2. INNOCENCE OF
MUSLIMS
Bacile, who wrote and
directed the
controversial film,
spoke by phone from
an undisclosed
location, calling Islam
"a cancer" and saying
he "intended his film to
be a provocative
political statement
condemning the
3. WHAT IS RELIGION?
Religion is a collection of belief
systems, cultural systems
and worldviews that relate humanity to
spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values.
Its purpose is to make better human beings
and a better world.
4. WHAT IS MISUNDERSTOOD ABOUT
ISLAM??
ISLAM IS A VIOLENT RELIGION
ISLAM IS UNJUST TO WOMEN
ISLAM IS IRRATIONAL ( FATWA)
5. IS ISLAM A VIOLENT
RELIGION??
o HIJACKED VERSES
OF QURAN
o MISINTERPRETED
MEANING OF
JIHAAD
o TERRORISM
o BAKR- EID ( at least
you should have
spared this!!!)
6. Verses from religious texts
BIBLE.
QURAN.
Consider the Book of 1
Kill them wherever you
Samuel, when God
encounter them”(2:191)
instructs King Saul to
the verse just before it
attack the Amalekites:
says, “But begin not
"And utterly destroy all
hostilities. Lo! God loveth
that they have, and do not
not aggressors”
spare them," God says
(2:190).
through the prophet
the verses just
after it, states, “But if they Samuel. "But kill both man
and woman, infant and
desist, then lo! God is
nursing child, ox and
Forgiving, Merciful”
sheep, camel and
(2:192).
donkey."
MAHABHARTA
Krishna made the two armies
fight, and ordered Arjuna to kill
the enemy. Arjuna said, 'I can't
kill my own brothers,' and
Krishna replied, 'Do as I tell
you.' But Arjuna would not
listen. Then Krishna said, 'Look
into my face,' and Krishna
opened his mouth, and Arjuna
saw in it all his brothers and
relatives whom he had not
wanted to kill. So then he took
up his bow and started killing
them.
7. TRUE MEANING OF JIHAAD
. Jihad has the literal meaning of
exerting our best and greatest effort
to achieve something. It is not the
equivalent of war, for which the
Arabic word is qital. Jihad has a
much wider connotation and
embraces every kind of striving in
God’s cause
9. STATUS OF WOMEN IN ISLAM
AREA OF ECONOMIC RIGHTS
POLYGAMY
ISLAM SCARF CONTROVERSY
PARTICIPATION IN RELIGIOUS
ACTIVITIES
10. AREA OF ECONOMIC
RIGHTS
In Europe until the 19th century,
women did not have the right to own
their own property
1400 years earlier, Islamic law said
"What ever men earn, they have a
share of that and whatever women
earn, they have a share in that." Sura
4:31.
11. POLYGAMY
There has been polygamy in virtually every
culture and religion, including Judaism and
Christianity.
Only verse in the Quran that speaks about
polygamy, speaks about limiting not
instituting polygamy.
The verse was revealed after the Battle of
Uhud in which many Muslims were
martyred, leaving behind wives and children
12. PARTICIPATION IN RELIGIOUS
ACTIVITIES
There are famous
female Sufis,
whose careers date
to as early as the
late 8th- and early
9th-century C.E.
The Catholic church
has not yet allowed
women to be
13. FATWA SHOPPING
An Iranian cleric called for the
killing of author Salman
Rushide when he published the
novel The Satanic
Verses, about an erased portion
in the Koran.
Fatwa issued banning Muslim
women from touching bananas
or cucumbers.
The panchayat held in a village
of UP decreed that women
below the age of 40 years
should not be allowed to go to
14. HIGH –VOLTAGE CASE:
INDIA PAKISTAN
Indians associate
muslims with pakistan.
Partition in 1947
The Kashmir valley
debate
15. MUSLIMS ARE INFERIORS….
COLD WAR ERA- Crushed between the west &
dictators
Immigrants status in itself is be source of a lot of
grievance and frustration.
Illiterate and poverty stricken subjects see
themselves as inferiors and demand a separate
muslim state, where they believe their conditions will
improve.
16. WESTERN MEDIA CRUSADES
AGAINST ISLAM
The Media shapes public opinion
and covers realities by their
censorship.
The September 11th event is used
to capitalize its political gain.
These media depict Islam as
"fundamentalism", "extremism"
and "radicalism“
They try to justify the wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq
17. SUGGESTIONS
•
Instead of blaming Islam ,the government of all other
countries must help the middle east to form a stable
political regime so that illiteracy and poverty can be
reduced in muslim nations.
• To improve the image of Islam in the West it requires a
strong and persistent effort from Muslims themselves.
• Initiatives must be undertaken to educate non-Muslims
concerning correct Islamic concepts of peace and
tolerance and to clarify the incorrect views of Islam held
by some.
