Would you feel safe in a Muslim neighborhood being a non-Muslim?

Question

Honest answers please.

Answer 1

Yep.

Answer 2

It would depend on what country I was in at the time. In America, I wouldn't worry: I don't worry about Muslims as much as I do skinheads! Most Muslims here are quite peaceful.

I would not feel comfortable walking down the street in Saudi Arabia or Jordan, however, and certainly not in Egypt. Muslims there make a point of kidnapping innocents that disagree with them, and then stoning them to death or beheading them!

As a Western Christian woman, I would automatically be a target for violence in the Middle East. No, I would NOT feel safe there!

Answer 3

I have nothing against Muslims even though most always they are portrayed as harmful people. I would be a little hesitant to be in a neighborhood where I was the only non-Muslim...ESPECIALLY because I am a woman. I think it would be a lot easier for a non-Muslim male than a female - don't you think?

Also, are you talking about in a Muslim country? Or just North America in general? That also makes a HUGE difference!

Answer 4

If the Muslim neighborhood was located in the Middle East, then no, I wouldn't feel safe.

Answer 5

I am a Chinese, living in Malaysia. In my country, 60% of population is Muslim (Malay), and 30% are Chinese, 5% of Indian (From India, not the red one), and 5% of foreigner. So we really live together with Muslim, work with them, eat with them, even have fun with them together. Sometime we might feel that the government (which is dominated 90% by Muslim) is really bias and are having a lot of unfair regulation that obviously only benefit Muslim, but individually, I really have no problem to Muslim people. And in fact, most of them are friendly and pure people.

Answer 6

yes, i would feel safe, because anyone can be harmful. someones religion doesn't make them unsafe. cause if that is the case don't you wonder about some of the other crimes that go on by people who are not Muslim. by the way i am catholic and respect all religions. and this is an honest answer. if it is not hate towards race then it is hate towards religion around here.

Answer 7

Aminah and I walk through some of the same neighborhoods. And as a Christian, and a woman, I've never even had a whiff of anything untoward or unsafe ocurring.

If anything, the community is warm, inviting, and polite.

Answer 8

Well it would all depend on the neighborhood! Is it a good safe one? Or a rather sketchy unsafe one? If it's the first, then sure.

Answer 9

I am an American Muslim convert. I have brought several people to the mosque who are not Muslim, as well as to other gatherings. My Muslim friends are the most hospitable people I know. I was welcomed from the very beginning.

I don't hesitate to say a non-Muslim would be welcomed in a neighborhood as much as I am welcomed in my non-Muslim neighborhood.

And I'm telling you this from Alabama! Many people would think Alabama would be the most backward of them all.

May Allah open our hearts to appreciation of diversity.

Answer 10

Depends upon the country...anywhere but a Moslem country would be fine. I've been there and done that, in a Moslem country, as an White American Christian female that works. (In their minds, I don't know if there's anything worse, except for maybe a Jewish white female that works.)

Answer 11

As long as it's in America, I don't see why I wouldn't feel safe. It's just a religion anyway.

(and for the record, I *am* christian)