Taking+a+deeper+look+on+Islamic+Religion+By+Erika+Hernandez

At some point we all look up our religion online and most of the time we get the wrong information but we also get some right information. Now my question is //"How does the **actual** religion of Islam relate to the book **Persepolis** ? " // For this project I will do my research by reading books. ‍Most of us think that Muslims always fall under one ethnicity with us which is Somalian. But since Islam has over 1 billion followers, Muslims must have different races, from Asian to Latino, to white. Every country has Muslims, and they come within every ethnicity too,not just Somalians as we all assume .They believe in one God who's name Allah, which is the Arabic name for God. They believe that he created the world and everything in it. Muslims obey Allah's wishes as they are explain in the holy book name the Qur'an and follow his guidance in all parts of their lives. They believe that the Qur'an is the word of God (Allah), the Qur'an is divided into 114 chapters, called surahs and is made up of thousands of different verses. The Holy Qur'an mentions the names of 25 prophets, Prophet Adam being the first and Prophet Muhammad the last. Their stories are full of lessons for human kinds as they are the best role models to follow. In the book Persepolis, Marji mentions that she already wanted to be a prophet at the age of six and also mentions that there had been a few others before her. The reasons why she wanted to be a prophet was because her maid did not eat with them, her father has a cadillac, and because her grandma's knees always ached, she also mentions that she had a holy book. She says she want to be " justice, love, and the wrath of God all in one.

The book //Persepolis// written by Marjane Strapi is a story of her childhood under the Islamic religion. She was inspired to write this book because Iran has largely been discussed " in connection with fundamentalism, fanaticism and terrorism. " She mentions that as a women who lived in Iran for half of her life she would know that characterization is not true. Like many of us believe " that an entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists." For example in the video //Rick Steves' Iran: Yesterday and Today// many of us thought Islamic people hated us ones because of our and government and our government issues, but this is simply not true anymore. Islam, the most political of religions, now enjoys a privilege place in Washington, just as it does in almost every capital in the world. I assure you that we all have judge a person and to be honest who doesn't? We judge about how they talk, dress and even their beliefs. But if we want our friends or classmates to have the confidence to tell us about their religion we need to learn to support them. In the book Persepolis Marji mentions that she was very religious deep down but that her family were "very modern and avant-garde." But some girls enjoy wearing their veils, If you look in the first page of Persepolis everyone is complaining and playing with their veils but there is one girl who asking for her veil back, I believe the fact that it became an obligatory to wear a veil in 1980 just made women go in the street and make demonstrations for and against the veil. At one of the demonstrations, a journalist took a picture of Marji's mom demonstrating against the veil, so she end up dying her hair and wore dark glasses to disguise herself.

Now, Strapi wrote this book to portray that Iran and its people are more than "fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism." Did she accomplished her goal? Does her book confirm your previous view of Iran?