If you have paid any attention to the news in the past decade, you
have undoubtedly heard of the Muslim religion, also known as Islam.
Many people around the world are converting to the Muslim faith and
calling on Allah as their leader. Islam roots back to the most ancient
people groups, dating back to Biblical days and a separation of the
people into various worship rituals. While the Israelites remained
faithful to Jehovah God, many other people worshiped other gods and one
segment of these eventually turned into what we now know as Islam.
Islam is a very devout religion with people changing their lifestyles completely to take up the faith. While radical Islam is associated with terrorist activity, most Muslims do not practice this kind of behavior. It is estimated that one fifth of the world’s population is now Muslim, with the majority of them in the eastern world. Many live in the Middle East, but Asia and Africa are also full of Islamic groups.
One common misconception is that Muslims and Christians worship the same God, but call Him by different names. This is actually false. While many of the characters of faith are intertwined, the belief systems are completely different and the Islam faith stands in great contradiction to the Gospel message that is the root of Christianity. In order for someone to convert to Islam, they must renounce all other religious associations and declare that Allah is the true god and that Muhammad was his messenger. While the Muslim faith continues to grow in numbers, many people are still very leery of the radical belief system that characterizes Islam.
Islam is a very devout religion with people changing their lifestyles completely to take up the faith. While radical Islam is associated with terrorist activity, most Muslims do not practice this kind of behavior. It is estimated that one fifth of the world’s population is now Muslim, with the majority of them in the eastern world. Many live in the Middle East, but Asia and Africa are also full of Islamic groups.
One common misconception is that Muslims and Christians worship the same God, but call Him by different names. This is actually false. While many of the characters of faith are intertwined, the belief systems are completely different and the Islam faith stands in great contradiction to the Gospel message that is the root of Christianity. In order for someone to convert to Islam, they must renounce all other religious associations and declare that Allah is the true god and that Muhammad was his messenger. While the Muslim faith continues to grow in numbers, many people are still very leery of the radical belief system that characterizes Islam.
16Aug/110
When you observe the lifestyle of a Muslim, you will notice right away that one of the pillars of the faith is prayer. Muslim believers join in obligatory prayer five times each day at specific times. This is called “Salat” and is a required aspect of Muslim worship. At each of the five predetermined times of the day, Muslims bow and repeat the prayers. Since there are no priests or pastors in the Islam religion, a person is elected among the group who knows the Quran best and this is the person who leads the people in the prayer.
The Salat contains quotes from the Quran and it is repeated in Arabic, which was the original language that it was written in, or the language of the “revelation” as Muslims refer to it. While Muslim believers can pray in their native tongues in other instances, they are required to use Arabic during this ceremonia Salat prayer five times each day. The prayers are made at dawn, noon, mid-afternoon, dusk, and night. At each of these five times of day, there is a call to prayer and Muslims around the world join together wherever they might be to repeat the words of the Salat.
The prayer is translated in many places online, but it is basically a repeated allegiance and acknowledgement that Allah is the most great and the only true god. It denies the existence of any other deity apart from Allah. The Salat practice is one of the most fascinating aspects of Muslim worship. When visiting the Middle East, you will undoubtedly witness this devotion to prayer throughout the day with people dropping everything to begin the prayer at predetermined times throughout the day.
18May/110
For many years, there has been great unrest in the Middle East and the battle has waged primarily against the Jewish people in Israel vs. the Muslim people of the surrounding nations. While Jews do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as the Messiah, the Christian faith began with Jewish heritage. In fact, Jesus was a Jew and came from the lineage of Abraham. So what do Muslims say about Jesus Christ? According to Christians, Jesus is the only way to heaven. If you do not accept Him as Your Savior, then you cannot be made right with God.
Muslims do not adhere to this same belief. They claim that Jesus was a great man and they also believe in the virgin birth. The difference between Christianity and Islam comes in the belief in the deity of Jesus Christ. Muslims believe that Jesus was a good man and did great miracles, but they do not acknowledge His deity as being God’s one and only Son. They view the role of Jesus as a prophet. In the Quran, there is definite mention of Jesus, but always as the “created” and in no way the same as the “Creator”. In the Bible, Jesus makes statements such as “I and the Father are One” which tell us that Jesus and God were the same, as part of the trinity.
While at first glance, it might seem that Muslim and Christian beliefs are quite similar, they are actually very opposite because of this deity debate. By setting Jesus aside as merely a human prophet, the Quran dismisses the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross and takes away the forgiveness of sin that came through the shedding of His blood, which is the cornerstone of faith for all Christian believers.
12Apr/120
In the post September 11 United States, much has been written, spoken, and filmed about bias toward Muslim Americans. Generalizations, stereotypes, and prejudices were all put upon the people group as a whole – over the actions of a few.
Muslim families found themselves being ostracized in their own neighborhoods, some were even force d to move. Muslim kids were bullied and treated harshly at school and on sports teams. Muslim owned businesses were given the cold shoulder. All of this because of the actions of a handful of radical Muslims who hated Americans.
Basir Jamil, an Amercian born Muslim who was 8 at the time of the 9/11 attacks, wrote an editorial piece for the Baltimore Sun in 2010. He says:
“From grade school on, I have personally encountered racism and extremism. I have endured snide comments, people calling me "terrorist," and people generally hating me for no reason but my race and religion. I have noticed that these comments mostly come from people who do not know me very well. People who have gotten to know me do not make such remarks as often, they know that I am not violent and not a hateful person.. The perception many Americans share today is that "terrorism" and "Islam" are synonymous... Unfortunately, people's ignorance has led many to shape a negative attitude about Islam.”
As we move forward some ten years after the attacks, and continue to fight the war on terror, we should be aware that the actions of a few should not bias us toward an entire group of citizens. We should learn about the person first before making generalizations that can lead to unfair prejudices.
3Jan/120
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24Nov/110
Strange though many may find it, I basically grew up with a hot tub as a sibling. Of course I'm exaggerating, but my mother was always attached to her hot tubs and spas. What was really interesting, though, was that we didn't have a lot of money; we weren't poor, we drifted between working class and middle class and, looking back on it, had no business owning a hot tub.
Nonetheless, my mother loved her hot tub and found a way to make it work. Like I said, I grew up with weekly visits to resistance pools and daily dips in our home hot tub, so I didn't really pay attention to it until I was older and realized it was somewhat of a rarity to have one of the fancy Atlantis whirlpool spas in your home. I then started thinking about the fact that we didn’t always have money for the electric bill and couldn’t quite figure out why my mother was so intent on having her hot tub.
Obviously, hot tubs are comfortable. Actually, two person tubs are amazingly comfortable; now that I'm older I can better appreciate the soothing qualities of a nice warm dip in the hot tub after a strenuous day of work. As a kid I was unfamiliar with the rigors of hard labor, of the stress of other people depending on your day in and day out, which was probably why I viewed the hot tub as just another toy. I now see that it can be so much more than that! A hot tub can be a lifesaver; it's a reprieve, a getaway right in your home, a weightless massage always ready and waiting.
I don't know what it is that makes the hot tub so addictive. Maybe it's the steam or the jets that offer an instant massage. Maybe it’s the extreme difference in temperature, making you feel removed from the rest of the day, or it's the aquatic buoyancy, that comforting amniotic relapse. I don't know what makes the cares of the “real world” melt away like butter on a piping hot roll, but something, or everything, about soaking in a hot tub just makes the world seem easier. A good soak makes you calm; it makes you not forget your worries and helps you ditch your stress after a really long day.
I guess this is what my mother thought, too, or something along these lines, and that's why she made it such a priority. Whenever I see a hot tub I can picture my mother relaxing, just her neck and head protruding from the bubbly depths, a glass of wine in her hand or on the side, her eyes closed, her mind and body at peace. The images and knowledge of my mother's comfort alone are enough to sooth me, and then the physical calming of the hot tub does even more, transporting me to a hitherto unknown world of relaxation and serenity. But, like I said, the hot tub is like a sibling for me, one with whom I share a deep connection and a rife history.
2Jun/110
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13Jan/110
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6Jan/110
If Muslims have a poor reputation andndash; and they do andndash; converts to Islam have it even worse. Amongst their dreadful alumni are such characters as the "shoe bomber" Richard Reid, the 7 July bomber Germaine Lindsay, and Nicky Reilly who experimented with to blow up a restaurant in Bristol with a nail bomb. And Lauren Booth. Nevertheless regardless of these poor recruiting sergeants and in spite of the overwhelmingly detrimental media depiction of Islam, the variety of folks converting to Islam looks to be rising.
A report this week recommended the amount of converts had doubled in the past 10 years from about 60,000 in 2001 to up to 100,000 with all around 5,200 people today converting to Islam in the UK final 12 months. These figures arrive with a well being warning andndash; they are estimates derived from extrapolations andndash; but if we accept that escalating numbers of British guys and ladies are turning to Islam, it does lead to concerns of why: why are people voluntarily signing up to a faith that is, if you believe that what you examine, a cesspit of misogyny, violence and detest?
The growth in conversions in the past decade is partly a reflection of social and geopolitical adjustments in Britain and the planet in the course of the previous ten years. Prior to eleven September 2001 there was fairly small press awareness provided to Islam. Subsequent the attacks there was an understandable rise in focus on the faith, which led non-Muslims to want to find out a lot more about the religion that was now so often in the information.
In addition to the worldwide resurgence in interest in Islam, combined-faith marriages are also now much more commonplace than in the previous. Frequently such marriages lead to "conversions of convenience" wherever the husband or wife will agree to convert to ease relations with the new Muslim in-laws. When I received married my household asked my fiancee to convert but she was rightly reluctant and I had always been uneasy about the cynicism of these kinds of conversions and felt it demeaned individuals individuals who had truly changed faith. In simple fact, I had usually been suspicious of Muslim converts. I located the preponderance of hijabs (and in the survey the huge proportion of white female converts wore the hijab) amongst converts unsettling. It was as if these women needed to promote their newfound faith in a way that my sister, mom and sister-in-law andndash; none of them hijab wearers andndash; did not need to have to.
The report suggests that it is white girls who are driving the rise in conversions and when asked for their causes the same themes recur: converts talked of feeling their lives had been lost and lacking in goal, they voiced apprehension at the normalisation of immoral behaviour amongst an increasingly irreligious British public. They identified alcohol and drunkenness, a "lack of morality and sexual permissiveness", and "unrestrained consumerism". There are many ironies right here andndash; at a time when British Muslims of Asian extraction are progressively consuming and engaging in sexualpermissiveness andndash; if theyre lucky- white converts are fleeing in the direction of piety. It also ought to be mentioned that it is far less complicated for a white woman to convert to Islam in Britain than, say, for a Muslim girl in Pakistan to convert to Christianity.
A typical thread in converts stories was that some thing was missing in their lives beforehand and Islam then supplied some stability in the midst of existential turbulence. This tends to make sense andndash; there has to be some dramatic require that is previously unfulfilled that would need somebody adjust faith. The challenge for mosques and other individuals is to assure that those who are expressing keenness in the direction of Islam get the appropriate guidance so their curiosity does not turn them into cannon fodder at the fingers of extremists joyful to exploit the susceptible.
If there are problems there are also some possibilities that arrive with the increasing number of converts. I admitted earlier that I was rather suspicious of converts; I also fairly envy them, for they know far more about Islam than most British Pakistanis. For us religion and culture had been so entangled that it was challenging to distinguish one from the other. The conservatism of our operating-class Pakistani culture blurred into the way our families practised religion. This meant, for illustration, that marrying outside of the faith, accepted by Islam, is routinely not accepted in the culture. They are not weighed down by the very same baggage and thus can be a beneficial bridge in between cultures and in nudging other Muslims in direction of a far more liberal and tolerant path on troubles these kinds of as mixing among men and women in mosques and mixed-faith marriages.
It applied to be explained that Asians andndash; with their emphasis on family members values, challenging function and schooling were "more British than the British". It is a last irony that nowadays it could be argued that converts to Islam, with their potential to disentangle faith from culture, are now additional Muslim than their brown brothers and sisters in faith.
Supply:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jan/06/muslim-islam-uk-pakistan
5Jan/110
The Muslim community is growing daily as more converts join it. Each new person changes the dynamic of the Muslim culture in some way and we see the changes start to spread around the world. Today’s Muslims are more technologically savvy than ever before and we are seeing many of them use the internet for pleasure as much as for work. One of the latest trends is the emerging love for internet bingo games.
In a culture that has a slightly restricted social life in regards to what is and is not acceptable behavior, the internet offers a shield of anonymity where people can gamble or enjoy games for the sake of entertainment. More and more people are starting to play bingo online in their free time. This gaming trend originated in the United Kingdom and most of the sites are still operated from the UK.
The people of Europe instantly fell in love with the game of bingo and it spread quickly through word of mouth and social networking. Many bingo sites developed casino style games like Fluffy Favorites slots which gave the industry an entirely new appeal for those who could not gamble in brick and mortar casinos for cultural or religious reasons.
Now you can play free bingo for cash no matter where you live. The Muslim community is enjoying the opportunity to compete for jackpots that offer great prizes like laptop computer and televisions. Some even offer exotic vacations that people would never be able to afford otherwise. Perhaps even more than the actual winnings, people are interested in the thrill of competition.
They also love the ability to talk with people around the world while they play. Most bingo sites have an interactive chat feature which lets you talk with other players throughout the game. You can chat about anything and everything from sports to current affairs to religious beliefs. Muslims who live away from their families enjoy having specific times that they meet to play bingo and chat online on the city bingo web site. It gives them a free way to keep in touch and exchange information and pleasantries with their friends and family.
22Dec/100
Muslim congressman Keith Ellison accuses GOP’s Peter King of bigotry. The unequivocally unapproachable as well as unequivocally initial Islamic congressman from Minnesota, Keith Ellison, does not similar to Peter King during all. In fact, he officious loathes him. That explains since his entrance upon MSNBC’s low-rated "The Ed Show," hosted by all a time indignant Ed Schultz, was highlighted by zero some-more than a single personal conflict after an additional opposite New York’s Peter King, who has pronounced he intends to reason hearings upon in advance American Muslims in 2011. In an entrance which concerned some-more impression gangland slaying than logic as well as some-more ludicrous analogies than egghead honesty, Ellison unloaded upon King by job him a extremist as well as a McCarthyist. It seems which a little members of America’s Muslim community have been regulating Saul Alinsky’s "Rules for Radicals" in sequence to overpower patriots similar to King.
Since a headlines pennyless final week which King will have use of his chairmanship of a House Homeland Security Committee to reason hearings upon in advance American Muslims, he’s been removing slandered left as well as right by a little of those "religion of peace" adherents of America’s Muslim community. It’s similar to each final uncertain as well as excessively sensitive Muslim is entrance out of a woodwork to privately conflict King in a pure devise to inhibit him from starting forward with his nationalistic hearings. we don’t get since a little of these Muslims similar to Ellison et al have been so gosh-darn opposite land hearings upon a radicals in their community! You’d consider which if they were indeed nationalistic Americans themselves, they’d be usually as well happy to assistance King weed out a radicals in their community, right? Of march right!
The restlessness with Ellison as well as a little alternative malcontents in America’s Muslim village seems to be formed upon hypersensitivity as well as arrogance, as in their realistic idea which there is no extended as well as large-scale complaint with Islam as well as terrorism…which of march there is. This actuality only keeps removing reliable each day; only review a headlines daily, as well as you’ll get an roughly uninterrupted swell of headlines about Muslims murdering civilians or responding in a check which they wish to kill non-believers.
Just to spell out a extremes which Islam apologists similar to Ellison will go to, his categorical justification is which Muslims should not be singled out since there have been alternative demographics who additionally rivet in terrorism. Then he lamely cited a removed apprehension incidents of Tim McVeigh during a back of in a mid-90s as well as a some-more new rioter who flew in to a IRS office building in Texas. It’s longhorn to review a aforementioned, sole acts of apprehension to Islamic apprehension similar to there’s a parallel. Anyone who’s intellectually honest has to confess which Islamic apprehension happens globally, is a coordinate movement, as well as has a centuries-long story during a back of it.
However, sickening as well as cowardly liberals still will have excuses as well as repudiate this definite fact, even if a justification is waved in their faces. For instance, we was examination O’Reilly final night, as well as he had upon token magnanimous Alan Colmes in a shred with Monica Crowley. Remember Colmes? AKA, Hannity’s worse half from 1996 to 2008? Anyway, O’Reilly told him to his bespectacled face that, according to Crowley, 126 indictments have been handed out in a final dual years by a ultra-liberal Eric Holder himself for terrorism. And predict what????? Each as well as each chairman indicted…has been…a Muslim! That’s no coincidence; which obviously shows an irrevocable complaint with Islam as well as terrorism, though Colmes a blockhead kept creation up even some-more violent excuses after which actuality was divulged! How violent is which perspective by Islamic terrorist-shielding liberals?
Ellison accomplished his entrance upon "The Ed Show" by privately shaming King as a extremist who was targeting Muslims in a US, a sum phony of what he’s unequivocally doing. King is a loyalist for wanting to weed out probable terrorists in a American Muslim community, as well as it’s great which he doesn’t concede this concurrent insult bid to stop him. However, Muslims similar to Ellison have been obviously study up upon a Saul Alinksy tactic of insulting or demonizing your enemies which is created up in a book "Rules for Radicals." That’s how distant a little Muslims will go to try to censor a complaint with their "religion of peace" as well as terrorism.
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http://www.examiner.com/american-politics-in-vancouver/muslim-congressman-keith-ellison-accuses-gop-s-peter-king-of-bigotry
18Dec/100
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Listen to a Article - Powered by Once in a whilst a square of methodical investigate comes around which is indeed necessary celebration of a mass for any a single meddlesome in exploring since family have been so tense, aggressive, as good as spasmodic violent, in in in in between many people in a United States, alternative Western countries as good as a Arab-Islamic region.
The inform usually expelled by a Gallup company, “Measuring a State of Muslim-West Relations: Assessing a ‘New Beginning,’” is a single such investigate which deserves to be during large review by politicians, journalists, conviction leaders as good as academics via a universe (it is accessible for giveaway during www.gallup.com). The consult interpretation from interviews with over 123,000 people in 55 countries in in in in between 2006 as good as 2010 touches upon vicious core sentiments as good as issues which need to be improved accepted if you ever goal to retreat a cycle of assault as good as distrust which right away plagues so many Arabs, Muslims, Americans as good as Westerners.
Following up Gallup’s ground-breaking 2008 study, “Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think,” this brand brand brand brand new inform explores 3 vicious themes in how Muslims understand Muslim-West tensions: a significance of governing body as against to religion; a vicious purpose of ‘respect’; as good as a purpose of conflicts in Muslim lands which engage Western powers. It additionally compares as good as contrasts people who demonstrate an seductiveness in Muslim-West rendezvous as good as those who do not, as good as summarizes open attitudes in 3 dispute areas: Iraq, Afghanistan, as good as a Palestinian Territories.
The following appear to me to be a many vicious commentary of a report, which should be eaten generally by policy-makers in Western as good as Muslim societies alike:
First, Arabs in a Middle East as good as North Africa (MENA), compared to Muslims in alternative regions of a world, place a top significance upon a peculiarity as good as significance of Muslim-West relations. MENA residents lend towards to hold Muslims communities have been committed to mending ties with a West – nonetheless usually minorities in these societies hold which a West is similarly committed.
Second, a up as good as down transformation in Muslims’ views of a United States as good as others in a West reflects an additional investigate finding: 40 percent of MENA residents as good as Europeans see domestic differences as a equates to of tensions – not sacrament or culture. This figure rises to over 50 percent in Syria, Palestine as good as Iran, as good as to 74 percent in Lebanon. That is why, for example, Arab capitulation of a US rose measurably when Barack Obama was inaugurated president, even prior to his mid-2009 Cairo debate about mending ties with a Muslim world. However, Muslims’ capitulation of a US care has forsaken since then.
Third, those who see domestic differences as a pass equates to of bad family additionally feel which aroused dispute in in in in between infancy Muslim as good as Western societies can be avoided. Those who see sacrament as a categorical equates to of tensions lend towards to feel which dispute is unavoidable (44 percent in a US as good as Canada as good as 51 percent in MENA).
Note this carefully: a infancy of Muslims feels which many problems with a West can be resolved since they simulate domestic differences, not eremite or informative fissures. We all need to concentration some-more upon domestic issues as good as unfamiliar policies, as good as give reduction courtesy to quite eremite counts as a equates to to improved relations, since sacrament is not a complaint – policies have been a problem.
Fourth, mutual apply oneself is seen as deeply not in in between many Muslims, since which 63 percent of surveyed Muslims hold their societies apply oneself a West though usually twenty-eight percent of a same Muslims feel a West respects them. Over half of Americans (53 percent) additionally contend a West does not apply oneself Muslim-majority societies.
The research about how Muslims conclude “respect” is a pass anticipating of this study. When you spoke to Dalia Mogahed, a senior manager executive of a Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, who additionally heads a brand brand brand brand new Abu Dhabi Gallup Center, she explained an vicious shade in their analysis: Most Muslims, as expected, see with regard to holy black such as a Koran or a Prophet Mohammad as vicious gestures of apply oneself (72 percent); though also, a tall 54 percent of Muslims surveyed pronounced which being treated with colour with colour sincerely in governing body was additionally vicious to their clarity of respect. “Many Muslims see satisfactory policies by unfamiliar countries as deeply meaningful, which is an additional approach of observant which they insert good significance to being treated with colour with colour with a clarity of justice,” Mogahed explained to me upon a phone from Abu Dhabi.
And fifth, Muslims as good as Westerners by clever majorities contend which communication in in in in between their societies is a good as good as not a threat. Those Muslims who have been “ready” for rendezvous as good as improved family with a West additionally lend towards to be people who use sacrament upon a unchanging basis, which – again – highlights a actuality which politics, not religion, is a place to find a causes of tensions, as good as their solutions.
This vicious brand brand brand brand new investigate verifies a little things you already knew, clarifies others, as good as sheds brand brand brand brand new light upon areas which were not good understood. It reminds us which apply oneself as good as policy, rsther than than sacrament per se, have been a vicious issues in Islamic-Western ties or tensions.
Rami G. Khouri is published twice weekly by THE DAILY STAR.
Source:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=5&article_id=122537
14Oct/100
As a unapproachable Muslim American you wish to residence a issues which Muslims in America have been confronting currently such as secular discrimination, stereotyping, as well as being disposed to hatred crimes.
I consider it's silly to consider which Muslim Americans do not have this country's many appropriate seductiveness during heart in a same approach as any Americans do.
I consider it's ludicrous how a Muslim chairman can't get by airfield confidence but being disregarded as well as nude of their dignity. Doesn't a First Amendment state "Freedom of Religion?" Shouldn't a people of Islam get to use their conviction openly as well as proudly, but being prosecuted, as well as done to use their sacrament in overpower to fit in to society's norm?
In a media Islam is portrayed as a aroused religion, when in actuality Islam is a single of a many pacific religions. Many Americans, when they listen to a word "Muslim," automatically consider of a terrorist. This is serious form of stereotyping. This complaint occurred when a "few" Muslims chose to dedicate acts of violence; each Muslim was blamed. you all a time find myself being stared during - conference whispers at a behind of my behind as well as those looks of guess which bake deep.
I hold people should get to know someone who is Muslim, revisit their internal mosque as well as ask questions about Islam. At a finish you have been all tellurian beings who share usual goals, dreams, hopes as well as aspirations for ourselves as well as for the young kids as any one else does.
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http://www.marshallindependent.com/page/content.detail/id/525373/Get-to-know-your-Muslim-neighbors.html?nav=5072
9Oct/10Off
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