Being a Muslim in America By Jeffrey Sheler and Michael Betzold In the article Muslim in America authors Jeffrey Sheler and Michael Betzold describe the hardships of being a Muslim in modern American society‚ they also give us in depth look at the normality of these American citizens and how they do not differ from any other ethnic group‚ how they yearn for acceptance‚ and how they’re adapting to American life. "Muslims feel very much at home in Middle America"(655). As a Muslim who has
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Malcolm X did not start out as the leader of a great muslim civil rights movement as we all know of him as today. In fact he started out as a crook primarily due to his mother and father not being around. At the age of 6 Malcolm’s “father went out one evening to collect a debt‚ only to be hit by a streetcar and mortally wounded. Though the authorities ruled his death an accident‚ African-Americans in town believed the Black Legion had beat him and placed him on the tracks to be run over. To this
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In the mid-12th century‚ the tide began to turn in the Crusades. The Muslim world had become more united under effective leaders such as Saladin‚ and dissension arose among Christian factions in and concerning the Holy Land. The Knights Templar were occasionally at odds with the two other Christian military orders‚ the Knights Hospitaller and the Teutonic Knights‚ and decades of internecine feuds weakened Christian positions‚ politically and militarily. After the Templars were involved in several
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Crucible vs Muslim Treatment Post 9/11 Fear in itself is something to be feared. Fear is the primary source of insanity and chaos. Fear alone sent the Puritan society of Salem‚ Massachusetts into a state of utter hysteria in the year 1692‚ when one of the world’s most infamous witch hunts occurred. Arthur Millers play‚ The Crucible‚ is a historical fiction depicting the events of the Salem Witch Trials. A witch hunt is a political campaign launched on the pretext of investigating activities subversive
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Thought Paper Stereotyping of Muslims in America after 9/11 8/1/2007 Imagine this perfectly normal scenario. You are taking a trip to fly abroad or within your home country. What does it entail for you? Packing‚ reaching the airport on time‚ getting through the regular security lines and boarding your flight of destination. For me‚ it’s quite different. I arrive at the airport earlier than most others so that I can avoid the extra screening security checks I get. They call it random security
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discourses of British Muslim self-segregation" by Deborah Phillips provides the perspective of British Muslims attempting to assimilate to British society. The divisions of the two groups were exuberated post-2001. Clearly siding with British Muslims‚ Phillips places the blame on white individuals and non-immigrant citizens. Across the United Kingdom and the world‚ increased media coverage and public attention has focused on the perceived cultural gap between members of a society and Muslim immigrants into
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Topic: What is the significance of the Aligarh movement for the revival o the Muslims of the subcontinent and why Sir Syed Ahmed Khan advised the Muslims to avoid active politics. To understand the significance of the Aligarh movement let us have a glance at the background of the Aligarh Movement Background: Indian authority was shifted from the Muslim to the British hands‚ as a result of the failure of the War of independence. This great debacle shook the entire structure of South Asia’s
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From Terrorism to Peace: A Successful Case Study of the Muslims of Mindanao Submitted by: Sadaf Amjad Table of Contents From Terrorism to Peace: A Successful Case Study of the Muslims of Mindanao 1 Table of Contents 1 Introduction 3 Historical developments in Philippines 3 Deciphering the conflict in Philippines 3 Initiation of the conflict 5 MILITANT GROUPS 6 Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) 6 Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) 6 International
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Are Muslim and Western values generally incompatible? The case of Turkey and the EU. An easy answer to this question would be a decisive yes. Many argue that the Muslim and Western world are completely different as they are based on different religions‚ Christianity and Islam. In the Christian Bible there is a definitive separation of church and state‚ it documents Jesus Christ as saying “Give to Caesar what is Caesar ’s and to God what is God ’s” (Matthew 22:21). Islam‚ on the other hand‚ is
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“After Killings in France‚ Muslims Fear a Culture of Diversity Is at Risk” This article “After Killings in France‚ Muslims Fear a Culture of Diversity Is at Risk” by Scott Sayare published on March 28th 2012 discusses the risk of the vanishing of a culture of diversity between Muslims and others in a city in southern France called Toulouse. This risk occurs‚ because a young Muslim man murdered four children in a Jewish school in that city. This relates to our discipline from last week‚ which
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