Far East

emotions. Emotions are strong they make us very happy or sad at the time, it makes people do things before they think about it. Fear of death is one of the worst. Militant group called ISIS has been trying to take over small countries across the Middle East and enable the possibility to spread fear of Muslims all over the world, but primary to Europe. Isis, militant group, is causing one of the biggest problems in today’s world by taking people’s land and lives. Isis is a very powerful group…

intro When I was a young child in elementary school I had a friend, Basheer, who was part of a family who were recent immigrants from the middle east. They left their native home to escape prosecution against their sufi minority status in a sunni-dominant area. One of my fondest memories I had while visiting Basheer 's home involved some of the religious practices his family engaged in, which was entirely new to me at the time. I found their customs, fresh from their homeland as they were…

COMPARING THREE WORLD RELIGIONS WITH MIDDLE EASTERN BEGINNINGS In William A. Young’s book entitled, The World Religions - Worldviews and Contemporary Issues (Fourth Edition), Young presents the major religions of the world using a fundamentally descriptive method that is “historical, comparative and – above all – phenomenological” (Young 14). With his basic definition of religion as “the human transformation in response to perceived ultimacy” (Young 15). Young methodically answers seven basic…

Psychological impacts are more than the hubris previously mentioned. Those in positions of power have the capability to rule with psychological warfare. Dean Cheng a specialist in China’s military and foreign policy writes that “The ultimate proof of generalship… is the ability to defeat an opponent without fighting.” This was done long before the advancement of technological advancements by attacking an enemy’s psychological will to resist. Today China attempts to mold perceptions worldwide.…

affected modern U.S. relations with the Middle East. Rashid Khalidi feels that wartime and postwar moves in North Africa and Iran, as well as U.S. air bases in Saudi Arabia, Libya, Morocco, and Turkey, marked the beginning of “an American role as the major Middle Eastern Power, a reality that was masked for a time by the power and proximity to the region of the USSR (Page 9).” Khalidi believes that since the end of the cold war the U.S’s interest in the Middle East has grown greater and greater,…

power in the world. There is no power in the world that can stand the military might of this nation. With this military strength, any conflict could be solved quickly and cleanly… or could it? AS of current, there is a conflict going on the Middle East involving the Syrian Civil War, which is a war currently between syrian nationalists, the current corrupt government, and the terrorist group ISIS, along with the whole crisis being used as a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran (“Syria”).…

Gender seems at first just like other demographic descriptors, such as ethnicity, class, or sect, in analyzing the politics of the Middle East. However, the politics of gender plays a critical role in the interaction between men and women not just in the political space, but in social sphere as well. What remains somewhat unique about the Middle East is that women political figures, especially in top positions, remain rare. Israel had a notable female leader, Golda Meir, though the…

made as a new leader is signing the executive order banning immigration and refugees from several different countries in the middle east. Although this may bring a small sense of security and protection to some, tearing innocent families apart, turning away people in need of medical care, and stranding people in unfamiliar dangerous countries is not justified. There are far better solutions to resolve the fear of terrorism the country is facing Trumps primary justification towards this ban, is…

very quickly even in 2016. Due to 3 main reasons of the Quickly spreading religion in the A.D era, is Military conquest, The way Muslims treat other people and Trade. This made Islam spread very quickly throughout some parts of Europe and the middle east. The Military Conquest that the Muslims had used proved to be very effective when Conquering Other regions or other armies. An Account from a Muslim historian talking about how the Muslim army would overcome very large armies with as few men as…

America ever since the war in the Middle East started and the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The people that originate from the Middle East are perceived as terrorists or religious extremists. This perception has affected and continues to affect people from these parts of the world till the day of today. How Muslims and the Islam religion is perceived affects them in negative ways but these perceptions are far from reality. The world 's…