RELI 160D2 1st Edition Lecture 16 Outline of Last Lecture I The Sha ah A Mohammad Almahdi II The Sunnis A The Hajj B Ka ba Outline of Current Lecture I Jihad II Kurds A Saddam Hussein III Baghdad IV Nation of Islam A Wallace D Ford Muhammad Current Lecture Salmon Rushdie Wrote The Satanic Verses in 1988 Almost got him killed Jihad The greater Jihad is within yourself Fighting off temptations given by Satan Three conditions of the Jihad Violence must be proportional to the attack Innocent civilians should not be targeted Jihad must be declared by the ruler of the state Studied show that very few Muslims support all the killing Kurds They re not Arab they re Indo European They re Muslim Kurdistan Includes Northern Iraq Western Iran Eastern Turkey lots of Kurds Northeastern Syria Been fighting for independence since the end of WWI with very little success Population is 13 million 20 of the population in Iraq is Kurd Population of Iraq is 26 million Population of Iran is 68 million 89 of them are Sha ah 10 Sunni Saddam Hussein killed 100 thousand Kurds in 1988 Took mustard gas and killed villagers Rosary 99 beads representing the 99 names of God Seems clear that catholic church picked up on that Baghdad Founded in 762 A D on a very major trade route Cultural political center of Islam in the East So was Cordova Spain in the West Destroyed by a Mongol invasion in 1258 A d Rebuilt in 1340 and sacked by Tunisia in 1393 Ottoman Turks took over the city in 1638 and from that time on it has great importance Kerbala In 680 A D Husayn whose parents were Ali and Fatima the daughter of Muhammad was martyred here Moors In Latin means Dark complexioned Wahhabis Come out of Saudi Arabia and they re super powerful It s a conservative movement The founder is Muhammad Ibn Al Wahhab Married daughter of Muhammad Ibn Sa ud Wahhabism has not spread throughout the Muslim world Rejects the idea of saints Nation of Islam Started in Michigan Wallace D Fard Muhammad the Great Mahdi Rejected christianity and said Islam is the route everyone should take Blacks should withdraw from white society Called the whites Blue Eyed Devils Morally inferior Replaced by Elijah Muhammad Stressed black pride self sufficiency strong family values Forbid gambling alcohol drugs and eating pork Thought Wallace D Fard was God God was a black man Did not observe five pillars of Islam Malcolm X the X is for being an ex slave
View Full Document
Unlocking...