some say the garden of eden was here. it is a land rich in history and blessed with abundant natural resources. and this is azerbaijan. a land which after decades of communist rule is today witnessing a resurgence of faith in islam. as a by john embraced islam. arab invaders brought the religion to the region in the 7th century. face and islam took firm roots here until the region came under the control of the soviet union in the 1920 s. . this marked the start of an era in which atheism became states policy. many muslim leaders were exiled or killed. mosques were closed or destroyed. despite years of state oppression towards religion many people here in azerbaijan held on to their faith. since regaining independence in 1991 many azerbaijanis have once again turned to islam seeking to reassert their identity and fill the ideological fuck you left behind by the collapse of the soviet union. this is some us element of a 31 year old mother of 2. she is one of the muslim school the travelling from. to perform the house pilgrim

then you philip says his famine carol was once known as the garden of eden because it was so beautiful but his plantation is now a wasteland. there it was supposed to win the farmer of the year award for a region from farming practice but in just one hour the entire thing was washed away nothing is lived. every year the monsoon brings life giving rains to farms across india but they can also devastation and their way. there were huge tree trunk floating down followed by a lot more trees and morning water soon the entire area was covered with tree trunks. the heavy rains triggered landslides nearby and the swollen charlie rose so high it's worked its way through the villages along its banks. we've been living here for 36 years and never seen any flooding like this. this was home to marian about 12 members of her family she's grateful they're all alive but still feels lost. we are not able to build or buy a new house on our own i don't know what to do or where to go this is our only land . there now living in a relief camp like many others across india the rains have forced more than a 1

adam and eve in the garden and kind of has this utopian idea of mankind and they can go in and push the natives to the european standard? >> good. there is a really strong garden of eden idea coming through. also, the nakedness! the nakedness and the nudity. you can read when you see these kinds of images you can read nakedness and nudity in two ways. if they have an image of an indian as naked, what does that suggest? imagine you are european and you are in london. what is your first thought? >> that they could be uncivilized? >> yes, oh, they are uncivilized. they are savage and barbaric. they are running around naked. that is one. then, there is actually another way to read it which is kind of interesting. there is a deeper way to read it. if you're talking garden of eden and nudity, what is that? not necessarily uncivilized, savage and barbaric, there is another way to read it. >> innocent. >> innocent! the point that maybe they could be converted christians. maybe they could be good christians. you might remember this from the expert, excerpt from the jesuit relations. we have the half naked indian with plants. we have the latin seal, the seal of the government a

some say the garden of eden was here. it is a land rich in history and blessed with abundant natural resources. and this is. a land which after decades of communist rule is today witnessing a resurgence of faith in islam.

will describes himself as a low voltage atheist and knows there never really was a garden of eden. for more go to cnn.com/fareed and read my washington post column and let's get started. >> we'll go to jim schutto. >> good morning, fareed. we have this breaking news in france. this is the annual gathering of presidents and prime ministers of the largest e vance est adva economies. a plane carrying the foreign minister mohammed e h mohammed . pamela, do we know what the function of this visit is then by the iranian foreign minister and is there the possibility of talks with u.s. officials sometime in the future? >> well, that's certainly what the u.s. wants. in fact, steve mnuchin spoke with reporters and said the u.s. is open to speaking with iranians but the iranians are statement from the spokesman for the foreign minute tristry says negotiations and the spokesman says the iranian foreign minister will continue consultations and discussions on recent initiatives between the presidents of iran and france. the president was asked about this and simply said no comment in response to

then he surely knows there never really was a garden of eden. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "washington post" column, and let's get started. >>> i'll be back in a few moments, but first i want to go to cnn's jim sciutto, who is going to bring us all the important goings on at the g7 meeting. >> thank you, fareed. i'm jim sciutto in washington. >> and we have this breaking news from the g7 summit in france. this is the annual gathering of the presidents and prime ministers of the world's largest advanced economies. this morning, we have news that a plane carrying the iranian foreign minister, javad zarif has landed, not with the intention to meet with u.s. officials on the ground there. we have our pamela brown, senior white house correspondent, traveling with the president. pamela, do we know what the function of this visit is then by the iranian foreign minister, and is there the possibility of talks with u.s. officials some time in the future? >> well, that is certainly what the u.s. wants. in fact, steve mnuchin just spoke with r

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in the book of genesis, the story of the formation of the world and of man and woman in the garden of edenat is the first power that god gives the man? the power to name. sacred a story that is to jews and christians and muslims -- it is in the koran, the story is well known. to beves us command fruitful and multiply, god gives a warning, don't eat from that tree or something bad will happen, and god gives a power, the first power given to man was the power to name all of the animals in the world stop god could have named all the animals -- god was god. but god decided that it was very important for man to be able to choose the names of those around them, choose the names of those that would be given to his reality. he brought them to man to see what he would call them, and the man chosen name for each one. naming is important, this is not a minor thing we are doing today. we have to acknowledge that so many of the names on a map of richmond, on a map of virginia, on a map of this country, so many of the names were not chosen by a full community invested with the power to choose their name

that's never happened since the garden of eden.'s never been a moment where people have decided history should now stop. that's important to remember. i also have to say, are you going to trademark premedicated ignorance because i want it as a title maybe. >> take it. it's yours. >> it might be the title of my memoir. or a good country song. but anyway, i do think there's a resilience. what i worry about to go to the more troubling part of your question, i ran into somebody the other day who his daughter had adopted a child from central america, about 8 years old, i think, who had sort of picked up some of this in the atmosphere and asked her adoptive mother, does this -- after one of these comments about i don't know if it was the countries or go back, said does the president not like me. does the president not like me because she was brown, and that's a very troubling, deeply deeply troubling because you have a whole generation. remember, there's a generation that grew up under barack obama, and there's a generation who grew up u