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Essay:Conservapedia

2008-03-13T10:43:58Z

AboodNazaar:

What we've learned and accomplished here in just one year:

* Exposing the rampant [[Bias in Wikipedia]]. Its popularity began falling when [[Conservapedia]] was publicized.
* [[Liberal style|Examples of Liberal Style]] and [[Essay:Liberal Behavior on Conservapedia|Liberal Behavior on Conservapedia]].
* Perfect scores by students on the [[AP]] exams, 100% pass rate on the [[CLEP]] exams, and an average score of 750 on the [[SAT]] subject tests for courses taught here.
* Experience in [[internet crime]] ... and how to combat it.
* Exposing the '''truth''' about:
:* [[Abortion]] and [[Planned Parenthood]].
:* [[Homosexual]]s and their [[deceit]].
* Exposed the central role of [[deceit]] in the [[liberal]] ideology, and created many related, equally insane articles on [[Liberal]]s and their Wicked ways.
* Created an article on the '''[[Theory of Evolution]]''' free from excessive [[liberal]] bias.
* Defined what a [[liberal]] is, including core [[liberal]] beliefs censored by [[Wikipedia]]'s description.
* Exposed the falsehood on [[Richard Dawkins]]'s own resume, and how [[atheists]] refuse to accept it.
* Listed the [[Essay:the 25 Worst Court Decisions|25 Worst Court Decisions]], and the role played by [[deceit]] in many of them.
* Created an article on [[Conservative Links]] as a guide for conservative knowledge.
* Accomplished more than 20,000 educational, clean, and concise entries.
* Created the following sections on the Main Page:
:* '''[[Masterpiece|Masterpiece of the week]]''' section to educate our users on [[painting]].
:* '''Article of the Month''' section to highlight one of our main articles and encourage editors to learn about the subject and improve the article.
:* '''Popular Articles at Conservapedia''' section to highlight several of our main articles and encourage editors to learn about the subjects and improve the articles.
:* '''Daily Bible Verse''' section to give our editors a scripture to focus on daily.
:* '''Daily Historical Quote''' section to give our editors a historical quote to focus on daily.
:* '''Courses''' section to highlight several free courses on Conservapedia.
:* '''Breaking News''' section to highlight news items from a [[conservative]] perspective and to expose [[liberal bias]].
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Liberals and friendship

2008-03-13T10:41:31Z

AboodNazaar: Improved

'''Liberals''' often make approval of [[liberal]] values a condition of friendship. Someone in a "liberal friendship" can expect loss of the friendship if he dares to express dismay or disapproval of the [[liberal values]].

A '''liberal friendship''' can occur wherever [[liberals]] apply [[peer pressure]] to spread their belief system. It can occur in college, in relationships, and in the workplace.

In contrast, [[conservatives]] never require censorship or acceptance of [[conservative]] principles as a condition of friendship.

==Criticism==
It is human nature to naturally be friends with people who agree with you, so people are more likely to be friends with people who agree with them politically. But this trait is not any more likely to be found in a liberal than a conservative, and to suggest that [[liberals]] refuse to be friends with people who do not agree with them politically is unlikely.

== See also ==

* [[Liberal bias in grading]]
* [[Liberal tricks]]
* [[Liberal deceit]]

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Evil

2008-03-13T10:32:07Z

AboodNazaar:

'''Evil''' has many different definitions. In some religions, evil is defined as anything contrary to the mandates of [[God]]. In some ethical systems it is defined as taking advantage of another person for one's own benefit. Evil is generally considered to be the opposite of [[good]]. [[Satan|The devil]] is considered to be the embodiment of evil.

In the [[Bible]] in the book of [[Genesis]], evil entered the world when the serpent (the devil) tricked [[Adam]] and [[Eve]] into eating the fruit from the [[Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil]] which had been forbidden<ref>Genesis 3:6-7</ref>. This event is known as [[the Fall]], and is responsible for the suffering and imperfect nature of the world. (Not everyone takes the story literally, and even many [[Christians]] see the Genesis story as an allegory or metaphor, possibly for a fall taking place at a spiritual level. ) Elsewhere in the Bible, we read, "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things]." (Isaiah 45:7, KJV)

In Islam, evil is seen as something which must be actively opposed:
*The Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, advised: Whoever among you sees a Munkar (offensive or evil act), then he must change it with his hand; if he is incapable, then with his tongue; if he is incapable, then with his heart; and that is the weakest faith ... [http://www.soundvision.com/Info/life/porn/11tips.asp]

The fight against evil can be radical, even violent, but on a person to person level, often the most successful tactic is [[admonition]]. [[Conservative]]s actively fight evil.

== References ==
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Talk:Shiite

2008-03-07T12:08:15Z

AboodNazaar:

I would be hoping that an article on Shiite's is actually about the Shiite religion, not today's politics. If this has to be a trustworthy encyclopedia then there must be something about the beliefs of this sect. The motto must be lived up to if this project is to be taken seriously.

I agree with the above and I would like to point out that the ite at the end of the title of this article only points out the writer's ignorance on this topic and lack of research; this is like calling Christians Christianites. If you search Shia you will come up with sites like http://www.shia.org/, http://www.shianews.com/, and http://www.al-shia.com/html/eng/index.php; but if you search Shiite you won't find any site such as Shiite.com(or org, or net...).
I would also like to point out that Shiaism is the official religion of the Iranian government, there is no sect of Shiaism the has given Iran the authority to say who is good and who is evil,this is just more ignorance from the writer of the article; and whom so every believes that Iran is the head of Shiaism is either very gullible or very ignorant.

==Lets do a proper article==

We need to write a proper article on the Shi'ite religion first, then maybe write a little about contemporary Shias. I'll start work on this soon. [[User:AboodNazaar|AboodNazaar]] 07:08, 7 March 2008 (EST)

Muhammad

2008-03-07T12:06:01Z

AboodNazaar: /* Life of Muhammad */ A few updates

== Life of Muhammad==
The Prophet Muhammad (A.D. 570-632) or Mohammed, was the founder of Islam. He began life as a wealthy tradesmen, one of the elite of his city of [[Mecca]]. He claimed to be privy to certain [[revelations]] in the early middle ages, speaking of a need to abandon polygamy, and worship the one God, [[Allah]].

These early revelations spoke of a need to return to the [[monotheism]] of [[Abraham]]; in this way, at an early age, Muhammad saw himself as reviving an ancient faith, a perceived correction to [[Christianity]] and [[Judaism]], and restoring his people to what he saw as their rightful position as the true founders and heirs of monotheism. In these revelations, submission to the will of God - [[Allah]] - was critical. Muhammad's fledgling religion continued to develop throughout his life, through periodic revelations often relating directly to events currently facing his new faith.

The faith caught on slowly, winning only a few converts in Mecca (the first being his wife, Khadija). In 622 A.D, under increased pressure and ostracism from elders in Mecca, Muhammad began the [[hijra]], an organized exodus of his followers from Mecca to the city of [[Medina]]. [[Muslims]] date the formation of their religion to the ''hijra'' itself, even beginning their dating system at this point.

At Medina, the new Muslims immediately adopted an aggressive stance, seeking to coexist with the [[Jews]] living in Medina on ''his'' terms. The encounter ended badly, though, with Muhammad dividing and conquering the Jewish groups in Medina, ordering the massacre of the [[Qurayza]] [[Jewish]] tribe, as they refused changing their [[religion]] to his submission, after (possibly) fabricating a cause to break what is called by modern historians the [[Compact of Medina]].<ref>Berkey, ''The Formation of Islam''</ref> It is important to note however that Muhammad offered mercy to the tribe many times, but they fought on to the end. <ref>Karen Armstrong, ''A short history of Islam''</ref>

A controversial point of Muhammad's life was his marriage to [[Aisha bint Abi Bakr|Aisha]], daughter of [[Abu Bakr]], who was six years old at the time of marriage.<ref>''Sahih Bukhari'' 5:58:234</ref><ref>Sahih Muslim 8:3311</ref> The marriage was consumated when Aisha was nine.<ref> D. A. Spellberg, Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: the Legacy of A'isha bint Abi Bakr, Columbia University Press, 1994, p. 40</ref> The narratives describing her age at marriage as six are narrated by Aisha herself. Though Aisha was known to use numerical substitution in other hadith, such as in the hadith of Laylat Al-Qadr where she substituted 1 for 21 and 3 for 23, which is a common way of referencing numbers in Arabic when the base number is established. Some scholars argue that she could have been speaking in such numerical substitution when narrating the Hadith regarding her age at marriage, thus rendering 16 as 6 and 19 as 9.<ref>Hakim Niaz Ahmad, '' تحقیق عمرعا،شہ صدیقہ (Research on the age of Ayesha)'', Mashkoor Academy, [[Karachi]].</ref> There is additional disagreement over her age at marriage, and a number of Islamic scholars believe that Aisha was older at the time of marriage. However, it is worth noting that at the time, and for thousands of years before and hundreds of years after, early marriage of a girl to a powerful man was very common. Aisha reached puberty at the age of nine, which is when the marriage was consummated.<ref>495|525|58,495,10,66,675,15,76,735,45,66,870,15|-1|0</ref><ref>Habib ur Rahman Kandhalwi, ''[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Age_of_Aisha Age of Aisha]'', Al-Rahman Publishing Trust, [[Karachi]]</ref><ref>Maulana Muhammad Ali, ''The Living Thoughts of the Prophet Muhammad'', p. 30, 1992, Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat, ISBN 0-913321-19-2</ref>

== After Muhammad's Death ==

Muhammad's death at an early age caused the splintering of his religion into new sects, over the question of succession. The groups called themselves the [[Sunnis]] and the [[Shiite|Shi'as]]. Many attribute this split to the high degree to which authority was centered in the powerful character of Muhammad himself: without his powerful personality, the movement could not survive intact.<ref>[[Bernard Lewis]], ''What Went Wrong''</ref>

The failure or splintering of movements built around a charismatic leader is a recurring sociological problem, often studied by psychologists, and referred to as the problem of the [[routinization of charisma]]. [[Christianity]] faced the same problem, and many attribute the conquest of this problem to the leadership of the apostle [[Paul]].<ref>Maximillian Weber, ''Theory of Social and Economic Organization,'' in the chapter "The Nature of Charismatic Authority and its Routinization," see also Len Oakes, "Prophetic Charisma: The Psychology of Revolutionary Religious Personalities"</ref>.

In accordance with the Islamic [[hadith]], it is considered proper to add an honorary phrase of "Peace Be Upon Him (or PBUH)" or "sallalahu aleyhi wasallam (or SAW)".

==See Also==
*[[Islam]]
*[[Muhammad cartoons controversy]]

== References ==

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== Notes ==

HIR | Muhammad's massacre of the Jewish tribe Banu Qurayzah [http://www.hirhome.com/islam/art.htm]

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