Is it fair the Arab Americans and Muslims' Paradigm?

Many people seem to believe Muslims and Arab Americans are violent and sexist. The religion that the Qur’an preaches is of peace. The violence is brought as an idea to Muslims when the religion meats politics. This is an old trick used by many leaders in history to manipulate the masses. Illustrated people do not fall for this artifice, no matter how religious they are and that is why observing this factor it is not correct to judge Muslims as violent people, but sometimes manipulated.

As for the sexist aspect, the behavior is pretty much the same. Muslims and Arab Americans wish their daughters can go to school and have a career as much as their boys. It was not their culture years ago, but this is changing.

Are Christian Americans more moderate about moral values? The traditional Christians have values as strict as the Arab Americans and a good example of this is the difficulties many bills face to be approved, based on Christian values.

Christian Americans and Arab Americans or Muslims if compared, are both good neighbors, family oriented, followers of the laws, educated and mix values with politics, living according to a male-dominated environment.

Two descriptors that best define Muslims and Arab Americans are their modest dress habit and the fact that they are governed by Qur’an. Violent is a description it should not define any race. All races have done historical atrocities, The Catholics with the crusades, the Africans, Egypt and Germans with the Jews, the Jews with the Palestinian and vice verse. At the aspect violence, no race or religion is innocent or free to judge the others. The other description that falls into the same type of guilt is the fanatically religious. Many religions have fanatics. Judging an entire race based on a group is not right!

Obviously, although history should play an important role on people’s perception on each other’s race and religion, it is easy to observe that this aspect is always left behind. That is how it gets so simple to judge others with such prejudice. I believe the media nowadays is the one to blame for such shallow judgments. Movies that are very prejudicial are offered by the bunch, such as Disney with the eternal paradigm of the bad stepmother. The news also does not offer a deeper view of many prisms. At the end we should blame ourselves, for not going deeper on the source of problems, being quick to assume one version of the story as being true!