Muslim community organisations – crucial but underexplored facets of Muslim lives in the West

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Mario Peucker
Keyword(s):  
Muslim Community ◽  
The West ◽  
Community Organisations

Decolonizing the hijab: An interpretive exploration by two Muslim psychotherapists

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noorjehan Joosub ◽  
Sumayya Ebrahim
Keyword(s):  
Muslim Women ◽  
Sense Of Agency ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Religious Expression ◽  
The West

This article explores the professional, personal, and feminist interpretations and experiences of wearing of the hijab as a symbol of religious expression by two Muslim psychotherapists practicing in Johannesburg. By privileging these interpretations, the authors aim to demonstrate the need for questioning and resisting hegemonic representations of the hijab that have been appropriated by various international political and religious institutions for their own agendas, often to manipulate women’s sense of agency. With Western societies banning the hijab and Islamist societies making it compulsory, the agency of the wearer of the hijab is undermined. The inclusion of the voices of Muslim women, whether they wear the hijab or not, is necessary to redress the constraints on the agency of Muslim women that has emanated both from those in the West, and from within the Muslim community itself.

scholarly journals http://habibiaislamicus.com/index.php/hirj/article/view/189

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Muhammad Bilal Usmani ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Nature ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
The West ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
Gender Distribution ◽  
The World ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Right ◽  
Opposite Gender ◽  
Natural Way

Gender distribution in all creatures is a sign of Nature. For human guide it seems to realize the gender division that is found distinctive in physical nature, man and woman with entirely different physique, that all other religions admit the difference but their societal customs have counted on equal gesture. That is the reason modern societies are now viewing no problem at homosexual contact in the west, without ascertaining the results of failures in saving their nation from a purgatory desire in their youth, who have forgotten how to quench their natural thirst from the right way, of having marriage with opposite gender. This study will explain how west has allowed doing homosexuality, contrary to which no religion has allowed freedom against the natural way. Islamic teachings are proactive in restricting these kinds of illegal trails for the safety human folk. Conclusively it is clarified that due to denial of religious teachings, there are arising big issues of gender-wise sins in the world that is also arresting Muslim youth too. Therefore, only the religious theories are advisable to all humankind for safety of human-identity. Thus, Islam teaching can never allow promoting the western’s theories of ‘sexuality’ amongst Muslim community.

scholarly journals GERAKAN ISLAM DAN KETIDAKADILAN SOSIAL: SIKAP ANTI AMERIKA DI KALANGAN MUSLIM

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-63
Author(s):  
Tasman Tasman
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
The West ◽  
The Real

AbstractThis study aims to explore how is the real perception of the Indonesian Muslim community towards America and the West in general. What form of cooperation has been built by the two countries (Indonesia and America) so as to arouse the turmoil of Muslim activists in several regions of Indonesia? This study uses a qualitative method by interviewing Muslim figures in Indonesia. This research finds that Muslim social movements (which are partly anti-America) are caused by a sense of social injustice. AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan menggali bagaimana sesungguhnya persepsi masyarakat Muslim Indonesia terhadap Amerika dan Barat pada umumnya. Bagaimana bentuk kerjasama yang selama ini dibangun oleh kedua negara (Indonesia dan Amerika) sehingga membangkitkan gejolak aktivis Muslim di beberapa daerah Indonesia? Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan mewawancarai tokoh-tokoh Muslim di Indonesia. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa gerakan sosial Muslim itu (yang sebagian anti Amerika) disebabkan oleh rasa ketidakadilan sosial.

WHERE EAST MEETS WEST: SUFISM, CULTURAL RAPPROCHEMENT, AND POLITICS

2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meir Hatina
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
The West ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
National Pride ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Fertile Crescent ◽  
The Status

The growing gap in power and wealth between the West and the Muslim world from the end of the 18th century onward has engendered periodic demands for the rejuvenation of Islamic thought as a prerequisite for rehabilitating the status of the Muslim community. In Egypt and the Fertile Crescent, this quest for reform was led by Muslim modernists and Salafis (advocates of a return to ancestral piety and practice) in the late 19th century. Inter alia, these reformists opposed the gatekeepers of Islamic tradition—the establishment ʿulamaء as well as the popular Sufi orders or fraternities (ṭuruq). The Sufi orders were portrayed by their reformist adversaries as at best irrelevant to social change and at worst as responsible for the backwardness of Muslim society. Criticism of customs and ceremonies in popular Islam, especially the cult of saints—denounced as a deviation from Islam—also had nationalist overtones: these rituals were attacked for fostering national passivity and a detachment from reality, in addition to eliciting ridicule by foreigners. Religious reform was thus interwoven with the quest for national pride and power.

scholarly journals New Orientalism: Depictions of Muslims in the Canadian Media

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanan Harb
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
The Other ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
The West ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Press ◽  
Western Media

This paper seeks to examine the topic of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism that is currently present in reports of mainstream media and the implications it has on the lives of people in the Muslim community in Canada. The Western media has played a major role in both reviving historical Orientalist depictions of the 'other' and shaping the views of many ordinary Canadians about Muslims and people from the Middle East. Negative portrayals of Islam, and more specifically Muslims, have often been defended in the West under the principle of freedom of speech and the press, and this type of racism has been allowed to continue to exist in society under the contentious pretext of security. This paper draws on examples from two mainstream Canadian media outlets: The Toronto Star and Maclean's Magazine. The analysis of the Toronto Star is limited to articles that were published between June 2nd, 2006 and July 29th, 2008 about the Toronto 18 case. The Maclean's magazine analysis focuses on articles that were written between January 2005 and July 2006, many of which have also been at the center of a complaint before the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

scholarly journals Kritik “INSISTS” Terhadap Gagasan Pluralisme Agama

KALAM ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Ahmad Khoirul Fata ◽  
Fauzan Fauzan
Keyword(s):  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
The West ◽  
Negative Side ◽  
Religious Truth ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Plural Society ◽  
Islamic Faith ◽  
First Time

The theology of religious pluralism presented as a solution to resolve the conflict in a multi-religious society. But this idea is very debatable in the Indonesian Muslim community. One of the groups refuses aloud is a group of young intellectuals who are members of the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought and Civilization (INSISTS). This paper describes the arguments used in the INSISTS activists criticized the idea of religious pluralism. Instead of a solution, INSISTS activists assess religious pluralism is a new problem in a multi-religious society. The problem lies in some respects, namely socio-historical context is different between Muslim societies and the West where the first time the idea came, also contains the idea of pluralism rated parallelism religious truth and relativism of truth. The negative side is what makes religious pluralism is not the solution in building harmony in a plural society, but it gave birth to syncretism and relativism of religious truth. INSISTS activists viewed the idea of religious pluralism as a foreign idea that is contrary to Islamic faith and the teachings. Due to the application of the religious pluralism theology in Islam can damage the principal Islamic faith and teachings.

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