Transcript pan-islam - Daniel Aaron Lazar

PAN-ISLAM
Audrey, Nikki, Priyanka, Sharon
IDEOLOGY
622 AD – Mohammed
“submission” or “surrender”
Monotheism
No alcohol, drugs, or gambling
5 Pillars of Islam
Profession of Faith
Prayer 5 times a day
Donation to charity
Fasting
Pilgrimage to Mecca
Fundamentalism
Religious movement that seeks a return
to Islamic values and Islamic law
Often associated with terrorism
Koran – suicide
Hasan al-Banna:
We believe that the doctrines and teachings
of Islam are all-comprehensive and govern
the affairs of men in this world and the next.
Those who believe that these doctrines and
teachings apply only to spiritual matters and
to religious worship are mistaken, for Islam is
at once... religion and state, spirit and work,
mind and body.
On the Doctrines of the Muslim
Brothers, 1940s.
Muslim Women
- under complete submission of husband
-“Talaq, talaq, talaq!”
- dress code
SUNNI VS. SHIITE
Both Sunni and Shia/shiite Muslims share the most
fundamental Islamic beliefs and articles of faith.
The differences between these two main sub-groups
within Islam initially stemmed not from spiritual
differences, but political ones.
The Islam religion was founded by Mohammed in the
seventh century. In 622 he founded the first Islamic
state, a theocracy in Medina, a city in western Saudi
Arabia located north of Mecca. There are two
branches of the religion he founded.
The Sunni branch believes that the first four caliphs-Mohammed's successors--rightfully took his place as
the leaders of Muslims.
They recognize the heirs of the four caliphs as
legitimate religious leaders.
These heirs ruled continuously in the Arab world until
the break-up of the Ottoman Empire following the end
of the First World War.
85% of the muslim world is Sunni. Osama bin Laden is
a Sunni Muslim.
Shiites believe that only the heirs of the fourth caliph,
Ali, are the legitimate successors of Mohammed. Also
known as the Imams
In 931 the Twelfth Imam disappeared.
According to R. Scott Appleby, a professor of history
at the University of Notre Dame: "Shiite Muslims,
who are concentrated in Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon,
[believe they] had suffered the loss of divinely guided
political leadership" at the time of the Imam's
disappearance. Not "until the ascendancy of Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini in 1978" did they believe that they
had once again begun to live under the authority of a
legitimate religious figure.
Another difference between Sunnis and Shiites has to do with the
Mahdi, “the rightly-guided one” whose role is to bring a just global
caliphate into being. As historian Timothy Furnish has written, "The
major difference is that for Shi`is he has already been here, and will
return from hiding; for Sunnis he has yet to emerge into history: a
comeback v. a coming out, if you will."
Juan Cole: “I see a lot of pundits and politicians saying that Sunnis
and Shiites in Iraq have been fighting for a millennium. We need
better history than that. The Shiite tribes of the south probably only
converted to Shiism in the past 200 year s. And, Sunni-Shiite riots
per se were rare in 20th century Iraq. Sunnis and Shiites cooperated
in the 1920 rebellion against the British. If you read the newspapers
in the 1950s and 1960s, you don't see anything about Sunni-Shiite
riots. There were peasant/landlord struggles or communists versus
Baathists. The kind of sectarian fighting we're seeing now in Iraq is
new in its scale and ferocity, and it was the Americans who
unleashed it.”
TERRORISM
Many people use the Quran as a
source of legitimacy for
terrorism
“Fight those who do not believe
in Allah.”
Muhammad ordered his
followers to oppress or kill nonMuslims.
Jews and Christians were
allowed to live as long as they
paid the tax revenue called
Jizya. If they chose not to pay
the tax then they would have to
convert to Islam or be killed.
Others use the Quran as a way to oppose terrorism
Islam is tjhe religion of mercy
“Do not betray, do not be excessive, do not kill a new born child”
“Whoever has killed a person having a treaty with the Muslims shall not
smell the fragrance of Paradise.”
“He once listed murder as the second of the major sins – “The first
cases to be adjudicated between people on the Day of Judgment will
be those of bloodshed.”
Muhammad used to prohibit soldiers from killing women and children.
ANTI-US SENTIMENT
Rather than just a war in the name of God, terrorist have now become
anti-Westerners more than anything
Rather than fighting for their religion, they fight to show their strength
and what they are capable of doing to the US and the rest of Western
countries.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX1e6mLVlHA
THE THREAT
Social and economic problems which have
characterized large parts of the Arab and Muslim
world in the past few decades
Terrorism integration in counties politics
“Palestine is an Islamic Waqr sacred possession consecrated for future
Muslim generations until Judgment Day.
It, or any part of it, cannot be renounced; it, or
any part of it, cannot be abandoned…
This is the law governing
the land in Islamic
Sharia and this holds
true for all lands that
Muslims have conquered
by force.”
Aspiration to establish a single great Islamic empire the
so-called Uma Islamia
“The Caliphate would be a global community where all Muslim would live as
brothers. As an Omega of human history, this universal Caliphate implied a sort
of global Islamization of humanity: all people would become Muslims, and all
Muslim become brothers.”
“Israel exists and will continue to exist only until Islam will obliterate it, as it
obliterated others before it.” – Hamas Covenant 1988
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