1. WHAT WORD COMES TO MIND WHEN I SAY ISLAM OR MIDDLE EAST? STUDENTS RESPONSES WILL SHOW ON SOCRATIVE…

2. IS IT A NEGATIVE OR POSITIVE PERSPECTIVE? WHY DO WE HAVE THIS PERSPECTIVE?

3. LESSON OBJECTIVES Understand we have misconceptions about the Middle East and Islam. Identify true facts and concepts that may help to clarify and change these misconceptions. To begin to see Islam for the beautiful, caring religion that it is.

4. SOCRATIVE PROMPT WHO IS THE MAN? WHAT IS HAPPENING?

5. ABRAHAM- FATHER OF MONOTHEISM

6. WHICH RELIGIONS INCLUDE THE STORIES OF ABRAHAM & ISSAC?

7. WHAT CAN BE SAID ABOUT THE GOD OF JUDAISM & CHRISTIANITY?

8. WHAT IS THE NAME OF ABRAHAM’S SON IN THIS VERSION.. ANOTHER VERSION OF ABRAHAM & SON

10. IF SIMILAR STORY ABOUT ABRAHAM, WHAT CAN BE SAID ABOUT THE GOD OF JEWS, CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIMS?

11. BASED ON THE TAGUL CLOUD RESPONSES? WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THIS FACT?

12. SOCRATIVE QUESTION

13. WHAT OTHER EARLY PROPHETS FOR JUDAISM & CHRISTIANITY?

14. MOSES IN BOTH TORAH AND BIBLE

15. NOAH IS ALSO IN TORAH & BIBLE

16. SOCRATIVE PROMPT- IN ORDER PLEASE! TOP THREE COUNTRIES WITH LARGEST MUSLIM POPULATION?

17. MISCONCEPTION…. TOP THREE ARE NOT IN THE MIDDLE EAST

19. SOCRATIVE PROMPT/QUESTION WHICH IS REQUIRED BY THE QURAN?

20. SOCRATIVE PROMPT TOP THREE MOST PRACTICED RELIGIONS IN WORLD?

22. EXTREMISM & RELIGIOUS CONFLICT IN HISTORY…

23. KKK BASED THEIR RACISM ON CHRISTIAN BIBLE…

24. POPE AND CRUSADES.. Crusades On November 27, 1095, Pope Urban II makes perhaps the most influential speech of the Middle Ages, giving rise to the Crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to reclaim the Holy Land, with a cry of "Deus vult!" or "God wills it!"

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