Muslims are violent‚ terrorists and/or extremists This is the biggest misconception about Islam‚ no doubt resulting from the constant stereotyping and bashing the media gives Islam. When a gunman attacks a mosque in the name of Judaism‚ a Catholic IRA guerrilla sets off a bomb in an urban area‚ or Serbian Orthodox militiamen rape and kill innocent Muslim civilians‚ these acts are not used to stereotype an entire faith. Never are these acts attributed to the religion of the perpetrators. Yet how
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Written by Syed Hossein Nasr in January 1965‚ this book of ‘Ideals and Realities of Islam’ comprises of six main chapters. In general‚ the gist of this book is to clear things up regarding Islam. During the particular time the book is wrote‚ many of the Westerners came out with critiques and their own point of view regarding Islam without deeply understanding the religion which then somehow affected the young Muslims to lose their spiritual balance and feel estranged from their own tradition. The
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Islam and democracy are two completely different subjects. As a religion‚ Islam has laws and rules that bind its believers as the Shari’a. Meanwhile‚ democracy is a political system that also has very different rules of the game to Islamic law. But‚ that does not mean the two have no intersection. As a religion rahmatan lil alamin‚ Islam has the goal to provide salvation to all mankind. Accentuate a sense of humanity and put forward a harmonious life. As cited in the surat al-Hujurat:13‚ that man
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Emad Alghweir May 8‚ 2013 Malcom X And The Nation Of Islam (Extra Credit) Malcom X was one of the most influential civil rights activists in American history. He was extremely unique in he’s speeches by combining harsh truths with flagrant and blunt criticism of not only the white man but also the system itself. The documentary‚ The Plain was through the memories and experiences of the men and women that were closest to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz‚ also known as Malcolm X. the documentary
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Immigration and Islam in France and the Netherlands After the post-war‚ WWII‚ era Europe faced a shortage of labor‚ at the same time it had to rebuild its infrastructure and economy. France and Netherlands both faced the same problem and like their counterparts in Europe they found the answer in guest-workers. These guest workers were immigrants from former colonies and other developing countries. However‚ these guest-workers later settled down and brought their families. This led to a larger
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Misconception of gender roles occur in everyday aspect of life and religion is no exception to this case. Especially in the religion of Islam‚ current debates occur over gender roles. Although this monotheistic religion has been around for centuries‚ it wasn’t long ago that it became so prevalent in main stream media; especially since the occurrence of 9/11. As much as this religion is celebrated‚ it is also highly scrutinized for the preconception of the role of man and woman. This is all based
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can change in the blink of an eye. I never thought much about it myself‚ until I was faced with the devastating‚ and undeniable truth of my uncle death. The event that occurred which started my growth into adulthood. It was June 24‚ 2012 and it was about four thirty in the afternoon….I can remember so clearly the day that I received the news of his death‚ my uncle’s girlfriend gave me the news that changed my life. It was the saddest news that I had ever got in my entire life. The news was
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GENERAL PURPOSE: To inform. ------------------------------------------------- SPECIFIC PURPOSE: To inform my audience about the similarities between the religion of Islam and Christianity. INTRODUCTION 1. (ATTENTION GETTER) Most of us do not know that the teachings of Islam and Christianity are related to each other. This is because our society do not open their minds to know about other religions and cultures. Now‚ there are lots of conflicts happened between these two religions
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September 11‚ 2001‚ American leaders rushed to portray Islam as a peaceful religion that had been "hijacked" by a fanatical band of terrorists. One hopes that these assurances were merely tacticalthat nobody was meant to believe them and that they were meant to assure the Muslim world that the inevitable American reprisals were not directed at their religion as a whole. If the world Muslim community perceived America as attacking Islam in general then the duty of every Muslim to fight for his
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Should be constantly and consciously present in the heart of every muslim 3. and that they will obey all the commitments of Islam in their life These words are the first words newborns hear‚ and the last words heard by the dying. A Muslim lives with these sentences‚ hears them and utters them at least once every day Part of the ritual prayer in the 2nd pillar of Islam For sunni Muslims‚ it is the first of the five pillars of faith; while the Shi’a connects it to their lists of pillars of
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