (qur'an 74.38).

the sunni five pillars of islam:
o- shahādah (testimony of faith)
o- salāt (prayer) 5 times per day
o- sawm (fasting during daylight hours of the month of ramadan) (qur'an 2:183-185)
o- zakāt (alms of 2.5%) - khums (the charity of 20%)
o- hajj (pilgrimage to mecca) 

the twelve shī‘ah "furū al-dīn" (branches of religion) are: 
o- salāt (prayer) includes shahādah (testimony of faith) with belief in ali (3-5 times per day)
o- sawm (fasting during daylight hours of the month of ramadan) (qur'an 2:183-185)
o- zakāt (poor-rate) khums (one-fifth)
o- hajj (pilgrimage to mecca) 
o- jihād جهاد‎ (struggle to please allah) 
o- walayah - guardianship
o- taharah - purity & cleanliness
o- amr-bil-ma'rūf (enjoining what is good) 
o- nahi-anil-munkar (forbidding what is evil) 
o- tawalla (loving ahl al-bayt and their followers ) 
o- tabarra (disassociating from the enemies of the ahl al-bayt) 

kutub given to prophets by allah 
o- sahífa (scroll revealed to nuh)
o- sahífa (scroll revealed to ibráhím)
o- taurat (the book revealed to músa)
o- zabúr (the psalms revealed to dawúd)
o- injíl (the gospel revealed to 'isa)
o- qur'án (the koran revealed to muhammad)

the sunni shahada is:
لا إله إلا الله ومحمد رسول الله lā 'ilāha 'illā llāha wa muhammadun rasūlu llāhi
the shi'ah shahada is:
la iláha il alláh, muhammadan rasúl alláh, 
-- and the phrase -- alíyun walí-alláh, wasíyu rasulillah, wa khalífa tuhu bila fasl.
"there is no god but alláh, muhammad is the messenger of alláh, alí is the friend of alláh. ali is the successor of the messenger of allah and his first caliph."

ashura ( عاشوراء‎) - 10th of muharram (january 29, 2007):
the 1st of muharram is new year's day, and with it marks the beginning of the islamic (hijri) calendar. both sunni and shī‘ah celebrate new year. shī‘ah practice maatam (self-flagellation) is practiced on ashura, the 10th of muharram, in a mourning ritual for hussain ibn ali. sunni consider this to be haram (forbidden).

since the 10th century, a distinctive institution of shī‘ah islam is the doctrine of "imamah" and "`ismah" (the spiritual leadership of the twelve imams and their infallibility) the other dogmata developed still later. shī‘ah argue that a person prone to errors of judgement and sin cannot lead people spiritually. on the other hand, sunni consider an imam to be merely a prayer leader. 

sunni recognize four "madhab" (مذهب pl. مذاهب ) schools of legal thought. the founder is called the "muhaddith".
--o hanafi (founded by an numan ibn thabit abu hanifa ca. 700-67 c.e.) 
--o maliki (founded by abd allah malik ibn anas ca. 715-95 c.e.) 
--o shafi'i (founded by muhammad ibn idris ash-shafi`i 767-820 c.e.) 
--o hanbali (founded by ahmad ibn muhammad bin hanbal 780-855 c.e.) 

shī‘ah generally follow 
--o jafri (founded by ja'far ibn muhammad ibn ali ibn husayn)

sunni accepted "ijtihad" as an important source of legislation, but they had practically blocked the road for any original thinking on the matters of reframing the laws in accordance with changing times. the shī‘ah, with their emphasis on "`aql", kept the door of new thinking on legislation open, and they gave much scope to reason for exercising its power. similarly the notion of "ijma`" (consensus), which was emphasized much by the sunnis and was given only a very minor role to play in legislation by the shī‘ah, came to be accepted as the basis of democratization by shī‘ah scholars.

so far as the justification of "taqiyyah" (dissimulation) is concerned, the islamic scholar amini admits that the sunni also follow it for it is an expedient method to ensure the survival of a faith under hostile regimes. 

according to the islamic scholar, hamid enayet, sunni believe in the inherent goodness of man, whereas shī‘ah believe that man is essentially sinful and carries a sense of guilt. 

shī‘ah divorce and inheritance in that it is more favorable to women than sunni practice. supposedly the reason for this is the high esteem in which fatima, the wife of ali and the daughter of muhammad, was held. shī‘ah recognize the practice of "muttah" ( نكاح المتعة‎ ) (fixed-term temporary marriage) which the sunni forbid.

on a practical daily level, the "adhan" (call to prayer) is different for shī‘ah and sunni. each practice wudu (partial ablutions) ghusl (full ablutions for friday prayer) and salat (prayer) differently. during salat when prostrating, shī‘ah place the forehead onto a piece of hardened clay from karbala, not directly onto the prayer mat, whereas sunni put their forehead directly on the prayer mat. during prayer, shī‘ah hold their hands at their sides whereas sunni fold their hands. shī‘ah tend to combine prayers, sometimes worshipping three times per day instead of five as the sunni do. 

shī‘ah also have some different ahadith and prefer those narrated by ali and fatima to those related by other companions of the prophet. because of her opposition to ali, those narrated by aisha count among the least favored. 

these differences are significant as evidenced by the conflict between sunni and shī‘ah in iraq.

significant differences are also in manner of dress for clerics, slightly different postures for prayer and differences regarding belief in the "mahdi" (divinely guided one of endtimes) and "dajjal" (antichrist). 

other differences are because of the culture in the country where they live. iran is predominantly shī‘ah and many of the clerics in iraq were trained in iran. almost all iranians were sunni for many centuries, and they embraced the shī‘ah faith on mass scale only after safawids came in power (1502 c.e.) 

in 1928, four years after the abolishment of the caliphate, the egyptian schoolteacher hasan al-banna founded the first islamic fundamentalist movement in the sunni world, the muslim brotherhood (al-ikhwan al-muslimun). al-banna was appalled by "the wave of atheism and lewdness [that] engulfed egypt" following world war i.

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. stalin was a duplicitous dictator who sought world domination. and that would come at the expense of western capitalist nations including the us and european nations. the ussr exported terrorism and espionage all over the world. and it continued to build up its armed forces and acquire nuke weapons after wwii ended.

it was clear the soviet union was preparing to undermined and acquire western nations by force as soon as it could. it already showed its stripes by acquiring the balkan states and eastern germany right after the war. that's when the us and europe formed nato, with the major aim at preventing stalin from carrying out his plans for world domination.

and that began the cold war. aristotle's understanding of happiness is similar to maslow's.

aristotle calls it eudaimonia (roots include eu, good, and daimon, supercharged activity; "demon" is a pejorative derivative). maslow calls it self-actualization.

both have the understanding that there are form/species-specific design needs, and that fulfilling of these (maslow terms it hierarchy of needs) fulfills the excellence, or virtue, of a form/-type. (aristotle views human mind as perceiver of forms, which are with and distinct from objects. forms present a type of dialectic dynamic, regarding causes as the in-forming dynamic which changes/morphs one form into the next, like some screen savers where cubes morph into spheres, etc.)

in a sense, aristotle and maslow both recognize that happiness is more than endorphin rushes; i.e., happiness is an endorphin rush per fulfilling one's reason for being, rather than simply a "sugar high" or "cheap thrill."

"a philosophy of universality," o. m. aivanhov;
"the path of the higher self," mark prophet. haven't you seen the news? egypt is in turmoil. it has an islamic fundamentalist government who are determined to turn the country into more thirld world than it was before. teaching english won't be high on their agenda! god is not responsible for dong more harm than satan. if it were not for satan, the people would not have left god and followed him. 
the people obeyed satan rather than god because satan made everything look so wonderful, and fun and the people liked it.

god hates sin. he gave the people every opportunity to quit sinning and obey him but they wouldn't listen. sodom and gomorrah were so wicked and the people would not listen and obey god. god hates sin, he told them that he would destroy them if they didn't turn from their wicked ways but they would not listen. so god destroyed both cities. who's fault was it? not god's he told them what he was going to do.

noah preached to the people to give up there wicked ways. he preached the whole time he was building the ark but they would not listen. they were given every opportunity. but then the day came and the only righteous people were noah and his family and they were the only humans that were saved from the flood.

who's fault was this, not god's for he warned them of the coming flood and ask them to worship god and obey him. they chose not to for they didn't want to give up their wicked ways. so god kept his promise and destroyed everyone except noah and his family. 

if you blame god for the death of these people, you are blaming the wrong one. god wanted them to change their way of life they just didn't want to. Because it empowers men. Keeps men from being the puppet and asking women for approval on being a man. MGTOW teaches men the dirty little secret about women and how they perpetrate a lie that insists that if you constantly give to women they will respect you... No, that's how you get used.   

  

MGTOW teaches men to think for themselves and nevermind what women think of them because women hate not being able to label a man and control him. thanks to MGTOW we now have a forum where we can join forces and choose to be her slave or be our own man and walk with our head high with pride... Even if that means being alone. i like my chances better than being with a woman who may be here to day and gone the next.   

  

i don't need women. i only need my wits. my pride opens more doors and has also illuminated my inner strength to resist the temptation of the dragon female and her puppet sorcery.  countries of europe o germany  82 million people  initially was made up several tribes, royal families  unified late 1800s early 1900s  was divided after wwii  west germany = part of europe, democratic  east germany = ussr, communist  contains 16 states  highly urbanized  89% of the population  a leader in europe : manufactoring/economic stability  largest economy of europe  has the autobahn (interstate system) o france  64 million people  oldest state in europe  urban  paris 2.2 million people  contains the highest mountain in europe  mount blanc  huge in agriculture (biggest producer in europe)  cattle, grapes, cheese  known for  rich food  architecture  art o great britain  uk  62.7 million people  regions:  england, scotland, wales, northern ireland  surrounded by water:  north sea, english channel, and the atlantic ocean  the us's strongest ally  national dish:  chicken tikka masala  prominent religion  protestant o ireland  highest growing economy in the eu  uses the euro  gained independence form the uk in 1921 
  conflict between the catholics and protestants  irish republican army (ira)  english and gaelic are the national languages  strong irish influence in america  new york  boston  chicago o italy  60.5 million people  major states or regions  tuscany, milan, venice, piedmont  rich urbanized north  poor rural south  sicily is very poor and underdeveloped  origin of la cosa nostra (sicilian mafia)  milan-turin-genoa triangle  heavy manufacturing  milan is the largest city in italy o "rock" of gibraltar  2.6 sq mile area (peninsula iberian)  south spain  owned by britain  surrendered by spain in 1713 (via the war of the spanish succession)  one of the most densely populated areas in the world  12,840 people per square mile  official language is english  important militarily and economically  access to the mediterranean sea from the atlantic  recent events in ukraine o major divisions after the cold war o country divided politically  east = pro russia  west = pro europe o russia needs access to the ocean and resources  military and economic factor… o babushkas of chernobyl  self-settlers  wildlife  returning in force  invisible enemy  women who were children during stalin's reign.  starvation  stalin burned down cities and towns along with all of the agriculture. 
  lived through wwii with the nazi's.  concentration camps or forced labor.  relationships do not equal causation  the world health organization says 4000 deaths while green peace says 10000 deaths.  the women are out living the men because the men are drinking and smoking, across the world it is more accepted for a man to drink and smoke than it is for a woman.  in that case you have higher numbers of men drinking and smoking and dying from that instead of the radiation poisoning.  the town was built around chernobyl.  the people who were relocated seem to be dying sooner than the ones who came back. o russia is the biggest country by land area. o you can see alaska from russia, only 4km between the two. o physical geography  sw russia desert  main area of settlement near moscow  cannot connect to any waterways.  caspian sea o 4 regions  russian core  majority of the population  siberia  freezing  where people would be exiled  eastern frontier  desert section  separation between siberia and frontier is climate and culture  far east  not many settlements  hard to navigate the land o approximately 75% of russia is siberia has far as land area o a majority of the population lives in the russian core and the eastern frontier o physical russian geography  russian plain  west of the ural mountains; moscow (core of russia)  ural mountains (2000 miles long)  low relief mountain chain separating east/west russia  western siberia (constant elevation) 
  flat plains and forests  central siberia  moderate mountains; very cold (artic circle)  eastern highlands (mostly the yakutski basin)  one of the most remote places on earth o climate  sw desert  russian core humid continental (northern midwest into canada)  majority is subarctic. (freezing)  tundra only has a few centimeters a year that is thawed for a limited amount of time. o interesting facts about russia  continentally has a huge impact on russia's climate  similar to the upper mid-west and canada  economy is rising  it depends heavily on oil  becoming increasingly more "modern" and "western"  red square  a city square block where the government is housed  misconceptions  not called red square because it is called a communist country  not because the buildings are red  it is because the language has evolved.  used to be the slums until the 1400s o the soviet union  u.s.s.r. (cccp)  union of soviet socialistic republics  formed in 1917 after the bolshevik revolution  most citizens were very poor, unhapy with autocratic tsar systerm  industrial revolution was occuring in europe = caused  a federation of power  split of power with no true ruler  russification: the idea of replacing ethnic  areas with russians; ethnic groups moved east  command economy: a system where the government assigns sectors of production to particular areas with disregard to economic o spread of the soviet influence  after wwii, communism spread into eastern europe  china and korea 1950s  cuba in 1959 with castro 
  se asia in 1954  africa in 1970s  created tensions with the us and europe  cold war  agriculture cut off by ukraine o space race  1957 soviet union  1958 us  1965 france  1970 japan  1970 china  1971 uk  1979 esa  1980 india o post-soviet union  the russian federation  becoming more "european" culturally and politically  only 3 men have been president in the past 22 years  yeltsin  putin  medvedev  putin (again)  test april 12th o eastern europe(balkans & ukraine, rock of gibraltar) o sub-sahara africa o north africa  map quiz 6 o east asia and russia  monday 4/11 -friday 4/15  spread of religion o oldest religion  hinduism o abraham was born  ur o fastest spreading religion  islam o islam is a religion, muslim's follow islam  ddt in africa: malaria v. health risks o ethical concern  protection of the diversity of wildlife v. malaria victims dying in africa o tuberculosis is mainly in the north o diarrheal diseases due to unclean water  north africa and the middle east o interesting facts 
  the middle east is known as the "crossroads of the world" because it lies in between asia, africa and europe  hence the name "middle"  the term "arab" refers to an ethnic group not a religion  not all arabs are muslims  this confusion also exists with judaism  naswa an acronym for north africa/south-west asia  iran is the former persian empire  very large portion of the population is under 30  educated  unemployed o original three abrahamic faith  judaism (first abrahamic religions)  christianity  islam  monotheistic  the belief in one god o populations  egypt= nile river  turkey= black sea and mediterranean sea  iran= caspian sea and persian gulf  north africa = mediterranean sea  majority of populations live near water because of the dry climat o the birthplace of civilization  birthplace of man is ethiopia  fertile crescent = mesopotamia = between two rivers  neolithic = 10,000 years ago humans began to domesticate plants and animals, learned to irrigate their fields and grow the population  birthplace of many foundational concepts:  maps  60 minutes per hour; 24 hours per day  trigonometry  early medicine  irrigation  written text  the egyptian empire  highly advanced  second oldest language  hieroglyphics  writing paper, irrigation, domestication of wheat  sailing  architecture, masonry (pyramids)  polytheistic and belief of an afterlife 
  kings were called paharos  sun god rah  oil in naswa  saudi arabia number 1 oil producers in the world and the us's biggest alli in the middle east  began in iran  majority of the oil was found after ww2  opec  orgainzation of petroleum exporting countries  created to try to not have a monoply  8 naswa countries  can cause high prices for those who don't have oil  results of opec  has totally transformed the middle east since the 1960s  positives  urban transformation  infrastructure investments  industrialization  foreign investment and involvement  negatives  variable income  regional disparities  migration from other realms  nasaw dynamic  fragmented modernization  many issues in the middle east and north america  wealth disparities  most naswa people are poor, not rich  typical iranian makes $10,840 usd a year  qatar citizen makes $103,900 usd a year  religion differences internally (shia v. sunnis) and externally (christianity/judaism)  old autocratic government leaders and young populations = cultural issues  arab spring (2010-present)  started with a fruit vender. couldn't sale his fruit so in protest he set himself on fire, dying a few weeks later  spread quickly through social media  two things in common  old rulers who have been there for a long time  young, well-educated, unemployed population  cultural regions of the middle east 
  30 countries  6 regions  egypt and the lower nial = the heart  the maghred (sahara)  the middle east  largely islamic  the arabian peninsula = richest oil  the empire states = iran and turkey  turkestan  transition zone  african tz is the primary area where the sunni and the shia are having problems  egypt  suez canal  get the oil out  saudi arabia  desert  iran  iranian revolution in 1979