The Islamic identity of the youth of the community college of Qatar in light of the Islamic culture curriculum to meet the challenges of contemporary global values.

Abstract

The world is now going through many changes and changes in values, culture and morals that affect the identity of peoples, especially Islamic ones, and the calls of homosexual currents among us far away, which may negatively affect them. Preserving and strengthening the Islamic identity among the Community College of Qatar students has become an urgent requirement in light of these incoming contemporary values. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the Islamic identity of the youth of the Community College of Qatar in light of the Islamic culture approach to meet the challenges of contemporary universal values. The researcher used the descriptive analytical approach and designed a questionnaire consisting of (16) questions distributed on one axis, which is the development of the curriculum of the Islamic culture course and enhancing its impact on preserving the Islamic identity. The study sample consisted of (170) male and female students, from the Community College of Qatar, both Qatari and non-Qatari. The results of the study showed that the development of the curriculum of the Islamic culture course and enhancing its impact on preserving the Islamic identity came with a weighted average of (4.35), in a general direction "strongly agree". Accordingly, the study contributes at the academic and educational level to try to find an effective mechanism to promote the Islamic identity of Muslim youth at the Community College of Qatar to confront contemporary global values that are incoming and contrary to Islamic faith and identity, by working on developing Islamic culture courses and highlighting the manifestations of destructive universal values that affect the identity of Muslim youth, with the need to make teaching the Islamic culture course compulsory for all the Community College of Qatar students to immunize them from incoming currents and destructive Western values .