A merica has an image problem. Only 1 percent of people surveyed in June 2003 in Jordan or the Palestinian Authority expressed a favorable opinion of the United States. Favorability ratings elsewhere in the Middle East were almost all below 30 percent. Osama bin Laden was among the top three leaders most often trusted to “do the right thing” by survey respondents in Indonesia, Jordan, Morocco, ...

Stem cell research is very promising. The use of human embryos has been confronted with objections based on ethical and religious positions. The recent production of reprogrammed adult (induced pluripotent) cells does not - in the opinion of scientists - reduce the need to continue human embryonic stem cell research. So the debate continues. Islam always encouraged scientific research, particul...

2 Muslims are currently the largest religious minority in Western Europe. This presence of Islam in Europe is a direct consequence of the existence of pathways of immigration (that opened up in the early 1960s) leading from the Western States' former colonies in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. Following the official end of work-based immigration in 1974, the integration of such immigrant popul...

BACKGROUND The pandemic of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa and the rise of epidemics in Asia to the previously unforeseen level are likely to have global social, economic, and political impacts. In this emergency, it is vital to reappraise the weight of powerful religious and cultural factors in spreading the disease. The role of Islam in shaping values, norms, and public policies in North Afric...

providing analytical and social tools, critical discourse analysis (henceforthcda) can be used to unravel the hidden ideologiesas well as biases in the websof discursive practices involved in texts. in this paper, the van leeuwen’s (1996)cda framework is used to analyze an article from a british broadsheet newspaper,the guardian. to have a more detailed analysis, eleven elements are chosen from...

A comparative study on anthropometric measurements and adiposity indices among adult (18 23 years) Hindu (n=100) and Muslim (n=100) females showed significant difference (p<0.001) except maximum hip circumference. The study also revealed that Hindu females had higher overall and abdominal fat deposition than Muslim females. Comparison of body mass index cut off values (WHO, 1995) revealed that ...

Are Muslim immigrants subjected to targeted opposition (i.e., Islamophobia) on their pathway to US citizenship? Using a list experiment and a representative sample of the US population, we compare explicit and implicit opposition to Muslim and Christian immigrants. We find that Muslim immigrants, relative to Christian immigrants, experience greater explicit resistance. However, when social desi...

This study constructs a measure of socioeconomic development in Muslim countries based on Ibn Khaldun’s model development. It proposes composite index three dimensions, namely human empowerment, government and institution, economic growth, terms it as Khaldun-based (I-SDI). A total 13 indicators are selected to represent each dimension employed for construction the using an equal weighted metho...