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Weekend Box Office Report: 'The Pyramid' Gets Buried Upon Arrival
Honestly, we could have just copied and pasted last weekend's box office report and gotten away with it. Outside of the shifting numbers, the order of the top 10 is almost identical to what it was a week ago. This is Hollywood in a holding pattern. The weekend after Thanksgiving is a wasteland. That's probably why 'The Pyramid' was dumped this weekend. However, the lone newcomer in the top 10 didn't just bomb, it bombed spectacularly.
Film Weekend Per Screen
1 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 $21,600,000 (-62.1) $5,328 $257,700,000
2 Penguins of Madagascar $11,100,000 (-56.4) $2,940 $49,591,000
3 Horrible Bosses 2 $8,600,000 (-44.4) $2,529 $36,075,000
4 Big Hero 6 $8,130,000 (-56.8) $2,566 $177,548,000
5 Interstellar $8,000,000 (-49.2)
$2,642 $158,657,000
6 Dumb and Dumber to $4,169,000 (-50.1) $1,350 $78,081,000
7 The Theory of Everything $2,668,000 (-46.8) $3,230 $13,613,000
8 Gone Girl $1,500,000 (-39.2) $1,245 $162,861,000
9 The Pyramid $1,350,000 $2,292 $1,350,000
10 Birdman $1,150,000 (-38.6) $1,558 $18,919,000
Studios have managed to sell terrible found footage horror movies before, but 20th Century Fox decided to essentially dump 'The Pyramid' in a place where it would prove the least embarrassing. And while 'The Pyramid' is one of the worst films of the year, not very many people saw it. With an opening weekend of just over $1 million, this Egyptian-themed horror film should vanish from the face of the planet next week (before becoming one of the movies you always skip past at your local Redbox).
Beyond that disaster, this weekend was really a victory lap for all of the major November releases as they prepare to make way for December's new crop of films.
'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1' held onto the top spot for the third week in a row, grossing $21 million for a $257 million total. At this rate, $300 million is an inevitability, but the film is moving awfully slow for a franchise that has hit $400 million with its previous two entries. Will it hang on long enough to reach that mark? Can it even top 'Guardians of the Galaxy' at this point? Those are the questions to ponder in the weeks ahead.
In second place, 'The Penguins of Madagascar' grossed a mediocre $11 million for a current total of $49 million. If that two-week total was the film's opening weekend, DreamWorks Animation would have been pleased. But this is slow for a family-friendly animated movie, especially one from a franchise that normally performs much better. 'Big Hero 6' cut this thing off at the knees.
In third place, 'Horrible Bosses 2' continued to underperform, grossing $8 million for a $36 million total. At this rate, it should end its run with a gross that isn't embarrassing, but it won't even come close to matching the business of the first film.
Fourth and fifth place belonged to the ever-dueling 'Big Hero 6' and 'Interstellar,' which have been attached at the hip ever since they first opened a month ago. Both films grossed another $8 million over the weekend, bringing the former to $177 million and the latter to $158 million. 'Big Hero 6' should cross $200 million in the weeks ahead, but 'Interstellar' has a bit of a struggle ahead of it (although its international grosses will keep it afloat).
And now for the final stretch...
'Dumb and Dumber To' added $4 million over the weekend, bringing its total to $78 million, which isn't bad for a decade or two too late throwback. 'The Theory of Everything' an 'Birdman' kept on making the most of the their limited releases, passing $13 million and $18 million, respectively. And then there's 'Gone Girl,' which is about to bow out of the top 10 with $162 million, solidifying it as one of the year's biggest successes.
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How bishops must handle McCarrick scandal to regain credibility
'If the bishops attempt to dig themselves out on their own, they will only doom themselves and cause more damage to the Church.'
Wed Aug 1, 2018 - 11:43 am EST
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August 1, 2018, (LifeSiteNews) – The hierarchy of the Catholic Church in the United States has lost its way and is now mired in a widespread, diabolical scandal that reaches far back into the last century. The tentacles of this scandal reach from chanceries to seminaries to parishes and schools, anywhere innocent, unsuspecting young Catholic men can be preyed upon.
Although Catholic prelates largely created their ugly gay predation problem on their own — in secrecy and in darkness; through arrogance, pride and narcissism; by keeping their own sinful counsel within an odd, perverse brotherhood while pretending to be holy, wise and fraternal — they will not find a way out of the problem on their own.
Their failure to hold themselves accountable after the Dallas Charter is now their infamous legacy, for their sin is not merely personal. Their sin has destroyed many lives, derailed many priestly callings, and knocked the Church in America off her feet.
The laity of the United States are both appalled and furious at their apparently unwholesome brotherhood.
The complicity of the bishops — turning a blind eye to sexual sin within their elite fraternity — shows that in a pharisaic manner they hold themselves to a different standard than every other member of the Body of Christ. Or maybe they rarely hold anyone to any public standard of sexual behavior, because they don't often speak about such sins.
At this moment in history, the laity led by Christ their king and the Holy Spirit are the episcopacy's only hope to find its way to true repentance and redemption, health and vitality.
If the bishops attempt to dig themselves out on their own, they will only doom themselves and cause more damage to the Church.
"This has to be a laity-led solution," says canon lawyer Marjorie Murphy Campbell. "The credibility at the episcopal level is shot."
"Bishops and priests need to be encouraged to move in the direction of faith and conviction," asserts Reverend Peter M.J. Stravinskas. "The laity need to 'step up' and take a mature role in the life of the Church, cognizant of the fact that no reform in the history of the Church has ever taken place from the top down; it has always been from the bottom up."
This is true now more than ever.
Left to their own devices, our hierarchy will entrench their position
The experts at the highest levels of the Roman Catholic Church have been busy doing damage control. Some, like McCarrick's former close colleague, Cardinal Farrell — recently appointed by Pope Francis to head the Vatican's Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life — deny they ever knew anything about McCarrick, yet as chancellor of Washington, DC, Farrell shared a house with McCarrick for six years. Farrell's denials are not credible.
Other prelates and pundits are calling for new studies, new policies and procedures.
None of their political posturing or bureaucratic maneuvering will address their ghastly problem, namely that the deadly cancer of homosexuality has infested and corrupted much of the clergy. They are simply doing what their own very protective human instincts — and most likely their lawyers — are telling them to do: deflect, stall, and avoid.
In so doing they are employing a tactic familiar to Washington DC observers: If a topic is toxic and congressmen don't want to deal with it, they create a "blue ribbon panel" to "study the situation" and "make recommendations."
Empanelling such a committee creates the impression that something is being achieved when in actuality, nothing is. It's simply a move to get the public off hapless lawmakers' backs while giving the controversy time to fade away. In fact, all the proposals coming from the top guarantee that nothing will change, and the gay infestation — sin — will persist.
The Catholic Church should avoid going down any such an unserious, unproductive path.
What would constitute a serious response?
First, our bishops need to stop listening to their legal staff and public relations firms, whose advice will only serve to prolong the bishops' dire problem.
Second, the USCCB should radically change its plans for its upcoming November gathering, and hand over the primary planning for the event to the Courage Apostolate. The men of Courage have a lot they can teach our prelates about how to lead lives of sexual purity.
The bishops need to learn the importance of leading chaste lives from same-sex attracted laymen who successfully do so. They need to humbly listen and learn.
They need to hear the testimonies of guys like Daniel Mattson and Paul Darrow who deliver a far clearer message about rejecting being gay as well as the entire gay culture which the prelates have allowed to worm its way into the dioceses, schools, the priesthood, and in some cases, their own lives.
They need to hear from men like Joseph Sciambra, a former gay porn star, who boldly wages a one-man battle against LGBT infiltration in the church––where the institutional church is often his biggest obstacle in bringing the Gospel message to those trapped in the lie of gay or transgender identity. Sciambra takes to the streets in San Francisco, speaking one-on-one with gays, delivering the Gospel's message of freedom, hope, and salvation.
Sciambra's bold evangelism makes the bishops' own evangelistic efforts appear anemic, if not effeminate.
The bishops need to sit and listen to lay Catholic psychology experts like Dr. Paul McHugh and Dr. Rick Fitzgibbons, who deal with issues of homosexuality and transgenderism in the church. The bishops need to humbly listen not as pastors picking up pointers, but as patients.
They need to hear from Dr. Gerard van den Ardweg, Europe's foremost expert on homosexuality, pedophilia, and gays within the Catholic priesthood. If they'll listen, he can help them understand that "homosexuality and pedophile homosexuality" are not only" sexual neurosis," they are a "sickness of the soul."
The bishops also need to hear from Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, founder of the Ruth Institute, who for years has been ministering to and telling the stories of the survivors of the sexual revolution. For whether wittingly or not, our bishops have often stood by as the sexual revolution has wreaked havoc on the Church.
Prelates like McCarrick would also do well to hear from members of a "Men's Purity Group" like the one at my parish, where guys help and hold each other accountable when tempted with sexual impurity, where there is a real opportunity to avoid sin. Such friendships are a great source of strength.
For the final day of the USCCB's fall meeting, the bishops should be led in a corporate examination of conscience focusing on how they have personally permitted the normalization of homosexuality within the Catholic Church, followed by a public repentance.
Nothing short of this will do.
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Doug Mainwaring is a journalist for LifeSiteNews, an author, and a marriage, family and children's rights activist. He has testified before the United States Congress and state legislative bodies, originated and co-authored amicus briefs for the United States Supreme Court, and has been a guest on numerous TV and radio programs. Doug and his family live in the Washington, DC suburbs.
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I'm riding in the back of a cab coming home. It's an uneventful trip. Out of seemingly nowhere, my cab gets cut off by another cab. My driver loses it. Honking at the guy, screaming at him. Usually, you'd get a little nervous at this. For some reason, I reacted differently.
For some reason, I rallied to this guy's defense. "Screw that guy!" I yelled, in support of my newfound…friend, I guess? Why the hell am I backing this guy? Just because he happened to pick me up, now I'm Team Our Cab?
Why did I pick this one time to engage with a cab driver, the time one gets unconscionably angry? Why didn't I stick to my usual routine of mumbling something about traffic, or the weather, then hoping he's tuckered out on conversation so I can stick my headphones in? Instead I've inserted myself in a Cab vs. Cab skirmish that, hello, I have NO IDEA how it's going to end. I mean these guys could pull over and play Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Tire-Irons.
Will my support of him end with this little example of road rage, or will my support embolden him? "Hey man, you seem like a guy I can count on if stuff goes haywire…you want to pay a visit to my sister's boyfriend's house? He's been treating her bad and I want to teach him some manners the old fashioned way!" Next thing you know I'm sitting in the driver's seat of an idling cab outside some jerk's apartment while I wait for this guy to hope in our makeshift getaway car.
Or maybe he decides he likes fighting other taxi driver's so much, he starts a Taxi Fight Club. He and other taxi drivers get together in dimly lit basements to fist fight each other so they can feel alive. Worst thing is because I know about the plan he forces me to join. I'm too far in. Of course that means I have to get ripped, become a taxi driver, and start getting in weekly fist fights with other taxi drivers. Three things I've never budgeted when scheduling my weeks.
These are all reasons why I never talk to my cab drivers. No offense to all of you, I just don't have time to get involved in your fight clubs.
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I called it a long shot, but had doubts when Justice Alito delayed things and asked for a response, but now the Justice has denied the request without referring it to the full court.
Failure to refer usually means the Justice has calculated that the other Justices would not be likely to grant a stay. It is very unusual for these measures not to be referred, but I'm guessing Justice Alito knows that if he was not convinced, the chances of getting to five were very small.
Still pending is the stay request in the North Carolina racial gerrymandering case. But the PA case has more national implications.
Justice Alito's denial of the stay in the Pa Congressional redistricting case is a reminder that it is NOT all partisan politics at the Court. If it were, surely J. Alito would have ruled to help Republicans in their Pa House races in 2018.


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Q: Automatically edit out TIA/Thanks In Advance This is obviously heavily related to this question.
From Jeff's answer, I see that it was decided not to touch "thanks" at that time, but as I have started getting into the review process and I noticed a significant number of "First Posts" that include "TIA" or "Thanks in Advance" that need to be edited out and I'm wondering if it is possible to revisit that original decision, or if it is still thought of as to difficult to detect, only look at removing "TIA" or "Thanks in Advance" automatically?

A: I don't think this is necessary.
In addition to Jeff's explanation that this is trickier than opening salutations, what % of first posts (or any queue really) do you suspect have only the problem of TIA? In other words, if the post is going to be edited for other reasons anyway, what does automating buy us? And if it really is the only problem with the post, is it worth editing (manually or automatically)?
The opening hi and all that stuff gets in the way of getting to the point. An ending thanks after making the point is really just not as much of a problem IMHO. In fact it's nice to see that not every bit of cordiality and courtesy has been automated away. When I'm editing a question I remove it but I won't edit a question just to remove it.

A: I just want to say that I'm totally down with this idea, "Thanks in Advance" is ridiculously common and of course totally unnecessary. And yes, sometimes it is the only thing that needs editing out of an otherwise good post, so often people won't bother touching it.
From Jeff's answer:

The thanks parts at the end of posts are much more difficult / risky to detect, so we are not touching those for now.

That's cool and I totally understand, but if someone does find a way to do this without being risky, it would be awesome. Just make sure to get "Thanks in advanced" too.

A: Automatically editing out "Thanks in advance" should be part of a teachable moment. The most important form of thanks that the original poster can give is to mark an answer as accepted. A TIA in a question is an indication that the user likely doesn't know this.
When a TIA is recognized, it would be great to automatically remove it and show something like this to the user:

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 Albert Wohlwend (* 1979), liechtensteinischer Fußballspieler
 Christian Wohlwend (* 1977), kanadisch-schweizerischer Eishockeyspieler und -trainer
 Christine Wohlwend (* 1978), liechtensteinische Politikerin (FBP)
 Ernst Wohlwend (* 1947), Schweizer Politiker (SP)
 Fabienne Wohlwend (* 1997), liechtensteinische Rennfahrerin
 Fidel Markus Wohlwend (1808–1883), österreichischer Gutsbesitzer und Politiker
 Johannes Wohlwend (* 1964), liechtensteinischer Judoka
 Konrad Wohlwend (1902–1975), liechtensteinischer Politiker (VU)
 Lotty Wohlwend (* 1965), Schweizer Journalistin und Filmemacherin
 Mario Wohlwend (* 1973), liechtensteinischer Politiker (VU)
 Renate Wohlwend (* 1952), liechtensteinische Politikerin (FBP)
 Vinzenz Wohlwend (* 1969), liechtensteinisch-österreichischer Zisterzienserabt
 Walter Bruno Wohlwend (1940–2018), liechtensteinischer Journalist

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= 4D Hex code
= 127.5 ~ 126
= 7E Hex code
= B3 Hex code
= E6 Hex code
1.2 The measured values for the various voltages are shown below;
0.5V = 19
1.5V = 4C
2.5V = 7F
3.5V = B3
4.5V = E6
The calculated values are higher than the measured values; this is mainly due to the rounding off so as to get a whole number during the calculation of the hex code value. The difference is due to this. Continue reading...
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Author:Sarah Scott
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Historian, translator and novelist, born Sarah Robinson
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(anon.) The History of Cornelia (1750) (external scan)
(tr., anon.) Agreeable Ugliness, or, The Triumph of the Graces; Exemplified in the Real Life and Fortunes of a Young Lady of Some Distinction by Antoine (1754)
(anon.) A Journey through every Stage of Life, Described in a Variety of Interesting Scenes, Drawn from Real Characters. By a Person of Quality (1754)
(pseud. Henry Augusts Raymond) The History of Gustavus Ericson, King of Sweden; With an Introductory History of Sweden, from the Middle of the Twelfth Century (external scan)
(anon.) The History of Mecklenburgh, from the First Settlement of the Vandals in that Country, to the Present Time; including a Period of about Three Thousand Years (1762) (external scan)
A Description of Millenium Hall and the Country Adjacent, Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections as May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue (1762) (external scan)
The History of Sir George Ellison (1766) ()
(anon.) The Life of Theodore Agrippa d'Aubigné, Containing a Succinct Account of the Most Remarkable Occurrences during the Civil Wars of France in the Reigns of Charles IX, Henry III, Henry IV, and in the Minority of Lewis XIII (1772) (external scan)
(anon.) The Test of Filial Duty; In a Series of Letters between Miss Emilia Leonard, and Miss Charlotte Arlington: A Novel (1772)
Works about Scott[edit]
"Scott, Sarah," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1928, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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Columbian Historical Novels, Volume 8
By John Roy Musick
"Don't attempt that, young man, or, by the Lord Harry, we'll fire and stretch your lifeless body at the road-side."
"What will you have?" asked Jean in English. " You." "What do you wish with me?"
" You will wheel about and march to Grand Pre. Have you not heard the proclamation for all to assemble at Grand Pre who live in this district?"
"I heard Monsieur Dupre tell father——"
" And yet you would run away. Zounds! you are a young rebel, a deserter, and deserve to hang."
"Please allow me to go to the cottage beyond." "No." "For just a moment." "Not an instant; march !"
As the young Frenchman still hesitated, the soldiers advanced and brought their muskets at a charge to prod him with their bayonets.
It was a very difficult task; but Jean walked back down the path toward his home, hoping that he would not be detained long at Grand Pre. When he came in sight of his home, he found his father and Monsieur Dupre in the road, guarded by a dozen British soldiers, under a mounted officer. One glance at the officer, and Jean felt his heart sink within him. It was Captain Winslow, his bitterest enemy. They were only waiting for Jean to come up, and then the captain said:
" Take them to Grand Pre at once, and plunge your bayonets into any who refuse."
Without another word, the captain galloped away, and the prisoners were hurried to Grand Pre. As they approached the village, men, women and children could be seen pouring in from every road and path, while the air was filled with bitter wailings. Some of the people were being driven in at the point of the bayonet; but a majority, having heard the governor's proclamation, were hastening in fear and trembling to the village.
Other parties joined the three who were driven to the village, so that before they reached the church, the point designated for the gathering, they numbered a score. Among others who came, were Adrianne and her mother.
"Jean, Jean," she whispered, creeping close to the side of her lover, "what will they do with us?"
" Alas, I know not."
" Will they slay us?"
" Hardly."
"Our marriage, Jean?".
"May have to be postponed, Adrianne; yet we will wed, if it be years from this day."
" I will await you, Jean." No more was said. Men, women and children were hastening toward the church, around which General Winslow had drawn a large body of sol. diers with fixed bayonets, standing in the form of a semicircle.
A vast multitude of men and boys, old and young, were driven like sheep into the church, and the militia stood ready to execute any peremptory order the officers might issue. Not a whisper gave a warning of the purposes of the conquerors, till the plot was ripe for execution. The chief-justice, Belcher, on whose opinion hung the fate of so many hundreds of innocent families, had insisted that the French families were to be looked upon as confirmed "rebels," who had now collectively and without exception become "recusants." Besides, they still counted in their villages" eight thousand" souls, and the English not more than " three thousand." "They stood in the way of the progress of the settlement." "By their non-compliance with the conditions of the treaty of Utrecht, they had forfeited their possessions to the crown." After the departure" of the fleet and troops, the province would not be in a condition to drive them out." "Such a juncture as the present might never occur again," so he had advised against receiving any of the French inhabitants to take the oath, and for the removal of " all of them from the province." That the cruelty might have no palliation, letters arrived, leaving no doubt that the shores of the Bay oi Fundy were entirely in the possession of the British; yet at a council, at which Vice-Admiral Boscawen was present by invitation, it was unanimously determined to send the French inhabitants out of the province. After mature consideration, it was further unanimously agreed that, to prevent their attempting to return and molest the settlers that were to be set down on their lands, it would be most proper to distribute theni among the several colonies on the continent. To hunt them into the net was impracticable; so this artifice was resorted to to bring in all by proclamation. And as the old men and young men and the boys of ten were gathering into the great church at Gand Pre, they expected, at the most, that they would only be required to take the proscribed oaths which they had before refused; but a great surprise was in store for them.
Jean and his father were crowded into a far corner of the church with others, while the women and children, to the number of hundreds, swarmed outside the building, awaiting in breathless anxiety the decision of General Winslow. The general arose, and all eyes were fixed on his stern, unyielding face. Hearts seemed to stand still as he took his place in the centre of the church and, mounting a table, spoke:
"You are convened together to manifest to you his majesty's final resolution to the French inhabitants of this his province. Your lands and tenements, cattle of all kinds and live stock of all sorts are forfeited to the crown, and you yourselves are to be removed from this his province. I am, through his majesty's goodness, directed to allow you liberty to carry off your money and household goods, as many as you can, without discommoding the vessels you go in. Now, in the name of his majesty, I declare you are the king's prisoners."
During his speech, a death-like silence pervaded the church; but no sooner had the cruel edict been pronounced than wails and sobs went up on the air. Jean made an effort to escape by one of the windows; but he found every avenue guarded by soldiers with fixed bayonets. Adrianne had been left outside the church, and at the door he begged to see her; but Captain Henry Winslow, who heard him, assured him that he would care for Adrianne.
"If you never see her again, and the chances are you never will," the officer cruelly continued, " assure yourself that she is safe with one who loves her quite as dearly as you."
Driven to madness by the taunts of the officer, Jean strove to assault him, unarmed as he was, when a soldier knocked him senseless with his


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My son was telling me a story the other day regarding an incident with a woman he had just met. He was at an art gallery opening and struck up a conversation with a woman who was there by herself. He's just out of college and is 24 and the woman was a high school art teacher in her mid-30's, so there was a substantial age gap. He said that they seemed to develop a nice rapport, maybe even a bit flirty, and were chatting for close to a half hour.
He felt he had a good comfort level with her and wanted to compliment her on her appearance so he told her she had a "really, nice, hourglass figure" and from there everything quickly went downhill. She was taken aback and said something like, "Excuse me, you hardly know me, why are you commenting on my body?" He went into damage control mode but only made matters worse when he tried to convince her that "hourglass figure" was a compliment rather than just apologizing for offending her. As he described it, she rolled her eyes, shook her head and exclaimed, "You really don't get it do you?!" and then she landed a stinging slap across his cheek and walked off. I would love to have been a fly on the wall for that one ;-)
I did tell him that he should stick to more neutral areas when commenting on a woman's appearance, so the clothes or shoes they're wearing should be fine, maybe the hair too, but never the body. I wonder if his age had something to do with it and perhaps she would be more receptive to the comment if it came from a man in her age group, and maybe she saw him as some college guy who wanted to score with an older woman? It's hard to know all the dynamics, but I just wanted to get your perspective.
Look at this extremely calm couple, about to do a slap; why are stock images so nuts!!!!!
SOPHIA:
Oh boy oh boy. Here's the thing (lol): You can't talk about other people's bodies. You just cannot. In the same way we all learned to keep our hands to ourselves in preschool , your son should have learned to keep his words about other people's bodies to himself. Always. Unless you are in a long term, sexual and/or romantic relationship with someone, your opinion (GOOD OR BAD) on their body is unimportant and inappropriate to voice. Especially across gender lines and age gaps. And DOUBLE ESPECIALLY from people you've never ever met before!!!! Do not tell people they look like they've lost weight. Don't tell them they look hot. And certainly don't talk about their hourglass figure. If you're looking to compliment someone focus on their character or their (not-appearance-based) choices. Things like, "It was so nice to talk to you." Or "You know so much about art!" or "You always pick the best places to eat!"
The real problem here is that you (and therefore I) do not know what really happened. I don't think your son is lying, but all of us have a difficult time with self-perception, especially it seems when we're telling stories that make us look bad. Your son likely believes with his whole heart that things went down exactly how he told you that they did. But I'm not so sure, frankly. It takes a lot to say, "You really don't get it, do you?" And it takes A TON to slap someone physically larger than you (I'm assuming he is larger than her). There might be more that he simply doesn't remember or, more likely, that he didn't pick up on. [airhorn airhorn] Massive generalization alert: Men are socialized to not pick up on women's discomfort because it doesn't serve them.
Now, on to NBC's The Slap… The woman in question certainly should not have slapped your son. I get that, I'm not going to defend slapping people as a general rule, especially since— from the way your son tells the story— it seemed more punitive than protective. I am going to say, however, that when a strange man comes up to you in public and talks to you for a while (we don't even know if she wanted this) and then comments on your figure and then, when you've said this makes you feel uncomfortable he doubles down, I get feeling threatened. I would feel scared and sexualized, two things which are bad on their own and horrible together.
Your son needs to learn to apologize better, to approach people better, to compliment (or not) people better, and to deescalate better. If you feel he'll listen (it seems you two have a pretty good relationship), I would talk to him about how to avoid making people feel that way in the future. Additionally, the next time you see your son, a not-so-gentle reminder of the difference between his intent and his impact would probably do wonders. He's responsible for both.
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Eddie Howe should be able to leave Bournemouth with a positive leaving present in what seems likely to be his final game in charge away at Colchester.
It is rumoured that Howe could be the new manager of Championship side Burnley by the weekend, but he is expected to remain in charge for the trip to Essex.
Bournemouth are 15/8 in the League One odds to beat Colchester, which would be a fourth victory in succession and retain their position in the battle for promotion this season.
While Bournemouth have been on a fine winning run, Colchester have been completely the opposite, failing to win any of their last four games and losing the most recent two.
However, on the whole Colchester have proved difficult to beat in the league this season and they have been defeated in just four of their 21 games.
They are 11/8 to beat Bournemouth, although the best betting opportunity may be on the draw, which can be backed 12/5.
Brentford head into the other Friday night League One fixture on a three-game losing streak, but at 1/1 they should prove too much for Exeter.
Prior to this sequence, Brentford had won four on the bounce and are unbeaten in their last ten home meetings with Exeter.
Exeter are 11/4 to beat Brentford and may be relying on Jamie Cureton to find the target if they are to claim three points.
The veteran striker has three goals in Exeter's last four league games and he is 6/1 to open the scoring against Brentford.
Gary Alexander is Brentford's top scorer this season and he is the favourite in the first goalscorer betting market at 5/1.
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JC wins by a very social distance in CTS Exmoor Ultra
September 18, 2020 Richard Brawn
In his first race since the Coronavirus pandemic stopped play, Jacek Cieluszecki went in hard, taking on the 32.4 mile CTS Exmoor Ultra Marathon
Since the Covid-19 pandemic first began to gather pace in the UK the running scene has become something of an enigma, shrouded in uncertainty and disillusionment at every juncture.
With races being cancelled left, right and centre, athletes have been put in an untenable position, not knowing whether or not the races they are training for are actually going to be on.
Over recent weeks though we have seen the return of some competitive action, albeit sparingly and cautiously as event organizers look for new ways to preserve the safety of participants when bringing them together for a race.
Amidst all the uncertainty and trepidation though, one thing we can be sure of is – if it's a long, hilly race on tough, off-road terrain, and if he's in starting line up – Jacek Cieluszecki is going to be the man to beat.
Notching numerous race wins prior to the Covid-19 pandemic at a varied range of distances and terrain, Jacek has put together a magnificent back catalogue of successes over past seven or so years.
That includes a win at the Maverick inov-8 X Series Exmoor as well as a marvelous victory in the CTS Dorset Ultra, where he shattered the course record by over 30 minutes.
With his repertories in events of this type, there was every reason for JC to be optimistic going into his first race since the pandemic took hold which was the Endurancelife CTS Exmoor Ultra Marathon.
The distance was billed at 32.4 miles, incorporating 11,463ft of ascent. It was certainly going to be a stern test for all of those brave enough to take it on, but for JC, he was in his element.
With so much of his training being carried out on the unscrupulous slopes of the Purbeck, which is like a second home to him, Jacek knew his prospects of performing well were extremely high.
He couldn't of course account for who would turn up on the day to challenge him, but it would take a very special runner to put JC to the sword in this type of domain.
Jacek contemplates how his race will go as he prepares for the grueling task ahead
It was the first time Jacek had laced up his racing trainers since the Bath Half Marathon towards the end of March so it was exciting to see him back out there doing what he does best.
The CTS Exmoor is staged in the western area of Exmoor National Park where a trail runner's mecca lay in wait. The course took the participants to dizzying heights with hugely steep climbs and long descents dominating the proceedings throughout.
The route also features open moorland, thick wooded valleys, historical ruins, sharp cliffs and rivers and the race organizers are confident there is no course in Britain that offers so much variation in terrain in such a compact area.
In the interests of maintaining social distancing for the competitors, they were set off individually, with one heading out onto the course every 15 seconds.
The route started on a sharp downhill curve which went on for majority of the first mile, giving Jacek the opportunity to get off to a fast start.
The real climbing started at the 2.3 mile point and that was where the sheer brutality of the cliffs around Exmoor started to become evident.
The Exmoor landscape was as majestic as it was unforgiving
To begin with it was a guy who was doing the Marathon distance, Dan Murdoch, who was leading the way, with Jacek just behind him in second place. Then it was Eddie Rolls who was also doing the Marathon distance.
JC's closest rival in the Ultra distance stakes was David Atkinson and he wasn't far behind, managing to run at a very similar pace in the early going.
That remained the situation until around about the 11th mile when David caught Jacek. Now the race was really hotting up.
The pair ran together up until the top of the climb on the 13th mile. Then David began to pull ahead on the descent. This was the point in the race where Jacek began to struggle.
Feeling a drop in energy levels and suffering a slight lapse in motivation, he needed to dig deep and find the grit to keep battling on.
Fortunately he had the strength of character to do so and after reaching the 20th mile he was feeling back to his old self again and was ready to give it his all for the remainder of the race.
Over the next few miles, both David and Jacek caught and overtook Dan Murdoch before he reached the end of his marathon.
David was still going well and managed to maintain his advantage over JC until they reached the bottom of the climb when they were just coming up to the 24 mile point.
It wasn't one of the steepest climbs but it was long, and it was at a point in the race where the fatigue was really starting to set in. It was on this climb that Jacek made the decisive move.
About two thirds of the way up the ascent, he assumed pole position – and from that point on, it was all academic. Jacek began to pull away and the distance between the two of them began to grow substantially as they hit the descent on the 26th mile.
Once JC got into the lead up the hill on the 25th mile, there was no stopping him from that point on
The last steep climb of the race came at the 28 mile point and Jacek was well clear and home and dry by that point. Even though he knew he had the win in the bag though, there was still the course record to go for and that was enough of a carrot to keep him driving on.
The time he had to beat was 4 hours 52 minutes and 46 seconds. It did look like he was going to comfortably do that until he missed the last turning toward the finish line.
Luckily he soon realized he'd gone wrong and was able to get back on track. Although the incident did cost him a few minutes, it didn't matter too much in the end as he made it to finish line in an incredible time of 4 hours 44 minutes and 7 seconds.
Despite that little mishap at the end he'd managed to better the previous course record by well over 8 minutes which was a remarkable achievement.
Clocking a total of 33.3 miles in the end, Jacek managed an average pace of 8:31 minutes per mile on a route that featured over 6,600ft of elevation.
It was a fantastic return to racing for JC and showed that, pandemic or no pandemic, he is still top dog when it comes to testing endurance courses with big and brutal ascents.
There was yet more drama at the end as well when David, who had been contesting the race win with Jacek up until the last 8 miles or so, took a wrong turn adding an extra 4 kilometers onto his activity.
That resulted in him losing second place as well and the person who took advantage of his woes was actually his wife Freya. She came across line in exactly 5 hours 26 minutes, with David arriving seven seconds later.
That meant Jacek's winning margin stood at almost 42 minutes in the end, so it was a pretty comprehensive victory, even though he'd had to work very hard for it.
In the Marathon race, Eddie Rolls caught Dan Murdoch in the end on the same climb that Jacek overtook David on, so with only about a mile left to go. The winning time for Eddie was 3:50:52, with Dan having to settle for the runner up spot with his time of 3:54:23.
Jacek's wife Ela was also taking on the Marathon distance but she wound up following the Half Marathon route and after covering 33km, she realized she was lost and was forced to abandon.
The Exmoor course is regarded as the toughest in CTS series, which is quite a statement in itself. It's definitely a true test of endurance for even the hardiest of trail and fell runners, as Jacek can now vouch for. It was a test that he passed with flying colours though.
Next up for JC, he'll be returning to the region for the Exmoor Coast 55km Ultra on 3rd October, which will be another grueling one to get his teeth into.
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Teodorosz Beriosz (Athén, 1989. március 21. –) görög labdarúgó, a ciprusi Ammohósztu játékosa.

Pályafutása
Beriosz alacsonyabb osztályú görög klubokban kezdte meg labdarúgó-pályafutását, majd 2012-ben leszerződtette őt az akkor cseh másodosztályú FK Čáslav csapata. Fél évnyi játék után visszaigazolt Görögországba, ahol az élvonalbeli PASZ Jánina játékosa lett, 2012 és 2018 között közel száz bajnoki mérkőzésen lépett pályára a csapat színeiben. 2018 nyarán szerződtette őt a magyar elsőosztályú Kisvárda FC.

Magánélete
Édesapja, Eliasz görög válogatott labdarúgó volt a nyolcvanas években.

Jegyzetek

Források
 Teodorosz Beriosz profilja a Transfermarkt oldalon

Görög labdarúgók
Labdarúgóhátvédek
A Kisvárda FC labdarúgói
1989-ben született személyek
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The Bachata originates from the Dominican Republic. It made its way around the globe, gaining influence from other Latin dances, like Salsa and Merengue, and from Western and European dance styles. Today it is considered a "fusion-style" dance and is not danced identically in any two places. However, its colorful roots are the foundation of every style and are mirrored in its always sensual motions. Bachata is a more intimate and close dance, with movements that are intentionally romantic with the person you dance with.
Bachata's music is about bitterness, pain, a lost love, or unfaithfulness in a relationship. It was always very sad. The way it is danced reflects how couples let off steam: how do we cope? We cope through dancing. Deemed a favorite dance for many professional and recreational dancers, Bachata's popularity cannot be denied.
The Bachata Defined
The authentic Bachata, from the Dominican Republic, is a box-step dance with a sequence of 8 counts. Western influence kept the same 8 counts, but altered the basic step with a side-to-side motion. The fusion-style of Bachata developed in the United States, Europe, and Australia combines any or all of the Traditional, Modern, Urban, Bachatango, and Bachaballroom styles.
Steps one through three are a step-together-step, followed by a tap on count four. Changing direction, dancers repeat the step-together-step for counts five thru seven, and tap on the eight count. The tap on the four and eight count can include a slight or exaggerated "pop" movement with the hips, depending on the dancer's style. With each Bachata step, the dancer's hips mimic a figure-eight design. It is important to keep knees slightly bent to ease the sway of the hips. When you dance Bachata, the music follows the same 8-count pattern and the rhythm accents every fourth count, which is a good indication of when to "pop." The tap and pop indicate which direction the next steps will go.
As a partner dance, the leader decides whether to perform in an open, semi-closed or closed position. The leader communicates with "pushing and pulling" hand gestures. The performance variations depend on the music, venue, mood, and interpretation.
The Bachata
Bachata dance developed with its accompanying music genre, also called Bachata. The first Bachata music recordings were created immediately after the 1961 assassination of Dominican Republic's 31-year dictator, Rafael Trujillo, who had repressed the dance. Like the period it came from, Bachata music and dance often tell a tale of heartbreak and sadness.
In the 1970s, Bachata music was seldom broadcasted and was banned from high society venues. Bachateros appeared solely in bars and brothels, mostly in the poor, countryside neighborhoods. Thus, the music and dance were influenced by their surroundings: sex, desolation and corruption. The Dominican upper class considered it vulgar and crude. It wasn't until the 1980s that Bachata took on a more dance-hall sound with increased tempos, punchier guitar notes, and call and response singing.
Bachata gained popularity as more radio stations caught on to the upbeat rhythm. By the 1990s, it modernized further and emerged internationally as a music and dance for Latin dance halls. Dancers and dance schools modified the box-step pattern to a side-to-side pattern. In 1992, Juan Luis Guerra won a Grammy for his Bachata Roja, which legitimized the genre and made it more widely acceptable.
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Istanbul is located on the 32km (20-mile) Bosphorus Strait, a coveted stretch of water connecting the trade routes of the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara and the Mediterranean, and dividing the city into its Asian side and its European side. Protected by water on three sides, it was also the ideal military watchpoint, with the natural harbor of the Golden Horn nestled within the city a perfect place to hide an entire fleet of warships. Because of this situation as a fortress, port, and commercial crossroads, it is no surprise that Istanbul's imperial history stretches back for more than 1500 years. Even after Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Sultans in 1453, the city remained the prime distribution point worldwide for valuable spices and textiles brought via the "Silk Road" from as far away as China. To this day, it is Turkey's economic capital and biggest trade center, home to nearly half the country's wealth.
Istanbul: The City Between Two Continents
Such a prime position has meant that Istanbul was always under siege, its heritage constantly threatened, as it moved from a Hellenic to a Christian seat, to the center of the world's biggest Muslim Empire, and was even occupied by the Allies in World War II. Some classical columns are still standing in Gülhane Park although most were recycled, and a few floor tiles are all that remain of the once-huge Byzantine Great Palace. Much of the Theodosian Walls, which protected the city for centuries, until it finally succumbed to Mehmet the Conqueror, are still in existence. The Conqueror actually resisted desecration of some Byzantine structures, most significantly Haghia Sophia, which was dedicated to Allah as a mosque. Indeed, many other fine Byzantine churches are still in use as mosques today, which has helped to preserve them.
Visitors may be confused by this jumble of Byzantine, Ottoman and modern buildings, and it may seem that the general population has scant regard for the past. Some nationalist and Islamist movements have even tried to write Christian Constantinople out of Istanbul's history. Furthermore, rapid industrialization inspired thousands of rural poor to migrate to the metropolis, and a vast social gap has emerged between "native" Istanbullites and the newer arrivals. Istanbul's growth rate is currently treble the national average, and the people in the shanty towns at the city's limits and the slum quarters of the inner city are more concerned with finding work than preserving history. The rest of the population, only 25% is contrastingly wealthy, living in the newly built suburbs, preferring a glamorous, cosmopolitan lifestyle to crumble antiquities. Indeed, the sophistication of Istanbul's cafe society and designer shops may surprise the visitor, as may the thriving nightlife (over 60% of Istanbullites are under 25 years old) and vibrant contemporary cultural life of the city.
Turkey's rate of political change, however, even since the 1999 earthquake, has been startling. As it looks to the EU for its future, politicians are calling for reform to end human rights abuses, the Kurdish insurgency movement has abated, relations with Greece are better than ever, and there is a general feeling of excitement and cultural tolerance in Istanbul. It seems that the buzzing atmosphere of the pedestrian Istiklal Caddesi, with its hundreds of bars, cinemas, restaurants, and bistros, may reflect the future of Istanbul, especially as the use of Byzantine and Ottoman buildings for contemporary cultural events shows the way the past is being reclaimed.
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Interview Asma Barlas
"It Is the Right for Every Muslim to Interpret the Quran for Themselves"
One of the scholars who try to offer a more emancipatory interpretation of the Quran is Asma Barlas. She closely examines the male-oriented interpretations of the Quran and offers an antipatriarchal alternative
Asma Barlas: Political and economical reform taking place in Muslim countries must be informed by an Islamic ethos
Your ideas in your book, "Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an, are not as controversial as Prof. Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid's theses on the ontological aspect of the Quran. Instead of saying that the Quran itself is the product of culture in the Arabian Peninsula, you foremost seem to criticize the patriarchal interpretations of the Quran. Why do you not consider the Quran itself as the problem?
Asma Barlas: Because as a believing Muslim I do not believe it is the problem. I have never questioned the ontological status of the Quran as a divine speech. For me as a Muslim, the starting premise is that the Quran, ontologically, is the speech of God. The problem thus lies not in the divine discourse of the sacred text, but the problem lies in that we interpret inappropriately. So for me the crux of the problem is not "the text itself", as it is for many scholars, but rather the human appropriation of it.
I do not think that the problem lies at the very notion of something being sacred; the problem lies in how we conceptualize the sacred. For me it is the content of sacredness that is at stake here, not the idea of the sacred. Those are two different things, the idea and the contents.
As Fazlur Rahman also used to say, I think it is not possible and it is not desirable to have complete unanimity of opinion, to have only one reading of the Quran. Difference of opinion could lead to new kind of synthesis that keeps the conversation alive, and keeps us thinking and keeps us stretching our minds.
I do not think we should strive towards uniformity, because that is the mark of fundamentalism. I agree to disagree, and I say furthermore that disagreement is a fact of life, which is mentioned hundreds of times in the Quran. The matters in which you disagree will be referred to back to God. The Quran says that God created different tribes and that there is diversity, so that is not necessarily bad.
Don't you think that the Quran's permission for polygamy reflects the culture of seventh century Arabs?
Barlas: There are two comments I could make about that. One is that the Quran is both particular and universal and I always make that claim side by side. It is particular in the sense that its first audience were seventh century Arabs and nobody should pretend that that was not the case.
Does every Muslim have an equal right to interpret the Quran or should it be an exclusive right of imams and scholars? Write to us... In addition, since the Quran was directly addressing seventh century Arabs it is spoken in a language and in a way that was relevant to those people's lives. But the Quran is also universal. The concept of sexual modesty, for example, is a universal concept in the Quran, while the particular mode of just is a particular instance of Arab culture. Therefore, I think it is quite possible to distinguish between what is universal in the Quran and what is particular.
Secondly, as far as polygamy is concerned, it is very important to look at certain concepts historically. No Hebrew prophet other than Jesus was either celibate or monogamous. King David, the king of Israel had 900 wives and concubines. In Islam, the practice has been circumscribed and framed into terms of certain conditionality.
I am one of those people that claim that the Quranic provision on polygamy is only with reference to female orphans and is only allowed if those two or three conditions that the Quran mentions are fulfilled. And this is very difficult to do, which is why that same Quranic verse ends by saying it is better if you marry only once. I think that most Muslims who are marrying four wives are actually acting very unquranic. Which part of the Quranic injunction on marriage do they not understand when it says that marriage should not be for lust? Do not tell me those men are accumulating those wives just out of piety!
We can speak about the historical aspect of things and look for reasons instead of blindly and ritualistically imitating things when it suits us.
Are you optimistic that your feminist approach towards the Quran and Islamic discourse can become the dominant discourse in the Muslim world?
Barlas: I prefer not to call myself a feminist, because I think the concept itself needs a great deal of clarification. Many feminists condemn Islam as a patriarchal religion. Until there is a greater clarity within the Muslim community about what feminism is, I prefer to just simply say: I am a believer. Am I optimistic? No. I am not optimistic, not at all, because many of the conservative forces are terribly strong.
Will I in my lifetime see a major shift in how Muslims are thinking? Again, I am not very optimistic, but I will struggle to do what I think I have to do. Because I take a historical approach to my own work, which is to say: I do not know when something like this will have an impact or if it will have an impact, or how wide of an impact it will have, but I do it out of a certain ethical and moral commitment to myself and my religion.
Do you think your thoughts could have emerged in the same way if you would not have been involved with the feminist discourse in the West?
Barlas: I always acknowledge that I am very indebted to feminists and feminist thinking. To say I prefer not to put that label of feminist on myself is not to say that I am not influenced by how feminists think. I work together with some feminists and I have been influenced by their ideas, but I also take a critical approach in a way that many feminists do not take.
Would I have learned to think in this particular way if I was not a product of a particular education and culture? Probably not, since one does not think outside the frameworks in which one has been educated and culturated. I am very much a cultural hybrid in the sense that my education, even in Pakistan, was very western. I was educated in a catholic school and my first language was English, which was the language we spoke at home with our parents. I am very much a product of both an Islamic sensibility and a Western education.
How does your audience perceive your way of looking at the Quran?
Barlas: Many people are profoundly disturbed by what I have to say, although I do not think that some of the things I am saying are controversial at all. For example, I argue that we need to avoid masculinizing God, because certain implications will flow from that for men and for women. Some of the things I am saying are very Quranic and I do not see them as intrinsically controversial. But it is the very fact that in many Muslim communities the people that define religious knowledge are primarily men, and primarily but not exclusively conservative men. Therefore, it is disturbing for them to hear someone who comes along and say the things I say.
Particularly, surprisingly enough, the fact that I claim that it is the right for every Muslim to read and interpret the Quran for themselves. They immediately think it means a very elaborate process of exegesis that only philologists, linguists and scholars can undertake. One of my recurrent messages is that the Quran came also for the unlettered Bedouin in the desert; therefore, it cannot be preserved only for scholars and jurists.
We have no priest class, at least not in Sunni Islam. Things like that are more controversial than they need to be, because in some way those arguments seem to threaten established patterns of male authority in Muslim communities.
The way women's rights problems are discussed differs greatly from person to person. Amina Wadud, for example, led a Friday prayer in the United States. Do you think her action is a constructive contribution to the gender equality discourse?
Barlas: This is such a complicated issue. Many people are criticizing her for undertaking this act while there are more urgent issues. Well, why are they not spending their time talking about those issues that are more urgent rather than about the case of Amina Wadud? At least the people who prayed behind her have democratically selected her. The authority of an imam or leader of prayer is not the same as a priest or a pope. Nobody is going to be forced to obey her. An imam can be anybody leading the prayer. If people want to pray behind her, why not? If she is the most knowledgeable Muslim in that room and she can lead the prayer: why not?
An imam of course is not like a pope, but the authority of the ulama is definitely not negligible.
Barlas: Well, we need to challenge the authority of the ulama, because nobody has the right to say that only he knows the meaning of the Quran and only he can define religious meaning. I believe that everybody who condemned those who prayed behind Amina Wadud are wrong, because it is not for anyone of us to determine whose prayer is going to be accepted and whose prayer is not.
Furthermore, there are adult Muslim women who pray behind there six and seven years old sons for no other reasons than that they are male children. Is that not a form of male worship and should we not be talking about those issues? Why are we just so hung up on Amina Wadud? What about the thousands of Muslim women who pray in their own homes behind little children, just simply because their child is a male? So, for me this controversy needs to be put to rest.
In the Netherlands, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is also fighting for the rights of Muslim women and gender equality. She made a highly controversial film, Submission, together with late Theo van Gogh that directly relates the abuse of women to Quranic texts. What do you think of her contribution to the debate?
Barlas: I think there was more an element of sensationalism in the film and I think Amina Wadud goes much deeper than that, since she fundamentally believes that it is her right as a believing Muslim to stand before a prayer congregation. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is saying that the Quran itself authorizes men to abuse their wives sexually. In my opinion, you cannot be an advocate for Muslim women when you think the Quran is oppressive. Amina Wadud, on the contrary, thinks that the Quran is libratory and she sees her action as an act of liberation.
Do you think the feminist Islamic discourse will in the future be able to change the conservative Islamic jurisprudence or fiqh?
Barlas: I do not know many female scholars who are actually attacking fiqh from a feminist perspective, so it is hard for me to say whether they will be able to change it. But when ordinary average people begin to see that the shari'a in the form in which it is implemented now is not giving them what the politicians say it is supposed to be given to them, things will change. Unless Muslims as a whole begin to raise certain kinds of question, reform or change is going to be very hard.
In Indonesia there are many people who are calling for an implementation of the Islamic shari'a. Since you have experienced the shari'a yourself in Pakistan, during the Zia ul Haq regime, do you believe shari'a could be introduced and at the same time defend woman rights?
Barlas: From what I have heard and read so far in Indonesia, the shari'a as it is being introduced in Aceh is discriminating against women. Many people are saying it is not providing gender justice. I am of that school of thought which believes that Islamic law is a product of human thinking and that as a product of human thinking it is certainly susceptible to rethinking.
Let us look to Pakistan for example. A blind domestic servant was raped in Pakistan, and the court sanctioned her to be stoned to death. However, stoning to death is not a punishment in the Quran for any crime. Saying that stoning to death is not in the Quran and that it needs to be rethought as a punishment is to say something quite reasonable.
The people (in favor of shari'a, ed.) will then get very upset and they will start quoting hadith and say that they can derive it out of the prophet's practices. Then the conversation goes to another level. Since for me, as a believer, we cannot be one hundred percent sure of every single thing in the hadith, whereas we can be one hundred percent sure of what is in the Quran.
So, this is a kind of circular argument where you cannot pin down your critics. Muslims who defend this kind of Islamic shari'a move from the Quran to the hadith (tradition) and eventually to public reason (ijma'). When you chase them around and tell them the Quran can be read in more than one way they take refuge in hadith. When you point out hadith is multi-vocal and polyphonic, they say that public reason (ijma') will not admit it, although public reason is a socio-cultural construct. I call this a circle of oppression and it is very difficult for Muslim women to escape from it, because they keep jumping around from topic to topic.
So, you strictly separate between the Quran and the hadith then?
Barlas: Yes, absolutely. For a believer, the Quran is a divine discourse and the hadith are not. Hadith are the result of human compilation and none of the people who compiled them ever claimed they were infallible and the Quran teaches us a theory of human fallibility. Many people who are using the hadith are unhappy with the egalitarianism of the Quran. Whatever the Quran opens up, the hadith can shut down.
In Europe, the Muslim community is very static and does not seem to have a good response to Western ideas and intellectuals who criticize Islam. Do you see more criticism within the Islamic community in the US?
Barlas: I think immigrant communities tend to be conservative. This question needs to be posed not just simply in terms of Islam versus the West, because Islam is in the West and it is part of the West. But it really is a problem of immigrants. The first and second-generation immigrants feel culturally marginalized and peripheral, just like Indonesia, the biggest Muslim country, can feel peripheral in the Muslim world. Take immigrants in France e.g., you have to understand that they are living in an ex-colonizing country and it is not so simple to embrace any idea that comes out of a country that has had a history of colonizing these people.
In addition, some of those immigrant communities tend to be more inward looking and more conservative than they were at home.
I think it is about feeling out of place and turning inward. Unfortunately, the primary victims of that inward-looking mentality are Muslim women. Because it is on the body of Muslim women that all of these cultural battles for meaning get played out: whether you should were a hijab or not etc. It is a very sad situation because women's bodies are becoming the symbol for the struggle between the ex-colonial powers and these Muslim communities.
The backward position of women in Muslim countries, as you will agree, does not only come from religion but also from culture. Do you think your struggle could resolve in a change in this culture as well?
Barlas: Patriarchy has been around for thousands of years and when the Quran was revealed it mentions people who blindly follow the ways of the fathers. That, to me, is the essential ingredient of patriarchy. I do not think it will easily be dismantled, but as we see in Western society, it has been possible to mitigate some of the harshest aspects of patriarchy. Not just by formal legal rights but also by substantive civil rights and liberties and economic opportunities.
I think cultural change is never going to happen in the absence of political and economical reform. What Muslim societies need, on a macro level, is a new consciousness that emerges out of material circumstances and conditions. These economically backward societies are politically closed societies and many of them are anti-democratic and authoritarian societies.
How can we expect patriarchy to be dismantled in these societies? I think all of these challenges are interlinked and I always argue hermeneutical and existential questions are always connected, because you cannot read text for liberation in utterly depressive societies.
Do you see Islamic reform as the basis or do you think it should start with political and economical reform?
Barlas: I see these processes of being interlinked and see this (Islamic reform, ed.) as one ingredient, but an essential ingredient, because for political and economical reform to take place in Muslim countries it must also be informed by an Islamic ethos. A lot of left-leaning intellectuals have learned over the years that if you do not speak in a language that average ordinary Muslims can identify with, assimilate and understand that you risk not making real changes.
I think that was one of the shortcomings of the socialists and communists in Pakistan. Marx said, religion is the opium of the masses but he also said it is the sigh of the oppressed. These things have to happen simultaneously, which is why the challenge is so great.
Somebody asked me whether my ideas would bring liberation to women and bring democracy. I said no, you cannot just start reading the Quran and then suddenly have democracy. There are repressive institutions that should be dismantled. However, I do believe a fundamental change must happen in the way Muslim relate to the scripture and interpret their religion for there to be a meaningful democracy. I think it is complicated and things have to happen together.
Interview conducted by Novriantoni and Ramy El-Dardiry
© Asla Barlas/Liberal Islam Network 2005
This interview was previously published by the Liberal Islam Network.
Asma Barlas obtained a BA in English Literature and Philosophy and an MA in Journalism from Pakistan, and a Ph. D. in International Studies (from the USA). She has published as a journalist, poet, and short story writer. Her scholarly work includes papers on the Qur'an and Muslim women's rights (published in the Journal of Qur'anic Studies, for example). She has also published two books, most recently "Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an (2002).
Born in Pakistan, she was one of the first women to be inducted into the Foreign Service, but was then removed by the military ruler General Zia ul-Haq for her criticism of him. She joined the Muslim, a leading opposition newspaper, as assistant editor. In the mid-1980s she left Pakistan for the USA, where she eventually received political asylum. She is currently Associate Professor of Politics at Ithaca College.
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This time, we report on how fintech services have hit the mainstream, according to the EY Fintech Adoption Index, with China and India top-ranked when it comes to fintech usage.
Elsewhere, we highlight the news that the 20 major economies grouped together as the G20 are pushing for a registry for cryptocurrency exchanges to help stamp out money laundering.
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We expect to see increased adoption in the UK as established financial institutions work on more fintech services either through partnerships, acquisitions or in-house development… The introduction of Open Banking and PSD2 in the UK hasn't yet created the rapid take-off of use predicted, but it is still early days.
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