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Posted by: thethingstheycarried728 on: February 8, 2012

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This week in class, we learned about Muhammad’s life. I thoroughly enjoyed the lecture, but I was extremely confused about the sections relating to female infanticide. Whether the patriarchic driven society that Muhammad was born into liked it or not, women are needed in the world, even if just for the most essential needs. After all, how can you make babies without one? I just don’t understand how they planned that out. What did parents do with the daughters that they did not bury? Did they hide them away until they were of marriageable age until one day they would just say something like, “Oh. My niece (who is coincidentally the same age as my supposedly dead daughter is coming to live with us)) now”? I just don’t understand.

I found the Marion Katz reading, “The Prophet Muhammad in Ritual,” extremely interesting. I thought the whole idea of discovering how Muhammad, despite not being the focus of over half of the 5 main tenants of Islam and have no physical representations displayed, can evoke emotional responses in Muslims akin to those that Jesus evokes when Christians see representations of him hanging on the cross, was a very cool one to explore.

Over the weekend, I was flipping through my TV channels and came across a brief segment on “Sharia Law.” I decided to google it and came across a very interesting article about how Oklahoma tried to ban Sharia Law (with a majority vote of the public), but amendment was deemed unconstitutional. This is because the court decided that doing so would favor one religion (Christianity) over another (Islam.) There is still a lot of controversy over this debate, and it was fascinating to read.

In response to rooster30, the idea of giving fake vaccines is horrifying to me, from both a medical and moral perspective. I think that it is especially reckless to do so in a time where we have too many people choosing to decline vaccinations, resulting in more outbreaks of supposedly eradicated epidemics. I find it scary that we would put our whole global population at risk to catch one, albeit very powerful, terrorist.