Muslim Brotherhood

Apart from Lebanon & Israel, most Middle Eastern nations are predominantly Muslim. Hence, homosexuality is regarded as taboo and hardly ever discussed. Homosexuality isn’t an accepted form of sexual expression or sexual identity rather homosexuality is addressed as a crime against humanity. Hatem Rasheed, a well-respected journalist…

Anti-Muslim marches are slated to take place in dozens of cities across the United States on Saturday, with several counter-protests expected. ACT for America, the country's largest grassroots anti-Muslim group described by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as an "extremist group", called for the nationwide "March Against Sharia". Islamophobia in the USA - Al Jazeera World In a statement on ACT for America's website, the group claims that Sharia - or Islamic law - runs contrary to human…

Revolutionary Affairs of Iran, predicted, correctly, that Egypt would be a part of “an ongoing Islamic ideological revolution.” As the support and spread of the Revolution’s ideals continued to reach the Muslim populations of Egypt, a remarkable yet familiar development dominated its narrative. Groups such as the Muslim…

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…

“The Jews who will it shall achieve their State. We shall live at last as free men on our own soil” (Herzl, 1896). The Palestinian-Israeli conflict arose because of confrontations over land. Both the Muslim Palestinian Arabs and the Jews wanted the same land and they each had their own valid reasons for why it was justified their permanent occupation of Palestine was justified. In the late 1890s, Jewish Europeans started to migrate to Palestine because they believed that Palestine was their…

First Draft Human rights is the universal ideology consisting of equality to every human; validating to every individual regardless of gender, skin color, religion, and other characteristics. Steinbeck’s novel, “Of Mice and Men” took place during the Great Depression of the United States. The characters Steinbeck introduce portray a humane inequality; each prominent to the real life events that take place in the plot sequence. Human rights remained not yet acknowledged at the time; however, fast…

Sayyid Qutb is one of Islam's most notarised personalities. He was a prolific writer whose radical teachings and challenges to Islamic tradition have played a major role in shaping the face of fundamentalist Islam in the 20th and 21st centuries. His attitudes towards the West, Jahilliyah and Jihad and his Ideal Islamic Society have been a major influence, and still hold a significant factor in the development and expression of Islam. Sayyid Qutb was born in Musha, Upper Egypt in 1906. Although…

The Mevlevi Order: History and Organization In the 13th century, one of the most famous poets emerged in the Muslim world, Jalâl ud-Dîn Rûmî, who developed a strong group of followers that developed into the modern understanding of the Mevlevi brotherhood . Even in modernity, Rûmî holds a special place as a special place amongst groups. Born in Balkh in Central Asia to a well-respected, learned Islamic family, Rûmî’s family pushed towards modern-day Turkey in an attempt to avoid the Mongol…

like that in Africa and India to ideological worldviews of various contemporary Muslims. This was primarily founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703-92) joining alongside Muhammad ibn Saud (d. 1765) that held a diagnosis was: similar to that of other revivalists: The political weakness of the community and its moral decline were due to a deviation from the straight path of Islam. Its cure was equally obvious: Muslims must return to true Islamic practice. This could be achieved only by a…

government, his literary criticism of the government forcing him to exile to America; few, if - any – know the influence he will have, and the events his ideas and experiences will set in motion. He is described as such that he is a confused young Muslim, deciding whether or not to hold on to his Islamic faith. He resolves to strictly adhere to Islamic values, after the degeneracy of the west; their sex crazed lives, their modesty being nothing more than a façade, even seeing the church as…