This paper reveals that while Muslims have a surprisingly good reputation in Western Europe, the headscarf is opposed by a large majority. Several arguments are developed in this paper to investigate why people make a difference between Muslims as a group and their religious practices. While attitudes towards Muslims hardly vary across countries there is a lot of variation of resentment against...

abstract: comparison of justice in islam and utilitarianism this article is to explain and compare justice in islam and utilitarianism. first, it is pointed to difinition and necessary and divisions of justice in islam: justice is putting of everything in its suit place. because of being absoulatly complete of god, his commands and prohibitions are justicely. knowledge of all human needs and th...

This paper empirically analyses the trend of Islamization in Malaysia using the Islamization Index as an indicator to determine whether the time series dataset of the Islamization index possess deterministic trends or stochastic properties. The result determines the appropriateness of the employment of the Islamization index as a proxy of Islam in the empirical study of Islam and economic perfo...

In dem Beitrag werden die demokratiepolitischen Gefahren des eCampaigning am Beispiel der rechtsradikalen Anti-Islam Kampagne aufgezeigt. Dazu wird die rechtsradikale bottom-up-Kampagne hinsichtlich der Kriterien Ressourcenmobilisierung und Framing untersucht. Entsprechende Elemente des Blogs „Politically Incorrect“ und des sozialen Netzwerks „StudiVZ“ werden dargestellt und auf theoretische Hy...

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim calendar, and 1.9 billion Muslims of the world celebrate their holiest month of Ramadan each year. It is the month of fasting in the Muslim calendar when it is believed the Holy Quran (the holy book of Muslims) was sent down from heaven as a guidance unto men a declaration of direction, and a mean of salvation, fasting is one of the five pillars of Islam...

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim calendar, and 1.9 billion Muslims of the world celebrate their holiest month of Ramadan each year. It is the month of fasting in the Muslim calendar when it is believed the Holy Quran (the holy book of Muslims) was sent down from heaven as a guidance unto men a declaration of direction, and a mean of salvation, fasting is one of the five pillars of Islam...

Islam is the world’s fastest growing religion and at its present rate of expansion it will soon be the predominant religion of mankind. This is not a new or unexpected statistic, however it is something that is slowly making people re-examine their understanding of a religion of which many remain ignorant. Some are taking positive step, and by educating themselves they are discovering the truth...

62, Date Sunday, Jan 27 2002 1:00PM 12:00PM Session D3 Sound Localization Investigations of the Precedence Effect in Budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) Micheal L. Dent, Robert J. Dooling The precedence effect has previously been found in mammals, anurans, invertebrates, and one species of bird, the barn owl. Here, the precedence effect was measured in a small parrot, the budgerigar (Melopsit...

A listener in a room is exposed to multiple versions of any acoustical event, coming from many different directions in space. The precedence effect is thought to discount the reflected sounds in the computation of location, so that a listener perceives the source near its true location. According to most auditory theories, the precedence effect is mediated by binaural differences. This report p...