For example, the practice of female circumcision among Muslims in Somalia is a tribal custom that has nothing to do with the religion of Islam, but much of the publicity surrounding this ritual has been attributed to being standardly Islamic. .
Many other myths about Islamic religion exist as well. For example, in certain societies Muslim men have prevented women from leaving the house or from earning a legitimate income, and have held that this is in accordance with Islam, which is not true. Non-Muslims also have come to beleive that in Islam, it was taught that women had no souls, but Muslims themselves have never actually believed this. In fact, the highest favor of God to human beings is divine revelation, and women are mentioned in the Koran among those to whom God has spoken. .
The practice among some Muslim men of acquiring a number of wives also is, in fact, against Islam. It is normal in Islam for one man to be married to one woman. It is true that permission was originally given to Muslim men in Arabia to have up to four wives, but this was done with the best interests of the women in mind, because the early Muslims lost many men in the battles against their persecutors, therby leaving behind many widows and orphans.
Forcing women to cover their faces and preventing them from going outside the home are practices that are not in accordance with the Koran, either, but have been perpetrated as such. While it is true that some verses of the Koran do call for men and women to control the way they present themselves to each other in order to encourage self-restraint, there is no actual requirement for women to cover their faces. In fact, the head-covering was worn by women in Arabia long before Islam surfaced. Their continued use is a result of their desire to appear modest, and is not mandated, as is the case in Hindu culture.
The teachings of Islam also do not allow the practice of holding concubines, nor do they encourage the practice of temporary marriage, which occurs among some Muslims.
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Although an immigrant, an outsider in Canadian society, Mistry already understood this condition, for in India he belonged to the Parsi community, whose Zoroastrian religious beliefs set its members on the edge of Hindu society. ... As in his treatment of Parsi society, he transforms the historical situations and the reality of Indian life into a metaphor that shows how the individual reacts to widespread corruption when entangled in its grasp, as in Such a Long Journey, and how people respond to the endless forms of tyranny that government and society inflict, as in A Fine Balance. ... She ...
Although an immigrant, an outsider in Canadian society, Mistry already understood this condition, for in India he belonged to the Parsi community, whose Zoroastrian religious beliefs set its members on the edge of Hindu society. ... As in his treatment of Parsi society, he transforms the historical situations and the reality of Indian life into a metaphor that shows how the individual reacts to widespread corruption when entangled in its grasp, as in Such a Long Journey, and how people respond to the endless forms of tyranny that government and society inflict, as in A Fine Balance. ... She ...
Gradually patients began to seek the right to choose to receive treatment or to refuse further treatment if they did not want to prolong their agony rather than the doctor getting to make the decision. Thus, in what became a groundbreaking law, in 1976, California became the first state to allow terminally ill patients to die when such a patient chooses to withdraw further treatment. ... Opinions on the topic vary based on personal experience, belief systems, age, culture and other aspects of human king that influences how we think about important aspects of life. ...