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Posted by: confusedbanana19 on: April 24, 2012

Last week in class, we finished discussing the Five Pillars of Islam. I thought this discussion was very interesting. Even though I am Christian, I identified with a lot of the main ideas that we were talking about. I also thought the pilgrimage to Mecca sounded really cool. It is amazing and inspirational that so [...]

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Posted by: confusedbanana19 on: April 17, 2012

I really liked our discussion about the different levels of faith in Islam that we had in class last week. I thought it was fascinating how you could have a prayer in your heart that was not necessarily at the forefront of your mind. The analogy of not wanting to be late to work to [...]

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Posted by: confusedbanana19 on: April 10, 2012

I will start this blog post like a lot of other people. Obviously, we were not in class last week. I spent the whole Easter break pondering the end to the joke about the hyena and wondering if we would ever learn the punchline when we returned to school. I will also agree with some [...]

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Posted by: confusedbanana19 on: April 3, 2012

Last week in class, we performed our skits based on the passage of the Qur’an that we translated. When I first heard that we were doing this activity, I was very hesitant. I have not performed a skit since I was in my high school Shakespeare class and was nervous about performing one after I [...]

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Posted by: confusedbanana19 on: March 27, 2012

Last week, we finished watching The Interrupters in class. I greatly enjoyed this movie. I feel as though Loyola students are sometimes sheltered and never really consider life that goes on outside their own apartment on campus. It was disturbing to see gang violence that happens near our neighborhood but very moving to see the [...]

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Posted by: confusedbanana19 on: March 20, 2012

Last week in class, we started the movie, “The Interrupters.” It is about people who have been affected by gang violence. These people now help younger generations who are also in gangs and are making an effort to clean up the streets. The fact that the movie featured neighborhoods of Chicago neighborhoods helped to make [...]

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Posted by: confusedbanana19 on: March 13, 2012

We did not have any class this week. Though I missed discussing jokes and Uncle Phil, I had a very relaxing vacation and enjoyed having a break from classes. The only thing that kept me from having a perfect break was that small question of annoyance in my head, “What was it that made the [...]

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Posted by: confusedbanana19 on: March 7, 2012

This week, we finished watching “Moozlum”. I liked “Moozlum” better than “My Name is Khan” but still considered it to be pretty absurd. However, despite the corny writing and over-the-top acting, the message of the movie was still very important. While watching both movies in class this semester, I am consistently moved by the hardships [...]

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Posted by: confusedbanana19 on: February 28, 2012

This week, I enjoyed the discussion about Adam being the first man on Earth. I liked hearing other ideological perspectives than my own. I was surprised by how many people did not entirely buy into the theory of the “Big Bang” that is promoted by most scientists. I also found it interesting how many people [...]

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Posted by: confusedbanana19 on: February 21, 2012

We continued hearing Muhammad’s backstory in class this week. My favorite part of the story was the Battle of Badr between the Quaraysh and Muhammad’s new followers in Medina. I thought it was cool that God made the Quaraysh see an army that was six times the size of the army Muhammad actually had. It [...]


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