Islam by country

Introduction The factions of Islam among the Shi’ites and Sunnis involve different understandings of the Islamic succession. This paper will compare the Shi’ites and the Sunnis by exploring the differences and similarities between the two. Both factions of the Muslim faith have various perspectives that have molded the Islamic world. “This initial rift was compounded over the centuries by a recurring pattern of struggle within Islam between strains of militant puritanism and the less rigorous…

From What Went Wrong: the clash between Islam and Modernity in the middle east by Bernard Lewis, the foundation myth of different religion is one of the most important factor that result the clash. The Foundation myth of Islam and Christianity have difference on progress of preaching in founder’s life time. This difference cause separation of state and church are hard in Muslim. It also prevents the change of rules and social aspect. It has also change the coverage of the religious law. The…

However, religion has also been associated as a cause of violent fanaticism, abuse and oppression, moral reactionary and even Osama Bin Laden (Voas and Ling, 2010). The UK has been a Christian country for the last 1,400 years. Religion has influenced their laws, education policies, governance and lifestyle in the past. In Britain, religion is considered a complicated subject. After having had a long history of religious, Britain does not really…

Merchants were very respected in the Islamic World because it spread the religion and Muhammed was born in a merchant family. Anyway, money is very important today, but it was also very important back then. During the Islamic World, they used money called "Dinar and Dirham" for trading goods. However, that was not always the case. When caravans had to travel a very far distance and have to carry thousands and thousands of dinar and dirham and goods, it is very difficult. So, they came up with an…

Democracy, as most nations in the world have it today, is not properly suited for the Middle East. Their deep roots in Islam and the western world influence on them makes it hard for democracy to become stable. I believe this region needs to be left alone by the western world when it comes to politics. The past century has seen constant intervention by the western world…

assimilation of refugees, increase in terrorist attacks within the protective borders of the countries, and rise in crime level-- these cons must be addressed so that readers may understand the baggage that comes with the evacuees. As of June 2015, nearly 60 million people worldwide are currently uprooted from their homes. Millions have been displaced within Syria, and millions more have left the country altogether (Refugee Crisis, 2016). How are Europe and the United States expected to provide…

is not a new phenomenon, in fact, it emerged in the Middle Ages, in the period of the most intense cultural borrowing in the Christian consciousness, producing the main stereotypes of Islam, which largely determines the nature of the traditional relationship of the church to the Muslims. The prevailing image of Islam back then, represent a contradictory…

the doctrine of Islam and are helping to end Israeli occupation it comes as no surprise that the population highly approves of them despite their acts of violence and crimes. Hamas uses religion to push political messages. Just looking at Article 6 of their Covenant, explains exactly how they mix religion and politics. Furthermore, the preamble clearly identifies the political side of Hamas. In fact, Hamas got the easiest and most reasonable way of mixing religion and politics. Islam clearly…

bombing of 9/11 case, Islam and Muslim have been named terrorists. Muslims in countries where the majority of the people are Christians are being discriminated against and denied equal opportunities concerning employment, education scholarship, and health services. Furthermore, Islam has been branded as evil and an anti-Christ religion. There is proof that Islam is evil and anti- Christ movement which teaches it’s followers to kill the non-Muslims (Cornell 44). A study of Islam religion and the…

In his efforts to protect our country, Donald J. Trump has captured the fear in immigrants who he claims are not protected under our constitution. Trump’s proposal has mimicked World War II-era Japanese-American internment camps as a model for Muslim immigration registry. Have we learned nothing? The United States apologized for locking up Japanese Americans in 1988 and compensated more than 100,000 people of Japanese descent. In 1942, Franklin Delano Roosevelt authorized the internment of…