Islamism

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 USA or the USSR. The leadership of Al-Shabab describes the ideology in parallel to that of Al-Qaida as Manhaj,…

For centuries, America has been considered the greatest nation in terms of the true freedom that its citizens enjoy in all areas of life. There is, however, a major stumbling block that has reared its ugly head within the last few years of our nation’s life. This stumbling block America is facing today is the issue of “political correctness,” which is the avoidance of any action or verbal expression that is thought to exclude, marginalize, or insult individuals of stereotypically “disadvantaged”…

Iran’s nuclear program was not always seen as a controversial aspect of Iran’s domestic policy. As a matter of fact, the origins of the Iranian program began in the 1950’s with the support of the United States. Research and development of a nuclear program began once Tehran joined Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace initiative and signed treaty No.4898. On December 8, 1953 during the 470th Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly the Atoms for Peace Program was launched by…

In my group, we discussed many issues and the difference between France and Brazil in a secular perspective. Well, to start off Brazil and France is completely different, France is a secular country which basically means that you cannot practice your religion in public and you need to keep it in private when practicing your religion. In Brazil is completely the opposite of secularism, you can practice your religion anywhere in Brazil and they have opened mosques in Brazil when Muslim people…

From the beginning of time to our days, humans have always lived in social groups. Therefore, there is the tendency to live under the rules of the society we live in. So as time passes by, technology evolves to the advancement of these inventions; starting with the newspaper, radio, television, the Internet, and with these also came an introduction to what we now know as social media. Social media is a way to connect with different people worldwide, share information, news, music, videos, every…

What is the ideology of Daesh? For centuries Muslim scholars and philosopher have been debating about the morality and political philosophy in Islam and it is not very unclear. It’s based on Quran, Hadith, and Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence). Many Islamic scholars have argued that political theory of Islam did not exist as independent disciplines in Islam. Islamic political philosophy is in addition to Quranic exegesis, hadith, theology, ethics, historiography and philosophical works. The theory…

Dear State Representatives and other supporters of the Common Core Standards, It was not until my junior year of high school that I had recognized the severe impact of your new standards on our education system. Initially, I had only thought a new standardized test was being introduced-- that the school district was simply transitioning into a new form of standardized testing. The reality was, however, that the traditional methods of teaching that have been applied to education systems all over…

The allied powers were the Soviets, the United States, and the British. It is very hard to believe that they were allies because these countries all had different economic visions and they all seeked for control and power. These differences is what cause the dispute, which ended in the Cold War. The main cause for the Cold War was for these allies all having different visions on post-war Europe. This war made us face a lot of deaths, loss of foods, loss of shelter, and a loss of peace.…

of nationhood and to unify Japan, facilitated through the nation-state, in Turkey, as Keral argues, secularisation was an initiative to enforce a single ideology in opposition to the Ottoman empire in which multiple ideologies, pan-Ottomanism, pan-Islamism and pan-Turkism all existed. Secularisation is a global phenomenon of…

Next Generation Left After taking the Pew Center questionnaire, it placed me under the typology of Next Generation Left. I believe that the questionnaire placed me in the right typology, because the Next Generation Left people are normally optimistic about government’s decisions and the nation’s future, they believe that society has made positive changes to give blacks and whites equal rights. In addition, the Next Generation Left are best described as liberals and open-minded in most of the…