Islam as a religion. The extreme and the good.

Justin and I presented on "Islam as a religion",and what beliefs Muslim people have.In the story Persepolis Islam is viewed as a powerful religion. In the story Marjane grew up with a Muslim surrounding, but her parent were not that strict about practicing the religion. As she spent her childhood in Iran, she was forced to wear a veil. "The purpose of the veil is to cover a women head or face. As a religion, Islam holy book Koran tells men and women to dress modestly. Mens modestly has been interpreted to be covering the areas from navel to knee-and for women it is generally seen as covering everything except their faces, hands and their feet when they are not related or married




The Iranian Revolution (mostly known as the Islamic Revolutionwas the revolution that transformed Iran from a monarchy under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavito an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the revolution and founder of the Islamic Republic. in the book persepolis the author explain how her family have to secretly do party and other family gathering. the islamic country also banned everything that connected to western culture such as music and fashion. and they also seperate boys and girls school.



The good about Islam
"Islam is the true religion of "Allah" and as such, its name represents the central principle of Allah's "God's" religion; the total submission to the will of Allah "God". The Arabic word "Islam" means the submission or surrender of one's will to the only true god worthy of worship "Allah" and anyone who does so is termed a "Muslim", The word also implies "peace" which is the natural consequence of total submission to the will of Allah. Hence, it was not a new religion brought by Prophet Muhammad in Arabia in the seventh century, but only the true religion of Allah re-expressed in its final form.

Muslims believed that if you did things which pleased Allah, you would have a good life on earth, and also a good life after you died. There were five main things Allah liked (the five pillars of Islam):
Allah wanted you to have no other gods but Allah.
Allah liked you to pray to him five times a day, facing toward his most holy place at Mecca, in the Arabian peninsula.
Allah liked you to give charity to the poor.
Allah liked you to make a trip to Mecca sometime in your lifetime (the Haj).
Allah liked you to fast (not eat during the daytime) during Ramadan, the holy month.

The wrong teaching about Islam

Many of the extremist Islam believe in Jihad, an arabic word mean struggle in the way of God. the term Jihad also mean a holy war between Islam and non believer or someone who opposed Islam. I grew up in indonesia which is the fourth largest Muslim country in the world. Many times I heard the muslim extrememist in action.one of the reason tragic tragedy is the 2002 Bali bomb. Bali is a small island one hour flight from Jakarta city. most of the american and australian tourist spend their vacation in this island because of the famous scenery that this island had. Bali bomb killed more that 200 people from many diffrent nation.

Behind this attacked was radical islamic group called jemaah islamiyah, lead by an extremist leader Abu Bakar Basyir. this group was funded by the famouse terrorist osama bin laden. a week after the incident happen, Osama bin laden appear on satelite channel Al Jazeera. He said that the Bali Bombing was another warning to America and Australia.

Few months after the bombing Indonesian police finally arrested three people that is responsible for Bali bombing. Imam Samudra, Amrozi Nurhasyim and Ali Ghufron. these three people was recently excuted by firing squad on november 9 2008.