MFIC Module 1 - What did I learn

I take refuge in Allah from the accursed shaytan. In the Name of Allah the most gracious, and the most merciful


What did I learn? After studying this module I learned that America is more interested in secularism than in democracy. As a child and youth I believed that the media was credible and reliable for information on all aspects of life. So it is no wonder that I carried with me the belief that American government seeks at it utmost agenda to spread democracy for the purpose to help the rest of the world. I am quickly learning how I have been deceived by the medias that I trusted. Even within the school text books our recent history is written in such a way to suggest that America is fighting wars for the purpose to spread their democratic ideas and hence liberate people from their oppressive rulers. I remember studying in school about proxy wars fought between the Russians and America. Many of these wars and conflicts were said to be over the two ideologies of communism and democracy. Although this may be true or untrue, our school text books do not represent the bigger picture. America’s prime agenda is in promoting secularism. A great example is that America did nothing as the democratic process was overpowered in Algeria by military coup. The Islamic party was sure to win the elections


I have been studying the effect of Roman and Greece influence on our society however this module helped to fill in some of missing puzzle pieces. I did not know that the primary ritual of the Greek idol worshippers was sacrifices


I learned definitions such as deism. And I was given small insight into the understanding between our “clash of civilizations”