Islamic Golden Age

Based on Akins, the evolution of learning theory said that all social behavior is learned, including crime. He identify social learning theory in four key elements. First, differential association refers of individual learning deviant behavior from their close friends or family. (Akins & Winfree, 136) One example, individuals that grow up with a close friend that is involved in terrorism behavior is more likely that he or she follow the same line of terrorism behavior. Second, imitation is one…

One of the worst attacks on the United States that no one will ever forget was on September 11, 2001. On this day, 19 extremists in the Al-Qaeda group took control of four United States airplanes, hijacked them and carried out a major suicide plan of attack against the United States. Two of the four airplanes flew head on into the World Trade Center Towers in New York, one flew into the Pentagon in Washington, and the last airplane crashed in Pennsylvania in a field when passengers tried to…

Terrorism today Terrorism is defined as “The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims”. Prior to the 2000’s few Americans understood exactly what terrorism is and looks like. We would hear the term terrorist and associate it with third world countries who were always in the mist of war. As for the rest of Americans who were clueless it wasn’t until the tragic events of the morning of Sept 11, 2001 when the word “terrorism” took on a whole new meaning. From this day to…

Hamas — Islamic Resistance Movement Hama is a Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist organization of Palestinian nationality. The group was founded in 1987, and it’s original goal was to liberate Palestine from Israeli occupation and to establish an Islamic state in the occupied Israeli territory of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Hamas’s headquarter is located in the Palestinian territory of Gaza. The group formed as an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas is known for being the first…

are: Islamic banking, Conventional banking and Investment banking. 1.1 Objectives 1) Demonstrate an understanding of the role(s) played by different organisations within the Financial Services Sector 2) Demonstrate, in report format, an understanding of the ethical conflicts which face firms in the Financial Services Sector 3) Demonstrate and evaluate problems caused by differing objectives which face both the customer and the Financial Services provider ISLAMIC BANKING 2.1 What is Islamic…

Negative Effects of Media in the United States Although US media originally started as entertainment or biased news, the impact of it is becoming a substantial problem because of misrepresentation. The main purpose of the media is to inform people by choosing what is important and then providing the information; however, the way it fulfills its purpose in the modern world is detrimental to the overall knowledge of the public. Modern media is a problem because of how it frames issues, focuses on…

Taking Care of Global/Domestic Terrorism Since our recent terrorist attack in September 11, 2001 many researchers like economists, sociologists, psychologists, and political scientists have been debating the cause of this terrorist attack. In addition, the 9/11 caused financial and military costs which involved fighting terrorism, and many people started fearing terrorist which caused limits to our personal freedoms. The United States has played a major role in terrorism as well as dealing with…

The Islamic Solution (Qardh-Ul-Hassan) Qard-ul-hassan (QH) is a voluntary loan without the lenders expectation of any payback principal. Furthermore, at the same time as, the nonpayer an obligation to return the principal, the lender is urged, according to a number of the sayings of the Prophet (pbuh), not to press the debtor if he/she is unable to repay at the specified deadline. For example, verses (2:245, 5:12, 11:57 18:57, 17:64 and 20:73) in the Quran explain in detail about those issues.…

ideology is typically described as a brand of Salafism and Wahhabism that supports takfir, the excommunication of apostates or unbelievers. Though it has stated many goals in the past, the group fights first and foremost to create a fundamentalist Islamic state in the Horn of Africa that would include not only Somalia but also Djibouti, Kenya, and Ethiopia. Islamism and Salafism served to express commonalities and build alliances against shared enemies who happened to be world powers such as…

The killing of the Al-Qaeda leader, which is a Radical Islamic Terrorist Group founded in the 1980's by Osama Bin Laden, was a huge justice to the U.S. and other countries. Bin Laden posed a global threat to the countries where Islam is not implemented, he was responsible for the September, 11th attacks back in 2001. He orchestrated it, and had it planned for months, he was planning more attacks on the U.S. after 9/11 as well. (Resource Seven) The terrorist group Al-Qaeda knew they couldn’t…