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created two separate branches of Islam: the Sunnis and the Shiites. Of the 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, eighty-five to ninety percent of them are Sunnis. Sunnis believe that the rightful successor to Muhammad is Abu Bakr. Since none of Muhammad’s sons survived into adulthood, genetic male succession was not a viable option. So Umar ibn al-Khattab, a well-known friend of Muhammad’s nominated Abu Bakr. The Muslim community gave their support and he was elected the first caliph. The…

Islamic Militant Religious violence, now and in the past. In one gruesome case in 1996, a Christian Igbo trader was beheaded by the Muslim youths who had accused him of desecrating the Koran. His severed head was impaled on a spike and strutted around the city. Also, in the same city of Kano Islamic Extremist Mob murdered a Pastor’s wife for alleged blasphemy. The Muslim Mob killed 74-year-old Mrs. Bridget Agbahime, an ethnic Igbo trader in Kofar Wambai market, Kano city, on Thursday, June 2,…

post-Cold War world the West’s search for a new other manifests an alarming tendency to centre on the Muslim world, the author argues that a better understanding of Islamic life is desperately needed.…

The Krasniqi family are Muslims, a religion not highly accepted in the U.S. Muslims have very different religious practices than a southern Baptist. Even though the case worker was aware of the children’s religion, she proceeded to place the children in a Baptist foster home where they would eventually be adopted. I believe the case worker did not agree with the Muslim religion, therefore she was trying to remove the children from any form of contact with the Muslim religion. The case worker was…

world today. Religion means something different to each individual. Whether it’s an escape from reality, a reason to live, or simply the feeling of belonging to a community, religion has a significant influence over people and their actions. The Muslims in the Middle East are especially impressive when it comes to their devotion to Allah. But there is a question of one thing in regards to women of the Islamic faith living overseas. Does the religion of Islam help to reinforce female…

The Prophet Muhammad founded the religion of Islam. Muslims believe the Koran to be the words of God revealed to the prophet. Muhammad was born about AD 570 in the city of Mecca, an important trading center in western Arabia. He was a member of the Hashim clan of the powerful Quraysh tribe. Because Muhammad’s father, Abd Allah, died before he was born and his mother, Amina, when he was 6 years old, he was placed in the care of his grandfatherAbd al-Muttalib and, after 578, his uncle Abu Talib,…

think that this so called group was an endangerment to american citizens. In a form of way we believe KKK is a terrorist group. They influenced so many people into the mindset of racial segregation. So why must they be free to do what they want and muslims are the one that suffer. They endangered american lives. They built their foundation on what america was against. In th9is situation national security wa more important than the civil…

Prophet Muhammad (S) was the best of the messengers because his message is still being installed centuries after his deaths. Prophet Muhammad spread Islam peacefully; he showed the non-Muslims the characteristics of a believer, he was patient with the converts and was responsible. A profusion of people thinks that Prophet Muhammad (S) spread Islam violently because he was racist, and commanding his followers to do a bunch of stuff. Faith is interlinked with with the individual’s conviction.…

at Muslims. Media took this as an opportunity to twist things around, for every story, and accuse the religious beliefs of the religion, and its followers. With so many things being said against Islam, many started to fear the religion, or in…

journalist James Foley was beheaded by the Islamic State, Alex goes online to understand the reasoning behind their horrific acts. There, she met dozens of people who answered her questions. They were kind and accepting, introducing her to other Muslims online. One of the people she came into contact with was a man named Faisal. Faisal and her other newfound friends spent thousands of hours talking to Alex about the faith. Faisal alone talked to her for hours every single day. He sent her books…