Youth With A Mission

I was a part of this Christian cult. A VIDEO made with the help of US missionaries and depicting Amazon Indians burying children alive is faked and inciting racial hatred, a group campaigning for tribal rights said. The short video, Hakani, has been watched more than 350,000 times on the YouTube video-sharing website. It depicts scenes of Indians in an isolated forest village digging graves and burying several live children in them. The "Hakani" campaign also has a website and a group on Facebook with more than 13,000 members. London-based Survival International said the Hakani film is "faked, that the earth covering the children's faces is actually chocolate cake, and that the film's claim that infanticide among Brazilian Indians is widespread is false." "People are being taught to hate Indians, even wish them dead," said Survival's director, Stephen Corry. The video was made by the son of the founder of an American missionary organisation called Youth with a Mission, which has a branch in Brazil known as Jocum. Enock Freire, one of the makers of the film, said Youth With a Mission helped in the production of the film, which he acknowledged was fictional and aimed at drawing attention to what he said was a serious problem. "It (infanticide) is common," he said from Hawaii. "This distortion that we are trying to incite hate is untrue." Infanticide is practiced by some tribes in the Amazon region, sometimes on disabled children, often based on the belief that children who take their last breath above land will come back to haunt a community.

Paul Eluard

미화된 언어나 진주를 꿴 듯 아름답게 포장된 '말'처럼 가증스러운 것은 없다. 진정한 시에는 가식이 없고, 거짓 구원도 없다. 무지갯 빛 눈물도 없다. 진정한 시는 이 세상에 모래사막과 진창이 있다는 것을 안다. 왁스를 칠한 마루와 헝클어진 머리와 거친 손이 있다는 것을 안다. 뻔뻔스러운 희생자도 있고, 불행한 영웅도 있으며 훌륭한 바보도 있다는 것을 안다. 강아지에도 여러 종류가 있으며, 걸레도 있으며, 들에 피는 꽃도 있고, 무덤 위에 피는 꽃도 있다는 것을 안다. 삶속에 시가 있다.

Sharia

November 17, 2009 A 20-year-old woman divorcee accused of committing adultery in Somalia has been stoned to death by Islamists in front of a crowd of about 200 people. A judge working for the militant group al-Shabab said she had had an affair with an unmarried 29-year-old man. He said she gave birth to a still-born baby and was found guilty of adultery. Her boyfriend was given 100 lashes. The woman was taken to public grounds where she was buried up to her waist. She was then stoned to death in front of the crowds. Under Sharia (Islamic law), anyone who has ever been married - even a divorcee - who has an affair is liable to be found guilty of adultery, punishable by stoning death.

Submission by Theo van Gogh

Van Gogh worked with writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali to produce this 10 minute film which analyzed the treatment of women in Islam. Van Gogh was killed by a Muslim on November 2, 2004 because of the film. "Submission" is the translation of the Arabic word "Islam." Religion poisons everything.

David Bazan

You've heard the story You know how it goes Once upon a garden We were lovers with no clothes Fresh from the soil We were beautiful and true In control of our emotions 'Till we ate the poison fruit And now its hard to be a decent human being Wait just a minute You expect me to believe that all this misbehaving Grew from one enchanted tree And helpless to fight it We should all be satisfied With the magical explanation For why the living die Childbirth is painful We toil to grow our food Ignorance made us hungry Information made us no good Every burden misunderstood So I swung my tassel To the left side of my cap Knowing after graduation There would be no going back And no congratulations From my faithful family Some of whom are already fasting To intercede for me Because it's hard to be a decent human being David Bazan formed the band Pedro the Lion, perhaps the first Christian indie rock band, in 1995. This former evangelical Christian now calls himself an agnostic with some lingering deistic notions. Bazan's wife and parents are still believing Christians. His new album "Curse Your Branches" is described as a break-up record with god.