Modern Religious Experience: Reflection #8 Islam: Two Perspectives

Modern Religious Experience: Reflection #8 Islam: Two Perspectives: "Find where Islamic religious beliefs intersect with current events. Research a Western news source on the story and summarize the article fr..."

Western article: Five Takeaways from leaked documents on Iran

In this article, it talks about information that has leaked on the website WikiLeaks about the American view on Iran and what is happening there. According to this article, Iran is being viewed as a nation that is isolated, not being on the best of terms with it's boarding countries and that they are pushing for a war against Iran, which is an Islmaic Republic while the surrounding countries are Sunni-dominated nations.

Islamic article: Riyadh rejects WikiLeaks claims on Iran

The leader of Saudi Arabia dismisses these claims that were leaked in WikiLeaks, claiming that the countries had never urged the US to attack Iran. The President or Iran claims that these documents are just "psychological warfare" and isn't anything the people should be worried about.

The Islamic people seem to have a more relaxed view on this new development. They understand that these WikiLeaks documents are just a countries point of view on them, which is embarrassing for America since these documents were supposed to be confidential. The Iran president said that these claims and accusations against Iran and about its neighboring countries have no legal basis and there is nothing anyone can do, or will do. The tone from this article also seems to be more relaxed about the whole situation than the CNN article. In that article, there is a lot of speculation as to what will happen now that this information has leaked, what the possible outcome would be with Iran and the US. In the article it talks about war possibly happening, now that the information has leaked who would be the aggressor. This is a completely different tone to the one on the Iran news site. The CNN article shows uncertainty and evokes fear of a war coming, assuming that it is the only way Iran can move forward from here. However both articles seem to agree that these leaks are just America's opinion, though it is the way that they take them that makes these two articles completely different.