Power tended to lean more to the husband than the wife, since men could work professional jobs, along with taking care of the family. Muslims are considered one of the several “people of the book”, and follow the word of the Quran. The Quran clearly states that women should be treated with respect, but eventually Islamic custom ruled that out. Women in Islam, all throughout 600-800 CE, were not treated with much respect, as it was for most other cultures. Women were usually uneducated, and in the household, they were expected to raise children, cook, and clean.
Now we have the true heart of the poem. She wants more than a dress. The dress is a metaphor for many things like passion, desire, beauty, sex, and confidence. Now we relate ourselves back to the title of the poem: What do women want?
This is the perception of Muslim women that I have been exposed to for most of my life. The media presents to me all I have ever known of the Middle East; women covered in burqas, or wrapped up completely in their hijab. The veil, and women in general, has become a symbol for the inferiority of the Middle East. But, like a person can be wrong about a woman who wears glasses, the world as a whole can be very wrong about the real meaning of the veil, and about their perception of the women of Islam. Leila Ahmed’s The Discourse of the Veil explores the real source of women’s struggles in Islam versus the purely symbolic ones that the West concentrates its critique on.
People all over the country were totally in shock of the extreme events that were occurring. To the typical American citizen, it seemed the attacks were in every way random, so you can only imagine what was on the radio and TV seemed like to an 8 year old. Never the less, the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001 gave me an experience that I'm happy to have had as a child, it gave me an understanding of horrible things people can and will do out of fear, jealousy, and revenge. Attending St. Johns the Evangelist, I was only in second grade and pretty much isolated from the rest of the world. I don't even think I knew all the capitals or even all 50 states in general.
Both women are also very different culturally but they are both suffering with cultural identity. What Khadra experienced was culture shock that was opposite to what Gelareh experienced. What shocked Gelareh was how stricter her old home was when it came to covering up and wearing certain clothing and make-up, but marriage was different. Apparently, not all men marry more women to help the women but to please the men instead. Then Khadra was shocked how not strict things were and how many things were happening that was against what she was raised to believe.
Hindu-Muslim Conflict Islam and Hinduism are two religions that are being practiced for centuries throughout the world. Hinduism was originated in India, whereas, Islam originated from Saudi Arabia. The Hindu-Muslim rivalry is not an unknown topic to many and people believe that the enmity is due to religion. However, by analyzing the essay and looking at religion, politics, as well as Gandhi’s involvement between the Hindu Muslim rivalries, one can come to the conclusion that the differences in religion itself play a very small role in the conflict; where politics is what has caused the rivalry amongst them. India is the focal point of a very serious problem that still exists in the world today.
Marriage forms the sole basis for sexual relations and parenthood. However, a different aspect is the disvalue in women society. The rights of women in Muslim culture, continue to generate much media attention in the West. Muslim women are often portrayed as inferior beings, desperately in need of liberation from the Muslim patriarchal culture that prevents their progress. As many cultures language is unique.
Islam, Islamism, and 9/11 In the post-9/11 world, many Americans’ views of Muslims have changed. Though the vast majority of Muslims practice their religion peacefully, the minority of extremists and militant Islamists who commit terrorist acts are now what many Americans think of when they hear “Muslim”. Islamism and Islam are not separate in the minds of most people, and this leads to incredible misunderstanding and mistreatment of individuals who practice Islam. Islam as a religion seems particularly susceptible to extremism, but as Fawaz A. Gerges argues, the religion of Islam and Islamic texts are not the reason for this. Instead, it is the political, social, and economic standing of so many Muslims and the domination of Western countries that result in the extremism of Islamism.
Today, many governments still hold the historic idea that a war in a foreign land can be justified if they are doing good for the people living in the area they are attacking. The idea of liberation, to overthrow or defeat an oppressive or unjust ruler and free the people being ruled over, has become one of the most common justifications of war in the modern day. However, most of the time the forces that see themselves as liberators
Their actions are crude, fierce, and most times inhumane. They thrive in inequality, advocate violence and are against individual freedoms. Some scholars in the U.S have compared Islamists to the Ku Klux Klan in the U.S showing that every society has deviant groups. To uninformed Westerners, such groups appear numerous, when in reality they are no more a factor in life than are the fringe groups found in every nation. Jihad-