why dont american know anything about islam?

Question

Mostly americans are basing what they know from TV and movies. their vision of islam is awful cause they dont think !
i am french muslim from catholic backgrounds
so why for you terrorist=muslim? (american=terrorist? eg: Iraq)

sorry but i dont generalize i said "mostly "cause its the truth all surveys tell that

Answer 1

Why don't the Middle East know anything about Christianity?
All they see is what is on TV & movies & their vision is awful cause they don't think!

Muslims that are on the news & on TV are what we know! Those are terrorists!! If you want to change our perception, then you be against the extreamists too! Not us! Help us rid the world of the ones giving the rest of the world the bad image of YOU!

Answer 2

Because they are accepting what the media wants to show them as the whole story. The media is there to get ratings, that is how they make money. A show on ordinary Muslims living their lives does not get viewers. It doesn't make any money. Show a terrorist camp however, show a raving lunatic like Bin Laden and it will get viewers. Their other source for info is the Christian pastors on TV who tell them what they want them to hear, Islam is wrong, Islam is a terrorist religion. Again this is all about money, they tell you that they are trying to educate people, they need your money to protect our country. This is not true, they need your money so they can buy their mistress a new car. Not that this is done by all of them, I don't mean to imply that, but many are wearing Rolex's while they are taking your hard earned money. They are scaring you so that you will turn to them as your protector.

Answer 3

Because those who are attacking our nation are a part of the Muslim faith. We don't need to know or understand this faith cause we've seen with our own eyes all the reason not to. Sure maybe there are a few who aren't like these terrorists but we don't know that or care cause I'm going to avoid everything related to it.

Answer 4

For starters, our public schools don't do a good job on teaching religions because many feel it's unconstitutional. My husband and I are living-historians...that is we dress up in clothing on the 18th century era and teach history while actually living the way they did. We do this on our free weekends. Anyhow, we recently took up reliving the lives of two muslim turks from the Ottoman Empire. Our research is really amazing us. I am a Christian, but I do enjoy learning about other religions. So, we're not all ignorants, but I am sorry so many of us are.

Answer 5

Are you kidding? Most of us know almost nothing about Christianity, despite pretending to BE Christian in overwhelming numbers! We are blithely, deliberately ignorant of such topics. For me personally, the term "terrorist" does not always equate "islam" or "muslim". I'm afraid I'm very much in the minority among my fellow Yanks, unfortunately.

Answer 6

911

Answer 7

Because the majority (and this goes for most people, not just Americans) believe what they see on TV. they see Bush saying "All Muslims are Terrorists!" and they believe it.

Answer 8

Maybe because they don't want to. If the muslim world is so great what are they all doing over here and in Europe?

Answer 9

Fox News.

Answer 10

i will have self assurance you once you disprove the veracity of the different hundreds of faiths that exist on the instant.. some even heavily on the subject count of Islam and/or branches of it. related to your scientific data: Muhammad fairly outfitted the beginning up of the quran based on the before released testaments. The "scientific" miracles contained interior the quran have been the spectacular findings of: Aristotle [one thousand years previously the quran became "printed", he defined the formation of a baby in a womb] Galen [who before pondered on how guy comes from a drop of semen ] Hippocrates [who additionally alongside with Aristotle theorized on how a fetus develops.. which lates grew to become out to be fairly faulty.. merely like the quran's version] Now merely like all different muslim, you will ask "properly Muhammad became an illliterate so how can we understand even 0.5 of this tips?" answer: Muhammad became additionally a service provider for the period of the seventh century and he belonged to the nomadic tribe of Quraish [pardon me if I have been given the spelling incorrect]. The tribe used to shuttle lots and clearly via traveling, you income clientele and sellers alongside the way. for the period of the time, the findings of Hippocrates or perhaps Galen became mere standard awareness. it extremely is style of like how on the instant all of us be attentive to that oranges have an significant volume of diet C. Muhammad took those findings and contained them interior the hadiths and the quran. additionally, if god is so all-powerful and almighty... do no longer you think of he'd be somewhat clever adequate to incorporate some technological know-how interior the quran no longer before printed/familiar previously? i choose for to propose you examine on all of those components previously posting the question. additionally, that's advisable to examine on the philosophers i've got suggested above.