It is extremely disturbing to see all major polls and surveys in USA showing an increasing amount of hatred towards Islam with more and more Americans expressing unfavorable views of Muslims. It is sad to know that today more Americans think of Islam as an “evil religion” and Muslims being “arrogant and aggressive” than in the tense months after 911. Distinguished professor Juan Cole at University of Michigan has rightly pointed out that Muslims in USA are facing a real danger in coming years. His exact words are “*This two-faced policy and self-contradictory rhetoric has contributed to growing hatred and bigotry toward Muslims in the US, which is no less worrisome than the hatred Jews faced in Europe in the 1920s. It is dangerous because of what it can become”. *
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In a way, some muslims, brought this hatred upon the muslim community. Now all of us should do something to set it straight; without any violence. Like holding muslim charities and peace talks or whatever, it shouldnt be too hard, Islam = Peace (litrelaly!)
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It is really a very dangerous situation with far reaching ramifications. With the kind of hatred spreading across the world towards islam, it is only a matter of time before the world is polarised. Once this happens, the hardcore islamists will outnumber the moderates. This will lead to untold hardships on the islamists themselves due to the fact that opportunities would be limited and more and more people would take to suicide bombings just to spite society.
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I think this is not only a case with USA. Yesterday there was one guy.. telling me how the turkish expatriats in germany cannot adjust to the way of life here. His complain is that the turkish are turning more religious, turkish muslims are involved in most crimes and so on. He says, that in turkey they are less religious while here in the pretext of preserving their culture they turn more religious.
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An intesresting observation and i concur with it 100 percent. I have seen pakistanis doing the same while living in the western countries. Not that there is anything wrong with it but sometimes it leads towards the segregation of the society.
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ermm let me see...did the pahroahs like the jews, did the romans like the christians,.....and what were all the crusades about..hundreds of years of them. Now your'e telling me you are alarmed by a poll saying the majority in the US don't like Muslims?
You must have an IQ of a turnip to surprised by this.
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My dear....there is no such thing as segregation or fear of seggregation in US as far as I know for muslims. US is open to all ideas and religions. its up to muslims how much they want to show the goodness of their religion. Average US citizen is almost completely oblivious of Islamic teachings and its goodness. Media plays a strong role in this regard and is very effective I must say but still educated people seem skeptical of islamophobia portrays on media. Personal chracter is important and has been working greatly by muslims despite the media tries to make you believe otherwise. US is not in Europe and Thank God its isn't.
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I agree that Islam is a peaceful religion. There is a strong need of Muslims within Islam who understand this, to teach fanatic, violent groups within Islam the true peaceful Islam. Or finally a product is not judged by people by borchure, but the delivery it gives....
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Oh how true. Christian school girls in Indonesia are beheaded because of the anger Muslims feel about Palestine. Hindu Temples are blown up in Indonesia because of the humiliation Muslims feel from Iraq. How could the irrational Americans have a bad preception of Islam?
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Ma, is that the same thing as denial? You know, the river in Africa.
By the way, I haven't seen much effort to change that ignorance. It seems a lot of people are "ignorant" about Islam. Maybe it's an image problem.
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The perception was always there. After all you have people in the US govt, who are senators, who are teachers, and the future of US society that say that evolution is a scam. That if you are only a certain type of christain you will enter heaven.
Americans have alot of odd perceptions indeed. They believe their soliders are rapists and genociders. They believe they are morally good. They believe that americans are good at everything. They do not have odd perceptions. They are delusional.
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I'm interested to find out what type of people the survey group was comprised of?
Yes, to an extent Muslims have brought it upon themselves, especially after the violent protests and riots over the cartoons.
Media has played a major role in making Islam and Muslims look bad. It has painted all Muslims with the same brush, which is totally wrong.
All in all, bad time for Muslims and we as Muslims need to put forth a good image of ourselves by taking part in activities that would post a better picture of us.
At the same time, the Americans shouldn't forget how they like to terrorize and imprison citizens of other nations by destroying their countries. They need to mind their own business and fix things at home first prior to fixing things elsewhere.
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I rest my case.
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By the way, I haven't seen much effort to change that ignorance. It seems a lot of people are "ignorant" about Islam. Maybe it's an image problem.
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You havent seen much of an effort? what do you mean? people need to report to you about thier ongoings do they?
You havent seen it because you wont look. Your very keen to blame it on Islam and muslims yet you forget there are other bigger factors at play here and religion is only a very small part. You zoom in to a minority and project it on the majority hence why you have a problem regardless of what image is being shown, or what efforts are being made.
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You havent seen much of an effort? what do you mean? people need to report to you about thier ongoings do they?
You havent seen it because you wont look. Your very keen to blame it on Islam and muslims yet you forget there are other bigger factors at play here and religion is only a very small part. You zoom in to a minority and project it on the majority hence why you have a problem regardless of what image is being shown, or what efforts are being made.
Ma, incase you missed the headline, here it is again:
Negative Perception Of Islam Increasing
Poll Numbers in U.S. Higher Than in 2001
The problem is not that I have not seen an effort, it is that no one sees an effort. The image, Ma, is that you'll burn down buildings when your prophet is drawn, but do nothing when 40 people are blown up in his name.
Ma, Al-Jazeera shows more killings, beheadings, and bombings than CNN ever can. Maybe if the majority want to stop this perception, they should do something about the minority.