A Look Into Islam |

In recent years I feel that with the reports from media sources along with many tragic events such as 9/11, has led to a negative portrayal of people of the Islam faith. Since acts of terrorism have been associated and linked with members of the Islam it is the topic of much speculation and accusation. America has a whole especially in the Southern regions in which we live known has the Bible belt has a high volume of Christians. In smaller towns like the one I grew up in typically there wasn’t a lot of diversity in the religious sector. Personally the diversity I experienced amongst religious groups growing up was mainly only amongst differing denominations of the Christian faith. I never had friends growing up that said they were going to the Mosque on Sunday the majority of my peers attended Church services similar to one's that I was accustomed to.
I was taught as child any other religion that goes against our beliefs of Christianity were wrong and not to be associated with. For the most part since I never had the opportunity to learn aspects of other religious practices from peers the idea has always simply been foreign to me. Other religious groups’ views in their entirety were completely based on assumptions. With no true basic knowledge or insight from any followers of other religions it can cause the viewpoint to be skewed. This is for the most part the main reason for a lot of Americans having a negative disposition on Muslims. It has been studied that people are often time fear the things that are different along with not fully understanding or knowing. All my assumptions of Muslims came about earlier simply from learning different aspects of their faith sporadically. For instance randomly I learned that Muslims don't eat pork that was very strange for me to grasp at a young age because my family culture typically cooks high