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How Western Society View Muslims Today
Why is it that Muslims in today's society are labeled? They are judged by their appearance. They are stereotyped by the bad deeds committed by a small percentage of the vast population of Muslims in today's world. They are judged by all the misconceptions about Islam mostly spread by Hollywood movies. Muslims in Western society are especially ridiculed, stereotyped, misunderstood, and put down by the media today. In all the movies the U.S. has produced, I haven't seen one good comment or act carried out by a Muslim. Either the Muslims in the movie are terrorists, wife beaters, or oppressed women. This is so untrue for the whole Muslim population in the real world. Yes, it may be partially true, but what religion does not have terrorists, wife beaters, or oppressed women, and it doesn't speak for the religion, it speaks for the culture or the individuals.
Thinking About God -- First, A Few Tricky Questions
Righteousness is not to turn your faces toward the East or the West, but this is righteousness -- to believe in God and the Last Day, and the angels, and the Book, and the messengers; to give one's wealth out of love for Him, for your family and for those without family, the needy and the wayfarer, and those who ask (out of need) and for the freeing of slaves; and to be steadfast in prayer and to practice regular charity; and those who keep their promises when they promise (something), and the patient in pain (or suffering) and adversity, and throughout all periods of panic. Such are the people of truth, and those are the God-conscious (surah 2:177).
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