In one study, it was discovered that healthcare providers’cultural insensitivity and ignorance about Islamic beliefs hindered access to healthcare services in Australia (Tsianakas & Liamputtong 2002,cited in Simpson & Carter 2008).Rassool (2000) argued that caring from an Islamic perspective is not represented well in Eurocentric nursing literature and that there is a widespread misunderstanding in the concept and practice of Islam within the Western context of healthcare and nursing practice.