Blasphemy

satisfied requirements put before us by Allah and His Messenger that qualify you to enter amongst us. Your persistence in doing so has awarded

Islam, meaning submission or submitting oneself fully to God, is one of the world’s largely practiced religions. Those that participate and practice the Islamic religion

The meaning of Islam is submission to one God. The central point or belief in Islam is to believe in the existence of only one God or Allah. The religion revolves around this one belief known as tawhid. This idea occurs in other religions such as Judaism and Christianity. All of these authentic religions speak of the same God as Islam is the reassertion of the revelation of God to Abraham, Noah and Christ. Islam considers these great figures as prophets and they are included in the Quran, the holy book of Islam. Quran which is the word of God says that there are ninety nine names of God which are distributed into Perfection, Majesty, and Beauty. Some of them include: the Just, the Majestic, the Giver of Death, the Victorious, the All Powerful, the All-Merciful, the Forgiver and the Generous.

No person or persons...shall from henceforth be any waies troubled, molested or discountenanced for or in respect of his or her religion nor in the free exercise thereof.

Quite the antithesis of Baba, an outspoken liberal, is Assef, best described in Hosseini’s eyes as a local radical. Radical not in his strict obedience to Islamic jurisprudence, but ironically in his dedication to the perversion of it, being a part of the Taliban that “reigned over years of theft, rape, murder and torture under the pretense of abiding by Islamic Law” (Sandstrom 2). He uses religion as nothing more than a pretext for the pathological cruelty he shows to others he deems more inferior, despising minorities like

The religion of Islam is based on the prophet Mohammad ibn-Abdullah born in Mecca around A.D.570 (Braswell, 11). “He served the Muslin community as a prophet, political and economic leader, and a commander –in –chief of his warriors” (Braswell, 19). In Islamic terms, Mohammad means, “the much praised one” and in Moslem it means “submission one”. It educates their followers that there is only one god and it is through their faith and conduct that they will go to a heaven or paradise after their death. Islam gives people principles and encourages unity (Crites, 2011). Mohammad's Islamic teachings manifested over the years. He would take trips into the

The word Islam means "surrender" or "submission," submission to the will of Allah, the one God. Muslims are those who have submitted themselves. The basic creed of Islam is brief: There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah. Islam teaches

The split off of Islam that believes that power should be passed down by family members, and was the less taken form, opposed to

Qutb’s teachings and commentary of Islamic teachings are seen to hold considerable authority and significance to adherents of Islam. His main and most revered teachings included: the belief in Tawhid (the oneness of God), the concept of Jahiliyya (pagan ignorance), jihad (struggle) and the need to revive Islam.

A term used to refer to Muhammad 's flight from Mecca to Medina, this marks the beginning of the Islamic religion.

This chapter begins with the Muhammad and the message he brings. It all began in the Arabian Peninsula, which was mostly desert. The people who lived there were called Nomadic Bedouin, and they are organized in family and clan groups. The importance of long-distance trade networks became important again between China, India, and Persia, Byzantium. The section starts talking about the early life Muhammad ibn Abdullah was born in to a Mecca merchant family in 570 C.E. He had a difficult life growing up, but in 595 C.E, he married a wealthy widow. By the time, he was thirty he became a merchant and exposed too many faiths. He had a spiritual transformation at the age of forty, and declared that there was only one true god, whose name was Allah, “the god.” His believe that Allah would soon bring judgment on the world, and the divine messenger, Gabriel, delivered these revelations to Muhammad. The Quran, also known as the “recitation,” is the holy book of Islam. Muhammad followers complied with his revelations. They had works of poetry and definitive authority on Islam;

In the passage it appears a dialogue between Ahmad’s mother and his uncle. His uncle attempting to know where he has been hidden from him, at the same time his mother trying to know what have happened. We are encouraged with

Khadija/Hadjiha – a women who hired Muhammad as she was a “widow of a wealthy merchant”; later marry Muhammad and they had six children (Khadijah)

as far as to declare that the best Muslim is the one who is best to

“Since 1990, at least 73 people have been killed over alleged blasphemy, according to an Al Jeerza tally (Pakistan minister resigns ending Islamabad standoff ).” The major religion in Pakistan is Islam, which is practiced by about 95% of the population. Muhammad is the prophet and founder of Islam, so when taken lightly, situations can easily get out of hand. Pakistan’s Federal Law Minister, Zahid Hamid, is being accused of blasphemy because of wording in his oath, because of his oath he’s being protested by numerous religious groups; the protests will either lead to countrywide violence, or a resignation of Hamid.