Islam students at LUC

I read an article on CNN.com this week about how Muslims in Europe are facing discrimination in education, employment and religious freedom.  Muslim women are being denied from jobs and being prevented from attending regular classes simply because they wear the traditional forms of dress of their religion.  Their headscarves are the reason behind this [...]

Last week in class we had a lecture about Islamic spirituality and different levels of consciousness.  The three levels were Islam, Iman, and Ihsan.  These levels basically defined how much God is incorporated into every moment of their lives.  We also talked about Muslim prayer during different types of the year.  We talked about the [...]

Last week was Easter break.  I had a great break and went home and mostly relaxed. On CNN.com this week I read an article about how Egypt’s administrative court has suspended the constitutional assembly to draft a new national constitution.  This new constitution is going to be the fundamental institution of the new Egypt, says [...]

Last week in class we made up skits with themes from modern life and tried to act out a passage from the Quran.  Many groups had great ideas and way of telling their modern story.  I recently read an article on CNN.com about how one study says Muslims could swing the presidential election in November, [...]

Today, I read an article on CNN.com titled How religion has been used to promote slavery.  It talks about how Christianity, Judaism, and Islam allowed slavery and often promoted it.  It mentions that between the three prophets Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, none spoke out unambiguously against slavery.  Specifically relating to Islam, a Harvard professor mentions [...]

Last class we started watching “The Interrupters” about a group of people, mostly ex cons that help those who are struggling especially in bad neighborhoods.  The movie is very interesting and eye opening.  These interrupters help a lot of people change the path their life is on to a better direction.  I bet a lot [...]

We did not have class due to spring break. In the “theological dimensions of Islamic law” it talks about the different interpretations of Islamic law.  In the section the nature of Islamic law, David Santillana says that all questions about law are a matter of conscience and based on theology in final analysis.  This way [...]

This week in class we finished watching Moozlum.  This movie was about a boy growing up under strict Muslim father who put him in Muslim schooling.  In schooling he was whipped and beaten reflecting a bad light for him on the religion.  It then went on to show hardships some Muslims face after the 9/11 [...]

This week in class with discussed the meaning of scripture.  We talked about who believed that Adam was the first man on the earth or if science is correct and evolution is the process that happened.  After some debate over the topic we finally watched the movie we were promised.  The movie was called Mooz-lun [...]

This week in class we continued to discuss Muhammad’s life.  We laughed at a soccer recruit who apparently only likes playing soccer and video games.  We then talked about the Battle of Badr where 300 Muslims took on the much larger Quraysh.  They fought even when their numbers were significantly lower because if they are [...]