Islamophobia

I will first start with my after school activities I currently am in. I have been in Care Club for three years and I also have been voted captain of Care Club. In Care Club our mission is to spread cultural awareness. To show students with different ethnicity that our differences can be celebrated, that our uniqueness can be bonded over, and to stopped the unnecessary hatred of our differences. We also have voluntary events and often collaborate with other clubs to do projects. This year we are…

The Islamic Experience In 2010, there were approximately 1.6 billion Muslims in the world (Lipka). With so many people who follow the Islam faith, why do so many non-Muslims not know the truth about it? I chose to do my service learning over Islam for that reason exactly. I had not known much about Islam before this class other that what I heard on the news or from my friends and family who are predominantly from the South. I wanted to dig deeper into this religion and find out more details…

The United States has long been considered exceptional Religious Identity Formation Durkheim (1976) provided his own definition of religion as having two elements, Religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things which are set apart and forbidden-beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them. (Durkheim 1912/1976:47) Religious identity Erik Erikson’s influential psychosocial theory of…

Research Question: Who is the most qualified person to be call as a hero in everyone life? Prophet Muhammad PBUH as a real hero in everyone life. Every individual has its own heroes. Everyone has a special figure or set of values they look to as a personal ideal of what is worth fighting for and what is right. When we were kids, we used to think that heroes were like Superman, Batman, Ultraman and other superheroes that we watched in television. Watching how those heroes save the universe in…

Introduction Social media, the internet revolution that has impacted the world and everything in it. Social media has been rapidly growing since its creation, and has grown to touch billions of people worldwide. Resulting from this recent growth is a lack of knowledge of the general effects it can have on society. Sociologists review issues like this through four main perspectives: functionalist, conflict, feminist, and interactionist. Functionalists think that everything in society has a…

It is certainly not my intention to elaborate in great detail what mainstream media is, how they work, which effects they have, et cetera. Following Chomsky (1997) in ‘What makes mainstream media mainstream’ I define mainstream media as the media that are distributed through the largest distribution channels causing them to represent what the majority of media consumers are likely to encounter. It is vital to acknowledge that these mass or mainstream media do not operate in a vacuum but interact…

All praise to Allah for His guidance towards straight path. He is the only One who gives protection and guides to the believers. Peace and blessing to Prophet Muhammad as a Messenger of Allah, a compassionate, saviour and guider to right path. He is an icon for human race to emulate. Ever since the advent of Islam to this world, Islam faced many challenges from its foes, that is, the disbelievers. The disbelievers want to extinguish Islam and its foundation from this world. However, Allah will…