Religious Prejudice
Religious prejudice has been around for a very, very long time and implies negative behaviors and attitudes among people of different religious groups, purely because of their differing religious beliefs and practices; each claiming exclusivity over heaven. Christianity however has been the most prejudice of all, because it forced its Christian doctrine on whomever and whatever religious practice they encountered, that opposed or conflicted theirs. Even accusing Islam of converting Christians by the sword. The blame game continues and every country have religious problems to some degree or the other among their various religious groups and denominations.Ireland has issues with Protestantism and Catholicism. China with its belief in Buddhism have issues with Christianity; forcibly demolishing their places of worship throughout its region. India with its belief in Hindusism have issues with Islam resulting in Tamil extremist burning several Mosques to the ground. Zionist Israel has had a 70 year long, and still on going war against Islam and the Palestinian Muslims. The closest Israel came to destroying the Al-Aqsa mosque; is that the Israeli government funded an app that visually destroys Al-Aqsa by replacing it with a Jewish Temple. In the same vane, the rest of the world also seem to want to destroy Islam at their own peril.
Islamophobia
The University of California Berkeley and the Council on American–Islamic Relations released a report, estimating that $206 million was funded to 33 groups whose sole and primary purpose was "to promote prejudice against, Islam and Muslims". This took place in the United States between 2008 and 2013, with a total of 74 groups contributing to Islamophobia in the United States during that same period. The Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) organisation even generated media publicity by sponsoring billboards in New York subway stations alleging that 19,250 terrorist attacks have been committed by Muslims since 9/11 and stating "it's not Islamophobia, but Islamorealism."Islam
Islam is the belief in the Oneness of God, a religion based on monotheism. Islam is the last of the Abrahamic religions, identical to the moral teaching of Judaism and Christianity but on a completely different level. A level to which the other "monotheistic religion's" adherents have not ascended to as yet, or rather are ascending to, but very slowly. Muslims accept both Moses and Jesus as divinely inspired prophets, as mentioned in both the Old and New Testaments. Islam is also the fastest growing religion in the world, constantly winning over adherents from other religions, however it's not just a religion; but a complete way of life. A way of life originally demonstrated by both Moses and Jesus. Muslims as a whole base their way of life on the tenets of the divinely revealed Holy Qur'an and the life examples of our Beloved Prophet Muhammad (SAW). The Islamic jurisprudence derived from Qur'an is referred to as the law - Shariah; and the real life examples of our Beloved Prophet Muhammad (SAW), referred to as the Sunnah, is enshrined in innumerable verified narrations commonly known as Hadith, that calls towards God consciousness, piety and righteousness.Muslims
As such, there are a great many practicing Muslims earnestly striving in obedience to the Shariah and Hadith, in character, in speech, in social interaction, in kindness, in dress, in their business practices and so many other aspects of life. For example, fairness to their fellow man, observing good ties with their kinsfolk, feeding the orphans, are punctual in their prayers, give charity and pray for forgiveness, among so many other deeds of good intent. Occasionally some of them may err but their conscience and natural demeanor invariably makes them regret their poor judgement and apologize to those whom they may have aggrieved, and alternatively make restitution in some other way or form, like fasting, feeding the poor, giving charity and praying for forgiveness. The bulk of these Muslims the world over are not terrorists or jihadist as main stream would want you to believe. They are considered mainstream Muslims; however there are those "Muslims" who exist on the fringes of Islam,Black Sheep
Specifically those who openly profess Islam with the tongues, but outwardly exhibit their foul and arrogant ways, have rude mannerisms, practice poor business ethics, lie, cheat, steal and even deceive, maim and plunder. In a nutshell they practice selective obedience to Shariah and Hadith, if at all, thus justifying their actions with their skewed, obscure and limited or sometimes over zealous understanding of Islam. These are the black sheep of Islam.Hostiles
As a matter of fact, you can find them in every household, in every family, in every community, among every race, and among every nation throughout the world. Whether singularly or severally, they are the miscreants who give Muslims a bad name; and double-up as the worst poster boards for Islam per se. Their abhorrent and repugnant demeanours makes non-Muslims frown upon the religion of Islam, judge and distrust righteous Muslims based on the actions of these miscreants, resulting in hostilities towards Muslims as a whole, to the point that some non-Muslims, vent their frustrations on the Qur'an by setting it on fire.Extremists
Be that as it may, the American media catergorise these miscreants as "Muslim religious extremists" because of their violent activity; some even calling them jihadists; placing them in the same category as the Irish Republican Army (IRA) "terrorists", the African National Congress (ANC) "terrorists", the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) "terrorists", Al-Qaeda "terrorists" and Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) "terrorists" even though to this day, there is no International consensus on the legal definition of terrorism. Simply, because one mans freedom fighter is another mans terrorist.Christian terrorist
Having said that, the American media and its politicians are doing the American public a huge disservice by creating the impression that terrorism is an exclusively Islamist phenomenon. According to a report published by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), titled “The Age of the Wolf”, more people have been killed in America by non-Islamic domestic terrorists than jihadists. Adding that even though the “the jihadist threat is a tremendous one,” and the deadliest in U.S. history. The second deadliest was not carried out by Islamists, but by Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma City. It appears that ultimate sin in America is mentioning that Christianity has a dark side. For a look at other Christian terrorist organisations click here.Presidential Prejudice
Moving on, one just has to observe the reactions of Americans to witness their hate crimes against Muslims living in their predominantly non-Muslim societies. Especially when considering that the American President went as far as to place a ban on Muslims from 11 Muslims countries, preventing them from entering America. By implication, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has failed miserably in their mandate. USCIRF is an independent body established by the U.S. Federal Government Commission, its Commissioners appointed by the President and the leadership of both political parties in the Senate and the House of Representatives. USCIRF objectives and purpose is to advise the President, the Secretary of State, and Congress and to make policy recommendations on issues of "International Religious Freedom".Hate Crimes
Somehow it seem that USCIRF was far too preoccupied with their "Religious Prisoner of Conscience Project" than to be bothered with the rights of the unincarcerated 3.45 million Muslims living in America. In an FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) report, namely "Hate Crime Statistics Report" dated 2015, it states that 21.9% of people assaulted in the United States, were victims of Anti-Islamic bias; and that Anti-Muslim hate crimes in the United States rose 67%, from 154 incidents in 2014 to 257 in 2015. These stats are but minuscule when compared to the fatalities of Muslims that resulted directly from the American occupation Anti-Islam wars against Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Syria and Jordian etc.Burning Mosques
To add insult to injury, look at the amount of Mosques that were bombed in places like Ypsilanti in Michiganin, Tucson in Arizona, Bloomington in Minnesota, Huntsville and Hoover in Alabama, Davis in Roseville, Sacramento in California, Miami, New Tampa, Port St. Lucie and Tampa in Florida, to mention but a few. Alphabetically speaking, bombings took place in almost every state, from Alabama to West Virginia and just last year, 63 publicly reported incidents occurred, where mosques were targets of threats, vandalism or arson. Islamophobia had thus become imprinted on the psyche of Americans at large, to the point that Muslims are continuously harassed where ever they may be.Religious Freedom?
What has happened to religious freedom? Doesn't Muslims have the right and good reason to say that they feel disrespected by those in the West? As such, one also has the right to question the establishment of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Having said that, the American media and its politicians capitalize on public fear and distrust of Muslims and constantly exacerbate tensions through Anti-Muslim propaganda. Be that as it may, this level of anti-Muslim prejudice and Islamophobia isn't only confined to America nor did they invent it.The Start of Prejudice
In the early days of Islam in Mecca, during the 7th century, the new Muslims were constantly subjected to abuse, many of them persecuted, tortured and killed by the pagan Meccans. Much later during the time of the First Crusade, due to Anti-Islam bias, the crusaders killed every Muslim inhabitant of Jerusalem. Much later during the Rule of Roman Empereor Frederick II, virtually every Muslims in Sicily, Malta and Lucera was either massacred, forcibly converted, enslaved or exiled due to their religious bias.Prejudice at its height
The Iberian Peninsula under Christian rule introduced legislation to remove Islam, culminating in Muslims being killed or forced to convert to Catholicism by the Spanish Inquisition. Under the Sikh Empire and the occupation of Samana, the Sikh army massacred in excess of 10,000 unarmed Muslim men and women. And in the Siege of Sirhind, Banda Singh Bahadur ordered that all men, women and children of Sirhind be executed or burned alive. In Southeastern Europe more than 5 million Muslims were driven out of their homes by the Serb army and a further 5 million were killed or died of disease and starvation while fleeing. Tens of thousands of Muslims Albanians and Turks were Massacres during both the Greek Revolution and the Balkan Wars, all done in a manner that by today's standards would be characterized as ethnic cleansing. This was done so effectively that virtually no Muslims remained in Thessaly and only a few thousand in Crete.Prejudice in the East
In Cambodia about half a million Cham Muslims were killed, exterminated by Cambodia communists and according to Cham sources, 132 mosques were destroyed. Only 20 of the most prominent Cham clergy out of its previous 113 survived the Khmer Rouge period. During the Sino-Japanese War, the Hui Muslim county of Dachang was vanquished by the Japanese with their policy of deliberate humiliation referred to as the "killing policy" and in the process destroyed as many as 220 mosques. After the Rape of Nanking, mosques in Nanjing were found to be filled with dead bodies. During the French conquest of Algeria approximately 850,000 indigenous Algerians were killed, because genocidal hatred was the French way of echoing "expel the native and if necessary destroy him." From the time of WWII to present day, countless Muslims have been massacred and the International community calls the massacred terrorist whereas the on a global scale, the Muslims were the terrorized.Prejudice is learnt
1. Concerned Christians - is a Christianist doomsday cult intent on killing Muslims, who infiltrated Israel with the intention of destroying the Al Aqsa Mosque.2. The Phineas Priesthood - is a White supremacist groups or rather Christian Identity movement having white supremacist ideology based on Christianist terrorism agaist Muslims.
3. The Army of God - is a violent Christianists network, openly promoting killing abortion providers. Several of its members were executed by lethal injection many serving life imprisonment.
4. The Ku Klux Klan - is a white American supremacist, radical right hate group with some 8,000 Klan members nationwide, who physical assault and murder individuals whom they opposed. They are famous for burning huge wooden crosses.
5. Neo-Nazism - is a post-World War II militant movements with a international network, with representation in many countries seeking to revive employ Nazi doctrine ideology to promote hatred, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, antisemitism.
6. The Montana Freemen - is a "Christian Patriot movement" convicted of terrorism because of their doctrine of individual sovereignty which rejected the authority of the federal government of the United States.
