Islam students at LUC

One of the biggest concerns of the US in South Asia besides Afghanistan is Pakistan. US-Pakistan relations have been strained for some time. Top (US) military officials have said that Pakistan is not to be trusted, going so far as to not inform Pakistan of Operation Neptune Spear last year, and in a recent report [...]

In response to Princessprobs blog 11 I think ignorance and fanaticism is a problem wherever you go. Unfortunately religion seems to be the kind that gets the most attention. But what we need to focus on is that the fanatics do not define the people. Just as not all Muslims are like those who committed [...]

The anniversary of the death of Osama Bin Laden’s has been wrought with controversy in the United States. However the day brings promising news from Pakistan. A new poll from Pew Global Attitudes Project found that only 13% of Pakistanis view al-Qaeda favorably. Apparently the documents found in his compound after his death did not [...]

There was an article in the New York Daily news today about the Muslim population in the United States; it has doubled since 9/11. I thought that was interesting because how much Muslims struggled with hate in the US post 9/11 that it has grown so significantly. The data is apparently the number of people [...]

So I really enjoyed the last class, at the end of class when we were telling Jinn stories. It was a really interesting and not something you ever hear much about. I was actually scared of the one with about the giant old man when I was telling one of my friends about it over [...]

I remember last year during the Arab Spring when people were terrified of the Muslim Brotherhood influence in Egypt. I guess that this US idea has moved into Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is fearful of its strongest Arab ally is becoming too receptive to the untoward influence of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Saudis are concerned [...]

In the movie we watched for the final, it was said that the women wear the hijab to detract from their appearances and have people focus on who they are. I support that idea. I just wonder what people who wear head scarfs for that reason feel about hijabs being used as fashion statements. In [...]

Amnesty International has recently brought the prejudices Muslim women face throughout (primarily western) Europe to the forefront of conversation again. Because of the ban on full face veils in France and Belgium, Muslim women are excluded from the workforce and denied education. However this problem is not unique to France. Other countries have less obviously [...]

I was so excited when we started watching this documentary in class. I have really enjoyed The Interrupters.  I think that people can become caught up in their own world and problems, and lose sight of how truly privileged they are. I never went to school fearful of what may happen, and these movie puts [...]

Last week we did not have class. More than any of the poems in Chapter 7 of Rumi, the thing that resonated with me in the Grief chapter was in the intro when Barks cited John Seawright about the lack of feeling or grief when someone dies is the real tragedy. While he continued on [...]