the Islamic Congress's president, Mohamed Elmasry. Mr. Elmasry said there are bad Muslims just as there are bad Christians and Jews. "We treat them as such and so should you. But Islam is a religion of peace. Muslims have a religious duty to be tolerant of other faiths and other ideologies.'...

The Arab and Muslim minority in the United States seems to be a bit neglected by scholars. Even basic statistical data concerning the number of them living in America is hard to obtain. If we tried to find out how many Arab-Americans live in the United States nowadays, the numbers would vary from 2 ...

For thousands of years, countless lives have been lost in battles over disputed territories. While the primary, tangible point of contention in most border disputes is an easily identifiable piece of land on a map; such disputes are often far more complex than what can be measured in square miles. ...

September 11, 2001 represents a date in history that none of our contemporaries will forget. This day is the day when the American society, if not the Western world, changed completely and was forced to face the threat of terrorism. After September 11 the whole world changed and this statement can b...

1. Introduction The threat of international terrorism has increased dramatically in recent years and especially since the events of September 11, 2001. However domestic terrorism threats from within the country have also played a role in America's security landscape. The growth of terr...

I read an article on immigration called "Our Rainbow Underclass" by Mortimer B. Zuckerman. The 9/11 ceremonies made the author think about the multi-ethnic nature of US society. Among the victims were people origins from all over the world, that plot was not only against the Americans. The author ...

On September 11 2001, Americans awoke to find our country under attack. The country went into a state of shock. Many including myself kept on asking, who could of done such a thing to the United States and why? After the initial shock Americas next step was to find a way to respond to these acts of ...

This just in: There has been a bombing downtown today. . The blast killed 167 men, women, and children and injured 853 others . Nineteen children, many in a second floor daycare center, died in the Building's collapse Thirty children were orphaned. A total of 219 children lost a parent The forc...

Status of Muslim Women In the United States we have many stereotypes of Islam and how the religion treats its women followers. In this essay I will clarify the status of Muslim women in their spiritual society along with their roles socially, economically, and politically. The spiritual aspect...

My group's final project was the Oppression of Muslim Women. This topic did not start out as holding a special place in my heart or as something that meant a lot to me. To tell the truth, the topic to me just sounded like a good cause that our group could find a lot of information about. So I a...

The organization I have worked for this semester is Lutheran Family Services, in particular, refugee services. This organization relocates refugees, the ones I worked with are from Sudan, Africa. A 20 year civil war has been raging in Sudan leaving families displaced and relocated. The war i...

"Race" is a very peculiar concept. It is one of those things that everybody thinks they understand but gets less clear the harder we look at it. Race is a cultural category into which people are placed based upon apparent biological characteristics. Although races are traditionally considered biol...

Oh, my God..." That's all I could say when I turned on my T.V. the morning of Tuesday, September 11th. There I saw the image of a lone tower of the World Trade center in New York City; it's twin having collapsed only moments before..." It is hard to say if America is loved or hated. It depen...

In recent history, one issue has dominated the news in Eastern Europe and especially Russia. That issue is the Russian conflict in and with Chechnya. It is a very complex and deadly conflict that has no clear end in sight. I found three very interesting intertwined things when doing all the research...

The state of Iraq has a turbulent history and has rarely stayed the same in its long history of different sovereign rulers over the territory. The battleground for different civilizations over centuries of political and religious rivalry, Iraq now finds itself divided into three distinct groups: the...

The United States Involvement in Bosnia; is it positive or negative. After a lifetime of war in Bosnia, can the United States really offer positive change? To truly get a feel for the conflict in this region we must first look at the long-standing hatred between the occupying ethnic groups: Serbs,...

"...That these United Colonies are, and of Right out to be, Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved..." It was that spe...

Eva's cultural function within Eva Luna is to depict the endorsed gender stereotypes and oppression of the lower classes in order to show how that contributes to the cultural diversity within the fictive South American culture. Eva is the central female character in the novel and is constantly ...

Saudi Arabian Development The economies of many underdeveloped or developing countries are limited in their capacity to achieve more for citizens because capital is a significant issue-without foreign investment, most countries that fall into that category have significant problems in stimul...

Since the beginning of the 19th century, America has had to deal with the on going problem of drugs. We're surrounded by them everyday, whether we realize it, or not. The evening news is filled with stories of "crack heads" killing each other as well innocent standers- by in a fi...

"When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and hamlet, from every state and city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children-black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Catholics and Protestants-will be able to join hands and sing: Free at l...

Americans can be of any race or ethnicity, but that's not what most Americans think is true. Americans can be very judgmental when it comes to other people's skin. When most people think of an American, they think of a white person. How long does all this racism have to go on? Until people just...

Since the days of the 6th century BC, Ian has been ruled by absolute monarchs. The shah-in-shah, king of kings, or emperor decided the fate of the empire. Iran's constitutional monarchy, founded in 1906, was ended in 1979. In the same year, a new constitution established an Islamic republic in whic...

Eighteen years ago a 12 year old witnessed members of his family, neighbors and school friends slaughtered from a distance. He saw an army take on people with rocks and stones. As he watched this, he thought, "why can't Reagan [Ronald Reagan, president of the U.S. at that time] just tak...

The family and cultural values of Asian countries and the United States are very different, but the values in Asia differ dramatically among many countries. Therefore, it would be difficult to explain the values of Asia as a whole, but rather, it would be easier to explain the values based on one co...