Islamic republic

The year 1963 witnessed the foundation of the very first Islamic bank in Egypt, ever since that year and until today researchers are still interested in making researches that study the financial performance of Islamic and conventional banks. The global financial crisis that the world experiences every once in a while as in 2008, was the cause of the increase of the number of researchers, as they are interested in studying the financial performances of both systems; knowing that these studies…

Islamophobia dates back to September 11,2001, the attack on the Twin Towers in New York City. People who are surrounded by Muslims are often afraid because of the number of negative events that took placed by terrorists that claims to be in the Islamic faith. Stereotypes and dispositional attribution has defined Muslims according to what the media portrays and people automatically assume that since a person is dressed or act a certain way they must be a Muslim terrorist. Also Over the years the…

The death of Osama Bin Laden was very popular all around the world. Some may think “he deserved to die” while many of his followers in Islam think that his death was unjust. On May 2, 2011 Osama Bin Laden was killed by U.S special forces during an early morning( CNN 1). Laden was very powerful in his own ways. He killed people just to get his point across about economical power. He was the founder of Qa’eda and led many of his civilians to justice. While many people agreed on his death he still…

race wanted to build a mosque some two blocks from an event that took place? Well since the 9-11 attacks many Americans have struggled to build a healthy bond with the Islamic World. This was very visible during the idea of Park 51 located in New York city 2 blocks from where Ground Zero is located. Park 51’s real name was the Islamic Center but was later changed to Park 51 due to its location on street Park 51. Park 51 was thought of by Sharif El-Gamal. He got the idea from a Jewish community…

Terrorists need an audience. Media needs a story; this is how media misinterpretations on terrorism is born. The media’s role is no longer to inform but rather to control how the viewers react to the information provided. Media’s influence on the public’s sudden focus from sports and celebrities to the collapse of the most globally important twin towers is an example of how media shapes viewers interest and concern. As David L. Altheide credits mass media in promoting fear evermore since the…

immigrants came during the 1960s when the borders reopened for those fleeing chaos, coming by the thousands into the United States, seeking a place to raise their families in safety. This brought great change among American society as there was a rise in Islamic identity among youth, but also came prejudice and discrimination against Muslims, especially for people of color. However, there was a shift in the religious population from a mostly Christian country with a mixed one, which Islam as the…

Al Qaeda may seem like a large organized terrorist network from a perspective provided by the media, however their victories did not come without countless defeats. The blame for many of these failures seems to rest solely on the group’s leadership due to many mistakes (McCabe, 2010, p. 61). Conversely, during expansionist efforts the group worked with numerous affiliates that did not always follow the direction that Al Qaeda leadership demanded (Lahoud et al., 2012, p. 1). Nobody denies that…

the dualism of the believer and the ungodly, the faithful and the apostate, it is impossible to understand it differently. In Islam, violence is further enhanced by an additional dualism, that of purity and decontamination. This is the scandal of Islamic religious thought: the non-Muslim is a defiled, unclean; it is one of the vilest forms of symbolic violence. From there comes my assertion that there is no Muslim faithful to the dogmas and practices of his religion that is moderate or tolerant,…

The United Nations should stop ISIS because it is one of the biggest terrorist groups in the world. In the article “The Brief” by Karl Vick, He explains the danger of ISIS. ISIS is a huge terrorist organization that is ran by volunteers who believe in there cause. A flight exploded on october 31st killing all 224 people on board. ISIS said that they were responsible for the tragic bombing. ISIS is said to be a group that is accomplishing what al-Qaeda could never do. Karl Vick said, “ ISIS is…

some individual engage with Islamic radicalism movement? What explains their initial interest? Why do they want to be joined in this risky activism? Even if the cost is high and might be they will sacrifice themselves. Wiktorowicz, with his sophisticated theoretical framework of social movement theory, is tries to answers these questions, why Muslim extremism in the Western societies like Great Britain did these? Wiktorowicz, in this case, is trying to analysis the Islamic radical activism base…