passers-by that they had killed a soldier to avenge the killing of Muslims by the British military. After few minutes armed police officers arrived and wounded the both men who charged at the police. The political and Muslim leaders from the United Kingdom and from all over the world condemned this attack. The work of security agency MI5 and counterterrorist commands and programs is being discussed. After the large numbers of anti-Muslim attacks were reported across the United Kingdom‚ articles that
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The source of conflict between Muslims and Christians in the Middle Ages. The conflict between Christians and Muslim can be still observed in various parts of the world. One could think that there has always been hostility between Christians and Muslims since the younger religion‚ Islam came into existence in the 7th century and started to spread. Another very common opinion is that the religions themselves – Christianity and Islam are the source of this conflict. Even though both these opinions
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villains as the current cultural fear and official enemy of the United States. This trend changed after the terrorist attacks on September 11‚ 2001. Since the attacks on the World Trade Center‚ Hollywood has often refused to use Muslims as villains‚ even though Muslim terrorists became the United States’ cultural enemy due to their responsibility for the attacks. This can best be explained by Americans’ change in attitudes about what is considered politically correct. In referring to the portrayal
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21 May 2013 Muslims and Globalization: Eat‚ Pray and Change for Betterment When it comes to a topic about Muslims‚ the Westerner’s bigotry views always fixed on the origin of the Muslims and they believe that the Muslims had been and will always be outsiders. This subject is widely spoken in the context of immigrants. Ironically‚ in a recent protest for anti-immigration held in Arizona‚ a native American blasted the group of the protestors for their prejudicial view of going against the immigration
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Islamic Traditions The Muslim concept of worship is very broad. Muslims consider everything they do in this life according to Allah ’s will‚ an act of worship. Worship of Allah is foremost in a Muslim ’s mind all the time. There are also five formal acts of worship which help strengthen a Muslim ’s faith and obedience that are referred to as the Five Pillars of Islam. The first of the five pillars is the testimony of faith called Shahadah. The statement is "Ashadu alla ilaha illa Allah‚ as
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Headgears as a way of expressing liberty by the Muslims women 1. INTRODUCTION The contemporary situation of Muslim women is different all around the world is Islam. It cannot be clearly defined as good or bad. This is not just the result of the division of society between rich and poor‚ as in the rich Gulf countries‚ women have less freedom than in a poor village in Syria. Nevertheless‚ the position of Muslim´s women in the world‚ raises many controversy‚ often based on cultural prejudices
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To determine whether the New York Times depiction of Islam and Muslims did not change after the September 11 terrorist attacks‚ the measures of central tendency and the measures of dispersion could be used. The measures of central tendency are simply a statistic used to present data in the form of averages. The most common measures of central tendency are the arithmetic mean‚ the median and the mode. The measures of dispersion tell you how widely spread out or scattered these values are. The range
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Many feminists of the global North view the Muslim religion as inherently oppressive towards women even though they know nothing about the religion or Muslim culture. They only address it from an outsiders perspective and not from the perspective of Muslim women. Lila Abu- Lughod discusses this issue in her book Do Muslim Women Need Saving?. In the introduction chapter Zaynab‚ a friend of Abu- Lughod from southern Egypt‚ does a good
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Why Muslim Women Wear the Hijab In this contemporary age‚ there has been growing public concern about whether Muslim women should wear hijab in the Western world. Naheed Mustafa‚ who wrote "My Body is My Own Business"‚ asserts that wearing the hijab offers her freedom. On the other hand‚ Catherine Meckes‚ the author of "Wearing a Uniform of Oppression"‚ objects that wearing the hijab is like "[be] an animal in a cage "(Catherine Meckes 91). Personally‚ I am in favor of the former view. There are
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Mormons and Muslims Religion is the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power‚ especially a personal God or gods. There are a lot of different kinds of religions in the world today. A lot of church members that have broken off and made their own kinds of church. Two very interesting religions are Muslims and Mormons. They are similar and alike in many interesting ways. Mormons and Muslims are two very different religions and ways of life. There are a few similarities though. Both
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