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Old 09-27-2009, 08:35 PM
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Default Druze, Jewish in Russia?

1. I'm curious to know what religion is"Druze". Who they believe in and who do they pray to?
2. Recently i watch a documentary and found out that back in the old days, Russia killed a lot of Jews and got something to do with Poland.

I did my own research but i don't really understand. Is there anyone Jews or someone with a better knowledge out there to help?
Documentary was about : Chiune Sugihara. (I did found out that he was someone with a very good heart and he did what was right and right.)
Thank you.

Psst: Im not racist or anything you might think,just curious.
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Old 10-02-2009, 08:35 PM
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i dint know
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Old 10-05-2009, 08:35 PM
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Druze are a religious community found primarily in Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan, whose traditional religion is said to have begun as an offshoot of Islam, but is unique in its incorporation of Gnostic, Noe-Platonic and other philosophies, similar to other followers of Ismaili Shi'a Islam.

Theologically, Druze consider themselves "an Islamic Unist, reformatory sect".The Druze call themselves Ahl AL-Tawhid "People of Unitarianism or Monotheism" or AL-Muwa??id?n "Unitarians, Monotheists."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druze
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Old 10-09-2009, 08:35 PM
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The Druze really are strange. They consider themselves Islamic, but the rest of the Moslem world disagrees. You cannot convert to being a Druze, and they have to marry within the faith. They live up in the hills of the Lebanese/Syrian border area (mostly), and some elements of their faith may date all the way back to the Prue-islamic Persian religion.

They are a Shiite sect, who attribute the status of a divine incarnation to their founder, Hamza. They believe in reincarnation, and think that a fixed number of human souls were created at the beginning of time, and that this number does not change. Particularly good people are reborn in China (they do not think anybody goes to heaven or hell, they just keep getting reborn until the Judgment Day, when Hakim will return and reward the faithful).
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