Sharia

to establish a caliphate through terrorist attacks and propaganda. Aside from having terrorist groups championing its core messages and morals, Islam also has the most intrusive and restrictive legal systems in place today, and it is known as Sharia Law. Sharia Law focuses on punishment over rehabilitation when it comes to crime, and it is extremely dehumanizing towards women, labeling them as property. For these reasons, Islam should be treated as the barbaric religion it is, and non-Muslims…

of the world to go to school gained courage and made girl education a must , a project that is still going on till this day making as much progress as possible. According to this source, “All forms of exploiting women are presented as divine law, sharia, in which women have no say, which they are unable to use in their own defence, and which they are forced to accept as their fate”. What if you as a woman were Looked at as Property? The Demise of Soraya M. Is a very sorrowful one, A woman…

Larry Kelly, in his review of Now They Call Me Infidel, states that “Ms. Darwish makes a compelling case that in lands such as Egypt, where Islam dominates, underclass inhabitants such as Coptic Christians, Orthodox Christians, Monophysites, Zoroastrains, Hindus, Buddhists, and of course, Jews continue to be brutalized, but none more so than Islamic women.” Kelly describes her book as an indictment of a misogynistic polygamous world of a “moderate” Egyptian society. Kelly says those who believe…

According to one source, “So if the couple were divorced, even after the death of the father, the mother would not get custody” (Haugen 213). While Iran was under the Shah’s rule, the Islamic Sharia Law was established. This law stated that the custody of children was the responsibility of the father and if the father were to die, the responsibility would be given to the father’s male relatives. (Haugen 213). Though women have earned few rights…

Interpretation of the Qur 'an and Its Effect On Muslim Women The changes that Muhammad brought to the world were not only religious and intellectual but also economic, social and political. When Islam was first introduced to society it represented great change; it is generally agreed that at the time Islam had improved social security, rights for women and children, slavery, and transformed society and moral orders of life. The Qur 'an also clearly states that men and women are equal beings…

class than men, will not help in women getting universal rights. Forcing women to wear hijab, and/or a burqa is one of the most universal, non-rights that women in Middle Eastern/ Islamic countries have to deal with. Through aspects like the hijab and sharia law shows that the Islamic faith is one to keep women to not getting rights. Along with the hijab, there are other practices that it says in the Quran that will make it indefinably a failure for these women to get…

In the news article “In a Muslim State, Fear Sends Some Worship Underground” Gooch (2011) illustrates individual stories of Shia Muslims living in Malaysia facing injustice and oppression by the National Fatwa Council (NFC), the country’s top Islamic body (Gooch, 2011). In 1996, the NFC declared the Sunni Islam as the country’s official religion. While many interpreted this as “Shia Islam was banned” (Musa, 2013) due to their deviant teachings, a spokesperson for the federal government tried…

Over the span of International Studies, taught by Dr. Foody, I have been given information regarding multiple theorists views on the controversial topic of globalization. Michael Muhammed Knight in his book, Journey to the End of Islam, takes his listeners on a religious voyage through the lens of Globalization theorist, Manfred steger, around the world in hopes of discovering the true meaning of Islam. Steger believes “Globalization is the process through which local economics, politics,…

Islam is the second largest and fastest growing monotheistic religion in the world today. It began in the Arabian Peninsula during the seventh century CE after Allah (God) revealed himself to the final prophet Muhammad. At this time the main religions where polytheistic and many God’s and idols were worshipped. Muslims, the adherents of Islam, believe that the prophet Abraham was the first Muslim because he was the first to believe in a single God. The word Islam means the submission to God and…

Islam, according to religious and linguistic texts, means “voluntary submission to God”. Chronologically, Islam is the third Abrahamic tradition to have manifested within Medieval and Modern society, after Judaism, and Christianity. The primary foundations of the Islamic faith had been codified into Al-Qur’an, which means, “the recitation”. “Muslims believe the Qur’an is the book of divine guidance and direction for mankind and consider the Arabic text to be the final revelation of God.” “When…