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In the novel I Am Malala:The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb, the gripping story of a young girl growing up under Taliban rule is shown. In her autobiography, Malala documents how her life changes as her homeland the Swat Valley is taken over and how she refuses to let the Taliban take her right to education away. As Malala recites the events leading up to the fateful day the Taliban attempted to kill her, she also describes the…

Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden Bruce Lawrence (the compiler) points out that while occasional fragments of bin Laden's words are cited, official pressures have ensured that, for the most part, his voice has been tacitly censured - as though too dangerous to hear."Messages to the World" contains interviews with the terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, and various statements attributed to him. There is something obscene about reading the self-justifications of an…

Women, in the United States are view as dominating-leaders. In Middle East, this is view as discontent among women with the extent of state. Muslim men view this as disobeying and interferences in personal relationships or with the disparity between their own status and that of being loyal and their position. How an individual display their loyalty to another group is a personal preference but once their opinion is force upon another group, according to Race & Ethnic Group Stratification (n.d.)…

For my 3D course cluster, I am taking BIOL336 Genetics, PHIL130 Ethics and HIST231 Understanding Islam in Historical Perspective. As a biology major my favorite subject is genetics and I am taking it as a major requirement. One thing that is frustrating is only taking major and minor requirements with limited space for classes that I am interested in. These 3D classes allow me to explore subjects that I am interested in. I want to take ethics and explore different moral obligations and…

Ever since the 9/11, the media has been in charge of stereotyping Muslim religion, making the audience believe that it is a religion in which women are oppressed by the power of men. However, an important number of women have converted to Muslim because they have gone beyond what media says and have studied what the religion is truly about. On the contrary of what most people would think, Muslim men do not force women to hide themselves under the hijab, it is their own decision to do so in order…

The death of Perpetua let student understood the suppression of women during early Christianity (Perpetua 78). Islam, a religion that was based on Christianity and Jewism (Gordon 8), had more gender equality which women could lead power (17) and had the right to own property. (“Law” 133) In comparison, Christian women had no right to teach (Pagels 90) nor did they want to be women. From the different understandings of the same concept, women who believed in Christianity had less power than women…

These days it is no longer a surprise to hear discussions and debates regarding to the growing strength of Islamist movements and lives of Muslim women living in the Middle East and south Asia. We see, from time to time, contradictions between a western feminist view of Muslim women as a mistreated, oppressed, and objectified beings, while Muslims themselves see it as a positive improvement for women compared to the times in pre-Islamic era. In some cases, this holds true, but as we saw in the…

Hannah Hagopian Theology 203 Prisoner of Conscience: Saudi Arabia, Raif Badawi Throughout the world we unfortunately have many prisoners of conscience, or individuals held in captivity because their political or religious beliefs conflict with those of the ruling government (“Prisoner of Conscience”). One such country that has prisoners of conscience is Saudi Arabia. The situation in Saudi Arabia is one of injustice, where there are random arrests and convictions of peaceful…

Mahjoobah Billah 12B March 12, 2017 Influential Women in Islam There are many influential Muslim women who contributed to Islamic history and society now, but some of the greatest ones are not recognized enough for their efforts. These women make all women feel powerful and motivated enough to do the same, to pass along the message. Some of these women who contributed to Islamic history are: Aishah bint Abi Bakr, which almost everyone knows about, Naseebah bint Harris, who is also…

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…