Islam part ثلاثة

The current events in Egypt have, for me at least, drawn attention to the muslim world. However, for a revolt in the middle east, religion is playing a surprisingly small role. The majority of the focus seems to be on pure social change - after three decades of oppression and rigged elections, the Egyptian people finally had enough, and ejected Mubarak.

Not just egyptians, but Muslims all over the world were overjoyed by Mubarak's ejection from Egypt - namely, Muslims from Paterson, New Jersey. Our class visited a mosque, by pure chance on the day that Mubarak resigned. The half-hour sermon condemned Mubarak, saying that god put him in the position of power as a test, and he failed. This introduced a new facet of Islam, for me - I was already aware of Allah's omnipotence, but the idea that he sees humans as a project or an experiment was certainly new to me.