Jihad

school took away the one daily prayer that was allowed because of headlining in the news for allowing the prayer. The president and chief of the Christian advocacy group called Thomas More Law Center, who believe that Muslims are “waging a ‘Stealth Jihad’ within our borders,”, told USA Today, “What (school officials) are doing...is to…

Between Altruistic and Autocratic: Hassan al-Banna’s Muslim Brotherhood In response to the unconquered British occupation in Egypt, Hassan al-Banna called to arms the Muslim community with the establishment of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928. Having witnessed his people being exploited while stationed as an Arabic teacher along the Suez Canal, al-Banna’s anti-Western sentiment grew to such a passion that his ideology was able to reach the thousands of individuals discontented with the form…

over the world; Germany, France, and several European countries as well as Israel. Although, IS claims that they are religious and are profound of spreading Islamic religion all over the world and forcing everyone to convert to Islam in the sake of Jihad. But let's be logical here, IS have slaughtered thousands of Muslims took over the Syrian land and killed it's people. How is burning a Muslim on camera to frighten the world makes you a Muslim?. After the Paris attack that ISIS called out that…

Ethic is the rules of behavior based on ideas about what is good and bad. My basis of ground moral is shaped mostly by my family, education, media and religion. The interaction that I had with my parents, siblings and other member of my family have an impact on my ethical point of view. For example, growing up I have been thought to always be grateful for what I have in life and to always help the needed, thus I have learned compassion and develop ethical standard that include caring and giving…

people are submitting their will to God. Islam has many religious roots pertaining to other world Religions. In the media Islam is stereotyped for not practicing peace by saying Muslims commit acts of terrorism, women don’t have rights and that the Jihad is a holy war which are not true. Despite all these stereotypes being placed on Islam it is actually a peaceful religion and is similar to Christianity and Judaism because of the Five Pillars affecting a Muslims life, why Muslims practice the…

Tackling terrorist venin becomes unstoppable for democratic countries, every day young people from Western states traveling to go to Syria to help terrorists’ organization fight against the developed countries. Since the emergence of the terrorist group Islamic State (ISI) in 2014, it seems that their network have grown and become more inspiring. In addition, American citizens have influenced by their ideology some travel to Syria to fight and others carried local attacks. This situation has…

Is TV Too White? Visible minorities make up less than 30% of all those who appear in the top 100 films of 2014, according to University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication (Smith et al). A number which is too low to represent the diversity of multicultural countries such as Canada, United States, Australia, etc. When asked what are the difficulties of working in the entertainment industry, amateur actors from various backgrounds mostly mention the complicated task of…

Midterm Exam 1. What were the major cultural, political and theological decisions Caliph Umar (634-644) made? Umar ibn al-Khattab or known merely as Umar was the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate of Islam. Umar was one of the most influential Islamic figures at the time and a close companion of Prophet Muhammad himself. During his reign, Umar upheld many of the values that the community had held dearly, and the regulation of the Islamic Calendar would enforce this ideology. The…

Byzantium and the Muslims We have all heard about the Crusades, how two main religions went to war against each other in the name of God. But what were the Crusades really about? The Crusades was a time when two religions, Christianity and Islam, went to war against each other. This was a time when tension between the two religions as well as Judaism resulted in eight major Crusades between 1096 and 1291 and even a Children’s Crusade that ended in a catastrophe. According to Pope Urban II, he…

terrorists could be mentally ill? More importantly, the Islam religion in no way promotes terrorism. According to the Islamic view, “The world is divided into two parts, the sphere of Islam and the sphere of war. It is called the sphere of war because jihad (“holy wars”) are to be fought in the non-Islamic world so as to convert the pagans…” (Islam 140). For Americans to assume that all Muslims are terrorist, would be to assume all Christians are connected to the Westboro Baptist Church or were…