Why do non-muslims think that all muslims are arabs and arab ppl are only muslim?
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Forgive their ignorance and, pray to God for granting them the understanding.\n\nGod be with you.\nPeace be with you.
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I have no opinions of them as a "whole group". Each person should be judged individually.  I have an Egyptian friend, he's even a Muslim, but I judge him on the person he is and nothing else.
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NO, IT'S NOT !!\nit's amazing to see how many people have answered yes.\nwhat do you learn at school?\naren't you taught history? ever heard of Persians??\nthis is unbelievable, and sad.\nthough i guess the Persians only have the current regime to blame for their isolation.\nanyhow ... FYI, don't call a Persian an Arab! we don't like it ... no disrespect to Arabs, it's just that we're NOT.\nthanks!
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The majority may be Muslim, but I've met plenty of Christians, too, particularly among the Lebanese-American community. And the Christians I've met among them don't take too kindly to ignorant people constantly assuming that they're Muslim. They're Christian, and have been so for generations.
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Some of the biggest misconceptions that many non-Muslims have about Islam have to do with the word "Allah". For various reasons, many people have come to believe that Muslims worship a different God than Christians and Jews. This is totally false, since "Allah" is simply the Arabic word for "God" and there is only One God. Let there be no doubt, Muslims worship the God of Noah, Abraham, Moses, David and Jesus, peace be upon them all. However, it is certainly true that Jews, Christians and Muslims all have different concepts of Almighty God. For example, Muslims, like Jews, reject the Christian beliefs of the Trinity and the Divine Incarnation. This, however, doesn't mean that each of these three religions worships a different God because, as we have already said, there is only One True God. Judaism, Christianity and Islam all claim to be "Abrahamic Faiths", and all of them are also classified as "monotheistic". However, Islam teaches that other religions have, in one way or another, distorted and nullified a pure and proper belief in Almighty God by neglecting His true teachings and mixing them with man-made ideas. \nFirst of all, it is important to note that "Allah" is the same word that Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews use for God. If you pick up an Arabic Bible, you will see the word "Allah" being used where "God" is used in English. \n\nThis is because "Allah" is the only word in the Arabic language equivalent to the English word "God" with a capital "G". Additionally, the word "Allah" cannot be made plural or given gender (i.e. masculine or feminine), which goes hand-in-hand with the Islamic concept of God. Because of this, and also because the Qur'an, which is the holy scripture of Muslims, was revealed in the Arabic language, some Muslims use the word "Allah" for "God", even when they are speaking other languages. This is not unique to the word "Allah", since many Muslims tend to use Arabic words when discussing Islamic issues, regardless of the language which they speak. This is because the universal teachings of Islam, even though they have been translated in every major language, have been preserved in the Arabic language. \n\nIt is interesting to note that the Aramaic word "El", which is the word for God in the language that Jesus spoke, is certainly more similar in sound to the word "Allah" than the English word "God". This also holds true for the various Hebrew words for God, which are "El”, "Elah", and the plural form "Elohim". The reason for these similarities is that Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic are all Semitic languages with common origins. It should also be noted that in translating the Bible into English, the Hebrew word "El" is translated variously as "God", "god" and "angel"! This imprecise language allows different translators, based on their preconceived notions, to translate the word to fit their own views. The Arabic word "Allah" presents no such difficulty or ambiguity, since it is only used for Almighty God alone. Additionally, in English, the only difference between "god", meaning a false god, and "God", meaning the One True God, is the capital "G". In the Arabic alphabet, since it does not have capital letters, the word for God (i.e. Allah) is formed by adding the equivalent to the English word "the" (Al-) to the Arabic word for "god/God" (ilah). So the Arabic word "Allah" literally means "The God”: the "Al-" in Arabic basically serving the same function as the capital "G" in English. Due to the above mentioned facts, a more accurate translation of the word "Allah" into English might be "The One -and-Only God" or "The One True
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Arabs are the last people to make up a league among themselves. I will cut my throat if someone proves that an arabic alliance worked for Arabs at some time in history...
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I am Muslim, a convert from christianity. I understand fully, I have had the same problem. My mom is a christian and very pro-Israel. She knows that I am Muslim but she forbids me to wear a Hijab or openly practice my religion. She had threatened to kick me out of the house other times for how I vote in elections so, I don't debate my religion with her. I agree with what the others said here that it is those radicals that give us a bad name. But I also think it is because of just pure ignorance of the truth mostly this ignorance is spread by the media.  It even extends to just being Arab or supporting the Arabs. I am originally American but I think of myself as an Arabist. I was in 10th grade english and the teacher announced to the whole class that I was with the Arabs. I didn't expect that but maybe it was because the teacher was Jewish but the whole class looked at me and I thought that I was going to be beaten up by how some of the kids were looking at me. This was shortly after 9/11 too. But above it all, I found happiness, I am happily married to an Egyptian Muslim, and will be making the Hajj in November, Inshallah. Those cartoons were overly offensive and shows why there is still the whole rift between East and West. Regardless of what those people say or do, keep your head up high and never allow them to get to you. Their fate like everything else is in Allah's hands.
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You need to make a distinction between the growth of Islam (the religion followed by Muslim Arabs) and the growth of the Arab population.  The Arab population is growing faster than other groups of people simply because they have very large families.  Not all Arabs are Muslims; some of them are Christians.  Although, one could conclude, due to their expanding population and that the majority of them follow Islam, that Islam is a growing religion compared to other religions.
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ive been living in an arab country for 19 years now. neither islam nor muslims call for terrorism. they are good and helpful people. they really dont deserve being called terrorists, and they find it too offensive
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Arabs are sons of Abraham, Jews on the other hand is a religion not a race. We call people Jews because their religion is Judaism, and NOT because they are Israelites.
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People fear what they do not know. Why did people believe that Russians were going to get us? And everyone knows not all Arabs and Muslims are terrorists, just most. Ha ah haa. Seriously though, get over it.
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Islam is a true religion.\ni dnt think there's anything wrong with Arabs.\nMiddle east has smthg goin on. and dey haf to stop fighting among demselves.dey cud come up with smthg more productive.... dey;re smart ppl. in fact, arabs r smart bcuz they invented chemistry ' al-kimiya' \nIslam was actually leading in the past few centuries, so the europe countries learn from dem n succeded. whereas the middle east fall back......
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Interesting.  No one yet said that Arabs are merely anti-semitic.  They are Semites themselves but that had never stopped anyone.  \nHow long it took us and what we had to fight and how we had to fight, to finally establish that there was a people, my parents among them, the Palestinians who lived where Israel was formed.  Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived in relative peace for thousands of years in Palestine, before Israel was formed.  Israel and its lovers choose to either spend a lot of time denying that there was a Palestinian people, or saying that no one kicked those Palestinians out of there.  \nYes, at the end of WWII, the Jews felt that they needed a country where they would be safe.  The allies riddled with guilt about the holocaust, contemplated a few options, then decided on Palestine.  Here are a few facts, to compel the myths you hear to dispute the original injustice committed against the Palestinians.  1. There was a country called Palestine for thousands of years in what is now Israel.  2. There was a nation there, and hundred of thousands of Palestinians.  It was not as the zionists (creators of Israel) put it, "a land without people for a people without land."  3. Nor were the Palestinians a bunch of nomad Arabs.  They are Arabs, they are Palestinian Arabs.  Just like the Jordanians, the Syrians, etc... their being Arab does not strip them of their particular Arab nationality.  They were rooted in Palestine, many in urban settings, even if a few Bedouins by the West Bank, crossed over often in what is now Jordan.  4. Nor did the Palestinians either sell their property to the thousands of Jews flocking into Palestine, nor did they run off.  5. The zionists waged a meticulously planned unforeseen war with massacres against the Palestinian people to evict them from Palestine.  The word terrorist was first used by the British for those zionists groups that went around killing Palestinians throughout Palestine.  \nAnd the Jews kept coming from everywhere, and the Palestinians kept getting forced out.  The West then pressured the Zionists to stop and the Zionists offered half of Palestine to the Palestinians.  How grand.  The Palestinians refused.  To this day, the now baptized Israelis want more land with less Arabs on it.  Palestinians for the large part want what is justifiably theirs.  The Palestinian Diaspora has been very successful as individuals wherever they went.  Palestinians were a highly educated group of people.  They knew, however, that pressing for their identity and speaking for their nation, had to become the sole purpose of their life, and would inconvience their host nations.  So, quite a few of them, resigned themselves to living quietly as residents, eventually, citizens of their host country.  Israel was there to stay, said the Western World, never mind how it was built.  Israel would be supported blindly and generously by the new superpower, America (true?  why?  Not to be discussed here).  \nBut a lot of Palestinians had remained in Palestine.  And no one counted on the Palestinians who stayed to actually have the perseverence and patriotic dedication they showed.  And a lot of Palestinians who did take other nationalities still spoke up for Palestine at the cost of putting up with discrmination.  \nInitially, the world stood with them, few countries recognized Israel.  The Zionists attributed it to anti-semitism, shaming the countries that condemned Israel.  It so happens, the Jews did wrong in Palestine but there was and had been horrific anti-semitism for the Jews to play upon.  Gradually, since 1948, and with a lot of growing influence over the world, the Zionists saw that the majority of the world recognizes the right of Israel to exist.  \nIn the meantime, the Palestinians who either remained in Palestine or lived scattered in refugee camps got poorer and poorer.  Their resources to fight were being destroyed.  Gradually, they turned to brutal violence to be heard.  Gradu
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simply ... by watching the world. i knew muslims, i have muslims friends and they are not terrorists. like me, millions. but 90% of all bomb attacks killing hundreds are muslims, this can be seens in all news. and like me, millions are wathing the news. so "all the muslims are not terrorist but all (the majority of) the terrorist are muslims" came in existance simply by observing the sorrounding world .... maybe drinking a beer in pub with friends ... and then the "great minds" of the world said this in tv shows and big reviews and voila ... what incredibly remark they made .. bla bla ... they had stolen the people's words
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Iranians are not Arabs, but [most] are Islamic.\nIndonesians are not Arabs, but many are Islamic.\nAmericans are...well we are mutts, and some are Islamic.
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In Palestine all the Muslims there are sunni, Palestine is considered to be the only muslim country where it's people are only sunni
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Any person who declares their faith in Islam these days needs to know they won't be the most popular kid on the block. The tragedy of September 11th, is something that will never be forgotten and unfortuneately it's perpetrators were Arabs. No matter how vehemently any Muslim would seek to explain the differences between true Islam and Arab nationalism, it simply won't wash with your average American. It's all the same in just about everyone's eyes. So whomever is truly seeking to become a muslim nowadays better know, He or she is surely going to be tested for their faith.