Sectarianism

slamic is one of the regions where people are restricted in terms of their dress code, social responsibilities and expectations. Most people agree that with the idea that Muslims should aim to become better individuals and this also applies to the individual in other religions; everyone should aim to better. The Quran is available for all Muslims to read, understand and follow the teachings. Muslims are no doubt the inheritors of vibrant and rich history. However, the strengths, flows and…

Since the beginning of time, atheists and devout worshipers have debated the necessity of religion, and, like Karl Marx, the atheists argued religion hindered the human population more than it helped it. All throughout history and into today, religiously motivated people have created more strife, violence, and discrimination than positive influences. Because religion offers people a sense of comfort in our expanding, unforgiving universe, they often commit their entire lives to and base their…

The seminar titled ‘Democratic Modernity: Alternative Ideas of Nationhood and Women’s Liberation in the Rojava Model’ was organized by ‘Karl Polany Research Center of Global Social Studies’ on 5th December 2017 at Sault House of Corvinus University of Budapest. Dilar Dirik and Sercan Cinar were the speakers of the event. Dilar Dirik who is an activist of the kurdish women's movement based in Europe writes on Kurdistan for an international audience. She discussed about Rojava model and the…

Since the beginning of mankind, people have been moving. People were originally nomads and hunters and gathers. To Salman Rushdie, moving seems as a natural and beneficial thing. He is a writer who left India and moved to England, calls the “effect of mass migrations” as being “the creation of radically new types of human being: people who root themselves in ideas rather than places”. Scott Russell Sanders responded to Rushdie’s claim in Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World, in which…

A Powerful Government and Its Hopeless Citizens The struggling people of a country reflects the role of a totalitarian government. Syria has become a divided country because the president, Bashar al-Assad, has done little to nothing to unify and help his people. There has been an emergence of an ethnical divide to overthrow the government because the majority of the country—Sunnis—wants a democracy, while the opposing side—Shiites—is staying loyal to Bashar and the government. The downfall of…

Formative Events in United States History During the formative period of American history, there are three large events that stand out in comparison to the rest in the way they affected the nation as a whole. Without the revolution, America would not have begun. Without the expansion to the west, the United States would not be the large size that it is today, and would not be able to have such a large and growing population. Finally, without the Civil War, the nation may still have slavery as a…

The Great Awakening swept America as a major religious movement. The colonists felt that as the colonies matured they began to lose their religion, which spurred the movement. The American colonies were in disarray with neither the Southern, Middle, nor Northern colonies having much of their culture in common. The Puritan faith dominated much of the New England colonies, the Church of England had much authority over the South, and the Middle colonies were overrun with a variety of congregations…

The Iraq War and how it has affected the Middle East Globalization is a force that affects almost every person on the planet in one way or another; weather it’s through trade and diplomacy or through cultural exchanges. Iraq has experienced a large increase in the amount of attention it has been receiving in past years as it struggles out of one war into another conflict. This attention has increased the amount of interaction Iraq has with the rest of the world and these interactions have left…

In Stephen Prothero’s Religious Literacy, the author gives us an insight into the controversy of teaching religion in United States’ public schools. Prothero’s premise is that we as a nation of supposed religious citizens are actually lacking in any real knowledge of the core teachings of the many world religions, “I am convinced that one needs to know something about the world’s religion in order to be truly educated”(Prothero 11). Is this lack of religious knowledge at the core of the…

Interview Performance 1. Breaching of the UGC circulars regarding the interview performance; The circular number 935 clearly states that the all candidates are required to present a presentation before the selection committee. Accordingly, all other Universities are sending 1-2 topics to the candidates (Annex 01) and ask to prepare a PowerPoint presentation on the topic he/she preferred. Nevertheless, the Ruhuna University breached this circular and consequently the interview led to the…