Islam
This week in class, we learned a lot about Islamic religion. I honestly didn’t really know anything about this religion before discussing it in class. We basically went over the misconceptions that society has toward Muslims, and discussed why they were not true. I know that I have heard many stereotypes about Muslims in general, but I didn’t know how badly misconstrued they really were.
The misconception that I’m sure a majority of the population has heard or even considered to be true themselves, is that Muslims are terrorists. In class, we were shown a few pictures of different terrorist events that have happened in the country done by Christian people. After discussing this, I realized that Christians aren’t all looked at as being terrorists just because of some acts that a few of them committed. This is contradicting because Muslims are all perceived to be terrorists because of 9/11. It is not right or fair to stereotype a whole community of people just by what a few of the people did.
Another thing that I didn’t know about Muslims is that they worship the same God as Christians do. They just use a different name in their language which is Allah. They also have a monotheistic religion, which means that they have only one personal God which is again, the same as Christianity. I never realized how many parallels that other religions had to Christianity.
Something that I thought was pretty cool while learning about Islamic religion, was the story of Muhammad and how he became the last prophet. He was just meditating in a cave, and the angel Gabriel spoke to him and had him repeat a whole bunch of scriptures which turned out to be the Karan. Another misconception that people have that deals with Muhammad, is that people think Muslims see him as divine. Muhammad is not God, and no Muslim believes that he is.
It was nice to be able to learn about Islamic religion, since I didn’t know anything about it before. It is cool to see the parallels that it has to Christianity. I also found it interesting how bad the misconceptions of Muslims are. People should take time to learn about their religion and their way of life before thinking certain things about them.