Islamic Peril: Media and Global Violence

An Islamic Perspective on Domestic Violence

In this Article, the author addresses the traditional Islamic view of domestic violence. To understand the Islamic perspective on domestic violence, the author will explore the Islamic view of gender relations, especially within the family. This view is rooted in the Qur’an, which is examined in this Article. AN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Islamic Communities and Media Activism in Australia

Aljazeera is well known as an Arab television and media network that has its headquarters in Qatar. For the U.S. Aljazeera is a ‘terrorist network’. For Islamic communities it is now seen, ironically, as ‘U.S. controlled’. Islamic audiences in Australia use Aljazeera and CNN media but those audiences also use emerging community media in Arab countries as an antidote to both Western and Arab pre...

Media Violence and Children

London 2003 Video games have become one of the dominant entertainment media for children in a very short time. In the mid-1980s, children averaged about four hours a week playing video games, including time spent playing at home and in arcades (Harris & 'Williams, 1985). By the early 1990s, home video game use had increased and arcade play had decreased. The average amount was still fairly low,...

environmental security and global violence

for many years, the prevailing notion of security has been associated with the ‘realist’ militaryside of conflict management, understood as ‘national security’. for us the term does not just mean theinterplay of deterring, compelling, defensive and offensive force in the pursuit of a self-defined nationalinterest. above all, and at a fundamental level it includes the safety and quality of life ...

Invitation and Truth in Global Relation from the Islamic Viewpoint