Hijab

Before the revolution, women were allowed to wear anything they wanted and women who chose to wear hijab were allowed to do so. Iranians also had more personal freedom during the monarchy but reduced afterward. For example, people had the freedom of having parties and fun. Parties were allowed and dancing was normal. Drinking was popular and liquor shops…

The Islamic Experience In 2010, there were approximately 1.6 billion Muslims in the world (Lipka). With so many people who follow the Islam faith, why do so many non-Muslims not know the truth about it? I chose to do my service learning over Islam for that reason exactly. I had not known much about Islam before this class other that what I heard on the news or from my friends and family who are predominantly from the South. I wanted to dig deeper into this religion and find out more details…

perception plays a huge role in the way that minorities are perceived. Super predators, terrorists, criminals, and thugs are all words that change the way that Americans have viewed certain races of people in America. When a Middle Eastern person wearing a hijab or an African American person wearing a hoodie is walking through a neighborhood, thoughts get provoked. The negative images come to mind and minds get triggered, even police minds. Fear is a great emotion that can lead to irrational…

legal system that still uses public stonings and beheadings as a form of punishment. Homosexuality and a woman not having four male witnesses to testify that the rape had occured are both offenses punished by death. A woman who is found without her hijab in public is the sexual property of any Muslim man that comes across her. Modern societies based on Christianity don’t have laws such as this, yet Christians are constantly attacked by liberals as the true theological barbarians. With all of…

hijacked the planes and performed the terrorist acts of 9/11 were Muslim extremists from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates. Middle Easterners are treated differently in America ever since 9/11, especially when wearing a turban or hijab or some sort of head covering associated with the Middle East. The other type of inequality facing America is the economic gap between the rich and the poor. Following the attacks, the U.S. economy slowed. Although the Great Recession…

The hijab is a head covering/piece that must be worn by Muslim women at all times except when with her immediate family (family that is forbidden to marry her). A women’s beauty and sexuality is unlawful and inappropriate for public display in the Islamic religion…

The Muslim religion is one of the most discriminated against minorities in the world. Many people believe that Muslim people are a threat to their society, and therefore treats them like they are inhuman and untrustworthy. Another minority that is greatly discriminated against is women. Sadly, there are people out there who have to deal with the marginalization of both women and the Muslim religion. Muslim women are treated unfairly in America (primarily after 9/11) and in their Islamic religion…

Correspondingly, Islamophobia increased drastically after 9/11, thousands of innocent Muslims have been victim to hate crimes, and hundreds have been killed. The term "Islamophobia" reflects the largely unexamined and deeply ingrained anxiety many Americans experience when considering Islam and Muslim cultures (Varisco, 2009). Many have associated the religion of Islam with terrorism and have target and profile those who follow the religion. In recent months, incidents of Islamophobia have…

want to know they are in our heads causing distress in everyday lives. We have become anti-muslim in defense to our fears. Harvard University in the Pluralism Project tells this, ”On December 30, 2004, also in California, a Muslim woman wearing a hijab was pushing her baby in a stroller when a man in a truck almost ran them over near a gas station. When the woman cried, “You almost killed my baby!,” the man responded, “It wouldn’t have been a big loss” (pluralism.org par. 4). This is crazy what…

Characteristics of what modernity looks like in the West is technologically and economically advancement, urbanization, and secularization. Images of modernity and the west are often merged together, which is problematic when developing countries want to embrace modernity, by models the “supposedly” “one-size-fit” all western policies. Major states and individual in the Middle East initially started out embracing modernity, until the 1970’s occurred. The Iranian Revolution sparked several waves…