Islam students at LUC

Last Thursday was our last class of the semester. We finished talking about the five pillars of Islam, and I thought it was pretty cool how everything is by a time period–day, month, year, lifetime. Before class ended, people shared a few Jinn stories. It was interesting to see the divide in people who believe [...]

Last week in class we talked about the different levels of spirituality and the pillars of Islam. The levels of spirituality were hard to understand partially because there is no way to be sure where a person is on the spectrum. It is something that society can’t know, however people who have the best relationships [...]

We do not have class this week because of the Easter holiday break. After reading the Ingrid Mattson book and doing the third quiz, I though it was interesting how similar this seemed to when we wrote about the roles of Muhammad. Muhammad had many roles for his people just as the Qur’an has many [...]

Last week in class we finished up our group projects and performed our skits. It was interesting to see the skits and how many different ways you can make the Joseph story relatable. My group had a hard time breaking the big block into smaller paragraphs and really understanding, but we eventually worked through it. [...]

I forgot which two topics we decided on for the blogs now, so I just picked a couple things to talk about. In class on Thursday, we finished the movie The Interrupters. I thought the movie was fantastic. It really hit close to home because we could all recognize that this is happening less than [...]

This week in class, we pretended to do a group project for ten minutes and then watched “The Interrupters.” It was a really great documentary that told the story of the Violence Interrupters in Chicago. The message is very powerful, mostly because the Interrupters are not worried about illegal activities, only saving lives. In the [...]

We had no class on March 8th, so a Spring Break update instead. During normal class time, I was probably watching TV with my dog or eating Dairy Queen with my family. My mom and I cooked a bunch of really good food, and got caught up on our favorite shows. Spring Break 2012 in [...]

This week, we finished the movie “Mooz-lum” in class. I found it interesting that this film also focused on September 11, much like My Name is Khan. I’m sure this is just because that day was the basis for many Islamic hatreds in the United States. After that, we discussed the Quran more in depth. [...]

I was sick and could not make it to class last week. It looks like we spent a lot of time discussing the role of faith in religion and then started a movie called Moozlum about a boy who is sent off to boarding school and is not a very good student.   I read [...]

This week in class we continued the Muhammad stories. We spent a lot of time discussing the amount of war in Muhammad’s history. This led to us discussing when we think it is okay to use violence, and to what point we would defend ourselves if we were in a dangerous situation.   In the [...]