Describe and analyze the cultural, economic, and political impact of Islam on the Middle East (the area north of the Arabian Peninsula which was conquered by the first four Caliphs of Islam). Be sure to discuss continuities as well as change. In preparing to answer this question, ask yourself these questions: 1. What were things like at the beginning of the time period? Why?
On February 21, 1965 at the age of 39, while speaking at an engagement in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom, Malcolm X was shot 15 times and was pronounced dead at New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital (Simon et al 2005). It is because of his fight for equality and for where his journey took him towards the end of his life, is why he deserved the American Stamp. References: Cha-Jua, S. (2011). From Little to El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, A Life of Revolutionary Transformation: Manning Marable’s Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. Black Scholar, 41(2), 14-1=25.
The white man kidnapped Africans to a place we call America. The white man used their intimidation and demeaning words to overpower and put fear in these African’s lives. The white man used such scare tactics for over 400 years. In James Baldwin’s argumentative autobiography, The Fire Next Time, written in 1963, The Nation of Islam make pleas for the justification and superiority of all blacks while degrading the whites as the Devil’s creation, a creation that had run its course and was now ready to be destroyed. Encounters with this black Islamic movement, discussed in this essay, I argue the proper conclusion that the Nation of Islam’s message was an angry one and the idea of a complete extermination of all whites is irrational and, in
THE CONTROVERSY OF MALCOLM X Ever since he first appeared as a spokesperson for the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X has raised many controversies. His revolutionary speeches influenced many disadvantaged black people. However, he was also severely criticized for his demands for total separation between blacks and whites in America. In his speeches, he often referred to the whites as the "devils". In his view, the white race in general was guilty for the suppression and sufferings of the black race.
While he was imprisoned he was inspired by his brother’s converging in to Islam, Malcolm studied the word of Elijah Muhammad. Malcolm soon became an Islam and started spreading the word of Elijah Muhammad. In one of Malcolm’s famous interviews with Louis Lomax, he used figurative language to get the point across that the black man shouldn’t live the white man which what Malcolm calls “Devils.” In one line Malcolm said “Tell the slave master we will no longer beg for crumbs from his table; let him give us some land of our own so we can go for ourselves.” Malcolm used the line tell the slave master we will no longer beg for crumbs from his table to represent African Americans asking the white man to always support us. Malcolm also used the word “Devil” to say that the white man is evil. Malcolm X resolution for racial injustice for African Americans was to separate the white man from the black man.
In Mendelburg’s article about racial issues in government, he began with the example of the 1988 presidential election, where former president George Bush used an example of a black convicted murderer who escaped while on furlough and raped a white woman to point blame on his opponent Michael Dukakis for his lenience on criminal justice. After gaining popularity among many Americans, Jesse Jackson pointed out that Bush was making this example that a black man raped a white woman to implicitly appeal to whites, and not just whites compassion, but their “inherent” racial prejudices. If this was done purposefully as Jackson had proclaimed, then Bush had benefitted from implicit racial appeals towards whites, specifically. The purpose of this
He often spoke about the violence of racism, and frequently cited examples, which ranged from attacks from police dogs and their club-equipped guards, to being washed down by high-pressured water hoses in broad daylight. Malcolm believed these atrocities, and ones like them, to be linked to racism that had existed far before he and any African Americans of his day were born. Malcolm frequently referenced the exploitation of Africa, and cited that ancestors of African Americans reached the US on slave ships against their will. He did so in order to emphasize that white racism was not restricted to America, but was a global phenomenon that was organized by the most powerful forces of the times, whose desire for power could not be satisfied. By painting the picture that racism was an international issue, Malcolm attempted to convey that racism was not a random atrocity, but in fact, an ongoing international campaign to enslave those without power (nonwhites)
Islam grew and spread rapidly east and west from Arabia to become a powerful rival to Christendon. Muhammad had to leave Mecca because his teachings angered many of its citizens. He went to Medina where he was accepted and became an important religious leader. In 622, Muhammad made a special journey to Mecca from the city of Medina which is 350 km to the north of Mecca. This journey is known in the Islamic calendar as the Hirja.
Islam is a monotheistic religion which is articulated by the Quran, and the teachings of the Sunnah and the Hadith of Prophet Muhammad, who is considered to be the last prophet of Islam. The word Islam means submission to God, peace, and the way to peace. The followers of Islam are called Muslims. Presently, Wahabbism has gained international attention because of their acts of terrorism within the last few decades. This minority group of Islam is recently fostering the growth of religious fundamentalism.
12/17/12 Civil Rights of the 1960’s Attacked by dogs, sprayed with fire hoses, beaten by the police; the very people who are employed to keep you safe. That was what African Americans faced if they spoke out against inequality. In the time of the 1950 and 60’s emerged two men that would soon be legends in history years after their deaths, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. where the rock that helped African Americans push segregation and racism to a minimal. The two of them were a huge moral support in the fifties and sixties. He believed that if blacks were seen fighting back against white forces they would be painted as low lives and scum, the exact image that they were trying to abolish.