EDER 395 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Zakat, Hijab, Idi Amin
4 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
February 13
Islamophobia
-Zameer Karim
-masters student
-journalist from BC
-from family of immigrants and refugees
Do you live multiple existences?
-Secular in public
-religious in private, with family, etc
How do you see yourself?
-As a devoutly religious person
-as a somewhat religious person
-barely religious person
-non-religious
-other
-Ismali Muslim
--not just a religion, it's also a cultural community
--religion and culture are tied together
Things that are a part of your secular life that fall outside of religious experience
-diet
-alcohol
-etc
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Relationship
-how do you talk to family about relationships
-related to religious literacy
-how do you discuss sex education?
-Clip from Citizen Khan--Birds and the bees..& cricket
Shaheed and Sheeba
-entrance into the faith is called Bayah (like baptism)
-clip
--shows power of community and the importance to raise their kids in a community that fosters
inclusion, etc
-Sense of global community
Good and bad things about religion and religious people
-good:
--gives people something to look to in a time when things are messy
Islamophobia
-mostly looks at the Sunni side of Islam
-Ismali are more Shia (mystical)
--so they don't need to show externally that they are Islam (so no need for hijab etc)
-can also have Islamophobia from the inside of the religion (like comments of the clip)
--Comments that the people in the clip aren’t real Ismali Muslims
His mom came to Canada in 1972
-"last king of Scotland" movie
--issue with Uganda
---overthrew the gov't
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Document Summary
-not just a religion, it"s also a cultural community. Things that are a part of your secular life that fall outside of religious experience. How do you talk to family about relationships. Clip from citizen khan--birds and the bees& cricket. Entrance into the faith is called bayah (like baptism) -shows power of community and the importance to raise their kids in a community that fosters inclusion, etc. Good and bad things about religion and religious people. -gives people something to look to in a time when things are messy. Mostly looks at the sunni side of islam. -so they don"t need to show externally that they are islam (so no need for hijab etc) Can also have islamophobia from the inside of the religion (like comments of the clip) -comments that the people in the clip aren"t real ismali muslims. -- idi amin (the president) didn"t live up to expectations, so he blamed a population that lived there.
