Muslim generals

Downtrodden on the Mediterranean coastline, the hero rises before his cohort as they face overwhelming obstacles and rallies them onward to fortune and glory. This striking image coincidentally illustrates the origin of two disparate domains: Aeneas begetting the Roman people and Tariq ibn Zayid seizing the Iberian Peninsula for the Islamic Caliphate. The scenes of these heroes’ rousing speeches echo each other both literally and literarily as they open the classic tale of the birth of their cultures. The fictional Aeneas of Virgil’s epic poem as well as Tariq ibn Ziyad, who would be permanently veiled by legend and hyperbole, would become glorified by their supposed descendants them long after the facts had faded from the historical record. Their imposing images were intended to embellish the empires that succeeded them and have since supplanted whatever had actually happened. These speeches, whether they be fact or fabrication, exemplify similar classical clichés by appealing to the army’s allegiance as well as their avarice, while still emphasizing the hero’s superiority to the audience. More than a millennium and a megameter apart, this pair of famous conquerors fulfilled the same role with their parallel proclamations, personifying the founding myths of centuries-long societies. The main parallel between these scenes is their function as a fantastic founding folklore for their cultures’ origins which have supplanted the more factual versions of the history. While…

The three ways in which the narratives of the women who choose to veil disrupt “hegemonic understanding of veiling that have been shaped by ‘persistent colonial images of Muslims” is by using the veil as a symbol of patriarchal oppression, also wearing it as a desire to be a good Muslim women and to present themselves as person rather then a sex object. To begin with, one of the ways in which the narratives of the women who choose to veil disrupt “hegemonic understanding of veiling that have…

The leaders of the Muslim community, the caliphs after his death continued the conquests and established a vast Islamic empire over subsequent centuries. However the Islam of Muhammad’s time apparently changed over the years and the Islamic culture is so very diverse that the idea of Islam as a whole seems like an illusion. Patricia Crone in her Slaves on Horses points out that under internal tensions and external attacks when the existing doctrines could no longer deal with the circumstances,…

extremists, discrimination against Muslims has sadly become increasingly prominent in modern day society. As a result, many Muslim men and women in the Western world now face consequences such as social out-casting, bullying, work place discrimination, and unemployment. In a survey regarding social cohesion by the Skalon Foundation in 2014, it was found that about one quarter of Australians felt negatively about Muslims living in the country (Markus, 2014). As a vast majority of these…

society. Throughout history the American people have been terrorized in various occasions. As a consequence, our nation has lost its trust and the people have become insensitive to other nations problems. Likewise, hatred against people that are different from the common American citizen has risen especially after 911. A common example of a racial group that has been discriminated against for decades, due to terrorist with the same racial background whom have attempted many attacks against the…

One such revelation was that Muhammad, and his followers, were given permission to fight and shed blood in order to spread Islam. Muhammad became very well recognized in Medina. When the leaders found themselves in the midst of a terrible civil war Muhammad, being so well known for his wisdom, was asked to mediate the situation. Medina was the first Muslim community that Muhammad established. With Muhammad’s power growing in Medina the Meccans felt threatened. There were many small…

Indisputably, the northern region has been the epicenter and scene of Islamic Militant Religious violence, now and in the past. In one gruesome case in 1996, a Christian Igbo trader was beheaded by the Muslim youths who had accused him of desecrating the Koran. His severed head was impaled on a spike and strutted around the city. Also, in the same city of Kano Islamic Extremist Mob murdered a Pastor’s wife for alleged blasphemy. The Muslim Mob killed 74-year-old Mrs. Bridget Agbahime, an ethnic…

The Prophet Muhammad founded the religion of Islam. Muslims believe the Koran to be the words of God revealed to the prophet. Muhammad was born about AD 570 in the city of Mecca, an important trading center in western Arabia. He was a member of the Hashim clan of the powerful Quraysh tribe. Because Muhammad’s father, Abd Allah, died before he was born and his mother, Amina, when he was 6 years old, he was placed in the care of his grandfatherAbd al-Muttalib and, after 578, his uncle Abu Talib,…

the attacks on September 11, 2001 in New York, everything changed. Fingers were pointed towards Islam, and its entire followers, framing each and every one of them for the attacks. As time moved on, and other attacks occurred, fingers would point at Muslims. Media took this as an opportunity to twist things around, for every story, and accuse the religious beliefs of the religion, and its followers. With so many things being said against Islam, many started to fear the religion, or in…

investigates Australia’s perceptions of Islam and how Muslim discrimination is at an all-time high. 1 in 4 Australians were born overseas, this means that we have one of the most diverse populations in the world. Yet, cultural and religious discrimination are prevalent issues facing Australia right now. People of the Islamic religion are experiencing discrimination daily in Australia. Western Sydney University recently completed a survey of almost 600 Australian Muslims. The results found that…