Kakin124 posterous

Women in Islam

Covered Muslim women may seem like opressed and dependent women, but if u look closer you will find out the exact oppisite. I have found out that women choose to cover themselves, by wearing the hijab, burka, etc.... These women feel that by covering themselves up they are empowering themselves. When they are covered then they can only be judged by their personality, not by their physical features. This is why most women choose to cover up, they are not Usually forced like people may think.

All American Muslim

I don't know about you, but I find TLC's new show "All-American Muslim" very interesting. I am glad that someone decided to air this type of show, it is not very often that you see a educational and entertaining reality show. This show actually serves a true purpose in our society, it is tearing down all of peoples misconceptions about the Islam religion (I know it did for me). This show lets people see that being Muslim is not about a race or a nationality, it is simply what it is, a religion. You can be an American, Nigerian, Chinese, etc.... Muslim. Being a muslim should not change the way people veiw you.

Muslim festivals

I think that it is really facsinating to see how dedicated muslim people are to their religion. They do not do anything half way, they give it their all. They even commit to the practices that seem impossible to other people, like fasting for a month (eating when the sun goes down) and cutting themselves. Honestly, I admire their devotion to their religion.

Orthodox Jews

An orthodox jew A.K.A a teccher in my school A.K.A Mrs. Urszuy came to our class to talk to us about being an orthodox jew. She really opened my eyes up about judaism. The one thing that she talked about that really interested me was about how she chose to be an orthodox jew. The difference between an orthodox jew and a regular jew is a lot (in my eyes). A regular jew, has simpler rules to follow,especially for the woman. As an orthodox jew you have to be more modest and committed to your religion, were as a normal jew you can pretty much interprete things in you own way, live a more "relaxed" life.

                                                 

 

Looking out for numero uno!

Have you ever been called selfish? It stings doesn't it. I Bet you would prefer the term self

 interested. I believe that we are "wired' to be selfish, as a baby we are selfish. When we

 are first born, we cry all the time. You expect your caregievers to drop everything they

 are doing to change you, feed you, and or hold you. It is not our fault that we like to take

 care of ourselves first. Like Darwin said, only the strongest survive so why not make

 yourself as strong as possible.

 

setting the record straight?

Today a christian pastor came into our classroom to enlighten us on christanity. I really

 like the way he made no judgements on other religions. when we asked about if he felt

 that other religions were wrong, he said he didn't want to judge others, that it wasn't his

 place. The speaker was very nice and understanding, but I feel that he was too nice and

 understanding. He never really answered our questions, pretty much beat around the

 bush and came back to the begining, and never gave us a straight answer. I would have

 liked him to give us some kind of direction, some "judgement". I appreciated his respect

 but I still never got my answer the question, that I have been asking for years. I remeber

 a time in my church (Grace Community Church) that we were doing a Q&A session. It

 was a month long lesson consisted of the church sending in their questions about our

 faith via, text and e-mail. The pastor would then base his sermon off of our questions, I

 texted my question and I never got a response... "Do you belive that there is more than

 one path to God?" if not then, "How can God send people to hell, because they are

 simply doing what Jesus's desciples are doing, (they don't know any different)?