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I attended the 11 o'clock lecture; I had never really looked into Islam. We only see the very extremists groups through social media, so we never get to see the real truth to the religion. I learned that Islamic people are very strong in their faith. Dr. Green talked about the five pillars of faith, I particularly remember him talking about praying to Allah. He said that the prayer and getting down on their hands and knees and physically bowing towards Mecca was a beautiful thing. At first when he said this I kind of didn't know what to think about it. I remember thinking this is a christian man talking about how beautiful this other false religion is. We talked about the lecture on the ride back to school and some at lunch and came to the conclusion, that these people who do this really show how much they love their God. Why can't we as christians be this devoted? I know we don't pray exactly this way, but sometimes looking at this made me think I want to be that devoted to praying to God.

-Parker Mumpoer

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During the 11am lecture my favorite part was when said never compare someone’s worst to your best. That part is something I never really even realized we were doing. I completely agree with him that we should educate ourselves directly with the source! That leads to the second lecture when he went more in depth with his book. I do feel that this was more of a sales pitch lecture on his book, it was less organized and slightly preachy. However I did like how he explained how Christians tend to forget their own horrible past. And how we tend to shine spot lights on the most terrible parts of others religions so that they fail in comparison to ours. -Morgan

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During the 11am lecture my favorite part was when said never compare someone’s worst to your best. That part is something I never really even realized we were doing. I completely agree with him that we should educate ourselves directly with the source! That leads to the second lecture when he went more in depth with his book. I do feel that this was more of a sales pitch lecture on his book, it was less organized and slightly preachy. However I did like how he explained how Christians tend to forget their own horrible past. And how we tend to shine spot lights on the most terrible parts of others religions so that they fail in comparison to ours. -Morgan

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One of the most interesting things I learned during this lecture is that the Muslim population only makes up roughly one percent of the entire United States. There is definitely a bias viewpoint for me when I see a Muslim just because of the way they have been portrayed in recent years. I always tried to ignore that feeling I got because I knew that it was incorrect to view an entire group of people on the actions of the few radical groups of Muslims. I enjoyed the point that we should strive to have holy envy towards other religions because it is important to find beauty in all things, even when it is difficult to do so. Since I attended this lecture I will try to make myself more aware of comparing the best of Christians with the worst of Muslims. I’m very glad I had the opportunity to go to this lecture.

-Dakota Mohler

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During this lecture, I found it interesting that he turned most view points around and made us, as Christians, look like the bad guys. He said that we determine who Muslims are before they can determine for themselves. I would argue that the stereotypes on Muslims are there for a reason. What I am skeptical about is how he says that "the best of Islam isn't publicly shown, just the bad parts." Yes that is somewhat true, Islam is portrayed badly in the media, but that is not entirely the media's fault. Islam is a false religion, so no matter what they do, they are going to look bad. Something that should change in churches in particular is that most churches despise Islam. Muslims are lost, and our top priority is to reach the lost. That doesn't mean however we should ignore the stereotypes. Muslims can be very dangerous, we should still be cautious.

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At this lecture I came to better understand why non-Muslims should stop asking Muslims to condemn terrorism. Dr. Green explained that by doing so, we are implying that Islam is what causes terrorism. This made me think further, as not only does it wrongly assume that Islam leads to terrorism, but it lumps all Muslims together as one stereotype. Asking Muslims to condemn terrorism seems to also associate all Muslims with terrorists- why should they have to speak out against something they had no part in? It makes the violent stereotype the default and serves to dehumanize Muslims as individuals. This points to a greater assumption built into many Americans, something we need to examine (as Dr. Kenneson's lecture reminded us) and question ourselves about: Why are we automatically assuming the worst of Muslims? Why do we feel the need to make them condemn terrorism, when many terrorists are white and numerous of the recent shooters (aka terrorists) claimed to be Christian? No one asks white Christians to condemn terrorism, they assume that these shooters had mental problems and were outliers. We as a society need to compare this mindset with that which is pointed toward Muslims and realize the injustice of it.

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In this lecture I learned, as one of the steps for interfaith engagement, to allow those who practice a religion to define it. Now, I'd been conscious of this as a logical principle. However, it made me think further about how I talk about Islam in particular. I'm in the Islam class here at Milligan, and so I have been exposed to more than what is common knowledge about the religion. This makes me particularly interested in correcting false stereotypes. However, I need to be aware that because I am not Muslim myself, there is only so much I can say. I can't define the actual beliefs of Muslims, since I am a Christian. I can point people to things Islam teaches, from my limited understanding, but cannot truly speak for the religion. Thus I need to be careful how I share my thoughts, and I need to make it clear that while I can point people in a more accurate direction, to really understand the religion they must talk to an actual Muslim.

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Jack Bembry- dropped quiz.
One of the biggest things I learned from Dr. Greens lecture is that we cannot let the worst of a religion or any group of people for that matter, define the religion as a whole, instead we should look more closely at the whole religion, what it considers to be true, not what one individual or small group within that religion believes. we can understand this by not wanting people to judge Christians off of one individuals beliefs. One thing that really made me think was what other assumptions to people carry about Christianity in the same sense. I think it would be interesting to sit down with someone who wasn't a believer and talk about their views on christianity and why they believe what they believe. I think the biggest change we need tp make, both as a larger society and religion, is to simply treat other religions and people how we would want them to treat us, i.e. don't carry the same assumptions and judgments of others without fully understanding who they are and what they are about.

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I attended both of Dr. Green's lectures. At the 5PM lecture I learned in our country today certain kinds of violence we try to forget and other kinds of violence we are supposed to remember. This leads to the fact that when a muslim is involved in a terrorist attach we remember that and get angry with muslims. I think that it is important to see that we as Americans do things that aggravate them but that does not excuse either of us from attacking each other. I thought that it was very interesting his point of helping isis recruit and how the two men who were going over to Iraq went and bought dummy books. I think that it is important that us as christians and muslims take time to appreciate that we are different and that we can't learn everything there is to know out of a book. There is a certain part of getting to know each other in person that is the only way that we can begin to understand how muslims think. I also don't know if I understand/ believe in how he was trying to relate murders, suicides, and shootings together? I would be interested in looking more into the topic the shootings, murders, and muslims and seeing how they are all connect to each other.

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I attended both of Dr. Green's lectures on Tuesday. At the 11 AM lecture I learned that muslims make up about 1% of the minority in our country. That was surprising to me because I thought that there were many more than that. I found the third point of his blueprint of cultural envy to be very interesting. The thought of having enough humility to look at other people’s religions for insight into our own religion is very mature and something that those of us in other religions should strive to be able to do. I think that it is important to remember that we should not compare the worst in other peoples religions to the best in our religion. I need to remember that muslims are different than me but we are still neighbors and they deserve as much respect and I do.

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I attended the 11a lecture today. I learned that we as people should allow others to explain what their religion means to them before making judgments. I certainly would not want someone slandering me for my beliefs and customs, so why should we do it to other people. Something that I am more skeptical about after hearing Dr. Green speak is why do other religions view each other in a competitive way? Something that I should change is simply keep in mind to treat others the way I would want to be treated. I would like a point added to my unit 3 exam. -Samir Koko

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quiz grade drop. I attended the 11am service this morning. I learned that we have to let other cultures or religions express themselves. As christians we look down and muslims and only view them as ISIS or other terrorist. the thing I wonder about is why muslims are creating ISIS and not making more peace, do that consider themselves holy trying to rule over everyone. something that should change is we have to fine beauty outside of our own religion.

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quiz grade drop. I attended the 11am service this morning. I learned that we have to let other cultures or religions express themselves. As christians we look down and muslims and only view them as ISIS or other terrorist. the thing I wonder about is why muslims are creating ISIS and not making more peace, do that consider themselves holy trying to rule over everyone. something that should change is we have to fine beauty outside of our own religion.