Journal Article 1: Twisting Islam to Justify CrueltyPaul Sheehan in his article titled "Twisting Islam to Justify Cruelty" published in the Sydney Morning Herald (27 /05/2013) responds to the 2013 murder of drummer Lee Rigby, a British soldier, and explores the Islamic position on the killing of non-Muslims. Sheehan argues that Islam advocates the killing of non-Muslims and validates this view using the views of a Muslim cleric, Omar Bakri Mohammed, selected verses from the Quran, and statistics from Thereligionofpeace.com. Sheehan's view, while clearly sound, generalizes the Muslim population and fails to recognize the complexity of Islam and its followers. First, the author is too simplistic in his approach to the Muslim population, as he presents the views of Omar Bakri Mohammed as being representative of a large portion (thousands of Muslims) of the Muslim community. In doing so, it neglects or ignores the many groups and subgroups that exist in Islamic society, including Sunnis, Shiites, Salafis, Sufis, Wahhabis, etc. These different subclasses have different perspectives on the fight against infidels and its permissibility in Islam; thus, his view does not cover the variety of views present on the issue of the killing of non-Muslims existing in the Islamic community. Second, the author's very selective use of quotations generalizes the issues at hand and Sheehan distills the Holy Quran, a very complex, dense and complex text, more or less just a collection of fragmented quotations. For unbiased meaning to come from the Quran, a certain degree of academic knowledge about the historical context of particular verses, an understanding of the process of revelation (wahy), knowledge...... middle of paper... .. .the distinction between modesty and immodesty is easily blurred. While the majority, like Zulfiye Tufa, understand that “fashion is a means of expressing…internal beliefs,” other individuals tread a thin line. It is for this reason that "hijabistas", especially fashion bloggers who have thousands of followers, receive criticism both inside and outside the Muslim sphere, regarding their promotion, conscious or involuntary, of the coexistence of the hijab with a adorned sexual self, exhibiting beauty in the public sphere. The article explores the different forms or interpretations of the hijab that are emerging, but underlying the text is the concept that while it may be a means of individualism, the hijab is inevitably a public display, but at the same time very intimate time, of relationship with God and has great spiritual significance for the individual.