Honor And Polygamy

Publisher : iUniverse
Release Date : 2014-05
ISBN : 1491732954
Pages : 132 pages
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Download or read book Honor and Polygamy written by Omar Farhad and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story has been passionately written to point out the shortfalls, misunderstandings, and missteps of the US government in Afghanistan. the US involvement in Afghanistan is compared to a forbidden marriage, revealing the ultimate failure of implementing US policies in both Afghanistan and the entire Middle East. In general, the American public believes democracy is a gift that was showered on the country, without considering what kinds of sacri?ces have been made over the past 300 years to achieve democracy. However, democracy is not a gift that can be transferred, exported, and force-fed to other nations. Nor is it a strategic business plan that one can hastily globalize. It is a process that has to be accepted with deep understanding.

Honor and Polygamy

by Omar Farhad

Publisher : iUniverse
Release Date : 2014-05-08
ISBN : 1491732962
Pages : 132 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (491 users)

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Download or read book Honor and Polygamy written by Omar Farhad and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heartbreaking and timely novel by Afghan-American author follows one man’s journey from New York to the clutches of the Taliban and into an unintentional polygamist union. “He is picking up the same bags with the same clothes Lisa packed and folded a year ago. He wishes he were like his clothes, untouched by external forces.” Family man Nick Blake is living in New York City and working for the United Nations. Born and raised in the United States with broad knowledge of the Afghan culture, he is living the All-American life with his wife, Lisa, and their children. His life is turned upside down when, while on a diplomatic mission to Afghanistan, Nick is kidnapped and finds himself in the clutches of the Taliban. Omar Farhad’s debut novel Honor and Polygamy follows Nick throughout his eighteen months in Afghanistan and the devastating and unexpected turns his life takes, as he learns the true meanings of home, history and culture. After being held captive for several months, Nick is forced to marry the sixteen-year-old Shaista. Although he cannot forget his beloved wife and children back home, he finds himself falling in love with his second wife and, overwhelmed with guilt, is torn between his old life and his new one. Honor and Polygamy is far from simply a captivating fiction story, but is also a brilliant commentary on the United States’ situation with Afghanistan. Farhad expresses his views on both the political and the cultural sides of Afghanistan. Politically, he is predicting how he feels the war will ultimately end, while culturally, he shows readers not familiar with Afghanistan that the 35-year-old war has created a population, which is uneducated, disloyal, and without identity. The United States and many other nations have continuously disrupted Afghanistan with no clear political objectives, and, in his novel, Farhad explores the consequences of these actions. The story of Nick Blake represents the reality of the Afghan culture and the results and disappointments of the political realities in Afghanistan, and shows readers just how unaware we all are of other cultures. Written by an author who has lived both the American and Afghan ways of life, Honor and Polygamy is a harrowing, haunting and deeply moving tale for our times.

The Mormon Delusion. Volume 1. Paperback Version

by Jim Whitefield

Publisher : Lulu.com
Release Date : 2012-08-01
ISBN : 1409259048
Pages : 430 pages
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Download or read book The Mormon Delusion. Volume 1. Paperback Version written by Jim Whitefield and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a series of books comprising an exposé of the Mormon Church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints). This volume concentrates on polygamy and little known polyandry which is hidden from rank and file Mormons. Historical evidence proves the Mormon Church has rewritten its own history through lies, suppression, omission and interpolation; such that the truth is so well hidden from members; unless they look outside the Church for information; they will never know of the continued conspiracy to deceive them. Contains over 120 pages of appendices, including complete lists and analysis of all the wives and families of Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball, highlighting polyandrous relationships and children born into those unions; plus details of over a hundred children born post 1890 to polygamous wives of General Authorities who violated their own canonised Manifesto after they had covenanted to stop the practice. Visit www.themormondelusion.com for further information.

Pioneer, Polygamist, Politician

by Mari Grana

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2009-09-01
ISBN : 0762756373
Pages : 224 pages
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Download or read book Pioneer, Polygamist, Politician written by Mari Grana and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting look at an untold chapter of Western history, this book tells the story of Martha Hughes Cannon, the first woman elected to the state senate in Utah—in 1896. She was a polygamist wife, a practicing physician, and an astute and pioneering politician. Pioneer, Polygamist, Politician traces her life from her birth in Wales to her emigration to Utah with her family in 1861, her career as a physician, her marriage, her exile in England, and her subsequent return and her election to the Utah state senate. Cannon was a Democrat—and her husband was the Republican candidate she defeated in that historic election.

Joseph Smith’s Polygamy, Volume 3: Theology

by Brian C. Hales

Publisher : Greg Kofford Books
Release Date : 2013-02-26
ISBN :
Pages : 332 pages
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Download or read book Joseph Smith’s Polygamy, Volume 3: Theology written by Brian C. Hales and published by Greg Kofford Books. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans of Joseph Smith’s day, steeped in the stories and prophecies of the King James Bible, certainly knew about plural marriage; but it was a curiosity relegated to the misty past of patriarchs Abraham and Jacob, who never gave reasons for their polygamy. It was long abandoned, Christians understood, by the time Jesus set forth the dominating law of the New Testament. But how did Joseph Smith understand it? Where did it fit in the “restitution of all things” (Acts 3:21) predicted in the New Testament? What part did it play in the global ideology declared by this modern prophet who produced new scripture, new revelation, and new theology? During Joseph Smith’s lifetime, polygamy was taught and practiced in intense secrecy, with the result that he never fully explained its doctrinal underpinnings or systematized its practice. As a result, reconstructing Joseph Smith’s theology of plurality is a task that has seldom been undertaken. Most theological examinations have either focused on its development during Brigham Young’s Utah period, with its need to resist increasing federal legislative and judicial pressures, or the efforts of twentieth-century and contemporary “fundamentalists” who continue to marry a plurality of wives. Volume 3 of this three-volume work builds on the carefully reconstructed history of the development of Mormon polygamy during Joseph Smith’s lifetime, then assembles the doctrinal principles from his recorded addresses, the diary entries of those closely associated with him, and his broader teachings on the related topics of obedience to God’s will, marriage and family relations, and the mechanics of eternal progression, salvation, and exaltation. The revelation he dictated in July 1843 that authorized the practice of eternal and plural marriage receives unprecedented examination and careful interpretation that illuminate this significant document and its underlying doctrines. Attempts to explain the history of Joseph Smith’s polygamy without comprehending the theological principles undergirding its practice will always be incomplete and skewed. This volume, which takes those principles and evidences with the utmost seriousness, has produced the most important explanation of “why” this ancient practice reemerged among the Latter-day Saints on the shores of the Mississippi in the early 1840s.

Muslims in Poland and Eastern Europe

by Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska

Publisher : Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska
Release Date : 2011
ISBN : 8390322951
Pages : 343 pages
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Download or read book Muslims in Poland and Eastern Europe written by Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska and published by Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska. This book was released on 2011 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star

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Release Date : 1870
ISBN :
Pages : pages
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United States Congressional Serial Set

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Release Date : 1872
ISBN :
Pages : pages
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Women's Human Rights

by Susan Deller Ross

Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2011-01-01
ISBN : 0812200020
Pages : 704 pages
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Download or read book Women's Human Rights written by Susan Deller Ross and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Susan Deller Ross, many human rights advocates still do not see women's rights as human rights. Yet women in many countries suffer from laws, practices, customs, and cultural and religious norms that consign them to a deeply inferior status. Advocates might conceive of human rights as involving torture, extrajudicial killings, or cruel and degrading treatment—all clearly in violation of international human rights—and think those issues irrelevant to women. Yet is female genital mutilation, practiced on millions of young girls and even infants, not a gross violation of human rights? When a family decides to murder a daughter in the name of "honor," is that not an extrajudicial killing? When a husband rapes or savagely beats his wife, knowing the legal authorities will take no action on her behalf, is that not cruel and degrading treatment? Women's Human Rights is the first human rights casebook to focus specifically on women's human rights. Rich with interdisciplinary material, the book advances the study of the deprivation and violence women suffer due to discriminatory laws, religions, and customs that deny them their most fundamental freedoms. It also provides present and future lawyers the legal tools for change, demonstrating how human rights treaties can be used to obtain new laws and court decisions that protect women against discrimination with respect to employment, land ownership, inheritance, subordination in marriage, domestic violence, female genital mutilation, polygamy, child marriage, and the denial of reproductive rights. Ross examines international and regional human rights treaties in depth, including treaty language and the jurisprudence and general interpretive guidelines developed by human rights bodies. By studying how international human rights law has been and can be implemented at the domestic level through local courts and legislatures, readers will understand how to call upon these newly articulated human rights to help bring about legislation, court decisions, and executive action that protect women from human rights violations.

Under the Prophet in Utah

by Frank J. O ́Higgins, Harvey J. Cannon

Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2018-05-23
ISBN : 3732682765
Pages : 224 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (732 users)

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Download or read book Under the Prophet in Utah written by Frank J. O ́Higgins, Harvey J. Cannon and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Under the Prophet in Utah by Frank J. Cannon, Harvey J. O ́Higgins

American Polygamy

by Craig L. Foster

Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2015-06-01
ISBN : 1439667039
Pages : 147 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (439 users)

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Download or read book American Polygamy written by Craig L. Foster and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's Fundamentalist Mormons in the American West resist assimilation like their forefathers. Centered on faith, they survive despite efforts to permanently end their cherished plural family arrangements. While some Fundamentalists like Warren Jeffs go rogue and corrupt their beliefs in heinous crimes, most hold steadfastly to a religion they say is biblical and restored by the first Latter-day Saint prophet, Joseph Smith, in the early 1800s. Mormon historians Craig Foster and Marianne Watson present more than two hundred photos and exclusive insights to explain how an estimated thirty thousand Fundamentalist Mormons still venerate a much-debated legacy—despite its difficult challenges—and persist in living plural marriage.

Polygamy and Law in Contemporary Saudi Arabia

by Maha Yamani

Publisher : Garnet Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2008-03
ISBN : 0863724612
Pages : 300 pages
Rating Book: 4.6/5 (863 users)

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Download or read book Polygamy and Law in Contemporary Saudi Arabia written by Maha Yamani and published by Garnet Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of polygamy in Islamic countries is generally perceived by outsiders as something linked to harems and Hollywood-style foreign intrigues. The practice is frequently viewed through sexual connotations and male power versus female powerlessness. The purpose of this book is to shed light on the often misunderstood polygamous situation in modern Saudi Arabia. Through a unique series of local interviews with both men and women involved in polygamy, both maritally and professionally, the author invites the reader into the homes and personal lives of the people directly affected. The result is a moving, candid examination of the frame of mind, impulses, incentives, reasons and circumstances that drive individuals towards polygamy, as well as the social, legal, economic and emotional consequences that inevitably follow. The book also examines the historical origins of Islamic polygamy in Mecca and Medina, as well as the legal situation in Saudi Arabia today. The author argues that a combination of gender differences created through local laws and public policy decisions, the revival of customary tribal practices and the pressures created by the sudden materialism of modern life have all led towards a misapplication of the original Islamic legal essence of the practice, and a re-adaptation of the laws regulating it.

The Bible & Polygamy

by Orson Pratt

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Release Date : 1874
ISBN :
Pages : 99 pages
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The Antipolygamy Controversy in U.S. Women's Movements, 1880-1925

by Joan Iversen

Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 1997
ISBN : 9780815320791
Pages : 321 pages
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Download or read book The Antipolygamy Controversy in U.S. Women's Movements, 1880-1925 written by Joan Iversen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first study of the antipolygamy movement in the United States traces its growth from a Utah-based women's group into a national crusade where it sparked a debate in suffrage politics. The author analyzes this debate, highlighting the differing views of marriage, family, and the role of women held by suffrage leaders, Mormon women, and antipolygamy reformers. Antipolygamy rhetoric masked a more significant debate within women's groups about the structure and meaning of the American family. Coming in the post-Civil War period, the antipolygamy agenda reflects an attempt to "re-construct" the Republican family, diminish patriarchal authority, and improve the status of women. The reaction of the antipolygamy women was also more than a struggle for power. Their adherence to the Republican family was a discourse involving not just rhetoric, but a whole range of cultural forms and institutions which provided women with status, moral authority, and an identity. Often the fear of polygamy was mingled with anxietyover the increase in divorce and the emergence of the new woman. Ironically, by the end of the long congressional battle over Utah and the Mormons, both the rhetoric of polygamy and antipolygamy were used against the women's movement.

The Bible and Polygamy: Does the Bible Sanction Polygamy?

by George Q. Cannon

Publisher : Good Press
Release Date : 2019-11-25
ISBN :
Pages : 238 pages
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Download or read book The Bible and Polygamy: Does the Bible Sanction Polygamy? written by George Q. Cannon and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Bible and Polygamy: Does the Bible Sanction Polygamy?" by George Q. Cannon, Orson Pratt, John Philip Newman, George Albert Smith. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Congressional Record

by United States. Congress

Publisher :
Release Date : 1917
ISBN :
Pages : pages
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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

The Latter-Day Saints Millenial Star

by f. d. richards

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Release Date : 1867
ISBN :
Pages : pages
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