interesting video. For people who think of Muslims as bad‚ hate filled people this would be an extremely good video to have them watch. I have friends who are Muslims so I have never seen them the way that Dave did or the way that some of the random people who were interviewed do. I had my mother watch it and she seemed to think afterwards that maybe they were ok people‚ whereas before‚ she used to complain about the Mosques in Iowa City and she blamed all Muslims for 9/11. I see examples of ethnocentric
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Understanding the role of Muslim women The role of Muslim women in the Islamic world has led to much discussion and assumptions; unfortunately the discussion is often a negative one. The most common perceptions are of that women living under the oppressive dictatorships of their husbands and fathers‚ forced into marriage‚ and of course suffocated under the veil. The focus of the media on Muslim women around the world is concentrated on the ones wearing hijab‚ being treated as second
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Throughout the centuries‚ many empires have developed on the different continents of the Earth. All of these empires have experienced period of political‚ economic‚ and social success‚ as well as periods of decline. This is the case with the 3 Muslim empires: the Ottomans‚ the Safavids‚ and the Mughal. After the collapse of the Mongol Empire‚ the 3 kingdoms began to from across Asia: the Ottoman Empire in Asia Minor‚ the Safavid Empire in Persia‚ and the Mughal Empire in India. At their height‚ they
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Post-Classical Age‚ the Muslim societies had roles such as the expansion and prosperity of their empire‚ the standardized and organized form of government they brought‚ and finally‚ the spread of their culture through trading and invasions throughout the Post-Classical world. Firstly‚ the expansion of the Islamic empire kept growing and its prosperity was never lacking. Marco Polo‚ himself‚ observed the city of Tabriz‚ which was an urban area belonging to the province of Azerbaijan‚ a Muslim area. “The inhabitants
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anti-Muslim crimes to non-Muslims‚ like in January of 2008 when a 63 year old Sikh man was attacked outside of his temple by a man who used profanities and screamed‚ “Arab‚ go back to your country.” (Southern Poverty Law Center) The Sikh man had just exited a sanctuary of peaceful worship to be attacked and harassed by a xenophobic white man. Not only are these crimes targeted to people of Islamic origins‚ but also to those who may share the same skin tone. In the minds of these abusers‚ anyone who
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Document-based Question: American and Muslim Slaveries Slavery is as old as the world ’s first civilizations. Two important slave movements were the one across the Sahara Desert and another along the East African coasts of the Indian Ocean‚ both of which terminated in slave markets in the Muslim world. The subject of slavery is viewed in contrast by different parts of the world. Narrowing to the topic of slavery in the Americas and the Muslim states‚ it is apparent that the two regions contain
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My literature review consists of five secondary sources. Islamophobia has become an issue of mounting concern over the past decade. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks‚ feelings of hatred have developed for Hijabi Muslim women. A study conducted on thirteen women in Washington D.C shows that a Somalian woman was stereotyped when her team members ridiculed her saying she could not play well. Eventually it turned out that she was one of the best basketball players of the team. This shows that due to
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East is East We’ve been looking at East is East; it’s a film about a Muslim family (although the mother is English) living in Manchester. The Khan family are an untypical of a Muslim family because Ella‚ the mother‚ I white and an atheist. George the father tries to arrange marriages for his three sons but they rebel against his strict Muslim upbringing preferring Ella’s non-religious way of life. George is the boss in their relationship; he makes all their decisions. He controls the family
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Evolution and growth of Muslim society in the Sub-continent Although Islam spread rapidly in the world as soon as it surfaced in the world‚ but it established its foothold in the Indo-Pak Sub-continent in the beginning of 8th Century A.D. It was during the rule of sixth Umayyad caliph‚ Walid bin Abdul Malak (705-715 A.D)‚ when an overarching incidence of ship looting occurred near Debal‚ a sea port. The ships‚ carrying widows and children of deceased Arab soldiers‚ sent by the king of Ceylon (present
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