and their traditions have facilitated potential or directly caused healthcare conflicts. 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.