Why do people only judge Arab Muslims?
Many people look to war torn, impoverished, arab countries to prove Islam is a violent and/or barbaric and stone aged religion. For one, not all Arab countries are like this. Saudi Arabia is very peace full, developed, educated, rich, and has a very low crime rate when compared to the U.S. U.A.E is also very educated, developed, and peaceful. Kuwait, Yemen, and others are great places to live. My point is though, that most Muslims are not Arab. Actually only 20% of Muslims are Arabs. The majority of Muslims in the world are Asians. Yet we don't see anyone pointing fingers at Muslim Asian countries saying they are underdeveloped, poorly educated, barbaric, and violent. What do you really know about Islam? Do you think all Muslims are Arabs and all Arabs are Muslims? Do you think all 1.5 Billion Muslims are uneducated, barbaric, stone aged, and violent? If even 15,000,000 Muslims did fit that description that would be only 1% of all Muslims and that leaves the other 99% as good, law abiding, educated people. Hammer, you "heard" this. This does not make it so. And if a person from a foreign country were to come to the U.S.,many would probably agree we are a racist country. Why form single race groups, treat other races differently, makes racist jokes, make race hate crimes, et cetera. That and we were very terrible to Native Americans, Africans, Japanese (WWII), Koreans (Korean War), Latinos (immegration), and now Arabs. Brisk, no I am not. Although there are many Arab Muslims who hate and are very against insurgeant groups. Think of the insurgents like the Mafia in the U.S. during the early to mid 1900's. The people hated it and some loved it, but the fact is the Mafia had power and might and the people had little power to defend themselves and destroy the mafia. Even still gangs and mafias are very damaging to American society. The Iraqi people are good people, I know, I'm in Iraq right now.
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"U.A.E is also very educated, developed, and peaceful." I hear there's actually a lot of racism in the UAE. Not one of my favorite places to choose. Edit: What makes you so different?
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ONLY? Hah! Everyone is judged and everyone judges. Most people nowadays know (or should) that most muslims are not bad people,.
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Muslims were and are peace until US intervene in our matters.
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People who think that way haven't thought much IMO. They are products of their own environments and the world which tells them what to think instead of thinking for themselves and gaining knowledge themselves. Some of the best people I've ever met were Arab Muslims and some of the worst were, too....the same for any other group of people. Once people stop being so afraid of what they don't know and realize people are mostly just 'people' the same as everyone else trying to survive, then cultural and religious biases might become something of the past.
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Because some people are sick, racist, jerks!! They hate people who don't look..."Normal". Normal to them is people who look like they are. I'm not being racist. I don't care what religion, or race people are. I respect that.
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I hear ya brother. If ignorance is bliss they are all in Nirvana. I am white, Scottish and Muslim and the amount of times I have been told to go back to the desert....I say ''And where in Glasgow do they have a desert, exactly? Muslims are of all colours, races and nationalities and that is the beauty of Islam, shame they are too filled with bigotry to see that. Belated Eid Mubarak Brother... @Sky - LOL sorry but what makes you think Muslims dont look ''normal''? We dont have two noses or three eye balls we are just your normal looking human beings..... I dont think you meant it the way it sounded but, sorry just had to say.....LOL was funny though.
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Are you denying that there is strong political and public support for insurgency groups in the Middle East? Because that is simply not true.
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Islamic Civilization http://english.islamstory.com/article.php?cat_id=3
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