and helper who can give him peace and comfort. They both will help each other through life’s problems and struggles. All Muslims are expected to marry because the Prophet Muhammad was married and Muslims regard Muhammad as the perfect example of how to live. “Whoever gets married has completed half of his faith”. (Hadith) The Islamic banning of social contact between Muslims after puberty means that most couples meet through introductions from their parents (arranged marriages). It is felt that
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Cultural Diversity Muslims and Arabs Arab Americans and Muslim Americans are often confused as the same subordinate group but are in fact quite different. Many people do not realize that Muslims are considered a religious group and Arabs are an ethnic group. Muslim American and Arab American communities are among the most rapidly growing subordinate groups in the United States (Schaefer‚ 2006). Muslims and Arabs practice their own traditions and have their own beliefs. More than half of Arab
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Portrayal of Muslims in Indian Cinema By Taqdees Babar To Abbass Rashid Butt (Assignment for M.phil) “Cinema is the great interpreter of the past and constantly programs the memory of its audience‚” Abstract: Ever since the partition of the sub-continent in 1947‚ when Britain took apart its Indian domain‚ India and Pakistan have been arch rivals. Bollywood is one of the famous and the strongest industry among the film industries around the world‚ even before the incident of 9/11 happened
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Muslim Contributions in Medicine‚ Science & Technology: The contributions in the advancement of knowledge by the traditional Islamic institutions of learning (Madrasahs‚ Maktab‚ Halqa & Dar-ul-Aloom) are enormous‚ which have been summed up in Encyclopedia Britannica: “The madrasahs generally offered instruction in both the religious sciences and other branches of knowledge. The contribution of these institutions to the advancement of knowledge was vast. Muslim scholars calculated the angle
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Zac Grening HRT 3M Mr. DelleDonne November 29‚ 2012 The Muslim-Hindu Conflict India is in the centre of a very serious conflict in the world today. It is a very diverse place composed of people from many different religious backgrounds that come from many different regions. Two of the country’s main religions‚ Muslim and Hindu‚ have been fighting for hundreds of years for many different reasons. Their feelings of hatred and mistrust for each other are embedded in their memories and will not
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Muslim American Cultural Workshop Cultural Diversity Amanda Blackstock Baker College Muslim Americans were first known in American more than 400 years ago. Some evidence even shows that Muslims were aboard Christopher Columbus ship‚ but this information is scanty. (American Muslims in the United States‚ n.d.) Muslim Americans practice the Islam religion. The majority of Muslim Americans immigrated here from North Asia‚ Middle East‚ and South Asia. The estimate of Muslim Americans comes
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A Muslim Critique of Fukuyama and Huntington By Ibn Yasin Introduction Both Fukuyama’s hypothesis of the ‘End of History’ and Huntington’s hypothesis of the ‘Clash of Civilisations’ is discussed below in relation to their lack of usefulness in understanding the aspirations of Muslims in the modern world. The End of History In his hypothesis to prove that the only system that will survive into the future is Western liberalism‚ Fukuyama dismisses Islam and Muslims by looking at the global Islamic
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Sport is not often thought of as an important function of society. Yet‚ over the course of Ireland’s history‚ sport has been a political institution and a venue for nationalism. Within its political structure‚ the practice of both individual and team sport reveals disparities in society. As an integral institution‚ sport should benefit the whole of the community not only specific groups‚ but the gaps between gender and income that exist in Ireland are replicated in sport. The nationalistic fervour
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Ultra nationalism develops in people when they have huge belief in their own group and fear and loathing of anyone who challenges those beliefs. some people believe that drastic social and economic changes that result in poverty and unemployment can start an extreme nationalism. The great depression of the 1930s‚ for example hit Germany especially hard as it was still recovering from the first world war. The people were looking for a strong leader and Adolf Hitler used this and powerful propaganda
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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE Volume 91 March 1 998 Death and dying-a Muslim perspective Aziz Sheikh MRCP MRCGP J R Soc Med 1998;91:138-140 The care of dying patients and their relatives is one of the most difficult aspects of a doctor ’s job. Enabling an individual to die with dignity can also be deeply rewarding. Britain today is a cosmopolitan society made up of people from numerous religious and cultural traditions. The care of patients with backgrounds different from one
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