Copyright Laws‚ Napster and Personal Ethics Abstract: The current lawsuits against Napster have brought out new ethical issues surrounding the exchange of MP3s and copyrighted material on the Internet. This paper discusses the ethical case against those who participate in MP3 trading services such as Napster and suggests ethical alternatives to these services. The free exchange of CD-quality music in the form of MP3s has created quite a stir in the media in the past few years and has forced
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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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The Muslim Veil The veil worn by many Muslim women tends to be a stereotyped piece of clothing. Many of us in the United States see it and automatically assume that the person is a terrorist‚ but what do we really know about the Muslim veil? Caryle Murphy‚ a writer for The Christian Science Monitor‚ thinks that we do not fully understand the complexity of the Muslim veil. In “Behind the Veil: Why Islam’s Most Visible Symbol Is Spreading‚” Murphy writes that “Rarely in human history has a piece
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and Hijab. There are many views with regard to Hijab in Islam from the Muslims themselves. The issue of Hijab can be analyzed from several perspectives. Firstly‚ the Islamic view on Hijab‚ the importance and benefits to society at large and the world view of Hijab and the women wearing Hijab living in the Western hemisphere. However‚ some Muslim women believe that the wearing of the Hijab is the right and the choice of the Muslim woman. They are not forced or pressured to wear a veil and they are not
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Personal injury law is a very vast area and encompasses all the types of physical as well as psychological injuries that arise due to the negligence of someone else. It encompasses • Injuries that arise from all types of vehicular accidents such as the automobile accidents‚ truck accidents‚ motorbike accidents‚ bicycle accidents‚ pedestrian accidents‚ boat accidents‚ snowmobile accidents and even airplane accidents. • The occupier’s liability claims in the slip‚ trip and fall cases • The public
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Negative and anti-Muslim views are often based on appearance and other observations‚ assumption‚ and stereotypes. Negative & anti-Muslim views are often based on appearance and other observations.According to the article titled "Ethnic and Religious Profiling Violates Civil Liberties‚" “Azhar Usman‚ a burly American-born Muslim with a heavy black beard‚ says that he elicits an almost universal reaction when he boards an airplane at any United States airport: conversations stop in mid-sentence and
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research was the Anti-Muslim hate groups in the United States. After the attacks on September 11‚ 2001 there has been a rise in the number of Muslim hate groups. The people in these groups see Muslims as “irrational‚ intolerant and violent.”(SPLC) They also believe that The Muslim community is a danger to America and its people. The Muslim hate groups suspect that Muslims are trying to convert American Democracy into their own law‚ which in most cases is Shariah law. Their hate for Muslims may spark major
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many countries have their own greetings based on local language and traditions. Typically‚ Muslims wake up relatively late in the morning—always after sunrise—and have a small breakfast (as a sign of not being on a fast on that day) of preferably the date fruit‚ before attending a special Eid prayer (salah) that is performed in congregation at mosques or open areas like fields‚ squares etc. Muslims are encouraged to dress in their best clothes (new if possible) for the occasion. No adhan or iqama
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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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Jihad. It was once a word unfamiliar to American ears. But in recent years it has become all too familiar. The actions of Muslim militants and terrorists have seared the word into American consciousness. Yet even with thousands of innocent civilians killed on American soil by Islamic terrorists‚ the full significance of the Muslim concept of jihad has not been grasped by the American public. In the days after September 11‚ 2001‚ American leaders rushed to portray Islam as a peaceful religion
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