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.