At night, they go out only to visit homes sanctioned by their husbands and must always be accompanied. ... Some women even held political posts of importance. However, women still held secondary positions to men "if woman had power, men had more power. ... SEPARATION BETWEEN MALES AND FEMALES • LIVING QUARTERS: A husband and his wives have different living quarters in their home. ... • Learned women teach privately in the homes of their male relatives; they are an important source of Islamic learning and are treated with respect. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Women were excluded from public life and were left to be in charge of home and children. ... For example, in certain societies Muslim men have prevented women from leaving the house or from earning a legitimate income, and have held that this is in accordance with Islam, which is not true. ... Forcing women to cover their faces and preventing them from going outside the home are practices that are not in accordance with the Koran, either, but have been perpetrated as such. ... It was also held that the perfect wife was one without a voice or opinion, so for a devout wife, her main purpose for...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The majority of ISIS members are Sunni muslims, who are the largest branch of Muslim and have been involved in sectarian violence against Shi'a Muslims, who have a different ideology and have previously held power in Iraq and Syria. ... These people have been displaced from their homes and now live in refugee camps in abysmal, unhygienic conditions. ... Their enforcement of Sharia Law and need of land have left thousands of people in danger, without homes and without any freedom. ...

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The Taliban from 1996 to 2001 held about 65 to 85 percent of Afghanistan. ... Women stayed at home and were solely responsible for raising the children. ... Women were denied any formal education, the only education that women in the Middle East were given was an education that was given to them at home. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

My African-American band director held the entire band over the bell one day to give us a lecture on Malcom X and Dr. ... His mother, a woman who could pass for white, stayed at home with the children while her husband, Earl, went around preaching the word of Marcus Garvey. ... The government felt that by her asking for this help they had the right to invade her home, tell her how to raise her children, and when the time came they put her in an insane asylum and separated her children, sending them to different homes. The state workers felt Malcom was a delinquent child, and the state sent h...

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• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

From the times in the 70's and 80's when Pan Am, and TWA airplanes were hijacked, to the mid 80's in war torn Lebanon where Americans and Europeans would be held as hostages for years, to the bombing of the World Trade Center; all such incidents have come to be identified with the religion Islam. ... The Qur"an states that: "God does not forbid you from showing kindness and dealing justly with those who have not fought you about religion and have not driven you out of your homes. ...

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He did not go to school but he was taught at home using references from the Holy Bible. ... In Blake's day, religious individuals and their institutions held great sway over people and questioning God's absolute supremacy was pretty rare. ... Blake attempts to bring home the fact that we all have innocence of the lamb and ferociousness like the tiger, but we are all chained by the chains of civilization (religion, law). ...

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These worship events were held by the Priests and Priestesses who also took care of the great wealth stored in the Mesopotamian's temples. ... They would meet in people's homes and sing praises to their God. ... The temple itself was actually a shrine located on the top of the ziggurat but the entire thing was considered the god's worldly home. ...

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Gandhi knew the path. It was straight and narrow. Gandhi believed that from his weakness he failed a thousand times, but he would not lose faith. His soul refused to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery (Brown 3). But it was not possible for him, a w...

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• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School