Islam students at LUC

This week I read an article addressing London Metropolitan University’s alcohol ban.  The Vice-Chancellor stated the alcohol ban for certain areas around campus was done in an attempt to offend less Muslims around campus.  Surprisingly, this action has had the opposite effect, and caused uproar in multiple Muslim student organizations.  Both the Islam Society and [...]

This week I read an article about a Muslim comedy tour called, The Muslims Are Coming.  The tour travels around the country, specifically to areas where Muslims are under represented or misrepresented, and perform comedy shows to inform Americans on what Muslims are truly like.  Their target audience are people outside of their community, because [...]

This week in class we talked about jinns during the end of class.  I thought the topic was very interesting so I asked one of my muslim friends about the subject when I got home.  I was curious to find out their opinion on jinns, and find out if they had any stories of their [...]

This week I read an article about a St. Louis woman who was forced to remove her hijab while imprisoned in the county jail.  The woman was being held for unpaid parking tickets, and after refusing to remove the head scarf, it was forcibly removed while she was still in the presence of men.  This [...]

This week I read an article from Time that discussed how Islam may be the key to finding a peaceful solution to Iran’s Nuclear Talks.  Apparently nuclear weapons are seen as sinful in Islam, and Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been saying that they are off limits.  However, Iran can justify their need for [...]

This week I read an article about Halal food markets in France.  Apparently, the Halal food markets in France have been met with opposition from some political leaders.  The argument is being used as an attempt to gain votes from anti-immigrant conservatives.  Despite this issue being raised, Halal food markets have had success, and continue [...]

Last week in class we began watching The Interrupters, which is a documentary addressing the epidemic of gang violence on the south side of Chicago.  I thought that the film was very powerful, and is an important film everyone to see.  I was astounded to see how people were killing people over issues as small [...]

We had not class last week In the reading , “Living Islam With Purpose”, the principles that Muslims live by were discussed.  We have read a lot about Muslim practices in the past, but this reading provided a lot more detail in terms of the practices and the reasoning behind them.  I always find the [...]

This week we spent a large portion of out class time discussing whether or not there truly was and “Adam”, and why we either did or did not believe so.  I felt that some of my classmates made some valid arguments, while I felt others were somewhat irrational.  Whether or not I agree with everyone’s [...]

Last week in class we finished the story of Muhammad’s biography.  I thought it was very interesting how Muhammad became more of an assertive leader later in his life.  The way he commanded that Mecca be an Islamic state really surprised me, and i thought that in some ways it even contradicted some of the [...]