Abstract
Abortion is a hotly debated topic among Muslim communities, yet not many people outside of Muslim communities noticed this controversy, assuming that all Muslims hold similar opinions. In this paper I seek to answer the question: How do anti-abortion and abortion rights groups deploy ideas about Islam in their activism regarding abortion? I analysed the language those organizations use when describing Muslim communities and Muslim views, in order to learn their opinion. I found that a majority of those organizations did not include arguments from both sides, and almost all the Anti-Abortion Websites included generalizations of the Muslim community, and uses the Islamic Religion’s conservative factors as their method to persuade more Muslim people to join their stance on abortion. My research can serve as a contribution to research on broader questions such as: Why do a significant amount of people worldwide have very monolithic and stereotypical impressions on the Islamic religion? How influential is religion to a country's justice system and social morals? Those are all relevant question that matters significantly to our world, I hope that my research can have an impact and perhaps inspire further research into these questions.
Highlights
1.1 The StereotypeThe subject of abortion has attracted increasing attention worldwide, often in relation to Catholicism
The most compelling sentence on this page is right under the "Aims & Activities" subheading: "The division works with and promotes solidarity with Muslims worldwide in their opposition to abortion..." I do not have any knowledge of what the situation concerning the other three subjects is in the Muslim society; but in terms of abortion, there can be no "solidarity with Muslims worldwide" since there is no single attitude on abortion among the Muslim population
It is reasonable that there is no mention of the debate among Muslim scholars on prolifemuslims.org since this website is created by a Pro-life Muslim activist; it is reasonable that Katme does not want any of the readers of the website to know that there is another side of this argument on abortion
Summary
The subject of abortion has attracted increasing attention worldwide, often in relation to Catholicism. Despite the homogenous and stereotypical representations of Muslim people in the media as politically conservative religious fundamentalists, there are significant differences among Muslim people and Muslim majority countries. This is nowhere more evident than in the diversity of Muslim positions on abortion. The Muslim Public Affairs Council, an organization that describes itself as "a national public affairs nonprofit organization working to promote and strengthen American pluralism by increasing understanding and improving policies that impact American Muslims" (mpac.org), created a video entitled "Abortion - Islam: Questions You Were Always Afraid to Ask" (MPAC National, youtube.com). The interviewer asks a religious leader, "Dr.H, what's the Islamic stance on abortion?" Dr H responds, "Never say never... there is nothing called absolute never... it depends."
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