Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Americans and Muslims
There are about 1 billion muslims in the world according to the Almanac and it is atually not known how many muslims are in the US. Many muslims, when they come to the US they abandon their religion but they still consider themselves and muslims. Most of the Muslims come from different countires. The problem that Americans have is that they think all Muslims are Arab however only 18% of muslims are Arab. This is a big musunderstanding in the U.S. Also most people dont get this education when they are younger most of the religion classes that are offered that talk and educate people about other religions are in Colloge.
11 comments:
salam.
you wrote:"Many muslims, when they come to the US they abandon their religion."
but I think this is Not True. because they abandon the rituals of their religion. and we can Not Reduction religions to their rituals. because the heart of the religions is Faith and ethics Not Rituals...
But what is religion without rituals??Don't Rituals make up Religion??
Because some say that they just believe in God and thats it so in your case they would still have a religion??
hi there , i think every one have to choise what to do with his/her religion it going to depend on what's in ur mind,in another hand i think that if some one abandone the religion where hi/her grew up it casuse he was not sure enough about the doctrine
Hi, Kawathar.
nice text. i believe the principle of Islam is not clarified yet for most of people in the world. i don't want to say if people know what Islam is, they will join to Islam. but lots of stereotypes exist in our society about Islam, specially in the U.S. such as having terrorism thought, polygamy, and so on. as a Shia, i think we need to promote a nice view of Islam with being nice to people, wearing nice color costume, being clean in appearance, and being active in our society. slowly, these stereotypes will be vanished some day and we can be proud of our religion.
good luck
your teammate in English4persian
Reza
Thanks everyone for your comments.
I do think that everyone has the choice to choose a religion for themeselve and I'm not here to judge I just want to open up a discussion about the stereotypes or just the simple everyday problems that muslims have in America.
And for my teammate Reza I agree with 100% I do think that people all around the world especially in the U.S don't know enough about Islam. I live in the U.S and being a muslim girl that follows the religion's ritouals people come up to me and ask me uneducated questions. For example: Do you have hair uder you scarf? Do you have Hamburgers in your country? And let me say before 9/11 people that I knew in the U.S knew nothing about Islam. However after 9/11 some poeple went and educated themeselves, some got the wrong idea about Islam and some got the right Idea.
Thanks everyone..
I would love to hear from you again.
Hi, Kawathar.
Good Post, I agree with you.
Best wishes
Hassan
Ruston,LA
Thanks moon king and thanks to everyone..
Good Job Kawthar. Very good post. I definately agree with you. I think they should teach this in High school so people could understand and not assume every arab is a Muslim. But I also disagree with you to an extent. I know a guy who listens to rap and sings along and knows what their saying is a sin but he also performs the rituals of a Muslim. Is he considered a Muslim?
Yeah..I believe so..Well I'm not here to judge I just think that a person that does not follow his or her religion's rituals could be considered muslim, Christian, Jewish or any other religion that is out their. I mean simply believing in the basic beliefs of a religion should be enough, but who am I to judge. Their is a greater power to judge.
من الغريب أن نسمع مثل هذه المواقف في بلد من بلاد العالم الأول وهي الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية
وكما معروف لدا الجميع أنها بلاد الحرية والديمقراطية الحقيقة وبلد مضمونة فيها كل الحقوق وفق القانون ولا يوجد هناك تميز بين مواطن وأخر عكس ما موجود في دول العالم الثالث أن ما حدث لكل مسلم من مسلمين العالم في أمريكا وأوربا بعد 11/9 وما حدث من حادثة مشئومة بالنسبة للعالم اجمع للأسف الشديد هذه الحادثة صنفت وحسبت على الإسلام والمسلمين وهذه كانت جريمة بحقهم لأسباب عديدة أولها في الحادثة استشهدوا مسلمين وثانيا من غير المسلمين هم أبرياء ونحن نصنف البشر صنفين في الدين الإسلامي إما أخ في الدين وهم المسلمين وأما أخ في الخلق إي نضير بالخلقة وهذا يشمل كل البشر من إي الأديان لذا بعد حادثة سبتمبر كانت هناك ردود أفعال شرسة وبربرية على المسلمين ظلموا فيها على جميع الأصعدة نحن لا نتفاجىئ من وجود مثل هذه المواقف والحوادث في دول العالم الثالث لسببن إما عدم وجود قانون أو لعدم تطبيق هذا القانون بالشكل الصريح إما في دولة مثل أمريكا هذه تصبح كارثة وانأ في رأي الشخصي في هذه السنوات لا توجد مثل هذه مواقف لان العالم عرف أن تنظيم القاعدة الإجرامي هو لايمثل دين معين ولا قومية والكل يعلم أن العراق وأفغانستان هم ضحية القاعدة للسنوات الماضية
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