I am muslim and not Mexican, can I please get more respect from the good people of the U.S.A?

Question

I will live amoung you and learn your ways, customs, language and work legally next to you. But allah will dictate what I must do against the infidels.

Answer 1

If your a good person living in the United States no matter where you are from, I will except you and consider you my friend and I would treat you as my own family...Respect comes from who you are as a person and how you treat other people, so there for Respect is earned...I have no problem with you having a different religion, I am Christan and I believe in God 100 percent, God is Love and he wants all people to Love those as you love yourself, and so that is what I do everyday to all people and all religions. I have met many Muslims and they have treated me with kindness and respect, You have much to offer here in the United States, you can help those that are afraid and help them to understand that there is good and bad in all people in all religions, Best wishes to you and your family here in the U.S.

Answer 2

You sound great, except I find the last part of the infidels concerning. Some might define infidels as Americans while some would have a more narrow interpretation. Our freedom of religion has limits. Your religion can not interfer with others. If lets say President X Kills thousands of Muslims, would Allah dictate to use violence against President X to help elevate the injustice. We can not allow that to happen. We would wish you use the court system or peaceful protest to get justice. Perhaps if you explain what is the limit of what Allah can ask of you and define Infidels to us, our concerns may be eleviated.

As for those who call you racist, Ignore them. Some of us recognize that you were probably targetted at an earlier question and just responding from a false accusation. Usually those who make such accusation over one statement are those who are filled with hate themselves.

Edit: I went back to see why you might be so concern that we mistaken you as a mexican and came up with the Star trek joke earlier. What I found was a previous question you asked. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Agru_u3we4bUMmp8gm.a5Wjsy6IX?qid=20070412012909AAymoou

We have a grave concern of your definition of infidels. You seem to define all of our soldiers as one. I'm not sure what Allah wants you to do with them, but I doubt any Americans would want to take a chance on it. Why would you want to come to a country with so many infidels ?

There are racist in here, but most of us do not have a problem with law abiding people of any nationality. The key here is law abiding. If Allah tells you to violate one of our laws, you are no longer welcome.

Answer 3

I am a Muslim, but I feel you are a mean person based on the way you ask your question. First of all, who told you that Mexicans are bad people! I'm working in a gulf country with all types of people ( British, French, Americans, etc.), some of them are good, others are not. The same applies on Muslims, some are good and others are bad.There is no rule that a certain nationality is good and other is bad. Sometimes politics and descriminations force a certain nationality to be more aggressive, and that applies on all nations. We have seen what Americans did in Abu Graib or in Guantamu, but I won't say that all Americans are bad. I think before any one asks a question, he has to think in advance.

Answer 4

What's that suppose to mean? That Mexicans do not deserve respect? That kind of thinking is why people do not respect you and you are a liar. You don't want to learn their ways, adopt their language and work legally, if that was so, you won't call us "infidels" you wouldn't make sure that people would not take you as Mexican. You would accept other religions as you want us to accept yours. Respect is earned, there is not something that you demand or go to the store and buy a bag of respect. If you want respect, start by respecting others and don't try to impose your belicious believesa nd make concealed threats.

Answer 5

"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
— Theodore Roosevelt 1907

Answer 6

Respect is earned. It has nothing to do with race, religion or national origin. Being a productive citizen is expected and does not grant you the automatic right to the respect of anyone. I suspect if people do not respect you it is because you exhibit open racist tendencies with statements like the one about not being Mexican. Then you compound the situation with a veiled threat which you try to excuse with your religion.

Answer 7

Respect is a two way street. I have no problem with Muslims, even extremist. But you have to respect the fact that we are not infidels; we are people. All of us, including you.
Invoking Allah to commit atrocities is the same to me as Bush invading Iraq. It's the behavior, not the thing. Terrorism is terrorism, no matter who does it.

Answer 8

The only thing wrong with your comments is infidels. Who are the infidels ? If it is described by any non Muslim person, then I have a problem with that. If it is America , Great Britain, or Israel, I have a problem with it as well. To accept all peoples regardless of race, color or religion is what we believe in America. That it never negotiable.

Answer 9

Why such violence and discrimination in your words? If you want respect, do know that you have to respect. That is the universal way of life; may you be Christian, Muslim, Hindu, or Buddhist.

I have a Muslim prince as a good friend (he used to be my classmate back in high school) and we respect each other. We understand that we are here on Earth as individuals whose goal is to help one another.

Answer 10

I am a Christian. Go back home, you'll get more respect. When Allah actually talks, or calls down fire, maybe he may be worth listening. But a religion whose sole purpose is to destroy people, whose tenets allow access to heaven through violence, is not a religion, but a document for war. Muhammed would have been better served learning to read than to hate.