Hugo - even you must know that just stating a name is not going to be good enough to find a book. Is this the book you are referring to as it was the only one I could find and its obviously not a text book on ethics as such - Fisher, C, (2006), Kaplan Medical USMLE Medical Ethics: The 100 Cases You are Most Likely to See on the Exam, Kaplan Test Prep, ISBN-10: 1419542095
That is the one indeed. I believe the concept of simplified ethics is what I have been advocating (high yield points for everyday use). Does your 'textbook' cover more than a hundred situation or simply drown us in technical terminology of no usage?
Hugo - who is arming anyone, books can be read or not read.
Indeed. I prefer they'd go to the correct source to read them, if for nothing else not to dump money into the pockets of occidentalists!
Hugo - so its better to have one or just a few dictating to the many? Presumably, you have never heard about Muslim crusades - for example into Spain and Tunisa? If you want to talk about oppression do a little study on Iran or Sudan. Have a look at "We are Iran" ISBN 1-84627-001-4.
Muslims have done nothing but liberate others and were actually invited in by the Visigoths to ward off oppression... Presumably you haven't read
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain (Paperback) ISBN-10: 0316168718
or
Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus (Paperback)
ISBN-10: 0582495156
or BESA…When Muslims Saved Jews
By Dina Rabie, IOL Staff
"They came in as guests. They were given Muslim names, they were living with Muslim families," Gershman told IOL.
CAIRO — Norman Gershman has become accustomed to the reactions from people who see his photos and read his stories about Muslims sheltering Jews and saving their lives during the Holocaust. "I had people say 'Muslims save Jews! How is that?'" the American Jewish fine art photographer told IslamOnline.net in a telephone interview.
Gershman has been engaged in a 5-year project that honors stories of Albanian Muslims' heroism in saving thousands of Jews, who either lived in Albania or sought refugee there, during World War II.
The "BESA… a code of honor" project began when he was seeking out photographs of righteous, non-Jews who helped Jews during the Holocaust, in New York.
Gershman was amazed to find among them Muslim names that he was told belongs to Albanians.
His quest then took him to Yad Vashem, the holocaust museum in Jerusalem, where he found more Albanian names.
"I traveled all through Albania and Kosovo where I met the rescuers' children, who are in their sixties or even older, the rescuers' widows, and in some cases the rescuer himself."
After more than four years of collecting stories and shooting black and white photos, Gershman's first exhibition was held last November at Yad Vashem.
The exhibition then went the UN headquarter in New York before starting a world tour.
A full length documentary is in progress along with a fine art book of the heroic profiles of Muslims saving Jews in Albania and Kosovo.
The premier of the film worldwide is expected in 2009.
"I am proud and happy to show this story to the world," Gershman says
Qur'anic BESA
Albanian Muslims saved Jews from the Nazis "to go to paradise."
People usually ask Gershman about the title he chose for the fruit of his painstaking five-year efforts.
"BESA is a tribal Albanian culture that goes back to thousands of years," he explains.
"What BESA says is that if some one knocks on your door you have an absolute obligation – no matter who that person is – to save their lives."
There is no any evidence that any Jew was turned over to Nazis in Muslim-majority Albania.
There were ten times more Jews in Albania after WWII than before.
"In fact, Albania is the only Nazi occupied country that sheltered Jews," says Gershman.
"They came in as guests. They were given Muslim names, they were living with Muslim families."
From the saviors' tales, Gershman found that Albanian Muslims considered BESA a manifestation of the Islamic teachings of keeping the promise and protecting the weak.
"I remember that some of them said 'there is no BESA without the Qur'an.'"
Gershman believes that to Muslim Albanians, the idea of not saving Jews from the Nazis was inconceivable.
"They did this in the name of their religion. They absolutely had no prejudice what so ever.
"I asked them 'why did you do this? What was in the Qur'an that you did this?' They would only smile.
"Some of them said 'we have saved lives to go to paradise.'"
Message to West
Gershman believes the Albanian Muslim heroism is of extraordinary significance.
"In one way it's a small story because we are not talking about hundreds of thousands of people being saved. But it's an important story," he insists.
"It says that there are good people in the world, and they come from every religion."
Gershman says believes that the stories of Albanian religious tolerance left a legacy that runs in the face of stereotyped portrayal of Muslims.
"My message to the Western world is that there are so many good people in the world and so many of them are Muslims," he maintains.
"If you see my pictures and the stories, there is no question that these are good people.
"I defy if anybody sees my pictures, especially in the West, and say that these people are militants or supporters of violence."
The Jewish American, who has studied Sufism, says Islam is not what many Westerners think.
"To me Islam is poetry, is science, is to be with the divine. Islam is beauty."
but, there is no surprise, I personally find you very under-educated, it is a wonder to me at all, you are handing out book advise!
Hugo - the word was threat not thread.
my humble apologies.. replace the D with a T and the statement I have made is still pertinent!
Hugo - How can one decide that it is stagnant or obsolete or where you talking about Islam. One can hardly be current if it has all been decided by the Salaf's
stagnant and obsolete is really akin more with Christianity than Islam -- if the Islam of 7th century Arabia were practiced today with the same fidelity, the Muslim world wouldn't be in this bind.. after ruling 395 yrs the curtains fell for the Sassanid dynasty in a matter of days to Khalid ibn ilwaleed... Muslims acquired three and a half million square miles to the new born Muslim empire, what is now the middle east in a matter of days, contrast that with 'the chosen' maze in a desert of 100 mile for forty yrs, or the joke that is christianity with its Greek Mythology. The choice is obvious as to what is obsolete and what isn't!
Hugo - is there anything outside these two areas?
Is that a rhetorical questions?
Hugo - I don't follow this. How does one define a devout Muslim and why should no one else be allowed to comment? If its a matter of personal devotion then I largely agree with you. But outside of that NO. If you had the power would you make that a law? You have just defined oppression.
I believe I have said you are allowed to comment, your comments are to be firmly rejected. The same way one rejects any psychobabble. You have no supporting evidence whatsoever to what you write. And when you cement your opinion you don't do it based on facts, but on title. And that frankly means Jack!
unlike science, history is a done deal and not open to re-interpretation.. and even with in science itself folks are allowed to amend their beliefs on matters. You quote morons who quote other morons, and neither agree with the other's opinion.. the bottom line is always to malign and disassemble Islam and Muslims, and to properly disseminate incorrect info. to provincial fools such as yourself who fancies himself learned after posting a thread about a book or two. In the end all come out abysmally stupid like Puin who denied the findings that Lester attributed to him!
Hugo - if I am objectionable its because in this Board I have been taught by a master.
Doesn't it bother you, that even with you are so mediocre at doing it?
Hugo - they allow it because Islamic countries are backward and do not have the staff or resources to do it. I recently heard the Minster for Education in the UAE say "we are educationally 3rd rate". People go because they are invited and because they have something to give to share and treated as honoured guests. We admit it because we feel indebted because although we give they give back to us in hospitality, respect and love.
They are third rate because so they choose to be, and are under the impression that when they find a bit of resources, they can squander it on W hores and fundies.. they force their own to leave to the west and when Muslims come to the west, this is what happens:
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Middle Eastern immigrants were highly educated, with 49 percent holding at least a bachelor's degree, compared to 28 percent of natives.
Median earnings for Middle Eastern men were $39,000 a year compared to $38,000 for native workers.
they tend to be better-educated than native U.S. residents — about half hold bachelor's degrees, compared to 28 percent of natives. They also perform as well economically as natives — 30- and 40-year-old Middle Eastern males with a college education have the same median income as natives, and Middle East immigrants are more likely be self-employed.
Middle Eastern Immigrants in U.S. Educated, Prosperous, Study Says
Gannett News Service, August 15, 2002
(Also ran in Arizona Republic - 8/15)
WASHINGTON — Middle Eastern immigrants in the United States are well educated, earn more money than most Americans and are predominantly Muslim, according to a report released Wednesday.
They also are among the nation's fastest-growing immigrant groups, according to the report issued by the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, a think tank that supports reducing the number of immigrants to the United States.
The report says the number of Middle Eastern immigrants increased from fewer than 200,000 in 1970 to almost 1.5 million in 2000. The overall number of foreign-born residents in the United States tripled to 31 million over the same period.
The report offers a rare portrait of an immigrant group that has received intense scrutiny and negative publicity since the Sept. 11 attacks.
Project MAPS, a survey of "Muslims in the American Public Square" conducted in 2001-2002 by researchers at Georgetown University, found that 86 percent of all Muslim professionals were concentrated in three careers: engineering, computer science, and medicine. Law, law enforcement, and politics accounted for a minuscule 0.6 percent. American Muslims, some demographers say, have also been voting well below their numbers in the population -- registering to vote at only half the national rate, according to the 2001 American Religious Identification Survey [PDF], a project of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. "If they ever did play to their weight" in the electoral arena and in Washington, Muslims "would be a much more considerable force in public policy-making," says Steve Clemons, a Democrat who directs the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation in Washington.
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/p...ab_America.pdf
http://www.cis.org/articles/2002/mideastcoverage.html
if they'd let go of inviting your ilk, and return to Islam, perhaps they would regain their lost children as well return the glory of what they formerly had!
Then you shall have it soon enough
all the best