Salman Rushdie and Bin Leaden In the religion of Islam there are true Muslims and fundamentalists. The true Muslim would be the one who follows its religion to its entirety, unlike the fundamentalist who hides their wicked, violent and totalitarian agendas behind the true faith of Islam. Accor...

Nicole Lacarrubb Seminar: International Relations April 3, 2002 India-Conflict: The Clash Over Kashmir "Rumors of War, Hints of Peace" "52 Are Hurt in Attacks on Civilians in Kashmir" "Rumors of War, Hints of Peace" written on February 4, 2002 seems not o...

Saudi Arabia Geography The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, occupying most of the Arabian Peninsula, is located in the southwestern corner of Asia. It covers an area about one-fourth the size of the United States. More than half of its total area is desert terrain. The capital of Saudi in Riyadh, which i...

Islam Affects Our World The Islamic religion, founded by Muhammad, has affected this world with a variety of ways. In 732, the religion was in full effect with people from the Middle East to North Africa learning about Islam and the Koran. The Islamic people, Muslims, had different attitud...

The Islamic religion, founded by Muhammad, has affected this world with a variety of ways. In 732, the religion was in full effect with people from the Middle East to North Africa learning about Islam and the Koran. The Islamic people, Muslims, had different attitudes toward life and what life was a...

III. 1. The development of Muslim authority within India grew out of the demise of the Abbasid Caliphate in Persia. Eastward expansion under the Ghaznavids and the subsequent acquisition of territories in Northern India helped provide a stepping-stone for further insurgencies into the prosperous re...

Key Areas of Concern: The recently released 9/11 Commission Report outlined forty-one specific recommendations necessary to protect the United States from threats to the safety and welfare of American citizens in the twenty first century. President Bush responded by announcing...

On September 11, 2001 Islamic terrorists hijacked American airplanes leaving from Washington DC and headed west towards California. After hijacking the planes the men flew two planes into the World Trade Center in New York and one plane into the Pentagon in Washington DC. A fourth plane hijacked cra...

Islam and the West One of the most significant ways the world has changed since the terrible crime of September 11 has been a new rise of an ugly strain of Islamophobia throughout the Western world. Amid the terrible agony of the recent terror attack in Bali, it is easy to be tempted, once again,...

Kanuni Sultan Süleyman had reigned for forty-six years (1520-1566) and this was the most successful period of the Ottoman Empire. "It reached a pitch of grandeur and prosperity which was never afterwards surpassed, and from which it soon began to decline." (www.osmanli700.gen.tr) Howe...

Unfortunately, the so-called Islamic world, from Africa to the Far East of Asia, is backwards compared to the Western world with doubt this is a false argument for the contribution of Muslims to human civilisation is a fact of history that cannot be denied. It is essential to look at some of the Is...

Before outlining the problems Muslims face in modern society, it is essential to give a background of Islam; the world's second most followed religion. Islam began in its present form 1400 years ago in Arabia, but swiftly become a world faith, and now has around 1,200 million adherents. There are be...

The Hatred Is In Their Hearts The Koran states, "It was thanks to God's mercy that you dealt so leniently with them. Had you been cruel or hard-hearted, they would have surely deserted you. Therefore pardon them and implore God to forgive them . . . put your trust in God. God loves ...

On September 11, 2001, a horrific terrorist attack was waged against the United States. Thousands of working men and women were killed in the attacks, leaving the country grieving and angry. On that day, I asked myself, "What could make those people hate America so much that they would do such ...