My prof has made the stupid mistake of showing me he doesn't
know how to teach history. I've been taught so far by 2 great history
professors who know their info (which this prof does) and know how to get it
across without assuming you already know everything about the time period
(which this prof does not) and without making encompassing generalizations (which this prof does). He makes allusions and references to events we know
nothing about and have not read anything about and when we ask him he declares
his surprise at the weakness of this topic in our textbook.
SO GIVE US SOMETHING TO READ WHICH WILL HELP US KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON OR TEACH IT TO US IN CLASS.
Let's not concentrate on how all his talks are way over my head not because they're so mind-blowing but because he jumps around and can't decide what to talk about. He also irked me
when talking about religions of the medieval period. He said that Islam was
more tolerant of Christianity and Judaism than it is now and Christianity
persecuted against other religions and then the enlightenment era came and
switched everything up making Christianity more tolerant and Islam less so…
This is not an argument from me on development of Christian vs.
Islamic identity and ideology. Both had their very different development arcs and
they are in no way parallels or mirror images of each other. This is also not
me saying one is more accepting than the other RIGHT NOW. This IS me saying
that acceptance was ingrained in Islam from the get go and the flawed ways of
interpreting it are not characteristic of the religion but of the people who
interpreted it however they liked.
If Muslim leaders chose to interpret verses incorrectly then
that is the fault of the people or the leaders. This is not the fault of the
religion which in its ideology from the start is not supposed to discriminate
against ANY religion. It’s not just people of the book like you (Russian prof)
said. Mistakes HAVE been made but they are made by people who take liberties
with the religion and label their actions as “Islamic”. It’s like how specific
countries are the poster-nations for Islam and people look to them as an embodiment of the whole religion. You want the religion; get it from the Qur’an and the
habits of the Prophet. Islam is so much higher than this lowly butt of all
jokes you make it to be.
I told him as much in an email and asked him very kindly to
clarify that it is the specific leaders whose actions changed towards people of
differing faiths and not a change in ideology which sparked any antagonism towards
people of other religions.
I am a Muslim girl who is very willing to have conversations
about other religions. I love this quote from the IB mission statement:
"The International
Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people
who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural
understanding and respect.
To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.
These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right."
To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.
These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right."
It makes everything so clear. It says “I recognize you have
a differing point of view. I don’t have to take it as my own point of view but
I realize you have a differing stance and I try to educate myself to understand
your acceptance of this stance. My truth does not have to be your truth but we
both must respect each other because these are our own visions of what is right”.
Thank you for making Russian history boring and irrelevant.
Thank you for wrecking something I love.
Thank you for your incompetence.
