GHS208-05 Fall 2019 China and the Islamic Middle East
Global and Historical Studies at Butler University
At the banquet that I went to this weekend that was sponsored by the mosque that I volunteer at, and for the Muslim community of Indianapolis. I kind of went into the event thinking that I would be one of the only white people there. That sounds bad, but it was something that I was …
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For this week’s service at Nur-Allah, we attended a banquet called the parent’s banquet. This banquet is an annual banquet that is hosted to honor and appreciate all of the parents that are a part of the Nur-Allah mosque and the Indianapolis area Muslim community. Nur-Allah, the mosque that we volunteer at, hosted the event. …
After watching the documentary, I realized how much I did not know about the Hajj. At my service site at the Nur-Allah mosque, we spent part of a Sunday school day learning about the Hajj. The teacher explained the basics of it; that it is a pillar of Islam, that all Muslims are supposed to …
This week during my service, I helped mostly with the two smaller children who are 5 years old and 6 years old. Usually, the younger children are split up from the older children during lesson time so that they can learn things that can actually help them and they will not be lost during the …
On Sunday, October 27th, one of the most powerful leaders of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in an operation by the United States. I first read about the operation in this news article in the Associated Press: https://www.apnews.com/2c2c48e64f934d329c72a7af3dc284b1 The article talks about who al-Baghdadi was, he was one of the most powerful leaders of …
Out the readings in the Qur’an that we had to do for class, I actually was able to read some of the Surah’s in-depth at my ICR site. We deeply analyzed a couple of Surahs with one of the Sunday school teachers. I thought I would share what I learned from her in this blog …
This weeks’ service at Nur-Allah was very educational, and introduced me to basically my first education about the Islamic faith. Last week, we assisted in actually teaching the class. But, this week there was a teacher there that attends the Mosque and also helps out with the weekend school. We started the class with an …
While reading the short story “Saboteur” I had a picture in my mind that this was an event that took place kind of a long time ago. Between Mr Chui being arrested for something as silly as spilling tea- especially because it was not even his fault. Or because he was in prison, very sick, …
This week while volunteering at Nur-Allah, we finally helped with the Sunday school. Last Sunday, we just helped with an open house and cleaning up the Mosque, but this Sunday the kids were there. There were six children- ranging from Preschool to High school. We got there about thirty minutes before the kids got there …
For today’s readings and video that we were assigned, I found a common theme: the dislike/mistreatment of women. In both the stories of “Bridegroom” and “Broken” along with the documentary, there were several comments made about women including saying things about their appearance, sexuality, and their basic self-worth. During the documentary, a woman talked about …