Why is our world an aggressive one instead of a peaceful one? All of us know what has been happening in Syria and Iraq. Basically, people over there are killing each other because they are from different religious denominations. There are different religions, but the popular one is Islam, and Muslims divide into several groups, such as, Sunni, Shia, Sufi and others and they are killing each other more than any other civil societies. Al Qaeda, ISIS and other small terrorist organizations are taking over in some places in Syria and Iraq, and they all are fighting to enforce the sharia law on weak and poor people. For those of you who do not what is sharia law is, it means Islamic law. Sharia is a set of standard to control every aspect of a
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As my experience, my family and I moved to a new town and a new neighborhood in a several years ago, then a strict religious family started to move and build new houses and mosques in our new neighborhood. Our neighbors and we used to gather and pray in one mosque, when they came and build several mosques, they segregate us. The idea of having mosque in the neighborhood not just for praying but to get the neighbors to gather and build a strong relationship between them. However, they brag on who is having the hugest and newest mosque. They are a huge family and most of them are farmers and they have a big business in the farm market. It is popular and normal in their family to send their own children to join the terrorist group. Moreover, they are a lack of education and they barely could make to first year of high school. I grew up in an open minded religious family and my parents have lived in the United States and Australia, they have never talked to me about small things that consider prohibited in our religion. However, I received a lot of hate from my strict religious neighbors because how I dress and act. One day I found my car’s window broke with no reason. Also, sometime they treat me as outsider by calling me in a foreign name to make fun of me because I do not usually wear the traditional clothing of Saudi Arabia, and they think it disobey and sin to wear a regular pants and a t-shirt. Beside, the Saudi Arabia traditional has nothing to do with
As my experience, my family and I moved to a new town and a new neighborhood in a several years ago, then a strict religious family started to move and build new houses and mosques in our new neighborhood. Our neighbors and we used to gather and pray in one mosque, when they came and build several mosques, they segregate us. The idea of having mosque in the neighborhood not just for praying but to get the neighbors to gather and build a strong relationship between them. However, they brag on who is having the hugest and newest mosque. They are a huge family and most of them are farmers and they have a big business in the farm market. It is popular and normal in their family to send their own children to join the terrorist group. Moreover, they are a lack of education and they barely could make to first year of high school. I grew up in an open minded religious family and my parents have lived in the United States and Australia, they have never talked to me about small things that consider prohibited in our religion. However, I received a lot of hate from my strict religious neighbors because how I dress and act. One day I found my car’s window broke with no reason. Also, sometime they treat me as outsider by calling me in a foreign name to make fun of me because I do not usually wear the traditional clothing of Saudi Arabia, and they think it disobey and sin to wear a regular pants and a t-shirt. Beside, the Saudi Arabia traditional has nothing to do with