Click a Kitty Thank you, JoeProBono
Sweet Young Dragon Adopts Some Orphans
Lend a helping hand
Donate monthly
Sponsors will contribute $10
For each new monthly sign-up
Posted on 02/10/2012 7:59:18 AM PST by T Minus Four
PROVO -- A major new art exhibit is currently undergoing installation at the BYU Museum of Art is expected to attract 100,000 visitors and will feature art from the world of Islam. KSL was able to get an exclusive first look. The "Beauty and Belief" exhibit is expected to attract 100-thousand visitors. Works will travel to four museums in America, but they make their first stop in Provo.
The exhibit team is mounting 250 works of art. A pair of 19th century mother-of-pearl doors from India were donated by the Doris Duke Foundation in Hawaii. A heavy, jewel-encrusted box from the Mughal Empire in India will grace the same room as an earthenware bowl from 12th century Iran.
The exhibit stretches over 16-thousand square feet, and the design itself incorporates many layers of meaning.
"All these arches are creating a sense of the infinite," said Exhibit Director Sabiha al Khemir. "That's conveying an experience to the visitor,"
A jewel-encrusted box from the medieval Mughal Empire in India. Dozens on campus are supporting the exhibit's curators.
"The design, the actual build of the gallery, and then working on the shipping, the insurance, and just the logistics of getting the objects here," said Emily Poulsen, senior registrar at the museum. "So it's really exciting."
This exhibit, they say, will be a rare opportunity to experience different cultures and another faith.
"If you feel somewhere else, you are in somebody else's world and you feel wonderful," al Khemir said. "I mean, it's the best way for acceptance and embracing something different."
Dr. al Khemir says building bridges of understanding starts with the realization that God is at the center of all beauty.
I doubt the authenticity of this article. We all know there are not 250 Islamic works of art!!!
This is not funny, I live in Pocatello which is in S.E. Idaho. There are a lot of Mormons here and the ones I know are very conservative and anti-muslim. Now I’m finding out that there is an alliance between them. So I guess I’ll just have to ask a few of the Mormons I know about this.
I wasn’t trying to be funny. My comment was meant to be sarcastic.
Share this with your Mormon aquaintances:
SLAVERY, TERRORISM and ISLAM: The following is a description (slightly modified) from Dr. Peter Hammond’s book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat.
As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness.
At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs [Europe, Australia, USA and Japan]. Six percent of US prison inmates are Muslim. Like any other minority, they won’t integrate, but work to build their own separate community.
They will push for the introduction of halaal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves (along with threats for failure to comply).
At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia; Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world, but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.
When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. (Ei: car-burnings in France last October.) Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats.
After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning (India, Mindanao, Philippines).
At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare [Indonesia]. From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya (infidel tax). (Sudan, Kosovo-Serbia, Lebanon and Egypt).
After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide [Western Papua (New Guinea),Kosovo-Serbia, Iran, Biafra, Asia-Minor-Turkey,Egypt, Iraq,Lebanon and North Nigeria],ETC., ETC..
100% will usher in the peace of “Dar-es-Salaam” - House
I purchased a home defense weapon for my wife just yesterday. I guess it’s back to the store for more ammo, a lot more ammo. I printed some of the info posted here and I’m going to show it to the Mormons I know.
Muslims are playing the Mormons, and the Rest of America.
We all need to wake up.
If that were true islam has been playing mormons from the beginning as Joseph Smith loved islam, He declared himself to be the next mohammedan.
Their alliance is not new, what is new as people are just beginning to learn about it.
You could say mormonISM and islam are both playing America.
Isn’t that cute, Mormons and Muslims?
_________________
Looks like, the way things are going, that’s what we’ll have to vote for this election; a mormon or a muslim.
Our forefathers must be spinning.
I only took 14 seconds to do it right!
As well as 45,000,000 would have been citizens...
...if they'd had THEIR "choice".
Thoughts on Islam,” in Mormons and Muslims: Spiritual Foundations and Modern Manifestations
"The image of Islam in this country is completely dependent on our access to indigenous Islamic culture. An open exchange will reduce the crude inaccuracies and the crude images in the West of Muslim people and of nations. And the same is true of Mormons reaching out. BYU as a major institution of higher learning can invite students from all over the world to come here for a valid spiritual education and a valuable secular education. They can go back having preserved their traditions and their values, maintaining their sense of the sacred but having expanded it to include an understanding of Mormonism as well.
puke
TN, you link as your source for this quote Vol. III, p. 167 of the History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the "Documentary History"), which is the seven-volume history printed in 1902 and begun by Joseph Smith, Jr. himself.
This quote is in the printed version of the Documentary History. However, page 167's been removed from the digital version of the Documentary History. There's a page 166, a page marker for 167, and a page 168.
Joseph Smith's Mohammed quote has been expunged.
When I write on LDS topics, people sometimes ask if I'm an ex-Mormon. No, I say. Since the 1980s I've been interested in and researched Mormon history. Do I hate Mormons? No. But I do get upset with the continued rewriting and cleansing of history, and I see it constantly. Like the recent removal of page 167 of the Documentary History (and that LDS.org removed the Documentary History completely from its website).
Two months ago, if you used Google to search "History of Mormon Church," the Wikipedia article on the Documentary History used to be the third item that showed. Today, it's on the third page of Google search results.
The LDS church is distancing itself from the Documentary History, written by those who were there from 1839 to 1856.
And I'm watching 'history' as it appears to those just now learning it from the internet change before my eyes. I wrote on one thread about an issue with the Wikipedia article on the 1890 Manifesto and saw the article changed overnight; I commented on a problem with the change and saw that addressed that night - people are tasked with actively addressing warts and uncomfortable history as part of the collaborative Wikipedia Latter-Day Saints Project.
Goodness help me, I love my Mormon friends, but there's a huge task force cleansing the Internet on their behalf and without them knowing it.
I’ve been studying Mormonism since 1968..
Since then several changes have occurrred...
Mormons have started calling themselves “christians”
They’ve added a “holy ghost” as a type of powerless but fluffy harmless mascot...
They no longer let non-Mormons access their own Christian ancestors psuedo records in the Mormon IGI for dead dunk baptisms, endowments and sealings..
They no longer boast at my door of the huge finances taken in that past year by the Mormon corporation...complete with printed paper records of their company and of every church in town.....this used to be a talking point for Mormon misionaries during the 70-80s (this proves our “church” is the real one...)
They no longer allow non-Mormons to be dead dunked in their own ancestors place..another talking point...I used to be told I was mean and hated my ancestors because I refused to com’n down to “do the temple work” for them...yes they knew I was never going to be a Mormon..
since 1978 theyve allowed black men to be full members with the priesthood etc...but none after 35 years are yet in any higher leadership roll...
They no longer tell me I’m going to be someones slave in the Mormon afterlife if I dont convert to Mormonism...in that slave thingy they are like the JWs..
and so on...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.