The Muslim Next Door Essay

Migrating from a different country to the United States can bring a significant amount of changes to someone's life. Growing up in the United States and trying to fit in such a diverse society can be at times difficult. Everyone's grows up with different learning styles, traditions, religions, and even different styles of dressing which makes everyone unique in their own way. In the book, “The Muslim Next Door: The Qur’an the Media, and the Veil Thing”, by Sumbul Ali-Karamali talks about how growing up in the United States has brought a significant amount of changes and challenging moments to her life because of her religion values, practices, and beliefs. Ali-Karamali is a Muslim women who grew up in the suburbs of California which is very different from India where her family comes from. …show more content…
Ali- Karamali talks about important issues in Islam which involve how women rights were discriminated against men and the different values of marriage, hijab, divorce, and religion practices. In this paper we will be focusing on the past history in Islamic, tradition, and women rights that Ali-Karamali puts a lot of effort into explaining. Also It was very interesting reading this book because I can get a sense of a different perspective of life compared to life here in the United States. It is very shocking to see how in Islam women did not have much say into making decisions for herself but instead males had a final say with the rights of women. What personally interested me the most is to learn about a different cultures values because many people are quick to judge a person without actually knowing where they actually come