Woman and Islam-

I first clicked on this site to learn more about the dress of a woman in Turkey for example the "head scarf" was banned in 2001 and is not allowed to be worn in a university. Women want to start wearing the head scarf as saying to the men this is only how much I AM allowing you to see rather than letting her hair down, its empowerment for the women. This article then goes on to talk about other men and self control but then gets back down to the head scarf. Really good read to help understand the way of Islam.
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Women on the Front Line-

The main video I looked at was killing in the Name of Honour. Women on the front digs deeper to get the real facts and truths about what’s really happening in Turkey today. 1 and 3 woman are victims of violence against women Where the execution would be prearranged women dressing in black going to meet their death. Fathers kills mothers, sisters daughters’ etc, because the men think there is nothing else to live for besides pride and honor. But because Turkey is a closed community its hard to get information no one wants to get in trouble or let anything slip because of the fear they too might be killed. In the 72 million people that live in turkey suicide rate has gone up over the last four years. Even since the harsher punishment cracked on honor killing…the “killers” are making it look like a suicide. Woman have no say in who is killed only the men and the leaders of the clan get to make the choice. If the man who is asked to kill his daughter, wife, mother, sister does not people of the clan will go forward with killing other family members until there is no one left.
I learned a lot from this video I thought it was really honest and took a deep hard look into the life of Turkey today for women.
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I found something from an old class....i thought would be helpful to our wonderful class and this something that i think is very interesting... its a break down of political ideology of islam... how cool is that? So here some highlights of what i found-

Political Ideology of Islam

1. Organic Integration of Spiritual (religion) and Material (societal-social, economic, political) domains.

2. Historical Orientation and Awareness—The Example of Muhammad and Governance under the First Four Caliphs. The acute awareness of Islamic history in the present moment.

3. Ummah: Muslims are one brotherhood. Islamic State must support and show solidarity with the Ummah. The concept of Nation-State as a sovereign political though accepted by majority of the people is still challenged as the right polity of an authentic community of Muslims. Calls for reconstitution of Khilafat (Caliphate) are still put forth by revolutionary and traditional Ullema and political activists. Modernists take the Organization of Islamic Conference—an organization with 58 Islamic member countries established in 1993—as the contemporary version of Ummah.

4. Sovereignty belongs to God only, not to the State, or People: Authority to manage society is delegated by God to people. Governments must serve God and People, and rule according to Sharia Law and not according to their wishes and whims.

5. Application of Sharia: Islamic Laws and Values distilled by Islamic scholars from the Quran and Hadith should be applied or implemented to guide state activities and the behavior of individuals in Islamic society.

6. Prescription of Rights of various groups: men, women, non-Muslims.

7. Obligations of Rulers: State leaders are obligated to faithfully implement the Sharia (Law) and not rule according to their will, whims, and likings or for personal benefits or for ego. They must make sure that all people are free of want and are taken care off.

8. Social and Economic Justice: Though private property and seeking profits and money is allowed, nevertheless Wealth is seen as a Trust of God held by persons to be spent for goodness in society and not to be taken as personal right for personal enjoyment. The needy must be provided for by the state and society, through taxation and setting up of philanthropic institutions.

9. Republicanism: Against Primogeniture--Rulers must be selected/elected by the people. Gives Islamic political culture a democratic impulse.

10.Activist Citizenry: Muslims have an obligation to take part in community affairs. The Mosque is both a place of worship and a community center.

11. Peace, Harmony, and Non-Aggression in Society. ‘Fitna’ or spreading disorder or rebellion in society is condemned. Political movements against Muslim rulers must be peaceful. Violent movements are acceptable only when the rulers are openly behave against Islam.

12. Jihad:

a. Jihad-a-Akbar: The Great Jihad-Personal/spiritual Jihad

b. Jihad-a-Ummah: The Social Jihad

c. Jihad-a-Asghar: The Little Jihad-Martial Jihad

please i'm using this information on my papers i hope that other will too. or at least give a different P.O.V

LOST ON THE BLOG

Anyone else lost on the blog? I sure am, I would love to add colors and pictures and when i get enough time i will figure this out and so to my followers lol all three of you....thank u and i'm sorry my blog is so blah. Im hoping to make it fun for the most part...but really the most important thing is what people are blog rather than what it looks like.
So here we goooo BLOGGING-
Get excited.

AUNT SAFIYYA AND THE MONASTERY

The opening of the book I think is rather amusing- the mother is so worried about forgetting someone the boy is thankful he has sisters because then they messed up dropping the cookies he is overlooked. PLus he would be anyways because he is a boy. 

Anyways the first chapter goes on to where the reader follows the boy and the Father to one of their trips to the Monastery the boy talks about how bad the tea is and how he is not allowed to make any noises while drinking this tea yet everyone else seems to be drinking rather loudly. 

In the first Chapter little hints are released of how their everyday life is. The boy is happy to go to school even though he thought it was suppose to know everything which lead him to keep his mouth shut most of the most... which, i think is smart if you ask me, the boy while keeping his mouth shut is kept his ears open and leaned different things about the Monks and whatnot... leading him to ask question and maybe were not suppose to be asked... the books ends are a healing method that doesn't sound like it would work to heal anything to me... but I'm interested to see where this book is going to take the reader AKA ME.

REEL BAD ARABS

Reel Bad Arabs- By Jack Shaheen was okay for the most part, I thought it was overwhelming and repetitive; the movie clips that were shown were all from 20 to 30 years ago and it made the point that today Americans as a whole are still picturing Arabs as bad guys, terrorists, women haters etc. Which in my readings i can not disagree with this in some parts of the middle east things of this nature- happen but the people's as a whole, no. 

The Middle East is looked over- people of America thought the lengths of our own media is shaping Americans to believe a horrifying stereotype of the middle east. Which is sad and not true... Americans needs to educate them selves in order to make an educated opinion on such a matter that effects so many different people all around the world. 

Which is the whole point that Shaheen is trying to make...we and when i say WE I mean America as a whole need to stop hating on different sorts of people race etc. because the average serial killer is a white male in his mid 30-40s and i think that has something to say about America, but yet we turn our finger on a stranger.