Not exact matches
Americans should care because the community, whose membership exceeds tens of millions in 194 countries around the globe, is one of the
leading movements in Islam
to bring Muslims out of the dark ages — divesting them of the fanatical
beliefs that have been the source of so much bloodshed and
violence in the world today.
But, when their
beliefs lead to hatred, prejudice,
violence and inequality that is where the thinking man's boundaries must lie.
Most American schools today operate according
to a philosophy of discipline that has its roots in the 1980s and 1990s, when a
belief that schools would be safer and more effective if they allowed for «zero tolerance» of
violence, drug use, and other misbehavior
led to a sharp rise in school suspensions.
«Religious
beliefs don't always
lead to violence: Study shows thinking from God's perspective can reduce bias against others.»
For example, the erroneous
belief that people with schizophrenia are prone
to violence can
lead to unjustified stigma [see «Deranged and Dangerous?»
It is a shot of a priest (Liam Cunningham) and prisoner, in silhouette, engaged in dialectic that starts off with common bullshit and bravado (the priest swearing up a storm), then turns
to the brute
beliefs each owns about the British - Irish conflict, the morality of suicide, and the prisoner's
leading of an impending hunger strike, then the prisoner's telling of an anecdote of youthful
violence he perpetrated — how he euthanized a young foal with a broken leg when none of his friends would do it.
Conversely, the person who grows up
to engage in the forms of
violence that endanger others suffered from the alienation, marginalization and exposure
to violence and indoctrination that
led them
to believe their rights
to their
beliefs are superior
to those of others,
to see others as less than human, and
to see the lives of others as not worthy of value,
to not trust others, the rule of law, institutions or governments, which
leads to the use of
violence as legitimate
to advance their means.