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Why Muslims Shouldn’t be Banned from the United States On a cold, windy afternoon in October, 13-year-old Malika rushes through the doors of her school as the final bell rings. Her classmates’ jeers and insults echoing around her. “‘Terrorist!’,’Traitor!’, ‘Go back to where you came from!’,” they shout. But this is where she came from. Malika, her parents, and their parents before them were all born here, but her classmates do not care. Malika has done nothing to deserve these foul insults…

LGBT community. A huge debate and sensitive topic has always been about the Muslims. Being a nature that Muslims are of another religion, its been depicted to be always seen as a ‘terrorist’ stereotype and the kind of news that is being fed in the media is always…

“rescuing women and children”. Through the years of conflict between the West and Islam, the media has altered the minds of non-Muslim…

today, the roles of Muslim women in the Islamic World have greatly became more aligned to the values of the Quran. It is highly significant to understand what the religion of Islam has to say about Women which are a great part of our society today, and understand the context behind how the Muslim Women have changed and are portraying the beliefs of Islam and disproving the false depictions. The false depictions are widely common particularly in the western world, where a Muslim woman is seen as…

regarding the rights and role of women. The title of the book itself “The Veil and the Male elite” implies the word “veil”, in other words hijab, as a symbol of oppression. The arguments of Mernissi focus mainly on the hijab and the role of women as Muslims. She uses both the Islamic reference and her ideas on the interpretations on the hadit given by the scholars. Islam does provide equality regarding the impact of the text of women rights in Islam, but this concept has now been misinterpreted.…

the course of six days during the twelfth month of the Muslim calendar. The rituals of Hajj can be found in the 5 Pillars of Islam derived from the Islamic holy book, the Qur’an. Within the Qur’an one verse speaks of the pilgrimage’s significance, “And remember Abraham said: My Lord, make this land a secure one, and feed its people with fruits, those of them who believe in God and the Last Day…” (Peters, F. E., Page 7). Through the Hajj, Muslims can to prove their devoutness to God in His…

van der Zee’s articles, The Root of Muslim Rage and The Root of Muslim Rage Revisited, portray the tension amid Muslims and the West. Sorrowfully, there are horrific happenings that are done by Muslims, which predicts that Islam is a religion of violence. Moreover, the clash of civilizations…

the way the faith is lived out. Muslim Feminists, such as Amina Wadud, would respond to this question by saying that Quran utopia has not yet been attained. Although modern Muslim societies have become more progressive in terms of women, there are still concepts, terms, and verses that require deeper reinterpretation and analysis. Hermeneutics is still a common practice in Islamic societies because of this misunderstanding of what the Quran depicts in regard to Muslim women. Additionally,…

1. How does Islam formulated in four schools of law differ from the Quran’s ethical message on the equality of sexes? Do you think the fact that Islam became a state religion during the Abbasid period has anything to do with the consolidation of patriarchy via Islam? The four legal schools of Islam each interpreted the Qu’ran in different ways, so it was possible to stray from the message of equality of sexes. Although each school’s interpretations are unique, they tend to afford men greater…

texts, the Shiite Muslims are very meticulous about what they consider true. They only consider things written by Muhammad himself, relatives of Muhammad or his close associates, the Sunni Muslims have a very different look at theological texts. The Sunni Muslims regard anything written by Muhammad 's twelve thousand followers to be equally valid, while the Shiite Muslims regard these as helpful they subject them to close analysis. This difference has led the Sunni and Shiite Muslims to…