Firstname Lastname Instructor’s Name Course Number 27 May 2013 Attending a Muslim Friday Prayer as an Atheist Introduction Growing up in the place where almost everybody was atheist‚ I have become increasingly curious about Islam‚ as a religion and the culture that comes along with it. As someone who has traveled and studied abroad‚ I always feel excited with meeting people from different backgrounds. But sometimes I sense that my lack of knowledge in some religion-related culture makes
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“Muslim Belal” and “The Jewish and Muslim Girl Poetry Slam” are two well-known examples of religious poetry. The poet “Muslim Belal” talks about how he got from the streets to Islam. “The Jewish and Muslim Girl Poetry Slam” talks about how society discriminates the religions: Islam and Judaism. These two poems do have some similar qualities. Muslim Belal is a poet that talks about how he got from his “ghetto” lifestyle into the folds of Islam. His poem is a rap and also includes a few Arabic words
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all Muslim women are being oppressed into fully covering their bodies. Instead‚ a majority of Muslim women around the world have made the decision themselves to wear a head covering or veil. The belief concerning the oppression of Muslim women has resulted from the negative connotation of head coverings associated with Islam. Many people are convinced that Islamic head coverings represent fundamentalist Islam and oppression of Muslim women. This belief is highly misinformed and untrue. Muslim women
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Diminish Muslim Women ’s Rights? In the Western world it is the stereotypical belief that Muslim women are treated unequally and forced to cover up‚ "The burqa does not fit comfortably with Western sentiments. It ’s closed; Westerners are open. It ’s also viewed as a prison for women -- even if Muslim women are free to choose it. And it symbolizes fundamentalist Islam‚ which conjures up images of terrorism.”‚ however that is not at all the case. Randa Abdel-Fattah contests‚ "To the Muslim woman‚
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Violence Against Women in Muslim Families: an Agenda for Muslim Women’s Empowerment Nasim Basiri Kofi Annan‚ Secretary-General of the United Nations‚ declared in a 2006 report posted on the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) website that: Violence against women and girls is a problem of pandemic proportions. At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten‚ coerced into sex‚ or otherwise abused in
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significance of Hajj to the life Muslim adherents (15 marks) The Hajj is one of the 5 pillars of Islam and ultimately reflects many core Muslim beliefs. Through spiritual rebirth‚ the wearing of the Ihram garments‚ the acknowledgement of Allah ’s omnipotency and the experience of following in Prophet Muhammad ’s footsteps‚ adherents through the Hajj are able to reflect the Islamic beliefs of Jihad‚ Umma‚ Zakat‚ and forgiveness in their own lives. By this Muslims are able to become more intimate
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4/4/14 Is Honor Killing a Muslim Phenomenon? In communities where there is a high occurrence of honor killings‚ there is a powerful shared belief that honor is the primary value in life. Honor killing is defined as the murder of a family or community member by other members due to the belief that the victim brought shame upon the family or community. In these communities‚ people use the concepts of honor and shame as a way to assess and maintain a certain level of conduct. Although honor
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The Great Muslim Scientists of All Time. Here is a little intro about them and their work to the world of science.All the scientists are before 14th century ..‚When you the Europe was called a Dark continent ‚Muslims Scientists Were ruling in all over the world! I don’t know what happened now But anyways Don’t Forget the Past=) Better be Proud! Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī Consequently he is considered to be the father of algebra‚[6] a title he shares with Diophantus. Latin translations
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Christian and Muslim responses to the plague were different. The Muslims thought it was a blessing from God while Christians thought it was a bad sign from God. The plague was caused by fleas on rats. So many believed that the plague was the end of the world. Civilizations in the East and West were affected by the plague. To explain that the plague was caused fleas on rats is that the fleas carried the disease that infected rats‚ and then the rats infected the humans. The plague spread through
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to the differences between Muslims and Arabs. A Muslim is a person who lives their life according to the laws and traditions of the Islamic faith. Arabs are people whose roots come from the Arabian Peninsula or either a person that speaks the Arabic language; the people in this ethnicity live in the Middle East. There is one important change within the last two years that has been notable by the United States that has made to policies relating to the treatment of Muslim and the Arabic members of the
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