Name: Ossama El Garhy ID: 900113710 Section: 19 Date: 1/11/2011 “The Art of Jihad” Documentaries have a huge impact on one’s thoughts and beliefs. The Art of Jihad is one of the most interesting documentaries I have ever seen. It is about three American artists discussing the stereotypes about Islam especially in USA‚ and how they try to reveal the actual meaning of Islam through their works. Non-Muslim people‚ especially non-Arabs‚ do not know the real meaning of Islam. These people always
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In Colonialism and Human Rights‚ A Contradiction in Terms? The Case of France and West Africa by Alice L Conklin published by the American Historical Review in 1998 revisits the cultural‚ political‚ and ethical implications of Western colonization and how the French empire justified expansion. The purpose of this study is to reanalyze the French government’s actions to colonize uncivilized countries in Africa. The reason for writing the article was to weigh in on this discussion of France’s involvement
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Al-Qaeda reinvented itself after being pushed out of Afghanistan by adapting the “leaderless jihad” concept‚ which contradicted its previous bureaucratized structure. Abu Musab al-Suri wrote in his magnum opus that “leaderless jihad” is “a system‚ not an organization‚” meaning that al-Qaeda members share common ideology of defeating enemies of Islam and do not need to be connected through an organization (203). Smaller cells prevented locating leaders of the organization. As a result‚ there was
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Difference between Jihad and Terrorism Jihad The word Jihad derived from the Arabic word Jahada which means to strive or struggle. In a religious context it means to strive spiritually and physically. It is not only included in the religion Islam but also included in the Judaism and Christianity which is considered most popular religions today. In Islam Jihad can be defined as a struggle for improvement. On the other hand‚ Jihad is a fighting in order to defend an asset or honor and homeland.
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something needs to change. Terrorists pain and suffering has now become Americas problem and according to the speech made by Benjamin Barber a political theorist; it is questioned if terrorism will ever be stopped. Benjamin wrote a best seller book on Jihad vs. McWorld and his arguments were heard throughout the world. Tension between forces of integration‚ pop culture‚ and new technology have brought religion and democracy at dispute. Different civilizations of thought are within various cultures and
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PART ONE INTRODUCTION Sokoto Jihad and the formation of the Caliphate The greatest and certainly the most influential of the nineteenth century jihads was that of Usman dan Fodio. He was a Fulani of the Torodbe clan which had migrated to Gobir‚ in north-western Hausaland‚ many generations before. He was born in 1754 into a scholarly family and he and his younger brother Abdullahi‚ were given a broad Islamic education. At that time of his youth‚ Gobir‚ as have seen‚ had become the most powerful
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The adoption of Christianity and Islam greatly shaped the development of ancient Africa. The introduction of both religious also affected state formation in Africa. Some states identified with Islam‚ while others pursued Christianity as the prominent religion. Islam expanded through the trade routes‚ making a specific impact in West Africa and the Sudan. With the arrival of Europeans‚ Christianity was already present in Ethiopia. Both religions are still present in current African culture. In the
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nations. Regions such as Africa‚ the Middle East‚ India‚ and Africa were severely impacted positively and negatively by the imperialism of the west. Two of those cultures that were affected in a very similar way during this time period by the effects of imperialism were Africa and India. In both places wars and violence occurred but new technologies were brought by the west that helped improved the civilizations. However Africa and India responded differently to the way the west imposed there economic
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Throughout the century European had come to Africa to find profitable business. In the West Coast of Africa‚ the living environment still look the same as many of hundred of years ago. Many European have come to these shoreline to find businesses and sources that can be profitable. Trading post are set up as partnership between maritime traders from Europe and local Africans‚ but by the 1880s this partnership began to change. The effect of the changes had European power interested in overseas empire
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citizen. And in An Aristocracy of Everyone (1992)‚ he found enemies of democratic education at both ends of the political spectrum‚ in the fashionable relativism of the left and in the tradition-minded elitism of the right. In his latest book‚ Jihad vs. McWorld‚ based on a 1992 article in the Atlantic Monthly‚ Barber turns from the intellectual threats to his vision of democracy to the socioeconomic ones. His title refers to what he sees as the two premier global trends of our day‚ movements that
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