English 1A
Professor Kang
2-13-14
Stereotypes and Judgments Have women proven that their capable of performing at the level of men? Women 's rights have been an ongoing movement and issue for hundreds of years. They have already proven that regardless off the obstacles that have been placed by others that they can still strive for success. Although improvements have been made, women still only earn 75 cents of a man’s dollar. Since Cady Stanton 's declaration women have broken miraculous barriers. Now that women are breaking away from the shackles bestowed upon them, women have learned to understand the importance of freedom. Uneducated judgments and inaccurate stereotypes on a group of people is never acceptable. Anytime …show more content…
Both Benazir Bhutto 's and Elizabeth Cady Stanton 's goals, were to persuade their audience, and to share view. Even if they can’t get them to agree completely, they still get them to see that at least there is something to be said for this view, and that this is a position a reasonable person can hold. In Bhutto’s piece Islam and Democracy, she mentions how the Quran states “Allah (god) created people in different ways and that diversity is good. It’s the natural part of god’s plan” (183) This is her reasoning for why we should be open and understand rather than being shallow and arrogant. Bhutto says “Thus humans must seek and apply knowledge, must use reason, must consult and build a consensus for a just society on earth on which they will be judged in the …show more content…
that no one individual can be the basis of the religion, the toughest fact for a Muslim and the religion itself is the reluctant behavior society has shown since September 11, 2001. In September of 2001, Muslim men allegedly attacked the World Trade Center by hijacking a plane and crashing it into each tower and destroying anything in and around it. This led to a natural judgment of the Muslim population, sometimes leading to Islamaphobia. “The term Islamaphobia is usually defined as fear of Muslims or of the Islamic religion” (Jung 114). People feared that all Muslims were the same and any Muslim could become that hijacker and destroy their lives. If those same people were to know the Islamic personality, Islamaphobia would not exist. In his speech, Wisam begins by addressing Islam as a religion.
The basic meaning of the word Islam means submission or surrender. Like in the Latin writing methods, in Arabic the meanings of words are derived from a root word; in this particular definition, the word Islam is derived from the word salam, which means peace and or safety. In other words, the meaning of the word Islam means peaceful and submissive in the path of