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Human Soul Holy War
851 wordsQ 1. Can you response to the view that the hardest struggle in life is the struggle against own selfishness. Give reasons for your answer showing that you have considered different points of view. Amongst the most difficult of all the good deeds is said to be the fight against ones self. This might be a surprise for the reader but the fact is very much true and thus that is maybe why Allah mentioned it to be the greater Jihad while the holy War jihad was termed the lesser Jihad despite its agony...
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Islam Understanding The Religion
730 wordsDid the Quran or the sword accomplish the spread of Islam throughout the world? To me, the answer is obvious. It grew through the power of the Quran, but to many the doubts are beginning to creep into their minds. After the events of September 11 th, the media has been using Jihad as a replacement for the word terrorism. However, the people have no idea that the word Jihad is completely different than the word terrorism. Jihad, a holy war, when this word is heard, terrorism is a synonym which fi...
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Osama Bin Laden War Against Terrorism
2,160 words... claimed by terrorists as well as "just" states. Finally, we should remember that the Crusades or Inquisition, which were executed largely through terroristic means, were authorized directly by the Church. Arriving at Islam, the concept of Jihad, or "struggle, " which in recent decades has been at the theological core of justifying Muslim acts of terrorism, traditionally meant the spiritual and moral struggle of an individual Muslim against his or her evil inclinations. The lesser jihad, that...
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Saudi Arabia Arabian Peninsula
1,363 wordsOsama Bin Laden is both one of the CIA's most wanted men and a hero to many young people in the Arab world. He and his associates were already being sought by the US on charges of international terrorism, including in connection with the 1998 bombing of American embassies in Africa and last year's attack on the USS Cole in Yemen. In May this year a US jury convicted four men believed to be linked with Bin Laden of plotting the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Osama was exposed to terroris...
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Christianity And Islam Glory Of God
947 wordsFrederick Denny, the keynote speaker of the night spoke on Islam and its moral responsibility and how Muslims need to educate. He was a very intelligent man and great speaker, but he was too philosophical for the students in the audience. I was one of those misfortune souls who could not understand where he was going. He hit on many key points that connected the current problems of Islam and ideas of liberation theology. He stressed that Islam is and always will be a monotheistic, ethical religi...
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Islamic Movement Muslim Countries
1,117 wordsWhile terrorism - even in the form of suicide attacks - is not an Islamic phenomenon by definition, it cannot be ignored that the lion's share of terrorist acts and the most devastating of them in recent years have been perpetrated in the name of Islam. This fact has sparked a fundamental debate both in the West and within the Muslim world regarding the link between these acts and the teachings of Islam. Most Western analysts are hesitant to identify such acts with the bona fide teachings of one...
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Five Pillars Holy War
389 wordsIf to get deeper in understanding the concept of Jihad, it is possible to find that wrong understanding of holy war could cause some tensions. The original meaning of Jihad is to make an effort in order to achieve Allahs mercy. This means that every true Muslim should observe Five Pillars of Islam and should strive to do his best in obeying all the laws. Islam teaches that all the people are sinners (Koran 16, 61) and that salvation can be obtained only through observing the Five Pillars. This i...
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Faith In God Messenger Of God
2,435 wordsIslam The Arabic word Islam means "to turn oneself over to, to resign oneself, to submit. " In religious terminology, it means submission or surrender to God, or to God's will. The Koran uses the term and its derivatives in about seventy verses. In only a few of these verses can we claim that the word refers exclusively to "Islam, " meaning thereby the religion established by the Koran and the Prophet Muhammad. Salam (salary), in its primary sense, means, to be tranquil, at rest, to have done on...
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Parts Of The World Twentieth Century
2,383 wordsWhen studying history, both in a professional and academic sense, we try to make connections between civilizations and time periods. Historians have attempted to discover universal constants of human nature, a bond that forms from continent to continent, human being to human being. Is there a constant quality that all peoples posses, and is reflected in all civilizations? Indeed, it is extremely difficult to make generalizations about centuries of modern history. To say that something is true of...
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Internet Service Providers Hardware And Software
2,791 wordsThe Internet has emerged as the most rapidity adopted communication medium in history. The Internet by design is de-centralized, inexpensive, uncensored, and accessible from anywhere in the globe. Bill Gates contends that the Internet is first step along the Information Superhighway, which will ultimately create a global village that will allow for a more symmetrically distribution of information. The United States, which invented most of the underlying technologies for the Internet, leads the r...
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World Trade Center Terrorist Organizations
2,547 wordsThe Threat of Islamic Terrorism With the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990 s and the cold war over, the international community seemed to be on the threshold of an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity. Instead, a new series of problems was created, like ethnic conflicts, weapons proliferation, environmental problems, population growth, drug trafficking, and terrorism. Terrorism, as defined by Title 22 of the United States code, section 2656 f (d), is the pre-meditated, politica...
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World Trade Center Bin Laden
1,281 wordsThe last great heresy A Fury for GodMalise Ruthven 324 pp, Granta The assaults on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001, while they seemed at the time to be thunder out of a blue sky, were preceded by portents that are now seen to be prophetic. Male Ruthven has set himself, in the light of those burning towers, to examine the remote and proximate reasons why 19 men killed themselves and nearly 3, 000 strangers that morning. A Fury for God burrows deeply into the Koran, examines the milie...
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Mc World Contemporary World
476 wordsMc World vs. Jihad Significant historical processes shape the world and society. The contemporary world is what we make it. Each action by our country, culture, society results in change. According to Benjamin Barber, there are two major forces shaping humans socially, and spiritually; the Mc World and Jihad. Mc World is a term for the commercial collective of the world, and Jihad, an Arab word for crusade, is used to symbolize all of nationalist, fundamentalist, ethnocentric, and tribal rejecti...
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Twentieth Century Universal Constant
2,436 wordsWhen studying history, both in a professional and academic sense, we try to make connections between civilizations and time periods. Historians have attempted to discover universal constants of human nature, a bond that forms from continent to continent and human being to human being. Are there constant qualities that people posses and reflect in all civilizations? It is extremely difficult to make generalizations about centuries of modern history. To say that something is true of all of history...
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