The main religion of Iraq is Islam. The impact of religion on daily life in Muslim countries is far greater than that found in the West since the Middle Ages. Muslims form the five pillars of Islam, daily prayer, almsgiving, fasting, and pilgrimage. Muslims prayer several times during the day, so religion is part of daily life in Iraq. ...
The Kurds are an ethnic group spanning across Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Israel, Armenia, Georgia and, Azerbaijan. Culture is something that we create, a system of knowledge that we use to survive and satisfy basic needs, we use it to adapt and communicate to other members of our culture and finally...
This has been made so through radicalization and strong teaching of the Muslim faith to their youths who believe that those people who are not Muslims are pagans and therefore need to be engaged in 'jihad' or holy war. In addition to this, in this century, there are so many learned fellows who have failed to secure jobs and the only alternative solution that they have so far is to join Islamic terrorist groups. ... The reason being that the youths are taught in mosques where non-Muslims are not expected to be and so there is no way someone is going to suspect that radicalization and...
The role of Muslim governments. The plight of the Muslim World. ... It is quite evident that there is no unity among the Muslim countries. ... Israel is all the time egging America against all those Muslim countries where the people are sincerely trying for the implementation of the real teachings of Islam. America and the other anti-Muslim powers will never desist from carrying out their evil plans if the Muslim countries do not mend in time. ...
In fact, since 9/11 American Muslims are less drawn to jihadism. ... These alienated individuals are more likely to listen to Muslim extremists and their propaganda that debase the true religion of Islam. In the U.S., Muslims are not as alienated, which makes them less susceptible to Muslim extremism. ... Finally, the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, as well as the plight of Muslims in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, have led to anger from Muslims around the world. ... Muslim extremists justify terrorist attacks by using these statistics. ...
Late last month, a Shiite Muslim leader " Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim " was assassinated in a bomb blast in the holy city of Najaf south of Baghdad. ... Al-Hakim's Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the biggest anti-Saddam opposition group, was represented in the 25-member Governing Council. ... She is a Shiite Muslim and a career diplomat, who led the Iraqi delegation to the New York donor's conference for Iraq this summer. ...
It is also unlikely that Saddam's regime, which has savagely suppressed Islamics within Iraq, would be able to maintain close links with Osama bin Laden. In fact, Osama's former intelligence chief, Saudi Prince Turki bin Faisal, noted that Bin Laden views Saddam Hussein "as an apostate, an infidel, or someone who is not worthy of being a fellow Muslim"( Rai). ...
Islamic scholars disprove the claim that the practice is written in the Koran and they quote the Prophet Mohammed advising against people from the practice (Gilbert 2). Many Muslim countries like Iraq, Syria, and Tunisia do not practice FGM (Dugger 2). ...
Most evidence points the other way, Sadaam has good selfish reasons to fear radical Islamic and terrorist activities even more so than other governments including our own (Shane Seegers). ... Within many European states there are large Muslim communities and a U.S. attack would affect their domestic politics. Europe's relations with the Arab and Muslim world geographically, historically, and culturally, and mostly economically are much closer than ours. ...
Both nations were Muslim, with the leaders from Iran mainly from the Shiite branch and the leaders of Iraq from the Sunni. ... Khomeini decided on this because he thought Hussein government was anti-Islamic. ... The United States decided to supply the Iraqis with intelligence, and committed the US Navy to safeguarding the flow of oil out of (and the flow of money and arms into) Iraq, but secretly sold arms to Iran in order to fund anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua, and gain influence with hostage-holding Muslim militias in Lebanon. ...
In 1980, since it seemed that the Shiites could be a threat to Saddams presidency, Iraq invaded Iran and conducted an eight-year war against one of its closest neighbors and the home of the Shiite fundamentalist Muslims. ... The Iraqis also perceived revolutionary Iran's Islamic agenda as threatening to their pan-Arabism. ...
