Wednesday 16 July 2014

Innocence of Muslims


Blamelessness of Muslims is the title ascribed to a disputable against Islamic film "trailer" that was composed and delivered by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula. Two variants of the 14-moment feature were at first transferred to Youtube in July 2012, under the titles The Real Life of Muhammad and Muhammad Movie Trailer. Features named in the Arabic dialect were transferred throughout ahead of schedule September 2012. Hostile to Islamic substance had been included after creation by naming, without the performing artists' learning.

What was seen as criticizing of the prophet Muhammad created exhibits and savage dissents against the feature to break out on September 11 in Egypt and spread to other Arab and Muslim countries and to some western nations. The challenges have prompted many wounds and in excess of 50 passings. Fatwas have been issued against the feature's members and a Pakistani priest has offered an abundance for the executing of Nakoula, the maker. The film has started level headed discussions about flexibility of discourse and Internet restriction.

American non-benefit Media for Christ got film licenses to shoot the motion picture in August 2011, and Nakoula gave his home as a set and paid the performers, as indicated by government authorities and those included in the creation. Organization president, Joseph Nassralla Abdelmasih guaranteed that Media for Christ's name was utilized without his learning. He likewise

expressed that film was altered subsequently without Media's inclusion. Steve Klein, a hostile to Muslim extremist, guaranteed to be the representative for the film. Klein told columnist Jeffrey Goldberg that notwithstanding past cases, "Bacile" is not a true individual and is not Israeli or Jewish and that the name is an alias. Israeli powers discovered no indication of him being an Israeli subject, and there was no evidence of a 'Sam Bacile' living in California or taking part in Hollywood filmmaking.

By September 13, 2012, "Sam Bacile" was distinguished as Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a 55 year old Coptic Christian from Egypt living close Los Angeles, California, with known assumed names. In the 1990s, he served time in jail for assembling methamphetamine. He argued no challenge in 2010 to bank extortion charges and got 21 months in jail; being discharged on post trial supervision in June 2011. Nakoula cases to have composed the script while in jail and raised in the middle of $50,000 and $60,000 from his wife's family in Egypt to back the film. The FBI reached him because of the potential for dangers, however said he was not under scrutiny. government powers captured Nakoula in Los Angeles for suspicion of abusing terms of his probation. Infringement included putting forth false expressions in regards to his part in the film and his utilization of the moniker "Sam Bacile". On November 7, 2012, Nakoula confess to four of the charges against him and was sentenced to one year in jail and four years of administered discharge.

Law educator Stephen L. Carter and established law master Floyd Abrams have each one pointed out that the administration can't arraign the film's maker for its substance due to the First Amendment to the U.s. Constitution, which ensures flexibility of discourse in the United States. The U.s. Preeminent Court has deciphered the First Amendment as negating government limitations on impiety since 1952 and disdain discourse since the mid-1970s. In March 2011, the Court repeated its position on contempt discourse by a 8–1 greater part: "As a Nation we have picked an alternate course—to ensure even harmful discourse on open issues to guarantee that we don't smother open verbal confrontation."

On February 26, 2014, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit requested Youtube to expel the feature from its site by a 2-1 greater part. The decision was because of a protestation by on-screen character Cindy Lee Garcia, who had protested the utilization of her execution, which had been incompletely named for its incorporation in Innocence of Muslims. Garcia had thought throughout generation that she was showing up in a film called Desert Warrior, which was portrayed as a "chronicled Arabian Desert endeavor film", and was ignorant that against Islamic material would be included at the after creation stage. Garcia had contended that she held a copyright enthusiasm toward her performan

Friday 15 February 2013

Population growth rate



Muslims in India have a much higher total fertility rate (TFR) compared to that of other religious communities in the country. Because of higher birthrates and an influx of migrants from neighboring Bangladesh, the percentage of Muslims in India has risen from about 10% in 1991 to 13% in 2001.The Muslim population growth rate is higher by more than 10% of the total growth compared to that of Hindus. However, since 1991, the largest decline in fertility rates among all religious groups in India has occurred among Muslims.
Demographers have put forward several factors behind high birthrates among Muslims in India. According to sociologists Roger and Patricia Jeffery, socio-economic conditions rather than religious determinism is the main reason for higher Muslim birthrates. Indian Muslims are poorer and less educated compared to their Hindu counterparts. Noted Indian sociologist, B.K. Prasad, argues that since India's Muslim population is more urban compared to their Hindu counterparts, infant mortality rates among Muslims is about 12% lower than those among Hindus.

However, other sociologists point out those religious factors can explain high Muslim birthrates. Surveys indicate that Muslims in India have been relatively less willing to adopt family planning measures and that Muslim women have a larger fertility period since they get married at a much younger age compared to Hindu women. 

A study conducted by K.C. Zacharia in Kerala in 1983 revealed that on average, the number of children born to a Muslim woman was 4.1 while a Hindu woman gave birth to only 2.9 children. Religious customs and marriage practices were cited as some of the reasons behind the high Muslim birth rate.According to Paul Kurtz, Muslims in India are much more resistant to modern contraception than are Hindus and, as a consequence, the decline in fertility rate among Hindu women is much higher compared to that of Muslim women.

The National Family and Health survey conducted in 1998–99 highlighted that Indian Muslim couples consider a substantially higher number of children to be ideal for a family as compared to Hindu couples in India.The same survey also pointed out that percentage of couples actively using family planning measures was more than 49 percent among Hindus against 37 percent among Muslims.A 1996 survey conducted in the Lucknow district revealed that 34 percent of the Muslim women believed that family planning went against dictates of their religion while none of the Hindu women surveyed believed that religion was a barrier against family planning.

According to a 2006 committee appointed by the Indian Prime Minister, by the end of the 21st century India's Muslim population will reach 320 to 340 million people (or 18% of India's total projected population). Swapan Dasgupta, a prominent Indian journalist, has raised concerns that the higher Muslim population growth rate in India could adversely affect the country's social harmony. Phillip Longman, a renowned demographer, remarked that the substantial difference between Muslim and Hindu birthrates could contribute to ethnic tension in India.

Thursday 9 August 2012

Muslim

A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the Qur'an—which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad—and, with lesser authority than the Qur'an, the teachings and practices of Muhammad as recorded in traditional accounts, called hadith. "Muslim" is an Arabic word meaning "one who submits to God".

Muslims believe that God is eternal, transcendent, absolutely one (the doctrine of tawhid, or strict or simple monotheism), and incomparable; that he is self-sustaining, who begets not nor was begotten. Muslim beliefs regarding God are summed up in chapter 112 of the Qur'an, al-Ikhlas, "the chapter of purity". Muslims also believe that Islam is the complete and universal version of a primordial faith that was revealed at many times and places before, including through the prophets Abraham, Moses and Jesus. Muslims maintain that previous messages and revelations have been partially changed or corrupted over time, but consider the Qur'an to be both unaltered and the final revelation from God—Final Testament.

Most Muslims accept as a Muslim anyone who has publicly pronounced the Shahadah (declaration of faith) which states, "I testify that there is no god except for the God , and I testify that Muhammad is the Messenger of God." Their basic religious practices are enumerated in the Five Pillars of Islam, which, in addition to Shahadah, consist of daily prayers (salat), fasting during Ramadan (sawm), almsgiving (zakat), and the pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj) at least once in a lifetime.

Currently, the most up-to-date reports from an American think tank and PBS have estimated 1.2 to 1.57 billion Muslims populate the world, or about 20% of an estimated 2009 world population of 6.8 billion.

Wednesday 17 August 2011

Buller's Albatross


Mollymawks are a type of Albatross that belong to Diomedeidae family and come from the Procellariiformes order, along with Shearwaters, Fulmars, Storm-petrels, and Diving-petrels. They share certain identifying features. First, they have nasal passages that attach to the upper bill called naricorns. Although the nostrils on the Albatross are on the sides of the bill.

The bills of Procellariiformes are also unique in that they are split into between 7 and 9 horny plates. Finally, they produce a stomach oil made up of wax esters and triglycerides that is stored in the proventriculus. This is used against predators as well as an energy rich food source for chicks and for the adults during their long flights. They also have a salt gland that is situated above the nasal passage and helps desalinate their bodies, due to the high amount of ocean water that they imbibe. It excretes a high saline solution from their nose.

In 1998, Robertson and Nunn split this species into two, Thalassarche (bulleri) bulleri, and Thalassarche (bulleri) platei , although the majority of authorities including ITIS, James Clements, BirdLife International, Michael Brooke. have not yet accepted this split