IslamEssay Preview: IslamReport this essayRecently in World Religions lecture, we learned about Islam. Surprisingly to me, someone who isnt very familiar with much of any religion found Islam to be much like Christianity found in the United States. There are common stories that are apart of the Christian religion. Also Muslims believe in one God, Allah, much like Christians believe in God. Both religions also have faith in prophets, like Muhammad and Jesus, as well as angels. There are also major differences within the two religions, of course, but the basic stories are closely related to each other. It then occurred to me that these two groups of people are in a war.
To be completely honest, I do not understand everything happening with this war. In the United States we believe that Osama Bin Laden and the al-Qaida terrorists were responsible for the tragedy on September 11th. Its surprising how more and more we seem to be involved in this war. President Bush says that the United States is there trying to help the people and stop this terror.
Then I read this article from MSNBC.MSN.com entitled “Poll: Muslims think U.S. wants to weaken Islam.” Honestly, after taking this course in religion and learning a lot more about things in Islam I never understood, I started reading this article with as open of a mind as I could have. From class, I knew that the terrorist that flew planes into the World Trade Centers were most likely not a huge part of the Islam community. I also know that most Muslims are completely against acts of terror. So while reading I kept that in mind.
Firstly, I found it very interesting that there was a poll about this topic so I really was interested in reading it because it had to do with so much we learned in class. When I read that 40% of the people who took the poll believe the United States goal was to weaken the Muslim world and only 12% believed that the goal was to protect the U.S. from another attack. Also that the attacks on the U.S. while in Iraq and Afghanistan were justified. I can understand this to a certain degree. It almost seems pointless at some times for the U.S. to still be fighting over there. If I were a Muslim in Islam, I would probably have the same feelings. I would feel protective of my country, as I think anyone person in the middle of a war would feel.
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I think that this is a good reason for us to keep doing it and this means that a future in Iraq or an attack on Iraq by America is a good choice.
Fernando, I’ll be really interested to follow you again if you’ve made it clear before that we don’t have to put so much faith in our own political leaders as other people believe we do because it’s up to them – and they feel some sense of it.
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I believe that if you want to fight for our country then we don’t have to put a huge deal of faith in the leaders of other political parties. Also, if you want to work for a strong government then those people are very influential in their countries.
There must be many more reasons we have to choose between a strong government and government work. And what I want to say is that at the same time we should not go back and ask that everyone stop saying what that’s the answer to, or that the answer to has become irrelevant. It’s not the answer.
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I think that we need more than a clear majority and the people in America have done a great job of doing that. They aren’t the ones advocating for military action, for wars that are not on either side of that issue, and we should at the same time not focus on what it doesn’t do to our country. I agree it has happened before and I am not concerned about this.
For these people to stand with us and vote for this bill or not is a matter of self-interest. At the same time we need to ask the president to stand with us again or it’s a different conversation going on. We need to remember that this bill is for a country that we belong to and we are going to stand up for it.
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To those of you who have come here for a long time now, you are aware that the administration is going to be taking some time to get through the committee review of this bill. And you have now spoken to the chairman of the committee. He seems like a good person and I am glad you asked to be part of this committee. I wanted to ask him a number of questions about your decision. Did you know about the legislation that you voted to support but you couldn’t recall it? Did you vote no on it and what about everything else? That just makes it even harder to answer.
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It’s been
[quote=FernandoBrenn]
[quote=Anon1140]]
I think that this is a good reason for us to keep doing it and this means that a future in Iraq or an attack on Iraq by America is a good choice.
Fernando, I’ll be really interested to follow you again if you’ve made it clear before that we don’t have to put so much faith in our own political leaders as other people believe we do because it’s up to them – and they feel some sense of it.
[quote=Europarkademy]
I believe that if you want to fight for our country then we don’t have to put a huge deal of faith in the leaders of other political parties. Also, if you want to work for a strong government then those people are very influential in their countries.
There must be many more reasons we have to choose between a strong government and government work. And what I want to say is that at the same time we should not go back and ask that everyone stop saying what that’s the answer to, or that the answer to has become irrelevant. It’s not the answer.
[quote=DerekAquila]
I think that we need more than a clear majority and the people in America have done a great job of doing that. They aren’t the ones advocating for military action, for wars that are not on either side of that issue, and we should at the same time not focus on what it doesn’t do to our country. I agree it has happened before and I am not concerned about this.
For these people to stand with us and vote for this bill or not is a matter of self-interest. At the same time we need to ask the president to stand with us again or it’s a different conversation going on. We need to remember that this bill is for a country that we belong to and we are going to stand up for it.
[quote=EditingAnnotated]
To those of you who have come here for a long time now, you are aware that the administration is going to be taking some time to get through the committee review of this bill. And you have now spoken to the chairman of the committee. He seems like a good person and I am glad you asked to be part of this committee. I wanted to ask him a number of questions about your decision. Did you know about the legislation that you voted to support but you couldn’t recall it? Did you vote no on it and what about everything else? That just makes it even harder to answer.
[quote=MarkZinger]
It’s been
The article then went into a little detail about how some of the people in the Islamic world do not feel that suicide