This week we had a guest speaker over IVN from Ole Miss. She was asked to come speak to us about the Islamic religion and about Muslims. The one thing that surprised me and I think the rest of the class as well was that most of the Muslim population are from Indonesia. Most people assume that many of the Muslims are from places like Iraq, Iran and other places of that sort. Ever since the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers Americans have stereotypes all Muslims and all people that practice the Islamic religion as bad people, as terrorists. For us I think we are just scared that something like what happened in New York is going to happen again. The fear we have of that creates the hatred that we build for "those people." We were told by Mary what all the Islam’s practice. The people who choose to practice this faith are typically very strict about it. If they are considered unclean they are not allowed to touch their holy book. To me, it’s very different to hear about these things that they have to follow since my religion isn’t as strict, or that my family and I are not as strict about it. It’s different to hear about religions that are different from yours.
On Thursday, we watched an episode of Sister Wives. I also watched this in our Cultural Diversity class so this was my second time seeing what their Polygamist lifestyle is like. It is very hard for me to watch this show. I personally do not think that the practice of Polygamy is right. I know it is just what they believe in and it is accepted in their religion but in mine it is frowned upon. I am a more jealous person so I would most definitely never be able to be a part of something like that. I don’t know how these ladies can handle sharing someone like that and still feel normal. It’s just something that I would never get used to.
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