Islam

Islam Group Patrick Jay Tyler Kelsey 9/7/10 Pd.2

People who follow the Islamic faith are known as Muslim. There are many different types of Muslims, some commit themselves to there faith because they feel that they will be rewarded in the end. Some major beliefs of the Islamic religion are worship, believing in the faith of the six articles, worshiping the tawhid( meaning that there's only one God). Islam came from the Arabian Peninsula in the early seventh century. The Five Pillars of Islam are what the Muslims believe in. They are 1) to affirm that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. 2)To maintain the five required daily prayers. 3) To give charity. 4)To fast during the lunar month of Ramadon. 5)To preform the pilrimage to Makkah at least once in one's lifetime. The Five Pillars unified Arabs when before they were divided by religious, social, and economic disparities. In 622 Muhammad and his followers were drove out of Mecca to Medina. This event marked year one of the Muslim calender. Muhammad becomes the spiritual and political leader of the Medina people and he leads them to triumph against the Meccans in 630. Most tribes of the Arabian Peninsula converted to Islam in the four years that followed. Umma (community of faithful) was a unified religious community that they formed. There are about 1.200 million muslims that worship this faith across the world most of them are located in the Middle East.

If Muslims commit adultery, gambling, cheating, consuming pork and alcoholic beverages, and lending money at interest. For holidays they wear ceremonial outfits. The guys wear shirts/robes that can either go down to their knees and they wear jeans or, they wear a full robe with clothes on underneath. The women wear a long sleeve gown like shirt that hangs loose and doesn't draw attention to any part of their body. If they're a radical muslim then that is when the wife/women don't get a fair say in anything. It would take two women to hold a fair trial against one man. But other muslims can divorce their husbands if they are beaten by them. If a girl/woman were to embarrass her family she would be killed. The government is Iraq ban honor killings. Women are not allowed to vote.

There are not a lot of governments that influence the islamic religion but there are few. Some regulate the amount of skin or body parts being exposed, meaning what people can wear. Some regulate punishments; if a muslim would break a rule in there religion they would be punished by the government. Pakistan, Iran, Egypt, Afganistan, and Mauritania are all places that follow the Islamic religion. 1/3 of these religions consist of women.

When people see muslims they first think of terrorist because of the tragic attack of the world trade center on September 11, 2001. One current event that was a headline in the news for days was about the Islamic faith; Muslims wanted to build a mosque two blocks away from the world trade center. This event brought much discrimination to the Islamic Faith because the muslims were looked upon as terrorist's. After much debate both sides came to an agreement that there would not be a mosque built in the location.


 * Muslims in Asia (1996) || 1,022,692,000 (30%) ||
 * Muslims in Africa (1996) || 426,282,000 (59%) ||
 * Total Number of Muslims on the Earth (1996) || 1,482,596,925 ||
 * Total Number of People on the Earth (1996) || 5,771,939,007 ||
 * Percentage of Muslims (1996) || 26% ||
 * **Islam annual growth** rate (1994-1995) from U.N. || **6.40%** ||
 * Christianity growth rate (1994-1995) from U.N. || 1.46% ||
 * Total Number of Muslims on the Earth (1998) || 1,678,442,000 ||
 * Expected Number of Muslims on the Earth (2000) || **1,902,095,000** ||
 * http://www.islamicweb.com/begin/results.htm

Jihad/ Taliban vs. USA

Located in Pakastan there are a group of muslim extremest that form a group call the Taliban. The word Taliban means students.The taliban normally splits up in groups and the groups are called thugs.The Taliban is a Wahhabi islamist political movement that was governed in Afghanistan from 1996 until it was over thrown by the government in 2001. The tailban belives in holy war to sum every thing up they are fighting to try to convert everyone to there islamic views/religion. But the taliban is also target women if they see that a women does not do something correct they will beat them to death or shoot them. The current leader of the taliban is Mullah Mohammed Omar he is hiding somewhere in afghanistan.Some people of the islamic faith dislike him because he sells drugs commits crimes and over all they think that he is an awful leader because he does not follow the faith. The US really want to capture him they have set out a 25 million dollar reward if someone can find him. The US will try to execute him when found because he has cause many problems to the US and our armed forces. At one point the taliban was helped by the united states in the Clinton administration. The Clinton administration gave the Taliban over 65,000 tons of weapon's and trained Osama Bin Laden in 1987. We now wonder why; we helped the Taliban by defeating the Soviet's which was still our countries rival, and then they turn around and pull a horrific terrorist attack on the world trade centers. Currently the Talibans militia consists of 25,000 to 30,000 men. Women are unable to be in the Taliban women have very strict rules of what they can and can't do. US rumors have said that the Taliban have gas lines built underground beneath there bases so if they were ever under attack they would drop one match and it would go up in flames. At one point in Bill Clintons presidential term the leader of the taliban was planing an attack to kill president Clinton because he withdrew an american oil company from Al Qeada. Of course the US came to an agreement (which was never told) and Bill Clinton was not killed. Currently the Taliban is in charge of 120 terrorist training camps in Afghanistan in which the United States are trying to elimate all of them.

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