Nation of Islam

During the past couple of months, there have been a lot of news surrounding the fighting happening in regards to the Israeli - Palestinian conflict. The roots of this conflict can be traced back to the Ottoman ruling over what is now known as the Middle East. During the eighteenth century, the Ottoman empire was thriving, stretching their ruling from central Europe all the way to Yemen and accords North Africa to Morocco (making of MME). Their vast territories allowed them to be a culturally…

Although this group has always been at least slightly stigmatized, conflicts in the Middle East combined with terrorists attacks such as the 9/11 tragedy have led to increases in stereotyping and hostility (Cainkar, 2006; Salaita, 2005). The tolerance initially extended to this group has largely vanished and individuals of Middle Eastern descent have been labeled as “terrorist,” “spy,” and “saboteur” with increasing frequency, further reinforcing the idea that they are dangerous and can never…

Charles Kimball is Presidential Professor and Director of Religious Studies at the University of Oklahoma, he is also the author of the book When Religion Becomes Lethal. Moving from chapter 1 in which Professor Kimball introduced Islam, we move on to chapter 2 which is titled, “God Gave Us This Land” digs deeper into the roots of religion and politics in Judaism. We begin the chapter by discussing the Islamic Mosque of Abraham, the mosque if 30 miles south of Jerusalem. This mosque is the…

On the chilling, unforgettable day of September 11, 2001, four attacks coordinated by Al-Qaeda led to the demolition of the World Trade Center in New York, and the destruction of the Pentagon. “The building began to sink” recalled Eric Levine, an American who was on the 65th floor of the World Trade Center. As a result of the raid, 2,996 people died and infrastructure damage came close to 10 billion. Since Al-Qaeda is a terrorist group from the Middle East, the attack distorted the image of many…

knowledge through an informal apprenticeship . Even with these reforms , it was not enough to keep the Ottoman Empire stable. The Koprulus wanted to have a strong government , yet the directed their main focus towards enlarging Dar al-Islam or the land of Islam. This ended corruption and the Koprulus were successful for a period of time. Then again while they were effective , war was needed. Almost all of the successors within this family channeled their energy toward warring affairs. When the…

Transnationality is an effective conceptual framework that helps to better understand the presence, attitudes, and identity complications of Muslim youth and their parents. Bradatan et al., (2010) point out that transnationals operate cognitively and emotionally within the domains of two worlds and have an attachment to both places. Transnationalism and the sense of diaspora that apply well to Muslim migrants in the States is mainly ascribed to their spiritual connection to their home countries…

Body Paragraph: Topic Sentence: The reason why your thesis is true or the area or perspective of the research question being investigated- In every postcolonial country there are people being born who have never seen oppressive rule, and have always been independent. (1D) The question, is how do you teach these people as children about colonialism. Has it been easier before or after postcolonialism? This perspective will be examined in the contexts of South Africa, India, and the Middle East.…

Media nowadays has evolved tremendously since the first time the term ‘media’ introduced. Its major role in channeling information has turned better as the time pass. Previously, there were only written materials, then images, then audios, then videos, and nowadays it keeps progressing. Eventually, the use of media is becoming inevitable for every sector available, and one of the sectors that relies significantly on media is the Military sector. Media plays a very crucial role for most Military…

niqab because they think that the niqab is a threat and they need the people to be identified at the ceremony also they think the niqab is oppressive to women. I am against the banning of the niqab because I think that since we live in a democratic nation, we should have equality rights,…

Syrian people are fleeing their native country to Canada and other safe countries mainly because of the civil war, which has left their homeland in complete devastation. The war that has been relentless since spring of 2011, after pro-democracy turned violent when some teenagers were arrested and tortured for painting revolutionary slogans on a school wall. This caused hundreds of thousands of people to take to the streets, all over the country in a protest demanding President Assad’s…