Karen Armstrong "Fields of Blood" 

Cannot agree more.. Thank You so much Ms Karen Armstrong; God Bless

What is the real name of Hinduism? Here is the shocking truth. There is no such thing as Hinduism. The word Hinduism is not found in any of the Brahmanic scriptures, such as the Vedas, the Puranas, the Upnishades, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and the Bhagwada Gita etc. This Brahmanic ideology's real name was/is "Varna-Shrama-Dharma" . Varna means "color". This means, the Aryans were a fair-skinned colored people. "Shrama" means, labour /work . "Dharma" means, the duties, and the social norms given by the Brahmins to the working classes (ie, castes) people of the Aryan race, namly the Kshatriyas, the Vayasias, and the Sudras. And the Brahmin stands at the apex of the societal pyramid and reserves all the power, privileges, benefits, and all the freedoms. Thus, the full definition of Varnashrama Dharma is, " the duties & the social norms given to fair-skinned Aryan working castes by the Brahmins." this forms the basis of "the Bramanical Social Order." The Mulnivasi Bahujans were outside this social order; therefore, they were called the "out-castes," the "mlechhas" (ie., outsiders). During medieval times when the Brahmin Shankra Charya was arguing and fighting the Buddhists, he changed the name "Varnashrama Dharma" to "Sanatana Dharma" meaning "ancient religion". The Brahmins wanted to hide the "racial & casteist" nature of Varnashrama Dharma, due to widespread positive influence of Buddhism. Brahmins, as a counter strategy, started to taunt and criticize the Buddhists by calling their religion "a new, and a heterodox (rebellious) religion; " whereas, calling the bramanical religion as the ancient and the pure one. Why the Muslims should concern themselves with this above mentioned issue? These here are the reasons: 1: The threat of "Home Coming" ie., "ghar vapasi" that is, forcible conversion of the Muslims to Hinduism is real. 2: the Muslims have been turned into 6th rate citizens, even lower than the Dalits Untouchablees according to the Sachar Committee report. 3: since 1948 the Brahmins killed Muslims in the genocidal kilings, which they termed as "Hindu-Muslim" riots. In fact, these were not riots, but they were well planned genocidal mass murders by the Brahmins, and they amount to 65000 riots since 1948 to this day. The cost of lives, families, limbs, and the properties of the Muslims destroyed by the Brahmins amount to kharabs and kharabs of rupees. The killings of the Muslims and discrimination against them still continues. Jay Buddha, Jay Muhammad. Bol pachasi: Jay Mulnivasi

58:30 ff both Sunni and Shia Islam "have condemned Isis" and "Gallup ...in 35 muslim majority countries asked... 'was the 9/11 attack justified?' and 93% said no, it was not justified, and the reasons they gave were religious..." 1:00:49 "...that Gallup pole makes it quite clear where the majority stand, but they don't get much airtime." This is worth bearing in mind when watching TV reports, or other sources of opinion on Islam.

Mrs. Armstrong is a really wonderful author, speaker, and thinker. i defi. support her works. :)

She unfortunately makes immidiately mistakes. WW2 included "Positive Christianity"...the antisemitism was literally birthed by Christian fundamentalists and eugenics that inspired the Nazis was heavily supported by many Christian denominations in the USA. The Armenian genocide was literally a religious based genocide ....a mass genocide on CHRISTIAN Armenians. Now in the USA we have neo confederate Christian Nationalists...that on January 6th stormed the capitol and held literally a damn prayer session in the heart of the capitol trying to hang the vice president, assaulting police officer and trying to overturn a democratic election. Hindu Nationalists beat and murder followers of Islam in India. On a daily basis. You can nearly find examples of religious persecution in every country in every year since the very beginning...when humans invented multiple invisible supernatural superbeeings.

30:53 ah the French resistance’s against Germany 🇩🇪

In Islamic tradition, a warrior who gives his life in a true jihad, a holy war, becomes a shahid, or martyr (literally, “witness), and is guaranteed entry into Paradise.

Great book! Great talk!

i love the book 5/5

suicide bomber does't have to be an expert in islam to be motivated by islam to do the bombing !!

Awful speaker