What Is Islam? When we think about Islam--or any religion that has lasted for a long time--we should remember that it has evolved through history and will continue to do so. It has varied from time to time, from place to place, and maybe even from one person to another. As personal belief systems, religions are hard to describe: How do you speak or write about someone else's deepest thoughts? Let me try to answer the question anyway. ...

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Islam is the second largest religion in the world. People who follow Islam are known as Muslims. I myself am a Muslim who is still discovering many things about the world of Islam. This religion contains many traditions and holiday. For example, Eid Mubarak is a huge traditional holiday celebrated b...

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In the East, Umayyad rule brought the Arabs into contact with the Turks who, like the Berbers, embraced Islam and, in the course of time, became its staunch defenders. ... Western View of Islam in the Middle Ages. ...

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Religion is a system of beliefs, practices and worship of one or more Gods. There are many religions in the world, and all of them had great impact on the world history. Throughout the history religions controlled actions and beliefs of many people, and even today it is a dominant force. Very often ...

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The Muslim civilization of the Middle East has failed comprehensively and will continue to generate violence. the only way to deal with faith-poisoned terrorists is to kill them" (Peters, 2006). ...

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Cainkar provides objective and detailed statistics to back up the insecurity experienced by Arab Americans in the years following 9/11. (4) A paramount theme in Cainkar's work is that the abuse Muslim and non-Muslim Arabs did not occur in in a nutshell and due to the fact that the stereotype of Arabs as a murderous "other" had validated the violence of war in the media in the Middle East throughout the twentieth century, it was a simple task to make them the scapegoats following 9/11. ...

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Islam is a very obedient religion. First of all, women and men are to wear a certain attire and if this attire is not worn they could be punished for it. The government is not letting them live out their religion the correct way they want to because they are forcing them to do the religion their way...

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