An Islamic Country Called Saudi Arabia

What's more, Saudi Arabia political system is very conservative when compared to the United States. For Muslim countries our freedoms can be seen as threatening by those who value that structure. For that reason, not all countries share the same philosophy in regards to their citizens’ right. For example, Saudi Arabia has been criticized for its implementation of Islamic law and its poor human rights record. In the same way the United States has been criticized for being too liberal. Civil liberties safeguard individual liberty and therefore, are valuable to every human being. More importantly, prevent the government from misusing power. Without a doubt, the highest law in the United States is the U.S. Constitution and such is fabricated by some amendments that are known as the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights guarantees that the government can never deprive people in the U.S. of certain fundamental rights. As a result, American citizens are protected by the First Amendment which, reads the following “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peacefully assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances” (“First Amendment").

In the Middle East, Saudi Arabia is the largest arid country (Al-Ibrahim, 1991). The country covers some 80 percent of the Arabian Peninsula (Al-Hamzi, 1992). The area of Saudi Arabia is 2.25 million square kilometers, equivalent (1.4) million square miles (Batayneh, 2012). The total number population in Saudi Arabia is 25.7 million (Al-Shayaa et al., 2012). Saudi Arabia climate is broiling in the summer and chilly in the winter, and Saudi Arabia does not have well-defined season. In addition, Saudi Arabia is waterless country, and it does not have rivers or lakes (Al-Shayaa et al., 2012).

First and foremost , people have to go to work and have a lot of thing to do during a day . A Muslim has to pray five times a day, according to the five pillars of faith it states that “a Muslim must pray five times daily facing Mecca”. This shows that if you're a Muslim you have to give up your time to pray five times a day .This also means that if you have something really important to do or go to ,you will not be able to go do it.

The first country, allowing women to vote was New Zealand in 1893.The next country was Australia 9 years later and 18 years later the US finally decided to ratify the 19th amendment allowing women to vote. And almost 100 years later, after the US, Saudi Arabia decided to let the women of their country to vote. Many people think that the US took too long to make the decision to let women vote, but what do you think the women of Saudi Arabia thought when the majority of the countries let women vote but they. Saudi Arabia has very strict laws when it comes to the rights of women in fact, they only earned the right to ride a bike in 2013 and earned the right to drive this year.As a woman living in a country where women have an awful lot of rights compared to places like Saudi Arabia I feel that women’s rights in Saudi Arabia are completely unfair.

I, a born Muslim living in the U.S, have exclusively owned the title of “Muslim) through birth. I never grew up in a household devoting myself to the word of Allah as my family prioritized obligatory religious practices over practicing such as choosing when to pray when felt was right, or fasting on days we believed our schedules could compromise with. From a young age, Islam had not been instilled until I made it

I think it’s important to begin with a basic understanding of Islam. The foundation of Islam is the worship one God, Allah, and submission to Him. Muslims believe that God doesn’t need humanity nor be worshipped, but people need God. This human need for God gives purpose to the religion and individual followers. To fulfill this need for Allah, Muslims are required to worship five times a day at dawn, noon, late afternoon, evening and night. During each time of worship, Muslims follow rakat, which are series of ordained movements. One praying begins standing, then bows and goes on their knees, then lies prostrate on the ground. Each time of prayer requires a different amount of rakats, but usually only needs three to five minutes to complete. It is common to complete an act of purification/absolution, called wudu before staring the rakat. This helps them focus their mind on Allah and His goodness. Additional short prayers known as dua are

Ever since moving here from Saudi Arabia, I have been a member of the local Muslim community. I did all the normal things a little Muslim boy does. I went to Sunday school, I attended Friday prayer with my father, and I had Muslim friends. As I grew up, I stopped attending Sunday school, I only went to Friday prayer when school was out, and I grew apart from my childhood Muslim friends. Yet I was, and currently am, a part of the Muslim community. A community which encourages a person to relax their mind and soul through prayer. While this is all great, there are some interesting aspects of the Muslim community that I am not completely familiar with.

Conflict over energy resources—and the wealth and power they create—has become an increasingly prominent feature for geopolitics particularly in the Middle East . The discovery of oil in the late nineteenth century added a dimension to the region as major outside states powers employed military force to protect their newly acquired interests in the Middle East. The U.S.’s efforts to secure the flow of oil have led to ever increasing involvement in the Middle East region’s political affairs and ongoing power struggles. By the end of the twentieth century, safeguarding the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf had become one of the most important functions of the U.S. military establishment. The close relationship between the United States and the Saudi royal family was formed in the final months of World War II, when U.S. leaders sought to ensure preferential access to Saudi petroleum. The U.S. link with Saudi Arabia and other countries in the region has demonstrated to be greatly beneficial to both parties, yet it has also led to ever deepening U.S. involvement in regional politics.

I was born in Montreal to Muslim parents who did not really practiced Islam while I was growing up. My parents were always busy working most of the time, so they did not have time to actually teach me anything about Islam. I

The enemy at the gate is not Russia, it's the Wahhabi's of Saudi Arabia. Those of us who comprehend the intrecit relations among foreign States, are well aware that Prime Minister Cameron is beating the drum of fear when he mentions the Russian Federation. God forbid, the Russian's exert themselves in Ukraine, and some of the other former Soviet Republics. Never mind the fact that the British and Americans continually interfere in the foreign affairs of sovereign nations, and overthrow democratically elected governments who refuse to serve as puppets to the globalists. Countless examples of this exist, including the overthrow of PM Mossadegh of Iran in 1953, as a direct result of the Iranians nationalizing the oil companies.

For example, adult Muslims practice prayer five times a day. As a Christian, it is more flexible. I perform at least once a day. Specifically, I pray right before I go to sleep. There are certain steps I do in each prayer that has become second nature. I start by asking God to watch over my loved ones, and then follow with asking God for help and guidance over stresses in my life as well as thanking Him for living another day, and I finish with repeating the “Lord’s Prayer”, a Christian prayer that was taught by Jesus to his disciples. I do this because if I didn’t, I would feel that the prayer was incomplete. The “Lord’s Prayer” is an important element because the set of words gives me a connection with the beginning teachings of Christianity due to the fact that Jesus once spoke those words. Personal prayer is where I find intimacy with God and how I integrate my religion on a day-to-day basis. Nightly prayer marks the end of a day being alive and breathing; for that reason alone, I give

The cover page of this TIME magazine, an issue of 1979 invoked purely the orientalist idea of the Middle East. It represented the faulty equation of Islam= Muslim= Arab= terrorist or religious fanatics.

I asked a friend of mine to come with me to visit the Asian Art Museum. I told him that the Museum is exhibiting pieces of recent archeological discoveries of Saudi Arabia. Since we were both Saudis, we felt curious to explore the museum for the first time. When we arrived to the museum, we paid 15 dollars each because we were adults. It was not until we finished our visit that we realized that we could have used our student identification cards to pay only 10 dollars each. However, we did not feel bad about it because we agreed that our visit was totally worth the price; if not, what we paid for the entrance was very little.

     In the heart of the Middle East is a country known by many Westerners for its oil production and, often, extremist beliefs of groups within the country. The country is Saudi Arabia, and though it is thought of by many as a rather backward country, Saudi Arabia has a rich history and culture, and it is a country that revolves around Islam and the worship of Allah as the one true God.

The religious ritual of prayer is essential to all the followers of Islam. As mentioned before, it is the second pillar of Islam, right after the first pillar being the testimony of faith, by which one becomes a Muslim. A Muslim individual stands in prayer, five times during the day, in order to worship, praise, thank and remember the Almighty. Prayer is also a way of seeking forgiveness for all the bad deeds committed during the day. Prayer can be seen similar to the convenience of having a stream flowing outside one’s front door. If an individual could easily bath in this flowing stream of water five times during the day, he/she will have no filth left on him/her. Likewise, praying five times daily washes away one’s sins. This repeated standing in front of the Almighty keeps an individual away from performing sins, in addition to remembering and fearing God throughout the day. An individual clean heartedly walks away after praying with a feeling of being renewed.