Response to Islamic Misconceptions

I believe that many of these misconceptions aren't true in that we, as a nation, have basically decided that anyone of islamic or arabic decent follow many of these misconceptions. One of the misconceptions being that Islamic people are terrorists due to the belief that they fight in "Jihads" or Holy Wars and do so to please their god, but in fact, according to the Allah, will only fight a war when oppressed by others or forced to do so because of great oppression. And in that way I think that they are very similar to us because we do not usually enter wars unless provoked or oppressed enough by the effects of the war to make us want or need to enter it. Much like many other misconceptions these are almost always stereotypical and usually not true.

Another misconception is that those of Islamic faith in no way tolerate those of any other faith. When, infact, part of this is true and is stated in one of their religious texts as something similar to "those who do not follow Islam will not, in the end, be accepted into paradise." But it also says that those who do not follow Islam must be tolerated by all Islamic peoples or they to will never see the light of paradise either. So in my mind they have a very specific form of religion, but they don't try and force it upon others or "shun the non-believers" and in that way keep to many of the "rules", so to speak, of other religions. Even if other religions aren't as strict in these guidelines they are still followed to some degree. In the end the Muslim or Islamic worlds aren't much different than ours except in their perspective of the natural order of things and they should be treated the same as everyone else in the world without all of these misconceptions clouding our judgement.

Part of the Middle Eastern culture that many people dont think about is the celebrations of those that live their such as birthday celebrations. Many people in Egypt and in parts of the Middle East don't even celebrate birthdays because they think it's "Un-Islamic" or simply not part of their culture. One man even stated that "I don't like it when someone tells me happy brithday. It's like a reminder that I'm getting closer to death."
Some symbols of the East or in this case in Egypt included the Ankh or symbol of life that looks like a modern day religious cross in almost everyway except that it has a loop on the top. Another symbol is the All Seeing Eye or Eye of Horus which is found all over the world, including all U.S. paper currency, and shows a pyramid with the top slightly raised above the rest and containing an open eye that supposedly overlooks all that goes on in the world.


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http://www.shira.net/culture/birthdays.htm
http://www.shira.net/symbols.htm

Middle East Freewrite

The only thing that i no about the middle east right now is that it remindsme of a big open desert with lotsf little settlements of people carrying backpacks while leading a camel with the occasuional dude walking by with an RPG or an assualt rifle screaming their ..uhh..whatever kind of war crythey scream ...but mostly im dont think that a very large percentage of the population over their actually does those things becasue i no that a lot of them actually live in very decent cities next to fresh markets and other neccessities that our country has and the places that i mentioned first with the camels are more or less like or ranch style living or rural areas except i dont think that most of our farmers have RPGs and camels...but other than that they're pretty much the same... atleast they seem similar to me...the people with the guns and the nukes and all that fun stuff are the people that live in the cave hide outs in the hills without their camels and who just sit their and wait for a US troop to drive by and then shoot them with sniper or wait for them to hit a road mine...even though this isn't true for most of the country its what ive seen and what gets stuck in my head everytme i think it so regardless of the truth factor here its the only thing that going throught my mind right now other than the fact that i didnt eat a whole lot of breakfast so im pretty much starving to death ...anyway i dont really kow of anything else that i need to get out there right now so im jst goin to keep typing and hahahahaa were done i think oh well.

The thing I might be surprised to learn about the middle east is that they probably dont donearly as much of the terrorist activities throughout their daily lives as many of us percieve themto be doing but i think that oneof the most surprising things ill learnis that how similar they are to us.