Some pictures of Palestine

There are some pictures of Beirut in Lebanon

Is the use of violence justified?

I am very interessted to know if you consider use of violence by Hamas and Hezbollah to defend and achieve to their goals. This is a real debate because we cetainly do not agree that people are killed, but the debate is why are they doing this? Does defend your home, your land or your family make of you a terrorist? Maybe is it difficult to understand because a lot of us have never live in a war context. I do not take a side of one or other because the question here is human rights question and then, as human we should support people who struggle for their rights to live in peace. What do you think?

New outline after teacher's corrections

Islamic Religion’s Role on the Political Agendas of Political Organisations:
Hamas and Hezbollah

By examining and analysing the use of Islamic religion by two political parties, Hamas and Hezbollah, through their political agendas, I will examine and analyse whether use of violence is justified and acceptable and is seen as a mean to achieve its end.

I. Hezbollah’s mission statements
A. The objectives of Hezbollah through their political agenda
B. The place of the religion in Hezbollah’s politics
C. The ways used to reach their goals
II. Hamas’ mission statements
A. The Hamas’ ambitions
B. The importance of religion in the Hamas’ political agenda
C. The manner used to achieve its objectives
II. The use of violence by those two groups is not seen equally by countries because of different political contexts.
A. The perception of Hamas and Hezbollah in North American
B. The perception of Hamas and Hezbollah in Middle eastern

Hamas' chart

There are 2 articles of the Hamas' covenent which illustrate the mains goals of this organization. We can clearly understand that evil is reprensented by Israel an by any organization which support the sionist ideology. Hamas wants Palestians to retrieve their lands. The fact that you disagree or agree does not prevent that it is their rights. Discussion is rather on the way used to achieve their goals, but again we should ask us: Have they other choice? I could be interessting to see what people think about it.


Article 9: [...]

As for the objectives: They are the fighting against the false, defeating it and vanquishing it so that justice could prevail, homelands be retrieved and from its mosques would the voice of the mu'azen emerge declaring the establishment of the state of Islam, so that people and things would return each to their right places and Allah is our helper.
"...and if Allah had not prevented men, the one by the other, verily the earth had been corrupted: but Allah is beneficient towards his creatures." (The Cow - verse 251).













the rest of the chart is avalaible on the site: http://www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm

My improved outline

The Place of the Islamic Religion on Politics of two Political Organisations: the Hamas and the Hezbollah

By examining and analysing the utilisation of Islamic religion by two political parties, the Hamas and the Hezbollah, through their political agendas, I will try to clarify if the religion is the cause of using violence or if there is another cause.

I. Hezbollah’s mission statements
A. The objectives of Hezbollah through their political agenda
B. The place of the religion in Hezbollah’s politics
C. The ways used to reach their goals

II. Hamas’ mission statements
A. The Hamas’ ambitions
B. The importance of religion in the Hamas’ political agenda
C. The manner used to achieve their objectives

II. How those 2 political parties are seen in the world?
A. The perception of Hamas and Hezbollah in the north American press
B. The perception of Hamas and Hezbollah in the Middle eastern press

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Need good article for your research paper?

Dear friends,

I just found a site which can help a lot of you because you can find a lot of interviews and articles. What it is particular is that it is not the kind of information you will find on TV or in news. Their slogan is "News you won't find on CNN or FOXNEWS". There are a lot of titles about Iraq but just take the time to look down of the page and you will find other interessting articles.


www.informationclearinghouse.info/index.html

My draft outline

By examining and analysing the utilisation of Islamic religion by two political parties, the Hamas and the Hezbollah, through their political agendas, I will show that these two groups are islamist but not terrorist.

I. Do Hezbollah’s goals are influenced or based on religious concepts?

A. The goals and the place of religion in the Hezbollah’s ideology at the moment of its creation.

B. Since its creation does Hezbollah has increased or decreased the religious influence through its politics?

II. Does the controversial political party in power in Palestine, Hamas, includes religious goals in its politics?

A. When Hamas was created, did it include religious ambitions?

B. Does the place of religion have changed in the Hamas’ politics since its creation?

II. How those 2 political parties are seen in the world?

A. The perception of Hamas and Hezbollah in western press especially in the north American press

B. The perception of Hamas and Hezbollah in the Middle eastern press

Literature Review of the Impact of Islamic in Hamas and Hezbollah Political Organizations

Since the events of the September 11, a lot of work has been made about terrorist organizations and Islamism. In my research paper I will examine and analyse the utilisation of Islamic religion by two political parties, the Hamas and the Hezbollah, through their political agendas, and I will try to show that these two groups are islamist but not terrorist. The definition of these groups is a controversial point which can be seen just by looking at how authors describe them differently.

The influence and the creation of Hamas do not generally carry divided ideas through works made. Indeed, like many other authors, Matthew Levitt, who is a specialist of the question of terrorism at the Washington Institute for the Near East Policy, considers Muslim Brotherhood as the main influence of Hamas (30-31). The Muslim Brotherhood is an islamist group which has as credo, “God is our objective, the Quran is our Constitution.”[i] The most controversial points are the definition of its goals and the definition of the status of the group. By studying the goals of Hamas, we notice that this question has several answer s. As Levitt explains it in his book Hamas, the main goal of Hamas is dawa (calling people to God) and thus, he considers Hamas as an islamist group (16). In the article of Andrea Nüsse, who is a report in the Muslim world and who has a diploma in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, reveals another goal. Indeed, for her, the goal of the islamist group Hamas is to liberate the Palestine from the Zionist enemy and to establish an Islamic state because, like she explains, for Muslims, Jerusalem is an important place because according to the Quran, the prophet Muhammad (pbuh) began his ascension to heavens at the Dome of the Rock Al-Aqsa, the Miraj[ii](47). In the article of Roger Gaess with Azzam Tamimi, who is the director of the Institute of Islamic Political Thought of London, the Tamimi’s answer of the will of the Hamas is now to have hudna (long-term ceasefire) (23). In another article of Gaess which is Interview from Gaza: What Hamas wants, we learn that with the results of the last Palestinian elections in 2006 which put the Hamas in power, people should understand that Palestinians do not want to waste again a lot of time; they want defined actions. There is another conception of Hamas’ goals. Indeed, the main objective of Hamas is to improve the quality of Palestinians’ life until they would live in freedom (114). In an interview with Sheik Yassin in the same article, Yassin explains that Hamas does not necessary want an Islamic state; people will have to decide this by a democratic process (106). According to Levitt, Hamas is a terrorist organization as the European Union designated it (50). Nüsse, in her case, allocates Hamas as a nationalist party (49). Because she does not explain in what Hamas could be a nationalist party, we do not know if in her mind, nationalism includes religion. Ximena Ortiz, who is an editorial writer for The Washington Times, brings another vision of the reaction sometimes violent the political group. Indeed, she explains that “Arabs and other Muslims understand only the language of force”. On the other hand, it is important to avoid the dichotomic explanation. Erdogan, which is a Muslim leader in Turkey, considers that a political party should not be armed; weapons are reserved to security forces. Concerning the armed wing of the Hamas, Gaess reports in his article Interview from Gaza: What Hamas wants that this wing is separated from the political part, and acts depending on Hamas declaration (105). Ortiz explains in his article that islamist groups like Hamas has often a negative image despite that they “have been adept at folding modern political ideology-nationalism, self-determination, free-markets” (1). He adds that people prefer islamist groups instead of liberal groups and he gives two factors could explain this behaviour: first the fear that the liberal party becomes ally of the United States if they reach the power. Second, the way less strict that liberals interpret the religion (1). The particularities in the relation of Islam and politics it is that, according to the author, Islam is more seen as an identity than a will to follow strictly the religion. The same scenario could be seen for Hezbollah

Like for Hamas, there are many definitions to describe Hezbollah. Homayra says in his article Hezbollah- Terrorist Group or Political Party that this organization is “broad-based political party.” He remains the fact that Hezbollah “has not been involved in deliberate attacks on civilians since the end of the civil war” (1). According to Elaine Pasquini’s article, “Hezbollah is a multidimensional organization which has political and social aspects”. Neil MacFarquar, the correspondent of The New York Times in Middle East, designs Hezbollah as a militant organization contrary to the United States which consider Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. The goals of Hezbollah seem also to differ from an author to another. In the article of Andrew Arsan, we can read that at its beginning, Hezbollah wanted to create an Islamic state (12). MacFarquhar in his article, which has a great and clear timeline of the shia story, says that since Hassan Nasrallah is the leader of the Hezbollah, the group has less pan Arab and Pan Islamic aspects. Contrary to some others authors, this one shows that Hezbollah has not a unilateralist shia vision. Nasrallah said that the question of Shia or Sunni is personal. The author says that the reason why Hezbollah does not want to delete his military wing, the Islamic resistance, is that there is still an occupation of the Lebanon by Israel. The question often asked is if Hezbollah has a solid support. One of the reasons of the support to Hezbollah, according to MacFarquhar, is that its leader is not corrupted and comes from modest family. In an article of Africa research bulletin, we see that people even pray for Hezbollah because Hassan Nasrallah is the only Arab leader who strands up face to Israel and the United States. 75 academic, political leaders and workers of Egyptian government support Hezbollah. People, in Middle East, feel that their leaders “fall asleep”. Many sunnit support Iran which is shia just because this country is going on its own way, not conducted by the United States (16733). Graham Fuller, who is a member of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council, declares in his article that even if Hezbollah seems to have a religious motivation, the real motivation of this political party is anger. He adds that they want to end the domination and the humiliation of the Muslim world (35). Indeed people do not care of which branch of Islam Hezbollah belongs to. One important proof is that even in Iran, there is a Pan Arab and pan Islamic position (36). According to Nathan Gardels, politics is something local. Thus the best way to understand Hezbollah and also Hamas, it is to convey world leaders to speak with the terms of these two parties. This way, it will be easier to make a difference between “local resistance” and “terror group”. He adds that even if Hezbollah is shia and is an ally of Iran that do not mean that they are the same (5).

Ronald Nettler, in his article, affirms that for islamist groups, Islam is a, “particular sort of polity and society, through which religion is most perfectly expressed in accord with the divine will” (50). For him, any Islamic government form exists and the Quran could not be use as a constitution simply because Quran is not a constitution. The author even says that islamist groups of today bring and coerce Muslim to follow “rigid political arrangement […] with some of tradition’s now irrelevant” (55). In Salwa Ismail article, we read that again Islam is the first concept of identity, and then gender, class and national identity are secondary (615). She also tries to show that Islamists try to make a unity with politics and religion. She compares the influence of Islamic faith on political groups in Middle East to the “Moral Majority” in the United States. What is now going on in these societies is redefinition of the place of religion in politics (617). Despite all these information, there are still subject which are published by academic journals.

Indeed, there are researches about Hezbollah and Hamas. There are researches about Islamism; however, there seem to have no research done the impact of Islamic faith on Hezbollah and on Hamas’s politics, which it will be my research paper’s thesis statement. The subject, as we saw, brings a lot of controversial issues like to usually simple task to define an organization. Moreover, because the subject touches political and religious aspect, some author could have a biased approach. What could be interesting it to see the way the subject is treated by Muslim and Arabic authors. I say this because I read that the term Islamism was invented in Western to analyse the Muslim world and thus, the term is maybe not used by Muslim and Arabic authors.

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New Version of my research paper proposal

The place of Islamic religion on politics of 2 political organizations:

The Hamas and the Hezbollah

My Subject:

My research paper will talk about two important political organizations in Middle-East: the Hamas and the Hezbollah. Islamism is a new movement which is more and more often put in the headlines. Thus, in my research paper, I will try to demonstrate that Islamic faith has an impact on the politics of these two political organizations which are the Hamas, a Palestinian party, and the Hezbollah, a Lebanese party. By the same way, I will try to make understand to my readers that an Islamist organization does not mean a terrorist organization.

Approach:

In my research paper, I will try to establish a relationship between Islamic religion and politics of these two parties. I will also make a contrast and comparisons between American (Time) and Canadian (The Globe and Mail) press with Middle East press (Al-Jazeera, Arab Times), to show the divergence in the definition of Islamist and terrorist organization.

Audience:

Because my audience does not necessary knows Islam and some of its notions, I will have to make a short historic of this religion and also, I will have to include some definitions in an appendix. I will do also the same for the two parties studied, Hamas and Hezbollah.

Defence:

I think my topic worth to be considering because we heard everyday about terrorist attacks, about Muslim world, about the relationship between the United States and Middle East, but we only have a single point of view. Moreover, newspapers’ articles or news on televisions do not take a lot of space and time for international information. Thus, they only relate the events and do not analyse it or try to explain it. The audience makes in own analyse without having previous or basic information of a subject. So it is the reason why this subject worth to be considering; to see the situation from another point of view and try to understand the context, and also to learn more on these two political organization.

Methodology:

First, I will have to read many articles from different points of view. I will take notes from them. Afterwards, I will analyse my readings to the most objective as possible. Lastly, I will explain how the Islamic religion is used in Hezbollah and Hamas’ politics.

Outline:

Part 1: Hezbollah

1.1 Its creation

1.2 Its goals

1.3 Its activities

1.4 The religious implication

Part 2: Hamas

2.1 Its creation

2.2 Its goals

2.3 Its activities

2.4 The religious implications

Part 3: Contrast and comparison of the two parties in the press (Canadian-American vs. Middle Eastern)

Notes from my sources

Title: The Shia vs. Sunni Split? Not on the Arab Street
Author: Graham E. Fuller

In this article, the author explains that the fact that some Sunni leaders blamed Hezbollah comes not from the difference religious beliefs, but comes from the fear of seeing other groups becoming powerful. Face to American influence in the region and face to Israeli policies, there is no more "Pan-Arab" or "Pan-Muslim" solidarity. Among people, it does not matter if Hezbollah or Palestinian victims are Sunni or Shia.

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1540-5842.2006.00845.x?journalCode=npqu


Title: The Unholy Alliance
Author: Tanveer Ahmed

In this article, Ahmed explains that the increasing number of supporter of new islamlist organisations and of supporters of the resurgence of Islam is due to the fact that Islamic religion supports poor and oppressed.

Policy Magazine Vo. 22 No. 4 Summer 2006-2007


Title: Hezbollah Is Not a Puppet of Syria or Iran
Author: Reza Aslan

The author concluded here that Iran does not use Hezbollah, because Hezbollah has been reached this point in the Lebanon politics by itself. The party will continue this way because it would be stupid to prefer externals supports that popular supporters.

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1540-5842.2006.00843.x


Title: Religion and Civil Society: Whiter Political Islam?

According to this article, Hezbollah has gained power and supporters because it helps people by building school and providing help to the population, and in a better way than the Lebanon government.

http://nvs.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/28/1/83.pdf

Journal Entry

a) What are the most important differences between British English and American English?

Even if it is the same language, British and American English are not the same. We can count 4 main differences. First, each of the both forms have particularities according to grammar.

- For example, the verb "get" has not the same form when it is used as a past participle. American say "gotten" and British say "got".

- Another example is the use of preposition. Indeed American say "stay home" whereas British say "stay at home".

- A funny example is the answer to a phone call. British say "Hello, is that Yasmina?" whereas American say "Hello, is this Yasmina?"

Differences can also appear through vocabulary.

• apartment (US) / flat (British)
• cab (US) / taxi (British)
• elevator (US) / lift (British)
• gas (US) / petrol (British)
• rest room (US) / public toilet (British)

Spelling is also different in these both language. American write "center" whereas British write "centre". Another example with the way to write the end of word is that British write "dialogue" and American write "dialog".

The last main difference is easier to recognize with sound; however I will try to describ it.

• The pronunciation of vowels between British and American are different. American nasalize them, but British do not.
• The letter "r" is always pronunciated in American English, but only before vowel in British English.

b) What is standard English?

This is simple. Standard English means the form of language used for professionals or academic use.

c) What is a dialect?

The difference with a language and a dialect is that the second one is not officially recognize, and also the area where it is used is restricted.

d) What are the characteristics of formal English as opposed to informal or spoken English?

Formal English is clear, correct and universal. Contraction like "don't", slang or swears are not using in formal English. For an academic of professional purpose, we have to use formal English.

e) Do languages change over time?

Yes, obviously. New context of life brings new vocabulary. Young people add new vocabulary whereas old people try to hang on their own use of language. This vocabulary is , afterwards accepted. Others languages' influences bring also some changes which will also be accepted.

Research Proposal Preliminay First Draft

First, I wanted my research to be about the relationship between Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas. I wanted to know if Ahmadinejad’s country uses the Hezbollah, and indirectly the Hamas. I still do not know the reason or the goal of Iran to use these both organisations. By trying to narrow my topic, I have finally found what is going to be my subject. What is the relationship with Islamic faith and the political goals in a political organisation as Hezbollah and Hamas or through a state politics as Iran’s politics? Does the fact that they include religion to politics make them fundamentalist? Why many western countries qualified these organizations as terrorist? It could be because they do not understand or they do not see from the Hamas’ point of view, for instance. With my research paper, I would like to understand the point of view of such organisation towards politics. I want to be able to explain to others what the reasons of their actions are and try to bring another point of view of the Middle East’s situation.

I am still quite not sure of the approach that I will choose. I would like to examine the situation and the sources fro, finally, analysing the data to make my own explication of the situation. However, I will also contract the situation presented in international press versus western press.

Because my audience not necessary knows Islam and some of its notions, I will have to make a short historic of this religion and also, I will have to include some definitions. I will do also the same for the two organisations studied, Hamas and Hezbollah.

It is so easy to explain my interest to this subject because I am fascinated by everything that touches the Arab and Muslim world. Since I am 15 years old, I read and try to learn more and more about this. I try to see the world from a different point of view. I made a wonderful trip in Morocco and I am preparing another one in Algeria in the next year. It is just the beginning because I would like to visit also, Istanbul, Jerusalem (where my uncle lived for 2 years), Damascus, Cairo and incha’Allah Mecca. I know some notion of Turkish and Arabic, but in September, I will begin Arabic courses. Concerning Islam, it is in your interest to learn more about. I say that because before to read about this religion, I had a really bad image of it. This religion is simpler than we think and not so different as some tries to show it. My best tip: read intelligently and met Muslims, they will not eat you.

I think my topic worth to be considering because we heard everyday about terrorists attacks, about Muslim world, about the relationship between the United States and Middle East, but we only have a single point of view. Moreover, newspapers’ articles or news on televisions do not take a lot of space amd time for international information. Thus, they only relate the events and do not analyse it or try to explain it. The audience makes in own analyse without having previous or basics information of a subject. For instance, an Arab who made a suicide bombing downtown Tel Aviv, is seen as a crazy Muslims terrorist. First, an Arab is not necessary Muslim, and despite that I do not agree with suicide bombing, it is important to look at the context and try to understand why he made a so desperate act. What would you do is the army came to destroy your home and killed your mother in front of your eyes? So it is the reason why this subject worth to be considering; to see the situation from another point of view and try to understand the context.

My steps to make this research is combined with analyse and historic. Indeed, as I said before, historic of Islam, Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran’s politics is necessary. I will complete this part with definitions of specific notions. Afterwards, I will try to analyse the situation.

Outline

Islamic faith and politics: case of Iran’s politics, Hamas and Hezbollah.

Part 1: Historic and definitions

1.1: Islam

A little historic of the religion and definitions of specific notions and vocabulary related to this religion.

1.2: Hamas

A little historic and definitions of notions apply by Hamas.

1.3 Hezbollah

A little historic and definitions of notions apply by Hezbollah.

1.4 Iran’s international and regional politics

A little historic of Iranian politics in the 20^th century and explanation of some specifics notions.

Part 2: Contrast of the subject in international press versus North American press.

Part 3: Analyse of the situation

Islam

Because my research will include some notion of the Islamic religion, I thought that it could be a good idea to make a little historic, and to add few definitions related to Islam which is often, unfortunately, related to violence, oppression, extremism and which is the aim of several prejudices.

Historic:

In 610, Muhammad (peace be upon him), the prophet of Islam and the last of the three monotheist religions, received the first revelations from God through the angel Gabriel, which is the same angel that appeared to Mary. It was on the Mount Hira just above Mecca. One of the most important date to remember is 622. This is the year when Muhammad (pbuh) fled with his followers (Al mouhadjiroune) from Mecca, where they were persecuted, to Medina. We call this migration Hijra or the year of Hijra. This year corresponds to the beginning of the Islamic era and the beginning of the Islamic calendar. The reason of the persecution was that Mecca was a commercial city which earns money from pilgrims who paid to pray idols (stone statues which represented several Gods). With the new religion brought by Muhammad (pbuh), that there is only one God, the leaders of the city feared to lost money from pilgrims. Boycott and persecution began then against the prophet (pbuh) and his followers. In 630, Muhammad (pbuh) and his followers (the number had really increased) came back to Mecca. This is the bloodless conquest of Mecca. No one was killed. This same year the prophet (pbuh) past away.

Divisions:

Like in Christianism, there are division in the islamic religion. The 2 mains are: Sunni and Shi'a. Mostly, 85% of Muslims are Sunni. The division came mainly from the fact that when Muhammad (pbuh) died; according to Sunni there was no sucessor apointed. According to Shia, the prophet (pbuh) apointed Ali, his cousin, to be the sucessor. Finally, Abu Bakr became the Caliph, which means the leader. There are differences in rituals, in fiqh (islamic law), in beliefs, in historic aspects.

Islam: the religion

Islamic: this is an adjective of something which is related to Islam: Islamic history, Islamic religion, Islamic Law.

Muslim: a person who is an adherant to Islam. Be carefull to do not mix with islamist.

Islamist: a person who use the religion with political goals.

Islamism: the ideology that Islam should be a political systems; taking the religion as an instrument to reach some poilitcal goals and often in an extremist way.

Jihad: It means literally effort. In Islam, the effort can be personnal (for exemple, honesty) and can be common, like defending the religion and dignity. This term is unfortunately translated as "holywar" compared with the Christiant Crusades, which does not exist in this from in Islam.

Extremist: a person who has a radical ideas or opinions.



Source: http://www.claybennett.com/images/archivetoons/islam.jpg

If anyone has a question on Islam, even if it is not related to my topic, feel free to ask me by e-mail. (kavasoglu15@hotmail.com)

Articles and website about my topic

There are some of articles that I found on internet:
- Did Iran Try to Derail Mideast Peace Talks?
- Iran's growing regional influence
- Pan-Muslim unity?
- New Middle East Order

Summary of my research paper

My research paper will talk about a subject which is very topical. The war between Hezbollah and Israel in summer 2006, the recent elections which put Hamas in power in Palestine and the nuclear question of Iran put on the Middle East scene three mains actors. Iran and Hezbollah are related because many leaders and organizations, like the Israeli government, accuse Iran to provide military furniture to Hezbollah. The both also share the same thing with regard to the religion: they are both in the same branch of Islam: Shiite. One of the goals reached by Iran could be the fact that they are trying to increase the Shiite influence in the Muslim world, which is Sunnite in majority. The link between Hezbollah and Hamas is that they fight side to side for the same cause: the liberation of Palestine. If Iran has Hezbollah on its side and if Hezbollah has Hamas on its side, Iran get closer of one of its main fellows: Israel. However, this is just supposition and it is at this question that my research paper will have to answer. By answering to this, I will try by the same time to find out if Hezbollah and Hamas are really terrorist organisations. It is what media and western opinion try to show us but is it true? My thesis statement is then: Does Iran use Hezbollah and the Hamas? What could be the aim of this?

First of all, I will explain you the meaning of As-syasssa. It is very simple, it means diplomacy or politics in Arabic. I'm interesting in everything which is related to Arabic and Islamic world.

I have not still decided what's gonna be my thesis statement for the research paper, but I know I will make it on the relation of Iran with the Hezbollah and with the Hamas. I will try to know if the country of Ahmadinejad use the Hamas and the Hezbollah. If yes, what are the goals. By the same way, I would like to find out if the two organisations are what the media call "terrorist organization". I will do my best to give you information in its most objective form.