Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Islam and Slavery

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Islam was born in a place when slavery was practiced in general and widespread. Al-Quran and hadith teach do good to slaves and treat they are as human as well as encouraging to liberate the slaves. The Prophet himself buy Persian slave named Salman and immediately abandoned it, and make his family members. It is important to note, that in Islamic societies, the slave system can not be a military command, the king, and leaders as well as the Black African slaves. Moreover, there are many crossbreeding and hybridization is usually descendants gradually became members of the public. 

Clearly there were Arab slave traders in Africa and also Europe, but, apart from the fact that European colonial powers have made the slave trade Arab people are doing this as an excuse to colonize Africa, it was not sex slavery never happened events or "Anacostia" in any Islamic city. In fact, when the rapid flow arrival Black African slaves, as in Arab and Morocco, there is no atmosphere of racial discrimination. Today in every major mosque in Morocco, when the prayer time, one can see pilgrims from various nations ranging from Black Africa to the nation's blue-eyed Berbers, but people do not feel any racial discrimination. 

Many pious Muslims who refused to have slaves and also writes for reject the practice. Before modern times, both Christian and community Muslims owned slaves, and it does not mean that the two religions are created or encourage the existence of slavery. Different races, not just Black African, brought to Islamic world as a slave, but they all immediately integrated into the race and Islamic societies have never committed a variety of practices that take place in South America before the outbreak of civil war. It is most important for understood is that during practice, though, slavery in Islam is not contains the idea of ​​racism and most of the history of Islam, the former slaves immediately fused to the community through international marriage. 

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Religion Education for Universities : Solution or Problem?

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Age of Globalization really has penetrated into the soul of all the people in this world. Teenagers today is much different from the first. Teenagers these days, especially school and university students, have common problems are often encountered, among other things, they easily influenced by foreign cultures, easily provoked and angry so often encountered antarpelajar and inter-student brawl. Not only that, drugs and illegal drugs to sex seems to be a trend among today's youth. As if they all do not have the moral and the foundation for a better life. The teenagers who have fallen will be difficult to return. Like a fish that has swallowed the hook is released by fishermen. It would be difficult withdrawn completely into the stomach. Some observers also say that people's dependence on modern technology products is now increasing. This would indicate a change in mindset and lifestyle of the people into consumptive and materialistic lifestyle of worship.

For this reason, it is necessary to a basic, platform and solution for avoiding it all, and religious education is one way. With the existence of religious education in college, students can more moral. All religions in Indonesia must be taught to not terjurumus into the "dark world" that could destroy the morale of the nation. Religious education in college will complete religious education gained since we were born. If all the people in Indonesia is the practice of their religious teachings very well, not impossible Indonesia will be more severe and more advanced than the superpower countries like Russia, Japan, the United States and others. 

However, the reality on the ground, not that easy. Religious education in college is sometimes considered senagai "complementary" subjects only. In fact it could be considered "problem" by those who do not understand the importance of religious education. They may think that religious education is only adding to the burden because their time is wasted just to attend a religious lecture. Not only that the religious subjects deemed not determine the weight of academic graduation, as subjects, other subjects. Religious lectures have also carried out mass quantities of students who "overload" in one room which was attended by students from various faculties and departments on the grounds of efficiency.
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