Do Muslims like white people? And Jewish people?

Question

I am so confused, I hear people say the Muslim religion is a peaceful one, and others say Muslims are taught from day one to PRETEND to love everyone, but they really don't.....what's the REAL deal?
I want to beleive they really do love everyone, then I remember hundrends of Muslims dancing and laughing in the streets of New York on 9/11.....even small children were celebrating! Was this just a small group, or did it reflect the feelings of the entire culture?

Answer 1

First Muslims are not just one race. In fact Arabs make up the smallest about of Muslims. I am a white American Muslim female. So no of course I do not hate white people or any race for that matter. Islam teaches us that race has nothing to do with who the person is. As far as those who danced on 9/11, I can't speak for them. I can only speak for myself. I now live in Egypt and I can say that the people I have met don't necessarily hate Americans, they just hate the government, but I also know many born patriotic Americans who hate the government to.

Answer 2

Purplelicious, you do know that there are white Muslims, right?

And as for Muslims dancing in the streets of New York on 9/11, I find that hard to believe since Muslims were being persecuted everywhere they could be found after the tragedy. My sister who lives in New York didn't leave the house for over a week because she'd heard cases of hate crimes against Muslims. So how can you have a group of Muslims dancing in the streets of a very angry city?

Islam is the only religion that doesn't discriminate because of race or color. Millions of people from all around the world make pilgrimage to the Ka'bah in Makkah every single year. White, brown, black, yellow, rich, poor, fat, skinny; they all pray side by side.

However, Islam does warn people to treat non-Muslims with caution. It tells us not to get too attached, because we will end up losing ourselves and our religion. But no where does it say that you treat non-Muslims harshly or unfairly.

As for Jews, Muslims have a lot of resentment against Jews because of what they did to former prophets, especially Moses and Jesus. But like Christians, we should respect them because they are People of the Book.

Answer 3

If you read the history...Muslim & Jews lived together and they still do in Iran, Egypt, Syria,. There is even an Jewish Senator in Iran.

There is no pretending in the religion. As far the people celebrating on 9-11 it was a small group of people.
there was 400 muslim from 20 different countires who died in Sept 11 Tragedy including some White American Muslims.

Answer 4

There are good muslims and bad muslims. Just there are good people and bad people. Cant judge by the book cover.

“All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over a white — except by piety and good action. Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not therefore do injustice to yourselves. Remember one day you will meet Allah and answer your deeds. So beware: Do not stray from the path of righteousness after I am gone.”

Answer 5

There are over 1 billion Islams practitioners. There is bound to be some bad apples. Most (98%) of them simply want to live in peace and respect everyone, just as 98% of Christians do. Unfortunately, the 2% that are bad get all the media coverage which can really sqew our views of their culture.

Answer 6

Think about it, all major religions born in the land of Muslims. I think they by nature are not only peaceful people but more civilized than many people at this hemisphere. However they have suffered so many invassions and that might be the reason they become now more aggressive. As in most aspects of life, you can not make generalizations, you have to find it out person by person.

Answer 7

U'm a muslim, and we are told to bear no harm to anyone and to love all.. nothing against white people, muslims arent black u know (kinda racist of u a little)
as for jews that's a whole different story, firstly we love the jewish religion and believe in it as we are ordered to. however we dont love isreal or zionists and i'll tell u why
when great britain was occupying the middle east they gave pakestine (occupied land then) to jews to become their (nation) which of course isnt right of them, they didnt own the land nor did they own the people.. jews killed palestineans, destroyed their homes, and then built their (state).
now as for those who were dancing after 9/11:
a) they were mostly palestineans who were opressed by isreal, which is supported by USA, to think that one of their enemy's allies is being attacked is something that gave them some hope against opression, it was nt because they were happy that innocent people died, everyone was sad that they died, ,but the happiness came that the "country" was atrtacked
still those are minority as we value human life. we dont believe people should be killed in vain especially civilians

Answer 8

Islam teaches muslims to love & respect all people be it other religion. To treat all humans + other living things with respect & UTMOST dignity.
Doesn't all religions teaches its followers the same thing?
I bet they all do.
Humans will be humans. The difference among some of us is the way we think, feel & react.
Muslims don't hate Americans or the Jews.but the US Government policies and the way they handle the mideast crisis thats making em iritated.
So please, please don't hate the muslims or else you will not be any other different from that minor group of people.

Answer 9

those who can look past religion like others based on personal merit ,same as people of all faith .muslims are far from the only ones guilty of religious clensing
in england it was once punishable by death not to be cattholic
in the us laws were origonaly made to reflect christian belife
the U.S army was origional designed to eradicate the heathon races
Im sure if one was to reserch religious injustice there are many more examples world wide
Timothy McVeigh was not a mouslim

Answer 10

it's not that i'm a moslem but i think each religion has its own concepts and ideas on life in general. people tend to have different opinion (ignorance probably )about them or any other religion for that matter. it just so happen that the terrorists have used religion to the EXTREME (that's why they are called extremists) to the point of being "bad". Only way to know how Islam works is to do research or know something about it. No harm in doing so.