Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Modern Religious Experience: Reflection #8 Islam: Two Perspectives

Modern Religious Experience: Reflection #8 Islam: Two Perspectives: "Find where Islamic religious beliefs intersect with current events. Research a Western news source on the story and summarize the article fr..."

On December 6th, by accident, an Israel boy started a forest fire in Northern Israel. He admitted that he was smoking a water pipe at the time with his friends, threw the coals out, realized that a fire was starting, so he ran to school without doing or saying anything. This resulted in 41 lives being lost, over 10,000 acres of forest being burnt, all around one of the major cities of Israel, Haifa. Israel fire fighters are still on stand-by as over 17,000 people were evacuated from their homes.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/12/06/israel.forest.fires/index.html

The only major difference between the CNN article and the Aljazeera article is when they explained who started the fire; it went from being a group of boys smoking a water pipe, to a family leaving embers from a picnic. However, in the CNN article, they failed to include that Israel was very underprepared for the fire.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/12/201012672042314502.html