Are Islamic Ideals Slowing Modernization ?
In this essay I will be using MLA as a writing style, this essay will prove
that many Islamic ideals and Extremism are stopping modernization and also promoting
hatred between western and Muslim countries. This fact will be proven using these
supporting points, Firstly the oppression of women in Muslim countries all over the
world holds back a significant population of women who may have great things to
contribute to many aspects of knowledge around the world. Furthermore, Muslim's who
interpret the Qur'an in a very extremist fashion and seek to convert the entire world or
kill those standing in their way bring a kind of hatred that impedes social relations
between western countries and Muslim countries and contributes to the false stereotypes
that all Muslims are terrorists.
To begin with, women in most Muslim countries are treated with little respect
and oppressed because they are believed as being half as important men, therefore their
opinions and ideas are usually disregarded and most of the time never heard. Women
have been persecuted in all corners of the world throughout time but over the past
century have made great strides to be seen as equal to men in most countries around the
world. In Islam however the image of women is far worse than a lot of the ways in which
women were oppressed in other religions or facets of life, they are not supposed to be
seen in public without a man at their side and they must always have their faces covered,
furthermore they have no rights to vote. In Islam women are seen as second class citizens