Flying while Muslim

Children of Dust by Ali Eteraz, takes you on a journey through a child’s perspective, growing up through the Islamic religion in Pakistan to living in America as a Muslim family. He shows the reader what it is like to be Muslim as a young man and the different types of dilemma you may face. The book automatically captivates you from the very first page when he introduced his mother as well as the names of the rest of his family showing the reader right away that family is a huge dynamic in…

Islamic Fundamentalism is a movement of Muslims go back to their roots, obey the regulation and the words on their original Muslim holy book - The Quran. In recent years, the phenomenon of Islamic fundamentalism has captured the attention of the Western mass media, such as the September 11 attacks in New York City and the November 2015 Paris attacks. These news makes public to consider the Islamic Fundamentalism as a terrorist. Some people even portrayed Muslims as violent fanatics and the…

sole authority (Islamic Monthly Para.8). Moreover, there is an important emphasis placed on the intellect in the community’s tradition, as well as the idea of ‘masum’ (freedom from sin). This notion, however, differs from that of the Sunni Muslims. Sunni Muslims believe that the prophets, and not Imamat are considered ma’sum (CITE). Nizaris also pay a substantial amount zakat and pray three times a day which as well differs from that of Sunni…

While many informative surveys on Islam exists, most focus on Islam as an ideal rather than on Islamic practices, and most deal with texts and doctrine rather than the reality of people’s daily lives. Carolyn Fluehr - Lobban’s book admirably fills the need for a study of Islamic practices the translation of ideals into daily routines and rituals. Her book vividly illustrates the wide variety of customs, language, rituals, laws, beliefs and politics that are encompassed in, and too often…

historian may have believed that unity and open-mindedness of the people's centuries will be destroyed in this short, ferocious time frame. Nonetheless it just happened, with the help of the nation that has a significant amount of cash and it is capable while imposing a rabid model of Islam of placing huge tension. Wherever, for that part, the folks of the Horn of Africa coexisted in whichever way Islam first found Somalia, it's been existing since the moment of the Prophet…

It is interesting how, today, Muslims in the Middle East have a strained relationship with Jewish people. Despite the Quran’s teachings that “any who believe in God, and act righteously… have nothing to fear,” Middle Eastern Jews are under consistent threat from the powerful Islamic forces around them. Islamic terrorists frequently target Jews, something that seemingly goes against the sacred teachings of Islam. The Quran instructs Muslims to be accepting of Judaism (as well as Christianity)…

Columbia was a welcoming experience that inspired me to learn more about others and their world. I met Ayaan while she was studying for her "Legal Reasoning, Research, and Writing" course during lunch, when a mutual friend introduced us. Our first few conversations were about academic related subjects such as social problems and the significance of the legal system in the United States. While neuroscience was my concentration, Ayaan's passionate views towards civil rights called to me as her…

think that this so called group was an endangerment to american citizens. In a form of way we believe KKK is a terrorist group. They influenced so many people into the mindset of racial segregation. So why must they be free to do what they want and muslims are the one that suffer. They endangered american lives. They built their foundation on what america was against. In th9is situation national security wa more important than the civil…

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 Igbo trader in Kofar Wambai market, Kano city, on Thursday, June 2,…

a person who follows the Muslim religion, they think of one thing: terrorists. This ideology dates back to the attacks on the World Trade Center in which some Americans have now developed islamophobia due to the catastrophic event. In addition,…