Haji dan umrah adalah ritual keagamaan yang sejak lama sudah dikenal oleh manusia. Meski ibadah tersebut kini identik dengan uma

Haji dan umrah adalah ritual keagamaan yang sejak lama sudah dikenal oleh manusia. Meski ibadah tersebut kini identik dengan umat Islam, namun sebenarnya umat nabi-nabi terdahulu sudah lebih dulu melaksanakannya.

Ibadah haji sudah dikenal sejak zaman Nabi Adam AS, namun pelaksanaannya masih sangat sederhana dan jauh berbeda dibandingkan dengan ibadah haji yang dilakukan oleh umat Islam saat ini. Menurut Ibnu Abbas RA, setelah membangun Kabah, Adam AS berputar mengelilinginya hingga tujuh kali putaran.

Menurut Abdullah Ibnu Abi Sulaiman, setelah merampungkan tawaf tujuh kali, Adam mengerjakan shalat dua rakaat di depan pintu Kabah dan kemudian berdoa di pintu Multazam. Dalam berbagai riwayat, doa-doa yang dipanjatkan oleh Nabi Adam AS sangat beragam, namun intinya sama, yaitu permohonan kepada Allah SWT agar bersedia mengampuni dosa-dosanya.

Di samping itu ia juga meminta agar anak-cucunya didatangkan untuk berhaji ke Baitullah, dipenuhi segala kebutuhan hidupnya, diteguhkan imannya, dan dibimbing agar senantiasa ridha menerima cobaan atau musibah yang menimpanya.

Beberapa utusan Allah yang hidup pasca Nabi Adam AS seperti Nuh AS, Hud AS, dan Shaleh AS juga mengerjakan ibadah haji ke Baitullah namun dengan tata cara yang tidak sama. Perbedaan tata cara itu disebabkan oleh latar belakang waktu dan tempat di mana nabi-nabi itu diutus berbeda-beda.

Syariat yang dibawa oleh nabi-nabi terus berkembang menuju titik kesempurnaan, dan di tangan Nabi Muhammad SAW kesempurnaan itu akhirnya terwujud. Meski ritual haji di antara para nabi berbeda-beda, akidah atau keyakinan mereka tetap sama, yaitu beriman kepada Tuhan Yang Mahaesa.

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saco-indonesia.com, Mantan Ketua Umum Pengurus BesaNahdatul Ulama (PBNU) KH Hasyim Muzadi telah menutup Sarasehan Nasional Ulama

saco-indonesia.com, Mantan Ketua Umum Pengurus BesaNahdatul Ulama (PBNU) KH Hasyim Muzadi telah menutup Sarasehan Nasional Ulama Pesantren dan Cendikiawan di Depok, Jawa Barat. Kegiatan yang akan digelar selama tiga hari tersebut sedikitnyakan dihadiri oleh sederetan tokoh besar yakni Mahfud MD, Jusuf Kalla, Djan Farid, Marzuki Alie, Ahmad Heryawan, dan Jimly Asshidiqi.

Hasyim juga dapat menyimpulkan di depan 300 ulama agar bersama-sama merenungkan selama 15 tahun masa reformasi, sisi mana yang belum tercapai dan sudah tercapai. Menjelang Pemilu 2014, kata dia, banyak hal yang telah menjurus kepada kecurangan dan manipulasi sehingga harus diatasi.

"Jika tidak, maka akan terjadi konflik setelah pemilu dan mengancam keselamatan rakyat," ungkapnya dalam sambutannya, Minggu (09/02/2014).

Sementara itu, lanjut Hasyim, terkait dalam gerakan pemberantasan korupsi yang terus akan dilakukan oleh KPK tentu harus didukung masyarakat. Namun akan lebih efektif jika gerakan anti korupsi berubah menjadi gerakan nasional.

"Tak cukup diserahkan pada komisi, tetapi harus didukung gerakan nasional. Harus bertahap seperti negara lain yg berhasil. KPK jadi trigger atau pemicu awal. Dan negara ini perlu ulama, karena itu ulama agar tak tergerus keadaan, peran ulama penting di tengah kegoncangan keadaan," tegasnya.

Sementara itu salah satu narasumber Gubernur Jawa Barat Ahmad Heryawan juga mengatakan bahwa Islam mewarnai kehidupan sebagai sumber nilai. Umatnya pun harus paling canggih.

"Sumber daya alam banyak diberikan kepada kita, tetapi akan berarti lebih harus ada pengelola handal menguasai ilmu dan teknologi, saat ini banyak dinikmati dan dikuasai oleh negara orang. Kemiskinan menganga. Karena kurang menguasai teknologi. Teori kebangsaan ada dalam Al Quran dan sangat banyak, soal kesemestaan malah, lebih jelas dalam konteks kemanusiaan, jangan ada sekat- sekat politik, yang ada kepentingan kebangsaan dan kenegaraan," tutup Aher.

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saco-indonesia.com, "Rumah tangga gimana-gimana, biasa," kata Uje. "Rumah tangga Rasul saja ada kisruh, apalagi gue yang bejat. Gue penjahat, bro. Lo aja lihat gue baik." Pertengkaran memang terjadi, namun ustadz berusia 37 tahun itu mengatakan bahwa hal itu tak terlalu sering. "Kalau dibilang sering, nggak juga. Kalau sering ya repot. Yang bikin masalah, gue sebenarnya. Kalau kita buat masalah maka selesaikanlah, jangan bikin masalah baru."

saco-indonesia.com, Rumah tangga Ustad Jeffry Al Buchori dikabarkan tengah kisruh. Hal itu diakui oleh Ustad yang sering disapa Uje itu saat menghadiri pernikahan aktris dan penyanyi, Intan Nuraini.

"Rumah tangga gimana-gimana, biasa," kata Uje. "Rumah tangga Rasul saja ada kisruh, apalagi gue yang bejat. Gue penjahat, bro. Lo aja lihat gue baik."

Pertengkaran memang terjadi, namun ustadz berusia 37 tahun itu mengatakan bahwa hal itu tak terlalu sering. "Kalau dibilang sering, nggak juga. Kalau sering ya repot. Yang bikin masalah, gue sebenarnya. Kalau kita buat masalah maka selesaikanlah, jangan bikin masalah baru."

Menurut Uje, kisruh yang terjadi dalam rumah tangga itu hal biasa. Uje mengibaratkannya sebagai sebuah kapal.

"Rumah tangga itu kapal yang besar. Untuk bisa sampai ke pulau impian, ada badai, ombak, angin, kita perlu itu semua," tutur penceramah yang telah dikaruniani empat orang anak itu. "Yang penting pengendalian diri. Kalau ada kisruh, itu justru namanya rumah tangga. Kalau nggak, gue justru curiga."

Uje bertemu dengan sang istri, Pipik Dian Irawati, seorang model gadis sampul majalah Aneka tahun 1995. Keduanya melangsungkan nikah siri pada 7 September 1999, dua bulan kemudian mereka menikah resmi di Semarang. Sementara perjalanannya sebagai da'i kondang berangkat dari kakaknya. Pada 2006, Uje meluncurkan debut album Islami yang berjudul "Lahir Kembali".

Penerjemah Online adalah sebuah situs lembaga penyedia jasa translate dokumen resmi perusahaan dan individu yang menawarkan solu

Penerjemah Online adalah sebuah situs lembaga penyedia jasa translate dokumen resmi perusahaan dan individu yang menawarkan solusi tepat bagi Anda pengguna jasa terjemahan selama 24 jam nonstop. Dengan berbekal sarana dan prasarana yang memadai dan didukung penuh oleh staf-staf penerjemah terampil yang kaya akan pengalaman menerjemahkan berbagai dokumen dari dan ke bahasa Jepang, Inggris, Belanda, Arab, Mandarin, Korea, Jerman dan Perancis, lembaga jasa Penerjemah Online sudah sejak tahun 2010 tetap berkomitmen hanya memberikan yang terbaik bagi pelanggan-pelanggan pengguna jasa kami, khususnya dalam penyediaan jasa translate bahasa Jepang, Inggris, Mandarin, Korea, Arab, Belanda, Jerman dan Perancis untuk semua dokumen resmi.

Sebagai sebuah lembaga penyedia jasa terjemahan dokumen, tentunya kami selalu berupaya hingga ini untuk bisa menjembatani perbedaan bahasa yang masih menjadi kendala bagi klien-klien kami dalam kaitannya dengan komunikasi, alih teknologi dan sebagainya, dimana ditengah semakin derasnya arus globalisasi saat ini menuntut pelaku bisnis menjajakan produk dan jasanya kepada calon-calon konsumen dari luar negeri. Dari situlah Penerjemah Online hadir untuk tujuan membantu para pengguna jasa yang  saat ini didominasi oleh para pelaku bisnis di Indonesia, dalam menerjemahkan berbagai dokumen mereka.

Upaya demi upaya terus kami lakukan untuk terus meminimalkan kemungkinan adanya kekeliruan persepsi, kesalahan pengetikan dan sebagainya yang bisa merugikan pengguna jasa terjemahan di Penerjemah Online. Sebagai salah satu langkah awal kami dalam menciptakan hasil terjemahan yang terbaik adalah dengan mempekerjakan staf-staf penerjemah reguler dan penerjemah tersumpah yang berpengalaman. Sehingga dengan demikian diharapkan mampu secara terus menerus tercipta perasaan terpuaskan bagi semua pengguna jasa terjemahan yang menggunakan jasa translate kami

saco-indonesia.com, Aksi kawanan perampok makin nekat saja. Kepergok saat hendak menggasak motor Honda CB 150 milik karyawan Ind

saco-indonesia.com, Aksi kawanan perampok makin nekat saja. Kepergok saat hendak menggasak motor Honda CB 150 milik karyawan Indomaret di Jalan Gajah Mada Raya, Tamansari, Jakarta Barat, satu dari dua penjahat itu telah menembak korbannya.

Beruntung, korban Ahmad Alfian Ramdhani yang berusia 25 tahun, tiarap di sela-sela rak makanan. Tembakan tersebut justru telah menghancurkan pintu masuk Indomaret yang terbuat dari kaca.

Ahmad Alfian telah menjelaskan, sekitar pukul 03.30 WIB dini hari , dirinya telah diberitahu oleh seorang wanita pembeli minimarket yang telah menyebut ada seorang pria yang berusaha membawa kabur motor karyawan. Karena curiga, ia langsung mengintip pelaku dari kaca yang ada di balik tempat kasir.

Ternyata benar, pelaku berusaha membawa kabur motor miliknya yang bernomor polisi B 3816 UDO yang sengaja diparkir di bagian paling ujung minimarket tersebut. “Motor itu juga sudah saya gembok di rantai. Sepertinya pelaku kesulitan mendorong motor, meski kunci kontak sudah dirusak,” katanya.

Merasa yakin kalau pria tersebut penjahat yang hendak ingin mengambil motornya, Ahmad kemudian mengambil botol minuman yang ada di dalam minimarket dan langsung melemparkannya ke pelaku. Rupanya pelaku marah dan langsung mengeluarkan senjata api dari balik bajunya.

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Dalam hitungan detik, ia telah menembak Ahmad. Korban yang sempat melihat pelaku mengeluarkan senjata api, langsung kabur dan tiarap ke rak makanan. Akhirnya tembakan tersebut tepat mengena pintu kaca masuk Indomaret hingga hancur. Kasus ini kemudian telah dilaporkan ke Polsek Tamansari. Petugas yang mendapat laporan segera melakukan olah TKP.

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Saco-Indonesia.com - Dari penelitian terbaru di Ohio State University dan Institute for behavioral Medicine Research, cedera pada otak dan gegar otak bisa menyebabkan depresi setelah beberapa tahun.

Saco-Indonesia.com - Dari penelitian terbaru di Ohio State University dan Institute for behavioral Medicine Research, cedera pada otak dan gegar otak bisa menyebabkan depresi setelah beberapa tahun.

Penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa sel-sel mikro pada otak tikus cenderung waspada pada tingkat tinggi setelah mengalami cedera. Hal ini menyebabkan sel otak lebih mudah mengalami peradangan dan menyebabkan depresi dalam jangka waktu yang panjang, seperti dilansir oleh Softpedia.

Penelitian menemukan bahwa orang yang mengalami gegar otak berkali-kali dalam hidupnya biasanya mengalami masalah mental setelah beberapa tahun. Namun peneliti belum bisa menjelaskan mengapa hal ini bisa terjadi.

"Banyak orang yang pernah mengalami cedera pada bagian otak tidak mengalami masalah mental hingga mereka berusia 40 tahun, 50 tahun, atau 60 tahunan," ungkap peneliti.

Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa ada faktor lain yang menyebabkan orang yang mengalami cedera otak dan gegar otak pada akhirnya akan memiliki masalah dengan kesehatan mental seperti stres atau lebih mudah depresi.

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saco-indonesia.com, Pengadilan tindak pidana korupsi Jakarta akan kembali menggelar sidang lanjutan kasus dugaan suap kepada Rud

saco-indonesia.com, Pengadilan tindak pidana korupsi Jakarta akan kembali menggelar sidang lanjutan kasus dugaan suap kepada Rudi Rubiandini. Agenda sidang kali ini yakni untuk mendengarkan keterangan saksi.

"Saksi yang akan dihadirkan Selasa (hari ini) yakni Simon G Tanjaya dan Deviardi," kata kuasa hukum Rudi, Rusdi A Bakar, saat dikonfirmasi, Selasa (11/2/2014).

Simon adalah bos PT Kernel Oil Indonesia, sedangkan Deviardi adalah pelatih golf Rudi. Saksi lain yang juga bakal dihadirkan yakni Plt Kepala SKK Migas Johanes Widjanarko, Presiden Direktur PT Kaltim Parna Industri (KPI) Artha Meris Simbolon, Deputi Pengendalian Dukungan Bisnis SKK Migas Gerhard Maarten Rumeser, dan Kepala Divisi Penunjang Operasi SKK Migas Iwan Ratman.

Setiap kesaksian yang mereka sampaikan akan dikonfrontasi dengan Rudi Rubiandini.

Rudi didakwa telah menerima uang saat menjabat Kepala SKK Migas guna untuk memuluskan penanganan tender lelang. Di mana, uang suap yang telah diberikan petinggi PT Kernel Oil Singapura Widodo Ratanachaitong sebesar SGD200 ribu dan USD900 ribu diberikan melalui Deviardi.

Selain itu, Rudi juga akan didakwa menerima uang dari Artha Meris Simbolon sebesar USD522.500, lalu dari Johanes Widjanarko SGD600 ribu, Gerhard Rumesser USD150 dan USD200, serta dari Kepala Divisi Penunjang Operasi SKK Migas Iwan Ratman sebesar USD50 ribu.

sidang yang sejatinya digelar pukul 09.00 WIB, hingga pukul 10.45 WIB belum juga dimulai.

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With 12 tournament victories in his career, Mr. Peete was the most successful black professional golfer before Tiger Woods.

As governor, Mr. Walker alienated Republicans and his fellow Democrats, particularly the Democratic powerhouse Richard J. Daley, the mayor of Chicago.

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KATHMANDU, Nepal — When the dense pillar of smoke from cremations by the Bagmati River was thinning late last week, the bodies were all coming from Gongabu, a common stopover for Nepali migrant workers headed overseas, and they were all of young men.

Hindu custom dictates that funeral pyres should be lighted by the oldest son of the deceased, but these men were too young to have sons, so they were burned by their brothers or fathers. Sukla Lal, a maize farmer, made a 14-hour journey by bus to retrieve the body of his 19-year-old son, who had been on his way to the Persian Gulf to work as a laborer.

“He wanted to live in the countryside, but he was compelled to leave by poverty,” Mr. Lal said, gazing ahead steadily as his son’s remains smoldered. “He told me, ‘You can live on your land, and I will come up with money, and we will have a happy family.’ ”

Weeks will pass before the authorities can give a complete accounting of who died in the April 25 earthquake, but it is already clear that Nepal cannot afford the losses. The countryside was largely stripped of its healthy young men even before the quake, as they migrated in great waves — 1,500 a day by some estimates — to work as laborers in India, Malaysia or one of the gulf nations, leaving many small communities populated only by elderly parents, women and children. Economists say that at some times of the year, one-quarter of Nepal’s population is working outside the country.

As he reflected on the festering wounds deepened by race and grievance that have been on painful display in America’s cities lately, President Obama on Monday found himself thinking about a young man he had just met named Malachi.

A few minutes before, in a closed-door round-table discussion at Lehman College in the Bronx, Mr. Obama had asked a group of black and Hispanic students from disadvantaged backgrounds what could be done to help them reach their goals. Several talked about counseling and guidance programs.

“Malachi, he just talked about — we should talk about love,” Mr. Obama told a crowd afterward, drifting away from his prepared remarks. “Because Malachi and I shared the fact that our dad wasn’t around and that sometimes we wondered why he wasn’t around and what had happened. But really, that’s what this comes down to is: Do we love these kids?”

Many presidents have governed during times of racial tension, but Mr. Obama is the first to see in the mirror a face that looks like those on the other side of history’s ledger. While his first term was consumed with the economy, war and health care, his second keeps coming back to the societal divide that was not bridged by his election. A president who eschewed focusing on race now seems to have found his voice again as he thinks about how to use his remaining time in office and beyond.

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In the aftermath of racially charged unrest in places like Baltimore, Ferguson, Mo., and New York, Mr. Obama came to the Bronx on Monday for the announcement of a new nonprofit organization that is being spun off from his White House initiative called My Brother’s Keeper. Staked by more than $80 million in commitments from corporations and other donors, the new group, My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, will in effect provide the nucleus for Mr. Obama’s post-presidency, which will begin in January 2017.

“This will remain a mission for me and for Michelle not just for the rest of my presidency but for the rest of my life,” Mr. Obama said. “And the reason is simple,” he added. Referring to some of the youths he had just met, he said: “We see ourselves in these young men. I grew up without a dad. I grew up lost sometimes and adrift, not having a sense of a clear path. The only difference between me and a lot of other young men in this neighborhood and all across the country is that I grew up in an environment that was a little more forgiving.”

Organizers said the new alliance already had financial pledges from companies like American Express, Deloitte, Discovery Communications and News Corporation. The money will be used to help companies address obstacles facing young black and Hispanic men, provide grants to programs for disadvantaged youths, and help communities aid their populations.

Joe Echevarria, a former chief executive of Deloitte, the accounting and consulting firm, will lead the alliance, and among those on its leadership team or advisory group are executives at PepsiCo, News Corporation, Sprint, BET and Prudential Group Insurance; former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell; Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey; former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.; the music star John Legend; the retired athletes Alonzo Mourning, Jerome Bettis and Shaquille O’Neal; and the mayors of Indianapolis, Sacramento and Philadelphia.

The alliance, while nominally independent of the White House, may face some of the same questions confronting former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as she begins another presidential campaign. Some of those donating to the alliance may have interests in government action, and skeptics may wonder whether they are trying to curry favor with the president by contributing.

“The Obama administration will have no role in deciding how donations are screened and what criteria they’ll set at the alliance for donor policies, because it’s an entirely separate entity,” Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, told reporters on Air Force One en route to New York. But he added, “I’m confident that the members of the board are well aware of the president’s commitment to transparency.”

The alliance was in the works before the disturbances last week after the death of Freddie Gray, the black man who suffered fatal injuries while in police custody in Baltimore, but it reflected the evolution of Mr. Obama’s presidency. For him, in a way, it is coming back to issues that animated him as a young community organizer and politician. It was his own struggle with race and identity, captured in his youthful memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” that stood him apart from other presidential aspirants.

But that was a side of him that he kept largely to himself through the first years of his presidency while he focused on other priorities like turning the economy around, expanding government-subsidized health care and avoiding electoral land mines en route to re-election.

After securing a second term, Mr. Obama appeared more emboldened. Just a month after his 2013 inauguration, he talked passionately about opportunity and race with a group of teenage boys in Chicago, a moment aides point to as perhaps the first time he had spoken about these issues in such a personal, powerful way as president. A few months later, he publicly lamented the death of Trayvon Martin, a black Florida teenager, saying that “could have been me 35 years ago.”

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That case, along with public ruptures of anger over police shootings in Ferguson and elsewhere, have pushed the issue of race and law enforcement onto the public agenda. Aides said they imagined that with his presidency in its final stages, Mr. Obama might be thinking more about what comes next and causes he can advance as a private citizen.

That is not to say that his public discussion of these issues has been universally welcomed. Some conservatives said he had made matters worse by seeming in their view to blame police officers in some of the disputed cases.

“President Obama, when he was elected, could have been a unifying leader,” Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Republican candidate for president, said at a forum last week. “He has made decisions that I think have inflamed racial tensions.”

On the other side of the ideological spectrum, some liberal African-American activists have complained that Mr. Obama has not done enough to help downtrodden communities. While he is speaking out more, these critics argue, he has hardly used the power of the presidency to make the sort of radical change they say is necessary.

The line Mr. Obama has tried to straddle has been a serrated one. He condemns police brutality as he defends most officers as honorable. He condemns “criminals and thugs” who looted in Baltimore while expressing empathy with those trapped in a cycle of poverty and hopelessness.

In the Bronx on Monday, Mr. Obama bemoaned the death of Brian Moore, a plainclothes New York police officer who had died earlier in the day after being shot in the head Saturday on a Queens street. Most police officers are “good and honest and fair and care deeply about their communities,” even as they put their lives on the line, Mr. Obama said.

“Which is why in addressing the issues in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York, the point I made was that if we’re just looking at policing, we’re looking at it too narrowly,” he added. “If we ask the police to simply contain and control problems that we ourselves have been unwilling to invest and solve, that’s not fair to the communities, it’s not fair to the police.”

Moreover, if society writes off some people, he said, “that’s not the kind of country I want to live in; that’s not what America is about.”

His message to young men like Malachi Hernandez, who attends Boston Latin Academy in Massachusetts, is not to give up.

“I want you to know you matter,” he said. “You matter to us.”

Ms. von Furstenberg made her debut in the movies and on the Broadway stage in the early 1950s as a teenager and later reinvented herself as a television actress, writer and philanthropist.

Late in April, after Native American actors walked off in disgust from the set of Adam Sandler’s latest film, a western sendup that its distributor, Netflix, has defended as being equally offensive to all, a glow of pride spread through several Native American communities.

Tantoo Cardinal, a Canadian indigenous actress who played Black Shawl in “Dances With Wolves,” recalled thinking to herself, “It’s come.” Larry Sellers, who starred as Cloud Dancing in the 1990s television show “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” thought, “It’s about time.” Jesse Wente, who is Ojibwe and directs film programming at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto, found himself encouraged and surprised. There are so few film roles for indigenous actors, he said, that walking off the set of a major production showed real mettle.

But what didn’t surprise Mr. Wente was the content of the script. According to the actors who walked off the set, the film, titled “The Ridiculous Six,” included a Native American woman who passes out and is revived after white men douse her with alcohol, and another woman squatting to urinate while lighting a peace pipe. “There’s enough history at this point to have set some expectations around these sort of Hollywood depictions,” Mr. Wente said.

The walkout prompted a rhetorical “What do you expect from an Adam Sandler film?,” and a Netflix spokesman said that in the movie, blacks, Mexicans and whites were lampooned as well. But Native American actors and critics said a broader issue was at stake. While mainstream portrayals of native peoples have, Mr. Wente said, become “incrementally better” over the decades, he and others say, they remain far from accurate and reflect a lack of opportunities for Native American performers. What’s more, as Native Americans hunger for representation on screen, critics say the absence of three-dimensional portrayals has very real off-screen consequences.

“Our people are still healing from historical trauma,” said Loren Anthony, one of the actors who walked out. “Our youth are still trying to figure out who they are, where they fit in this society. Kids are killing themselves. They’re not proud of who they are.” They also don’t, he added, see themselves on prime time television or the big screen. Netflix noted while about five people walked off the “The Ridiculous Six” set, 100 or so Native American actors and extras stayed.

But in interviews, nearly a dozen Native American actors and film industry experts said that Mr. Sandler’s humor perpetuated decades-old negative stereotypes. Mr. Anthony said such depictions helped feed the despondency many Native Americans feel, with deadly results: Native Americans have the highest suicide rate out of all the country’s ethnicities.

The on-screen problem is twofold, Mr. Anthony and others said: There’s a paucity of roles for Native Americans — according to the Screen Actors Guild in 2008 they accounted for 0.3 percent of all on-screen parts (those figures have yet to be updated), compared to about 2 percent of the general population — and Native American actors are often perceived in a narrow way.

In his Peabody Award-winning documentary “Reel Injun,” the Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond explored Hollywood depictions of Native Americans over the years, and found they fell into a few stereotypical categories: the Noble Savage, the Drunk Indian, the Mystic, the Indian Princess, the backward tribal people futilely fighting John Wayne and manifest destiny. While the 1990 film “Dances With Wolves” won praise for depicting Native Americans as fully fleshed out human beings, not all indigenous people embraced it. It was still told, critics said, from the colonialists’ point of view. In an interview, John Trudell, a Santee Sioux writer, actor (“Thunderheart”) and the former chairman of the American Indian Movement, described the film as “a story of two white people.”

“God bless ‘Dances with Wolves,’ ” Michael Horse, who played Deputy Hawk in “Twin Peaks,” said sarcastically. “Even ‘Avatar.’ Someone’s got to come save the tribal people.”

Dan Spilo, a partner at Industry Entertainment who represents Adam Beach, one of today’s most prominent Native American actors, said while typecasting dogs many minorities, it is especially intractable when it comes to Native Americans. Casting directors, he said, rarely cast them as police officers, doctors or lawyers. “There’s the belief that the Native American character should be on reservations or riding a horse,” he said.

“We don’t see ourselves,” Mr. Horse said. “We’re still an antiquated culture to them, and to the rest of the world.”

Ms. Cardinal said she was once turned down for the role of the wife of a child-abusing cop because the filmmakers felt that casting her would somehow be “too political.”

Another sore point is the long run of white actors playing American Indians, among them Burt Lancaster, Rock Hudson, Audrey Hepburn and, more recently, Johnny Depp, whose depiction of Tonto in the 2013 film “Lone Ranger,” was viewed as racist by detractors. There are, of course, exceptions. The former A&E series “Longmire,” which, as it happens, will now be on Netflix, was roundly praised for its depiction of life on a Northern Cheyenne reservation, with Lou Diamond Phillips, who is of Cherokee descent, playing a Northern Cheyenne man.

Others also point to the success of Mr. Beach, who played a Mohawk detective in “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and landed a starring role in the forthcoming D C Comics picture “Suicide Squad.” Mr. Beach said he had come across insulting scripts backed by people who don’t see anything wrong with them.

“I’d rather starve than do something that is offensive to my ancestral roots,” Mr. Beach said. “But I think there will always be attempts to drawn on the weakness of native people’s struggles. The savage Indian will always be the savage Indian. The white man will always be smarter and more cunning. The cavalry will always win.”

The solution, Mr. Wente, Mr. Trudell and others said, lies in getting more stories written by and starring Native Americans. But Mr. Wente noted that while independent indigenous film has blossomed in the last two decades, mainstream depictions have yet to catch up. “You have to stop expecting for Hollywood to correct it, because there seems to be no ability or desire to correct it,” Mr. Wente said.

There have been calls to boycott Netflix but, writing for Indian Country Today Media Network, which first broke news of the walk off, the filmmaker Brian Young noted that the distributor also offered a number of films by or about Native Americans.

The furor around “The Ridiculous Six” may drive more people to see it. Then one of the questions that Mr. Trudell, echoing others, had about the film will be answered: “Who the hell laughs at this stuff?”

The live music at the Vice Media party on Friday shook the room. Shane Smith, Vice’s chief executive, was standing near the stage — with a drink in his hand, pants sagging, tattoos showing — watching the rapper-cum-chef Action Bronson make pizzas.

The event was an after-party, a happy-hour bacchanal for the hundreds of guests who had come for Vice’s annual presentation to advertisers and agencies that afternoon, part of the annual frenzy for ad dollars called the Digital Content NewFronts. Mr. Smith had spoken there for all of five minutes before running a slam-bang highlight reel of the company’s shows that had titles like “Weediquette” and “Gaycation.”

In the last year, Vice has secured $500 million in financing and signed deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars with established media companies like HBO that are eager to engage the young viewers Vice attracts. Vice said it was now worth at least $4 billion, with nearly $1 billion in projected revenue for 2015. It is a long way from Vice’s humble start as a free magazine in 1994.

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But even as cash flows freely in Vice’s direction, the company is trying to keep its brash, insurgent image. At the party on Friday, it plied guests with beers and cocktails. Its apparently unrehearsed presentation to advertisers was peppered with expletives. At one point, the director Spike Jonze, a longtime Vice collaborator, asked on stage if Mr. Smith had been drinking.

“My assistant tried to cut me off,” Mr. Smith replied. “I’m on buzz control.”

Now, Vice is on the verge of getting its own cable channel, which would give the company a traditional outlet for its slate of non-news programming. If all goes as planned, A&E Networks, the television group owned by Hearst and Disney, will turn over its History Channel spinoff, H2, to Vice.

The deal’s announcement was expected last week, but not all of A&E’s distribution partners — the cable and satellite TV companies that carry the network’s channels — have signed off on the change, according to a person familiar with the negotiations who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the talks were private.

A cable channel would be a further step in a transformation for Vice, from bad-boy digital upstart to mainstream media company.

Keen for the core audience of young men who come to Vice, media giants like 21st Century Fox, Time Warner and Disney all showed interest in the company last year. Vice ultimately secured $500 million in financing from A&E Networks and Technology Crossover Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has invested in Facebook and Netflix.

Those investments valued Vice at more than $2.5 billion. (In 2013, Fox bought a 5 percent stake for $70 million.)

Then in March, HBO announced that it had signed a multiyear deal to broadcast a daily half-hour Vice newscast. Vice already produces a weekly newsmagazine show, called “Vice,” for the network. That show will extend its run through 2018, with an increase to 35 episodes a year, from 14.

Michael Lombardo, HBO’s president for programming, said when the deal was announced that it was “certainly one of our biggest investments with hours on the air.”

Vice, based in Brooklyn, also recently signed a multiyear $100 million deal with Rogers Communications, a Canadian media conglomerate, to produce original content for TV, smartphone and desktop viewers.

Vice’s finances are private, but according to an internal document reviewed by The New York Times and verified by a person familiar with the company’s financials, the company is on track to make about $915 million in revenue this year.

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It brought in $545 million in a strong first quarter, which included portions of the new HBO deal and the Rogers deal, according to the document. More of its revenue now comes from these types of content partnerships, compared with the branded content deals that made up much of its revenue a year ago, the company said.

Mr. Smith said the company was worth at least $4 billion. If the valuation gets much higher, he said he would consider taking the company public.

“I don’t care about money; we have plenty of money,” Mr. Smith, who is Vice’s biggest shareholder, said in an interview after the presentation on Friday. “I care about strategic deals.”

In the United States, Vice Media had 35.2 million unique visitors across its sites in March, according to comScore.

The third season of Vice’s weekly HBO show has averaged 1.8 million viewers per episode, including reruns, through April 12, according to Brad Adgate, the director of research at Horizon Media. (Vice said the show attracted three million weekly viewers when repeat broadcasts, online and on-demand viewings were included.)

For years, Mr. Smith has criticized traditional TV, calling it slow and unable to draw younger viewers. But if all the deals Vice has struck are to work out, Mr. Smith may have to play more by the rules of traditional media. James Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch’s son and a member of Vice’s board, was at the company’s presentation on Friday, as were other top media executives.

“They know they need people like me to help them, but they can’t get out of their own way,” Mr. Smith said in the interview Friday. “My only real frustration is we’re used to being incredibly dynamic, and they’re not incredibly dynamic.”

With its own television channel in the United States, Vice would have something it has long coveted even as traditional media companies are looking beyond TV. Last year, Vice’s deal with Time Warner failed in part because the two companies could not agree on how much control Vice would have over a 24-hour television network.

Vice said it intended to fill its new channel with non-news programming. The company plans to have sports shows, fashion shows, food shows and the “Gaycation” travel show with the actress Ellen Page. It is also in talks with Kanye West about a show.

It remains to be seen whether Vice’s audience will watch a traditional cable channel. Still, Vice has effectively presold all of the ad spots to two of the biggest advertising agencies for the first three years, Mr. Smith said.

In the meantime, Mr. Smith is enjoying Vice’s newfound role as a potential savior of traditional media companies.

“I’m a C.E.O. of a content company,” Mr. Smith said before he caught a flight to Las Vegas for the boxing match on Saturday between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. “If it stops being fun, then why are you doing it?”