Islam The Misunderstood Religion Summary

The veil is an umbrella term for different types of face, head or body wear worn by some Muslim women to hide the form of their bodies. Like any other item or symbol, the veil can take on many meanings. To the western world, this could represent oppression under a patriarchal society; the women are forced to wear a veil by their husbands and fathers to protect their modesty. It is the view that Orientalist feminists subscribe to, in which Islam is seen as a static and backward religion and has been used to justify specific policies, such as the unveiling of Muslim women to achieve modernity. Although it is thought that the veil is mandatory in the Qur’an, it is only implied and can be interpreted as such.

She wants to change the men in her country’s perspective of women in their country. She wears her veils as symbol of freedom. One of the most visible signs of cultural change in Iran has been the requirement for all women to wear the veil in public. While many Muslim women find this practice empowering and affirmative of their religious identities, the veil has been coded in Western eyes as a sign of Islam’s oppression of women. This opposition is made more clear, perhaps, when one considers the simultaneity of the Islamic Revolution with women’s liberation movements in the U.S. and Europe, both developing throughout the 1970s.” 4b.)

He analyzes that we as a society have always been narcissists and we base our pride on the historic facts rather than the current situation that we have been living in, he also identifies the problem that in the minds of almost all the muslims islam is the answer to all the problems and it is the best and perfect way of life, where ias there is nothing apparently with this, this type of thinking gives a rise to hostile behavior of said muslims towards minorities or people who belong to a different school of thought as Mubarak talks about narcissism in muslim societies, it hasn’t been such a new concept as Christopher Lasch talked about the narcissism in american culture in his book “in the culture of narcissism” some 30 years ago. In the book Christopher Lasch describes that a form of pathological narcissism has spread all over america, and he derives his definition of narcissism from freud but uses in a broader sense. He uses the term pathological because he thinks that the narcissism in american culture is heightened and not

(2005) research compliments this study by explaining that "there has been a tendency of late to conflate all Muslim 's as belonging to a single nation and aspiring to a single political aim". This could lead to Muslim women being marginalised as the individual voices of Muslim women are not being heard. David Cameron stated that a lack of integration left Muslim women vulnerable to harmful practices such as female genital mutilation.

Nivan Khair Module Two Power over the people in Authoritarian and Theocratic rule Authoritarian and Theocratic rule have one essential principle in common - the limitation or, in some cases, the cancellation of an individual’s social choice and values. However, both rules had completely opposite ideologies. One way to juxtapose these two types of governments is to closely inspect how they both viewed Islam in terms of a culture and how that affected their state of rule. On one hand, the Ba’ath political party saw Islam as a tradition which had no place in government rule as it served as a barrier to advancement in society;

photograph during my clinical orientation at Virtua Memorial Hospital in New Jersey. I believe this request was not a result of ignorance of the attire of Muslim women, but because of Islamophobia and the popular dogmatic belief in the West that the hijab is a symbol of oppression and not a dignified choice made by Muslim women. The belief that Muslim women do not choose to wear the hijab is dangerous and problematic. The idea that Muslim women who wear hijabs are oppressed can influence the idea that there is nothing wrong with disregarding Muslim women 's constitutional right to practice freedom of religion by wearing the hijab. For someone with this view, they may wonder: what 's wrong with asking someone to take off their hijab if they are forced to wear it?

“Everywhere on the streets, there were demonstrations for and against the veil” (5). This protests illustrate not every Iranian is Islamic and desired to put on the veil, but eventually, the women wore the veil by force. Satrapi cites some women despised wearing the “veil” due to the heat. Obviously, Satrapi itemizes the veil to lead her audience into understanding the Islamic religion, western countries view the “veil” as a symbol of the Muslim woman’s oppression. The “veil” forms an important part of the culture and mores of the society.

Stereotypes have a pernicious effect. They stress upon the dissimilarities between people as religion, ethnicity, gender and race. For instance, The American journalists always report Muslims as a totally different religious group. Moreover, They function as tools for proving, keeping and reinforcing social orders as they are made by a given society’ members to maintain their social standing by grouping themselves as “us” and exclude the others under the label “them”( Schonemann 30). Furthermore, Stereotypes inform us what the people of a given social group are like and what their behaviours are ( Schonemann 30).

For instance, Muslim culture has a lot of rules compared to Christian culture. For example, Mala states, “Nowhere is it written in the Quran that a woman should be dependent on a man. The word has not come down from the heavens to tell us that every woman should listen to a man”. She states further, “We felt like the Taliban saw us as like little dolls to control, telling us what to do and how to dress”. The Muslim culture controls how their society treats women.

Western society is not the problem;  radical Islam is the problem. This argument will answer the questions. What are some major problems in Islam? How can these problems be fixed,and what beliefs are considered radical? The argument is islam is a threat to all civilized nations, and the culture and society is detrimental to its inhabitants.

As an advocate for human rights, I take injustice that is targeted against a race or individual resolutely. Commonly, people make rude and insensitive remarks without remorse. Unfortunately, these remarks are made by influential American icons. Ben Carson, candidate for the presidential election, stated that he does not agree in having a Muslim president. When asked why, he responded with, "if you accept the tenets of Islam that you would be incapable by abiding under the Constitution."

Lila Abu-Lughod thinks the idea of “saving” Muslim women and more specifically saving Muslim women from the veil is problematic in the sense that it puts Afghan women in a position where they are in need of saving from an outside source; that they can only be saved by the others. This is continued by detailing many women’s groups as well as Laura Bush during a radio speech she had given that continuously has an air of Western and European sources of having a superiority complex. As if Muslim women need to be save from brown men; “white men saving brown women from brown men” (784), she continues on by pointing out that this is really arrogant to take this position that puts a Western view of freedom, agency, and equality over what Muslim women

Hijab is a demonstration of worship among Muslim women. In the United States, wearing hijab is a privilege ensured by the First Amendment, as the right to speak freely and freedom of religion. Then again, hijab has additionally turned into an noticeable marker, with many non-Muslims seeing it as a political statement. The Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution prohibit elected and state governments from making laws or decides that particularly deny ladies from withholding the hijab.Not only in the Constitution but carious government social liberties laws forbid elected and state authorities and some private on-screen characters from victimizing ladies who wear the hijab. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) gives insurance at the elected level by preventing the government and its authorities from limiting women to practice the

Privilege and oppression were not equally part of my life at U.S. The problem I faced were many, In the face of oppression for being a Muslim, which I never worried about being one but, was about the harassment I had to undergo. There is a general fact that anyone Muslim in U.S is being harassed for the prior reason. I am from Saudi Arabia, and am a Muslim, so, I faced many oppression calling me and my beliefs followed as racism. I followed my own beliefs which I was meant to follow, but I was called racist.