Islam students at LUC

In class last week we finished the movie “My Name Is Khan”. I thought the movie’s purpose was good even though it exaggerated several stereotypes. I believe that the movie was directed towards all Americans to illustrate the negative effect which 9/11 had on Muslims living in America. It also showed how the vast majority [...]

The previous class Professor Mozaffar demonstrated the links between the beliefs of Jews Muslims and Christians. He shows the lineage of Abraham, and also the Arabic versions of all the major prophets. We also learned the Islamic Paradign, No ilah, but Allah. We then learned the differenced between love, adoration and worship. The reading material [...]

In Class: Last week in class we finished watching the movie “I am Khan.” The second half of the movie definitely had a more serious tone than the first half.  I enjoyed the discussion about the movie, especially.  We talked a lot about the stereotypes that were portrayed in the film.  The class pretty much [...]

In the second week of class we completed My Name Is Khan. I thought that it was a great movie and really showcased the important messages about acceptance, kindness, hope, honesty and, most importantly love. The movie serves as good food for thought while still embodying the Bollywood love story genre. Having grown up studying [...]

I don’t think I enjoyed the movie “My Name is Khan” as much as most of the rest of the class. I understand the attempt of the movie to highlight racism by showing stereotypes in the extreme – for example, once the extreme caricature of blacks in America is exposed the viewer will also think [...]

One of the interesting things from this past class was looking at how religions from the perspective of different religions. I had always assumed that Christianity was a branch from Judaism, I had never thought about how others would look at the relationship. It was a bit difficult for me to wrap my head around [...]

Although my name is Khan was a very long and dramatic movie to say the least, it did in some way or another, make the point that stereotypes and profiling of Muslims is a relevant issue. I was glad that the class finished the movie and we got into discussion. The Islamic paradigm that: there [...]

I have not yet completed the quiz paper, but I really enjoyed the articles we had to read for our first paper in Islam class. I found that since they were written by the same author, the messages were intertwining and all were centralized around the topic of peace in Islam. I found particularly interesting [...]

In class it was a different experience watching my first Bollywood film. Very different approach but I think a documentary or just not bollywood would have done it a lot more justice. Prof. Mozzafar took the readings we did and basically summed all of it up with the example of Abraham sacrificing his son or [...]