Islam

On Tuesday we talked about the Islam religion.  Like Judaism, I didn’t really know much about the religion when we began talking about it.  We learned the five misconceptions of the Islam religion.  The first major misconception I learned from the discussion Tuesday was that when talking about this religion you don’t mix up the word Islam and Muslim.  These two words mean different things, Islam is the name of the religion and Muslim is the name of the person who worships the religion.  These two words aren’t interchangeable.  I felt like this misconception was very important.  The other 4 misconceptions were Muhammed is divine, which is saying he is God.  The next was the Koran promotes violence and oppression of women.  When people say they heard something like this from the Koran, 97 % of the time it isn’t true.  The other two misconceptions are all Muslims are terrorists and all Muslims are Arabs.  The last two misconceptions are very judgmental I feel because not everyone that is Christian are terrorists.  To me saying that all Muslims are terrorists is like saying that just because there are a few Christian people that are terrorists, all Christians are too.  I felt like this discussion really helped my understand a lot about what people might think about the Islam religion that isn’t true.