I am sitting with my mom, she won't leave me in my room alone, supposedly she missed me so much that both my parents started watching KBS (we get it for free, don't jinx me- I love my Korean obsession). The end of year award shows were coming on, and them watching it, scared and angered my sister...
I was happy. Read More »
I want to keep this short seeing as I might have my messed up family coming soon to celebrate the Islamic religious holiday of Eid al-Adha. Therefore, this might just be an overview and small summary of what this day means to a Muslim and should mean to all Muslims. Read More »
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Although Islam is the second largest religion in the world, it still has little popularity in America. I am an American Muslim. I live in a rural area with people that I have know my whole life. I generally get along with everybody, and in my hometown, being a Muslim was never anything that my friends and the people I know were really prejudiced against. Read More »
Let me start by explaining how I met and came to spend time with a military man from Saudi Arabia. Read More »
The essay I've written below was from way back when I was a sophomore. It covers the Arab bedouins, arrival of Islam and Muhammed, Ummayad and Abbasid dynasties, diffusion of Islam to other civilizations, and the inevitable downfall. This was for a unit assignment and basis for one of the discussions about patterns of civilizations held in my world history class. You could say that the exhibited patterns can relate to the international societies present today. Plus. . . there was something about the Middle East that got me totally enamored by their history and culture, amongst other civilizations such as China and India. <3
Change Over Time - Middle East and North Africa
Dominant over other contemporary civilizations technologically, commercially, and politically (equal to that of classical China), the Arab empires would've been exemplary to the world presently, but this failure lied at the root of any civilization's collapse: human nature. Incompetency in leadership acted as a catalyst over generations and all other factors of decline fall into place like a chain reaction of dominoes. Following the pattern of intermittent civilizations, the Arab empires of the Middle East began with times of hardship and ended as remnants of what was imperialism. Read More »
Osama bin Laden gathers troops for his jihad (holy war) by saying that the Qu'ran and Allah say that it is honorable if the jihadists die in a suicide bomb so long as America is taken down and Islam is helped, but recently, this view has been under attack from inside the Islamic world. Read More »
College has forced me to open my eyes to views other people may have, and I am doing my best to integrate open-mindedness into my view of the world.
One world view, however, that I fear I will never completely accept, is Islam. (Muslims, may you forgive me, but I will explain.) Read More »
