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How has Islam been influenced and changed? To investigate how Islamic religious rules are influenced or changed by society, monarchy and the media. Task 1: Write homework in contact books Task 2: Stick last weeks homework in to exercise books. Title ‘Homework week 3’ Task 3: Write the date L. O and title in to books Task 4: Think of three ways in which Islam might have changed – draw upon knowledge you already have Homework To find out ten reasons why people are religious

What is the power of the media? http: //www. truetube. co. uk/film/good-copbadcop - How does the media influence society? - How does the media influence government? - How does the respond to human rights?

How has Hip Hop changed? • http: //www. truetube. co. uk/film/dangerousmusic • What does this young man say about the change of the rap scene How are you influenced by music/ film/ TV? Write a paragraph explaining your views.

How do young Muslims respond to the issues they face in the UK? • http: //www. truetube. co. uk/film/islam-andrap • Why are these young men influential to other Muslims?

How has Islam been influenced and changed? FOCUS: should Muslim dress be banned in the UK? Together you are to create a protest about the issue using the information given to each team. • • • Consider the Arguments for and against Watch the following video clips and make notes How will you encourage other people to support your protest? How will you put the information together? Leaflets/ Simplied info/ Posters/ Badges/ Letters/ banners/ At the end of this lesson, you will present your findings to the class.

Why do women wear the hijab? • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=n. Jdp_1 j. Iy. KQ • why does this woman wear the hijab? • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Tu 9 Adv. Da. Lm. A&feature=related • Why does this woman wear the hijab? • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=QIntj 0 AB 0 d. U&feature=relmfu • What’s the issue in this news report?

Should women still wear the Veil? Sports hijabs help Muslim women to Olympic success Why I, as a British Muslim woman, want the burkha banned from our streets Shopping in Harrods last week, I came across a group of women wearing black burkhas, browsing the latest designs in the fashion department. The irony of the situation was almost laughable. Here was a group of affluent women window shopping for designs that they would never once be able to wear in public. Yet it's a sight that's becoming more and more commonplace. In hardline Muslim communities right across Britain, the burkha and hijab - the Muslim headscarf - are becoming the norm. New sportswear designed for women who want to cover up, and some important changes to the rules, are inspiring Muslim girls to take up sport – and compete internationally. Earlier this month Fifa finally overturned its ban, brought in in 2007, on women playing football with their heads covered. The decision came too late for the Iranian football team. It had already prevented them from playing in their 2012 Olympic qualifying match last year and disappointed their female fans in the footballmad Islamic Republic, where women are not allowed to watch men's matches and headscarves are mandatory for women. WHEN DID WOMEN START WEARING THE HIJAB? There's not an EXACT date, but it happened after the Islamic revolution - after Reza Shah was overthrown and Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in 1979. When Khomeini came to power, the 1967 Family Protection Law was repealed and women were forced to observe Hijab, in addition to losing many other rights. Prior to Khomeini's rise to power, during Reza Shah's reign, the Shah actually forced women to remove the Hijab in the 1920's, as he wanted to "modernize" Iran, and government police would actual forcibly remove Hijabs from women on the streets. Shockingly, the bone disease rickets has reemerged in the British Muslim community because women are not getting enough vital vitamin D from sunlight because they are being consigned to life under a veil. My parents moved here from Kashmir in the 1960 s. They brought with them their faith and their traditions - but they also understood that they were starting a new life in a country where Islam was not the main religion. My mother has always worn traditional Kashmiri clothes - the salwar kameez, a long tunic worn over trousers, and the chador, which is like a pashmina worn around the neck or over the hair. When she found work in England, she adapted her dress without making a fuss. She is still very much a traditional Muslim woman, but she swims in a normal swimming costume and jogs in a tracksuit. I was born in this country, and my parents' greatest desire for me was that I would integrate and take advantage of the British education system. Has the way Muslim women dress changed? Most Muslim women today do not wear a full face veil. It is more common to see women in hijab, loose clothing topped by a type of scarf worn around the head and under the chin. Women don't share a common style nor have the same reasons for wearing hijab. For many it reflects the belief that they are following God's commandments, are dressing according to "the correct standard of modesty, " or simply are wearing the type of traditional clothes they feel comfortable in. In Afghanistan, it is no longer a law that women must wear the Burkha since the war with the Taliban who were responsible for creating very strict rules for them. The veil itself predates Islam by many centuries. In the Near East, Assyrian kings first introduced both the seclusion of women in the royal harem and the veil. Prostitutes and slaves, however, were told not to veil, and were slashed if they disobeyed this law.

PROBLEM OF WESTERN DRESS CODES Ask yourself, or ask the next person who asks you that question, if a female judge walked into the courtroom wearing a tight miniskirt and low-cut blouse, would you take her seriously? Who would you respect more, a woman dressed like that or one dressed modestly? The Qur’an was revealed for all times, and though circumstances change, human nature does not. The fact is that men do like to look at women, so a woman who covers herself is more likely to be respected as a person than looked upon as a piece of meat or toy! Muslim women wear hijab—which is more than just a head cover—because God ordered them to do so in two places in the Qur’an, and because Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) also ordered it. The hijab has liberated me from society's expectations of women Wearing the hijab doesn't have to be about religious dedication. For me, it is political, feminist and empowering There is much misunderstanding about how women relate to their hijab. Some, of course, choose the head cover for religious reasons, others for culture or even fashion. But in a society where a woman's value seems focused on her sexual charms, some wear it explicitly as a feminist statement asserting an alternative mode of female empowerment. Politics, not religion, is the motivator here. I am one of these women. Wearing the hijab was not something I deliberately set out to do. It was something I unexpectedly stumbled upon as a twenty something undergraduate, reading feminist literature and researching stories of women's lives in the sex industry. From perfume and clothes ads to children's dolls and X Factor finals, you don't need to go far to see that the woman/sex combination is everywhere. I do not believe that the hair in itself is that important; this is not about protection from men's lusts. It is me telling the world that my femininity is not available for public consumption. I am taking control of it, and I don't want to be part of a system that reduces and demeans women. Behind this exterior I am a person – and it is this person for which I want to be known. {Tell the believing men to lower their gaze and be modest. That is purer for them! Allah is Aware of what they do. And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and their adornment only that which is apparent, and to draw their veils over their bosoms, and not to reveal themselves apart from to their own husbands or fathers or husbands fathers, or their sons or their husbands’ sons, or their brothers… Teacher 'pulled off girl's hijab' A senior teacher forcibly pulled the headscarf off a Muslim pupil, scratching her neck with a pin, then showed hostility to the girl's religion, Peterborough crown court was told yesterday. Hazel, 43, head of science at Bretton Woods community school in Peterborough, denies religiously aggravated assault. She told police that she did not forcibly remove the scarf and did not say anything about Islam. The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had a poor behavior record and had been "one step from being expelled", the court heard. The incident occurred a year ago after the girl was told to change her black hijab because it was not the regulation school uniform hijab. Stuart Alford, prosecuting, said Ms Hazelsaid to the pupil: "Does your religion teach you no respect? Would you look at your father like that? The amount you respect Allah is the amount I respect my shoe. Islam is all a big joke. " The incident was seen by two other teenage pupils, he added. The girl denied under cross-examination that she had made up the allegation because she was afraid that she would be in trouble with her father, but she accepted that she had a poor behaviour record at school and had been chastised for using "disgusting, degrading and vile language”.