How It's Like To Be Muslim Me
Sitting in my seat observing my surroundings, I saw a couple, sitting a few seats ahead of me, strangely dressed. I had a sinking feeling in my stomach that something was horribly wrong. That these people were out to terrorize the passengers and me. I sat there praying to Allah, reciting the same prayers that those strangely dressed passenger may have recited.
I am a Muslim. I believe in my faith. I believe in God. I believe that all people have been created equally, yet I know that not everyone is accepted, not even tolerated.
Being brought up in a fairly diverse and accepting community I have rarely been jugged for being a Muslim nor have I been harassed, but I have been in situations full of fear because of my religion. …show more content…
We learned how to be good people, never harming others, and to treat all people with respect.
From time to time I would view a video where an ignorant person would claim that every muslim was a terrorist. I would question God, asking why? Why do these people think so low of us? Why are these terrorists waging war plegining on the holy book while going against the bases of Islam? Why do people affiliate Islam with terrorism? Then I would think back to my teachings and conclude that these people don't understand that Islam is a religion of peace, because they have never seen it. The only representation of Islam that they have, is from the radical ‘muslims’ which are less than 1% of all
Sitting in my seat observing my surroundings, I saw a couple, sitting a few seats ahead of me, strangely dressed. I had a sinking feeling in my stomach that something was horribly wrong. That these people were out to terrorize the passengers and me. I sat there praying to Allah, reciting the same prayers that those strangely dressed passenger may have recited.
I am a Muslim. I believe in my faith. I believe in God. I believe that all people have been created equally, yet I know that not everyone is accepted, not even tolerated.
Being brought up in a fairly diverse and accepting community I have rarely been jugged for being a Muslim nor have I been harassed, but I have been in situations full of fear because of my religion. …show more content…
We learned how to be good people, never harming others, and to treat all people with respect.
From time to time I would view a video where an ignorant person would claim that every muslim was a terrorist. I would question God, asking why? Why do these people think so low of us? Why are these terrorists waging war plegining on the holy book while going against the bases of Islam? Why do people affiliate Islam with terrorism? Then I would think back to my teachings and conclude that these people don't understand that Islam is a religion of peace, because they have never seen it. The only representation of Islam that they have, is from the radical ‘muslims’ which are less than 1% of all