Islamic state

Islamic Fundamentalism and Liberal Democracy in the United States Every day on the news we hear about car bombings, “terrorist” threats, and lists of the men and women who have been wounded or killed during the War on Terror. In the United States we proudly fight to keep liberal democracy and we encourage others to join the freedom that we hold. Yet, liberal democracy may not always run smoothly within other religions and cultures. A major world religion, Islam, strongly opposes a liberal democratic government, which causes some major conflicts not only in the War on Terror, but in the United States as well. For instance, Sharia, or Islamic laws, conflict with laws of equality and morals in the United States Constitution. The rules of…

Our main goal is to eventually rid society of ignorance. Haunted horrors of the Holocaust seem too terrifying to be true. Many people still don’t know about or believe that it happened. Even though extremely similar things could still be going on to this day. If change is going to happen in this world, subjects must be held responsible for their actions even under seemingly forceful instruction. Specifically the areas overseen by the Islamic State, because “The threat to those in the West,…

Comparison between an Islamic state and a Communist state. Islamic State The basic principles of Islam are that human beings must, individually and collectively, surrender all rights of lordship, legislation and exercising of authority over others. The main characteristics of an Islamic state are God is the ultimate sovereign: God alone is the real sovereign; all others are merely his subjects. No person, class or group, not even the entire population of the state as a whole, can lay claim to…

Jim Muir’s article, “Islamic State group: The full story”(2016), illustrates that the terrorizing group, ISIS, has been spreading their chaotic theology throughout the Middle East. Muir backs this claim up with descriptions of the atrocities the group has committed while pointing out the basis of their motives. Muir’s purpose is to expose the weaknesses and strengths of the group in order to jolt the awareness of the reader on why it exists. Given the technical language used in the article, Muir…

While we continue to fund wars, we scarcely fund money into exploring what leads to terrorist attacks(Atran 73). But from the perspective of someone within the organization, are they the enemies, or are we the enemies? This leads us to an important question of inquiry. What is the root cause that provokes Islamic terrorism against the U.S.? There are two forms of Islamic terrorism. The first is “radical islam”, in which the main goal is to not only establish Islam as a world religion, but also…

Al-Ghazali did not present any theory on political state but defined the features of an Islamic State and the characteristics of an Islamic Rulers. His political thoughts are based on the concept that there is model of state and its ruler, present in the heavens as Divine Law, which is to be applied in this world without any interference. His theory may have been successful in the era of Caliphs and Imams and Sultans, however, in the modern world his theory isn’t fully applicable. Al-Ghazali…

books: The Rise of The Islamic State by Patrick Cockburn, The Myth of Martyrdom by Adam Lankford, and lastly Terrorism: A History by Randall Law. These three books all covered different fields of religion, while taking different approaches to analyzing the topic at hand. The differences these books had made for a large range of topics, but the similarities helped reinforce key aspects of the Religion 101 class. The three books not only covered general religion, but ancient/modern terrorism,…

The fluidity of calligraphy symbolizes the "intertwining" of stability and change that exists in the mortal world (Nasr 28). Islamic calligraphy has the appearance of a never ending line; the letters are all connected to one another and the writing seems to be constantly moving (Piostrovsky 29). The continual movement of the line "is one of the ways of manifesting [Allah] to this world" (27) and "projects the concept of continuity, of endlessness, of pluriformity" (29). The symbolism of…

more than 1,400 years old when it was destroyed in 2014, by the self-proclaimed Islamic State in order to induce place based violence and to displace Christians in Iraq (Almukhtar 2016)(Lee Myers 2016). This destruction is not limited to Christians; they also hope to destroy any other sense of belonging that challenges the Islamic State’s views. In 1743 one hundred and fifty Christian monks refused to convert to Islam, and they were consequently massacred at St. Elijah’s Monastery (Mendoza, et…

but that wasn’t the only thing they wanted.(9/11 Memorial)”. Osama started this group in Afghanistan camps by becoming stable in his financial system, supports, and knowledge(FRONTLINE). Al Qaeda main priority was to get rid of the United State being in their territory in Syria. The organization of Al-qaeda wasn’t just Islamic believers but civilians in different countries around the world, reports PBS Socal FRONTLINE.…