Islam by country

colonialism ended decades ago, a multitude of immigrants, many of them Muslims, have made France their home. France’s white majority is skeptical of immigrants ever truly assimilating to French culture; therefore, they often express hostility to Muslims or Islam itself. Within this culture war, Charlie Hebdo sides with the privileged majority. Although the magazine occasionally criticizes Catholicism, Hebdo is best known for its cartoons of France’s weak populations. The magazine’s portrayal…

innocent Muslims have been victim to hate crimes, and hundreds have been killed. The term "Islamophobia" reflects the largely unexamined and deeply ingrained anxiety many Americans experience when considering Islam and Muslim cultures (Varisco, 2009). Many have associated the religion of Islam with terrorism and have target and profile those who follow the religion. In recent months, incidents of Islamophobia have become common. In numerous occasion Americans are caught on camera screaming and…

In post 9/11 America, the topic of a Muslim woman’s status in regards to Islam and their choice of dress has received much attention in politics and Western media. Beginning with Samuel Huntington’s controversial thesis on civilization clash, Huntington suggested that there were distinct cultural differences between the core values of the West and those of Islam. “Individually almost none of these factors was unique to the West. The combination of them was, however, and this is what gave the…

his arrival in Mecca, Battuta significantly transmuted into another man. He began travelling with the simple appeasement of acquiring new knowledge and discovering new things. Ibn Battuta did not return home for about 30 years, excursing over 40 countries in the vast regions of the world. Overall, “The Adventures of Ibn Battuta” leads its audience back in time as they follow Abu ’Abdallah Ibn Battuta on his journey in search of adventure, knowledge, and…

1.What are ISIS; goals? ISIS wants to establish a new Islamic caliphate across the Middle East. Caliphate means a state created and Controlled/Run by Islam. So ISIS wants to control all of the Middle East and be feared by all the different countries. They want all of these countries to fear them so they won’t attack them and so ISIS looks like the top dog of the world. 2.How do they plan to achieve these goals? ISIS; plan is to expand like the Nazis did in germany. They want to eventually…

terrorism attacks in America occurred. Almost all people in America know that the people who were responsible for this horrific act of terrorism came from the Islam religion, and some people can’t seem to forget it. Any time a muslim is arrested or accused of doing something illegal, people wrongfully assume that they are trying to bomb our country or perform an act of terrorism. However, people aren’t so quick to label white people as a terrorist. Often times the news reports about the attacks…

to women for pursuing education, equality, or simply for being a woman. In India and many other countries men are considered superior to women, therefore they have more rights and privileges. Women are discriminated against by being beaten, stoned, gang raped, or even have acid thrown on them for harmless "crimes" enacted by fundamentalist Islamics. Moroccan feminist, Fatima Mernissi has said that Islam is a patriarchal and misogynist religion that “professes models of hierarchical relationships…

Lastly, euthanasia is an issue where the Muslim religion and the Dutch government take polarising positions. In Islam, life is considered to be sacred and the length of anyone’s life is something that is to be decided on by Allah only ("Islam and Medical Ethics."). In fact, the Quran explicitly states that suicide and euthanasia are forbidden ("Islam and Medical Ethics."). Contrastingly, the Dutch have not only extended the right to choose to use euthanasia to sick and dying patients, but also…

extremist views of Islam. Masud consciously uses the name of ‘Ibrahim’ in the film, because it is in itself a coalescing principle between the Judeo-Christian tradition (Abraham) and the prophet of Islam. The film shows the understanding differences between cultures, which help people to appreciate their basic commonalities e.g. what can be observed between East and…

who called on Muhammad to do the bidding of Allah and preach his word to the middle east who at the time Was polytheistic. In the midst of disorder and chaos in the middle east Muhammad rapidly gained followers, creating not only the religion of Islam but gathered his followers and created an islamic army. As his religion grew so did his army and soon he had created a fair and powerful islamic empire that controlled much of the middle east. But soon after his death (632 AD) as always greed…