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Newsela | A simple window note offering free Christmas restaurant meal goes viral

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London restaurant's simple holiday message goes viral.

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Newsela | Muslim teen hopes to help diversify emojis with a hijab version

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Newsela | Chicago teens confronted with new wave of Islamophobia speak up

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Teens find that Islamophobia does not just come from adults.

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Newsela | U.S. education officials to gather info on discrimination against Muslims

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Maybe some fun articles thrown in......

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Videos on Muslim Abuse and Discrimination

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Videos on Muslim Abuse and Discrimination

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What would you do if you saw Muslim discrimination go on....

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This unit is about Islam and how it spread its influence around the entire world. Though there are roughly 3.3 million Muslims living in the United States itself, these people are mistreated and not considered regular Americans. They are judged by what they wear and what they do. They are publicly harassed and no one says one word about it. The current western media is influencing how we think about our Muslim friends. They are considered terrorists if they say they are Muslims. All thanks to terrorists organizations who have used Islam as their religion only to shame it, such as ISIS and al-Qaeda. Most people don't even consider the fact that their religion promotes peace and equality to all people. My overall big takeaway on this lesson was not just all about Islam and the religious books etc, but it was about the true meaning of Islam and to really, truly, mean it when saying not to judge a book by its cover.

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MUSLIM WOMAN SLAPPED IN PUBLIC EXPERIMENT

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Miss America Winner Sparks Racist Tweets

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Employee Sues Disney Over Muslim Discrimination

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Hey guys ! check out my latest video here and help me win the competition by voting ! only takes a second :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-f26FyU1Xk "When we as Muslims think about discrimination, we usually focus on external discrimination that are received from non-Muslims. For this film though, we wanted to focus on internal discrimination -- discrimination that Muslims have against each other.

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abcNEWS Would You Stop Muslim Discrimination ?

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Hidden cameras in America catch bystander reaction when Muslims are denied service.

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Newsela | Pittsburgh mosque counters propaganda with community outreach

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An important step in countering violence and radicalism in the name of Islam is to get teens and young adults involved in understanding "true Islam," mosque leaders say.

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'Ground Zero' Mosque Protest: Evil Center or Blind Anger?

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Hundreds of anti and pro Ground Zero Mosque protesters have clashed in New York. The controversy of the community center build near the 9/11 terror attack sight has been heating up among the Americans. But as RT's Marina Portnaya reports some say there's much more to worry about in New York city.

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Newsela | Police release Muslim teen after his clock is mistaken for a bomb

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Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that supercharges reading engagement and learning in every subject.

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Articles Relating To Current Muslim Activity or News

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Articles Relating To Current Muslim Activity or News

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Link To More Information On The Five Pillars

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Link To More Information On The Five Pillars

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How This Relates to What We Are Learning in the Classroom

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How This Relates to What We Are Learning in the Classroom

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This pillar means that the Muslims take a pilgrimage. They take pilgrimage to Muslim’s

Holy city, Makkah.

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The fourth pillar of faith is siyam. This is fasting. The Muslims do this by fasting on the ninth month of the Arabic calendar,

Ramadan.

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Zakat means almsgiving. They follow this by giving in charity to the poor people and those

who are worthy of it.

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The second pillar is Salah. This means to pray. The way they do this offer their five prayers at the different times of the day.

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Shahada is the first pillar of faith. It means the profession of faith. To follow this they recite the creed that “There is no God but God and Muhammad is his prophet”.

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The five pillars of Islamic belief tell them how they are supposed to act....
Here they are and plenty of information....

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For Those Who Think Muslims Are Terrorists

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For Those Who Think Muslims Are Terrorists

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Muslims shouldn't apologize for terrorism...especially when it isn't their fault....

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A Written Biography on The Prophet Muhammad

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A Written Biography on The Prophet Muhammad

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For the people who find it easier to read......

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Table of Contents

What family did Muhammad have?

What are the traditional events of Muhammad's life?

What are the scholarly sources of Muhammad's biography?

Why are images of Muhammad generally prohibited in Islam?

Read a brief summary of this topic

Muhammad, in full Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim, (born c. 570, Mecca, Arabia [now in Saudi Arabia]-died June 8, 632, Medina), the founder of Islam and the proclaimer of the Qurʾān. Muhammad is traditionally said to have been born in 570 in Mecca and to have died in 632 in Medina, where he had been forced to emigrate to with his adherents in 622.

Biographical sources

The Qurʾān yields little concrete biographical information about the Islamic Prophet: it addresses an individual "messenger of God," whom a number of verses call Muhammad (e.g., 3:144), and speaks of a pilgrimage sanctuary that is associated with the "valley of Mecca" and the Kaʿbah (e.g., 2:124-129, 5:97, 48:24-25). Certain verses assume that Muhammad and his followers dwell at a settlement called al-madīnah ("the town") or Yathrib (e.g., 33:13, 60) after having previously been ousted by their unbelieving foes, presumably from the Meccan sanctuary (e.g., 2:191). Other passages mention military encounters between Muhammad's followers and the unbelievers. These are sometimes linked with place-names, such as the passing reference to a victory at a place called Badr at 3:123. However, the text provides no dates for any of the historical events it alludes to, and almost none of the Qurʾānic messenger's contemporaries are mentioned by name (a rare exception is at 33:37). Hence, even if one accepts that the Qurʾānic corpus authentically documents the preaching of Muhammad, taken by itself it simply does not provide sufficient information for even a concise biographical sketch.

Most of the biographical information that the Islamic tradition preserves about Muhammad thus occurs outside the Qurʾān, in the so-called sīrah (Arabic: "biography") literature. Arguably the single most important work in the genre is Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq's (died 767-768) Kitāb al-maghāzī ("Book of [the Prophet's] Military Expeditions"). However, this work is extant only in later reworkings and abridgements, of which the best known is ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Hishām's (died 833-834) Sīrat Muḥammad rasūl Allāh ("Life of Muhammad, the Messenger of God"). Ibn Isḥāq's original book was not his own composition but rather a compilation of autonomous reports about specific events that took place during the life of Muhammad and also prior to it, which Ibn Isḥāq arranged into what he deemed to be their correct chronological order and to which he added his own comments. Each such report is normally introduced by a list of names tracing it through various intermediaries back to its ultimate source, which in many cases is an eyewitness-for example, the Prophet's wife ʿĀʾishah. Variants of the material compiled by Ibn Isḥāq, as well as further material about events in Muhammad's life, are preserved in works by other authors, such as Abd al-Razzāq (died 827), al-Wāqidī (died 823), Ibn Saʿd (died 845), and al-Ṭabarī (died 923).

The fact that such biographical narratives about Muhammad are encountered only in texts dating from the 8th or 9th century or even later is bound to raise the problem of how confident one can be in the sīrah literature's claim to relay accurate historical information. This is not to suggest that there was necessarily an element of deliberate fabrication at work, at least at the level of a compiler like Ibn Isḥāq, who was clearly not inventing stories from scratch. Nonetheless, some accretion of popular legend around a figure as seminal as Muhammad would be entirely expected. At least to historians who are reluctant to admit reports of divine intervention, the problem is reinforced by the miraculous elements of some of the material included in Ibn Isḥāq's work. Moreover, some of the narratives in question are patently adaptations of biblical motifs designed to present Muhammad as equal or superior to earlier prophetic figures such as Moses and Jesus. For example, before Muhammad's emigration to Medina he is said to have received an oath of allegiance by twelve inhabitants of the city, an obvious parallel to the Twelve Apostles, and during the digging of a defensive trench around Medina Muhammad is said to have miraculously sated all the workers from a handful of dates, recalling Jesus' feeding of the multitude. Finally, it is distinctly possible that some reports about events in Muhammad's life emerged not from historical memory but from exegetical speculation about the historical context of particular verses of the Qurʾān.

By carefully comparing alternative versions of one and the same biographical narrative, scholars have been able to show that a certain number of traditions about Muhammad's life-for instance, an account of the Prophet's emigration from Mecca to Medina-were in circulation already by the end of the 7th century. An important collector of such early traditions was ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr, a relative of ʿĀʾishah who was probably born in 643-644 and who is plausibly viewed as having had firsthand access to former companions of the Prophet. Moreover, a number of rudimentary details about Muhammad are confirmed by non-Islamic sources dating from the first decades after Muhammad's traditional date of death. For instance, a Syriac chronicle dating from about 640 mentions a battle between the Romans and "the Arabs of Muhammad," and an Armenian history composed about 660 describes Muhammad as a merchant who preached to the Arabs and thereby triggered the Islamic conquests. Such evidence provides sufficient confirmation of the historical existence of an Arab prophet by the name of Muhammad. Certain tensions with the Islamic narrative of the Prophet's life remain, however. For example, some of the non-Islamic sources present Muhammad as having still been alive when the Arab conquerors invaded Palestine (634-640), in contrast to the Islamic view that the Prophet had already passed away at this point.

All things considered, there is no compelling reason to suggest that the basic scaffolding of the traditional Islamic account of Muhammad's life is unhistorical. At the same time, the nature of the sources is not such as to inspire confidence that we possess historically certain knowledge about the Prophet's life that is as detailed as many earlier scholars tended to assume. Especially the customary chronological framework for Muhammad's life appears to have been worked out by later transmitters and collectors such as Ibn Isḥāq, rather than being traceable to the earliest layer of Islamic traditions about Muhammad. Thus, statements of the sort that on March 21 of the year 625, Meccan forces entered the oasis of Medina are inherently problematic. The following section will nonetheless provide a concise digest mainly of Ibn Isḥāq's version of the life of the Prophet. This digest does not aim to separate historical fact from later legend. For instance, unlike many earlier Western accounts, no attempt will be made to remove supernatural elements from the narrative in the interest of transforming it into an account that appears plausible by modern historiographical standards.

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Muhammad, in full Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim, (born c. 570, Mecca, Arabia [now in Saudi Arabia]-died June 8, 632, Medina), the founder of Islam and the proclaimer of the Qurʾān.

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Muhammad was the prophet of Islam. He founded a religion of peace and equality. Islam has five pillars of faith. They make sure that the Muslims, also known as  the followers of Islam, are doing all that is said. They have two holy books, the Qu'ran and the Sunnah. The Sunnah is based on the life of Muhammad and how one should try to live his or her life like him. Muhammad's conception, the one given to him by God, was at first was thought of as a terrible idea. Later on in his life, though, people all around started to believe in his new conception and it became known now as Islam.

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This movie will tell you a bit about Muhammad's Life...

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Muhammad - The Last Prophet (Animated Cartoon-Full Movie)

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Some important things about who introduced this religion......