Experiments in changing the perception of Muslims
You will witness some positive changes in handling the public in the media. As Muslims we can initiate and sustain a lot of goodness if we go with the idea; what is good for Muslims has got to be good for others and vice-versa to sustain the goodness for one and all.
You can read about it in Dallas Morning News with some ugly and many a good comments: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/religion/stories/092709dnmetislamforum.3d2da17.html?ocp=1#slcgm_comments_anchor
Or you can read at:
Forum gives a chance to 'address the stereotypes'
1/10th of 1% of population, be it Muslim, Christian, Jew, Hindu or Russian, Chinese, Arab, English, Latin or otherwise tends to be extremist. In the USA 1% of our population is incarcerated for a variety of crimes. That does not make any group or nation a bad people.
Bad people are bad people, regardless of the religion they wear.
If we punish them as bad people, not as white, not as black, not as Christian, Muslim or otherwise, we will be doing the right thing.
A true religious person would not kill another soul, yet we have the Bin Ladens, the Jordanian Boy, the abortion clinic killers, McEvays, the Red Brigade… there is not one group who does not have bad people in it, not one group.
Granted at this time, the criminals are far more in number claiming to be Muslim, do we need to give legitimacy to them as Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Christian or otherwise?
No Muslim in the United States or elsewhere wants their country to be messed around, it affects each one and their lives. They do more harm to Muslim than others – as we get the brunt of it. Muslim Americans are vigilant, if any one of us even gets inkling that some one is dangerous, we would turn them in to FBI.
Mike Ghouse
http://www.worldmuslimcongress.org/
Forum at Islamic Center of Irving gives attendees a chance to 'address the stereotypes'
10:49 PM CDT on Saturday, September 26, 2009
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/religion/stories/092709dnmetislamforum.3d2da17.html?ocp=1#slcgm_comments_anchor
Bad people are bad people, regardless of the religion they wear.
If we punish them as bad people, not as white, not as black, not as Christian, Muslim or otherwise, we will be doing the right thing.
A true religious person would not kill another soul, yet we have the Bin Ladens, the Jordanian Boy, the abortion clinic killers, McEvays, the Red Brigade… there is not one group who does not have bad people in it, not one group.
Granted at this time, the criminals are far more in number claiming to be Muslim, do we need to give legitimacy to them as Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Christian or otherwise?
No Muslim in the United States or elsewhere wants their country to be messed around, it affects each one and their lives. They do more harm to Muslim than others – as we get the brunt of it. Muslim Americans are vigilant, if any one of us even gets inkling that some one is dangerous, we would turn them in to FBI.
Mike Ghouse
http://www.worldmuslimcongress.org/
Forum at Islamic Center of Irving gives attendees a chance to 'address the stereotypes'
10:49 PM CDT on Saturday, September 26, 2009
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/religion/stories/092709dnmetislamforum.3d2da17.html?ocp=1#slcgm_comments_anchor
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