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POPS15 Quotes by Famous Atheists Bertrand Russell: “You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.”
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POPSUnderstanding turbans
Sikh men commonly wear a peaked turban that serves partly to cover their long hair, which is never cut out of respect for God's creation. Devout Sikhs also do not cut their beards, so many Sikh men comb out their facial hair and then twist and tuck it up into their turbans along with the hair from their heads. Muslim religious eldersoften wear a turban wrapped around a cap known in Arabic as a kalansuwa. Afghan men wear a variety of turbans. And some men in Afghanistan do not wear turbans at all, but rather a distinctive Afghan hat. Iranian leaders:The word turban is thought to have originated among Persians living in the area now known as Iran, who called the headgear a dulband. Indian men sometimes wear turbans to signify their class, caste, profession or religious affiliation The kaffiyeh is not technically a turban. It is really a rectangular piece of cloth, folded diagonally and then draped over the head Desert peoples have long used the turban to keep sand out of their fac
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POPSAtlapedia Online Atlapedia Online contains full color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
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POPSIslamic swimsuits I read in the papers that these are big in Turkey....so I decided to look it up...here's what I found...
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POPSDemystifying "modesty" I have seen most of these on women here in the UAE, I never really thought about there being any difference among them...
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POPSAkbar Ahmed: "Where Have the Gentle Voices of Islam Gone?" An editorial from 2004 by an American Muslim critiquing the current state of affairs across the Muslim world. His basic call is for a return to Islamic traditions of scholarship and open-mindedness, which he says have been squelched in contemporary Muslim societies.
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