Introduction

Ignorance.noun-the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc. There are ignorant people all around us, and I guess the one’s that really notice who is and isn’t ignorant are those who are different. How you may ask, ok I’ll give some examples, we’ll get some help from history. Ok so African American’s, they all knew what ignorant was because they would see how there masters were so ignorant in thinking that they are the greatest, or that they are the best just because they were white. So the African American’s recognized the ignorant people, the ignorant people were the white people; well that’s kind of mean you can’t blame white people for everything ok so most of the world was at fault for slavery so I guess you can even go about saying that most of the world was being ignorant. During World War II U.S. decided that all of the Japanese people may be spy’s so they decided to put them away. Ok we didn’t harm them or kill them, but we still did take there rights away and separated them form society didn’t we? Don’t you think that its ridiculous for a whole group of people, race, or religion should be judged by something that only a few from the group has committed.

Ever notice how Muslim’s are automatically associated with terrorism? Ever notice how Arabs are automatically thought as terrorists? That Afghans are assumed to be part of the Taleban? I mean if you want to make broad statements like that then we are all in serious trouble aren’t we? I mean that means no one should go near white people because they’re all part of the KKK and they want to kill anyone that’s not white! That means that if your a small kid or a minor you shouldn’t go near priests because priests are psychotic child molesters! All those Christian fundamentalists are going to blow you up because they blow up abortion clinics! You see what generalizing a certain group of people can do? You can’t base a whole religion upon the actions of a specific few can. I bet it never occurred to you and you were never faced with it, and those two examples I used were a little cold and extreme but hey you guys did it first. After 9-11 tons of Sikhs got beaten up because people thought they were Muslim. (***FYI learn to differentiate between religions, especially if you are going to go around beating people because they belong to a certain religion.***) First of all what is your typical thought of a Muslim? I bet I can guess. For a guy, it’s this bearded guy with a turban on his head. And the girls got these weird things on their head and some cover their face. Well first of all I think we would notice a million guys walking around with turbans, wouldn’t we? So ok just a guy with a beard,… so does that mean that all of those people with newspaper covering them sitting in Central Park singing weird songs are Muslims? Don’t think so. Face it, racial profiling really wont get you that far. I mean if you look at my whole entire family and if you use those images that most people think are what Muslims look like then you will be quite confused looking at my family. I have relatives that have skin color from white as snow to brown. Eye colors: brown, green, brown/green, blue, crystal blue… Hair, from dark drown to light brown to dirty blond to blond; straight curly wavy eh its all mixed up. Hm doesn’t this throw of the use racial profiling? Not all the guys got these beards, and not all of the girls wear a “thingy” on their heads.

I really don’t know when this ignorance will go away but we can hope that it will go away soon can’t we?-inshaAllah- I’ve been looking for a nice video, there’s a lot of them but I chose this one (mostly because I really like the Nasheed in the background) so hear is a brief introduction to Islam: