Arab Muslims

In our country muslims face many hardships. It is often disputed on whether or not the government should intervene in religious matters, but to combat the hardships, the government has the authority and the obligation to help, There are also ways in which the government can help them in the schools, in the workplace, and in the general public. Many young Muslim children have to face the harsh reality of our country all too early in life. They wake up everyday afraid to walk the halls of school,…

or discrimination, and do the Muslim youth feel they have to negotiate their identities as a Muslim and a Canadian. I wanted to know if the experiences of the Muslim youth in my study would be positive or negative. The overall goal for my study was to find connections with Canadian citizenship and national belonging. Through this research paper I will provide: an introduction to my research, background history of Canada and Muslims, a brief literature review of Muslims after the 9/11 including…

In spite of the implications related to fasting, it has aided my to development to becoming a disciplined individual. As an attentive individuals, most endeavors I take come with an integrated beneficial factor such as health factors. Fasting for the month of Ramadan was an outlet to to becoming an introspective individual as it allowed me to be contemplative about the choices I make regarding the readily access to food and its effects. Unlike most endeavors, I did not succeed in fasting.…

media’s portrayal of the Arab region, which is often reduced to the role of non-A. Within that, many varying ethnicities and religions are vastly simplified or even erased, such as the many Jews and Christians who live in the region. Because of the media’s continued use of negative characterization of all Arab…

she is considered not only as “as the pioneer woman who led the way to the establishment of a new civilization. She is seen not only as "’Ishmael's mother’ but also as the mother of all Arabs.” Hagar is truly the second only to the Prophet Muhammad himself in this religion when it is understood that “in Muslim societies the mother is the most highly regarded member of the family. . .” Having a female character act with such importance and power in a religion is almost unheard of. With that,…

The Struggle of Today’s Arab Youth At a time when the western world and all the freedoms enjoyed in it are a tap or click away; the struggle for Arab youth is an entirely foreign one to previous generations. Arab youth are struggling with a crisis of their learned identity clashing severely with the world they see in mass culture, a free world they desperately want to live in and be a part of. Access to the Internet, technology and the resultant rapidly amplified globalization has made their…

control along the Arabian Peninsula. This region was as complicated as the western front with a multitude of players on a single field, with Germany, France, Britain, and the Arab tribes all vying for power and influence. Germany combined with the Ottoman Empire and the allies of Britain and France backing their support for the Arab tribes. Creating cacophony of cultures clashing together. With clashing cultures it was necessary to have intermediaries for this large empires on the ground to make…

through the targeted eradication of the Jewish population and the reluctance of Western civilization to collectively recognize Islamic radicals as a world wide threat. The documentary uses a significant amount of video and audio footage compiled from Arab television and media broadcasts, supplemented with the personalized accounts from individuals who are experts or have experienced radical Islam. What is striking about Kopping 's documentary is the abundant and detailed collection of…

countries is a minority in a pluralistic and secularized context. Islam is also internally pluralistic, as it reproduces in itself different cultural national, theological, and juridical interpretations of Islam, to a degree that is hardly observable in Muslim majority countries and in other countries where the presence of Islam is not the result of a recent migration process (Allievi 2014:428). These situations exposed them to a transformative dialectical dialogue with modernity, an universal…

evolution and social norms. However, the Muslim community at this time was experiencing an identity crisis, and was a civilization in transition. The once great Ottoman Empire was crumbling from internal and external pressure, Egypt experienced a brief stint of independence under Muhammad Ali before falling under colonial rule, and the Arab community was divided and lacked any sort of leadership from the Ulama. As a result, a new European educated group of Muslim scholars introduced a liberal…