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Running Head: Islam Culture Versus Islam Religion & The Western Perception of Islam
- Essay length: 2556 words
- Submitted: 04/01/2006
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Running Head: Islam Culture Versus Islam Religion &
The Western Perception of Islam
Islam Culture Versus Islam Religion &
The Western Perception of Islam
Hassan Harris
Southern Oregon University
Sociology 399
Shamsul Alam
12/06/2004
Islam Culture Versus Islam Religion
Throughout this course we have learned several different aspects of Islam as a culture and as a religion we have also been able to put to rest several myths that have plagued Islam in the eyes of the Western World. In this paper I will discuss the significant difference of Islam as a religion versus Islam as a culture as seen through the eyes of a Malay Muslim. I will then go on to discuss how the Western world views Islam and how it is progressively changing for the better.
Islam is a religion based on the teaching of the Profit Mohammad, passed down by the angel Gabriel. But, to many Malay Muslims, Islam is a culture. It is a practice handed down by their fathers, and their father's father before that. It is something they do out of habit and tradition that than from principles
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