Ignorance of some non-Muslims, as expected, for the most part, not just every time you come to us. It is difficult, because we're with them every day: work, school, buses, shops and planes. You look at our habits are foreign, not American. If we look at themselves and see nothing wrong in our habits. Let's take a look at their habits and see all the contradictions of the time.
Take for example the American television. If you could briefly popular releases, it will be sex, money, youth and homosexuality. Most in the United States one of these characteristics or all four. This is not what the Bible teaches, and this is definitely not what this book teaches. He remains popular, and many Americans like me .... If this is what you see and are fed from birth, regardless of religion or origin, that is, that in the end, as they are obsolete. How can you a true Muslim, if they are here in America? Not impossible, but misleading. Misleading, when I say, not many of them in any case, many barriers, huge walls and barriers that seek to retain strong loyalty to the Islamic Republic of debt. You can adapt to American ways, while at the same time participate in the Islamic tradition. So something like the good and bad left.
Someone who lives in the United States has never asked how we felt, as a non-violent Muslims, who live abroad? Who asked how Muslims in America who do not feel in the Middle East descend on what is happening?
We invite you to take a look at life in the African-American Muslim women. Who is struggling every day with its identity as a Muslim, who is a firm commitment to live here, only the following conditions of life to live the American dream of riches and fascination.
You may think that we have a normal life ... You have no idea. Every day we try to see a little more than they would on the day before. Pray some more. Enter no more. To speak with a little less. We constantly strive to live and to please our life for humanity, is a creator. Unfortunately, we are urged, and human rights as everyone else. I do not think why we do what we do every day, does not mean that they are similar to the others. Probably have more in common with non-Muslims than you think.
Human characteristics: lying, cheating, stealing, fornication, adultery, jealousy, lust, love and hatred. All that we have done well. Our consciousness, probably as a result of the bombing, although these things, because we know that we will receive a refund, either here or in the future, but it is their own free will.
So, here is the central question: why is it so difficult, a good Muslim, if it happened to live in an Islamic country? There are several reasons.
1. Born in non-Muslim
I was born in Detroit, Michigan. My mother was not Muslim or Christian, it was. My father was a bricklayer, and she never married. I do not know much more in my life, before they, like Muslims, but I have a feeling that was not that the Muslim house. Around the age of six, my mother decided to convert to Islam, with their three children. When I grow up, we are not a Muslim member of the family interaction, it was not the Muslim children, who come play with us, neighbors, grocery clerks, and the rest, although he Juma prayers on Fridays, only one day a week, we interact with other Muslims only. The remaining six days, that my brothers and I against the outside world. My mother instilled in some Islamic features throughout the day, but after that we non-Muslims, and seen on TV. All of these communications penetration of our minds and in the form of a sponge, that many of us today are Muslims. We can not agree, but it affects what we have in Islam.
2. Muslim spends a lot of time, non-Muslims
I work full time. It was 44 hours per week. I was the director of Walgreens in the pharmacy. I'm somewhere in the 8-10 hours a day. I slept for 8 hours a day and took a total of an hour to and from work. I have about 5-7 hours of downtime for a period of five days a week. Most of my time was spent on the control work, and integration with other non-Muslims. As a person feels to spend most of his time and with the community of people who have nothing to do with you? And since you are a minority who seek to be less, as a Muslim and how they are because of pressure from the "Add". Those who work and spend time with others, why a Muslim is not the same sense of unity in the workplace? Why not use other Muslim workers and say: "Hey, let's pray for our dinner?"
3. Would you like to emulate in the rest
This coincides with the above example. We believe that when you are, it would be much
easier for us. But in reality, they only lose their identity. We are Muslims and we want to be. Nobody forces us to be. You should not be considered Muslims. But if so, they say, why not? I see a Muslim youth on their way to school and instead of packing the Islamic Republic, which is exactly the same way as other children. And it hurts because they do not dress this way, at home or in the presence of their parents, but I believe to be approved by the rest. Children are not aware of the implications of his religion at an early age. For them not to use Islam as a proud Honor is a disgrace. The goal is not to be completely separated from other Muslim or religious people, but the strengthening of religion throughout the day, some other Muslims. Nobody wants to feel like a stranger.
As a Muslim this is a great thing for me because I have access to many resources for many people of different origins. They came from different areas of life and diversity, inspires me, like others who seek a well-developed human beings. To remain faithful to religion, a sense of pride and prosperity than any other. We all want to belong to some to do with Islam, and I can say that we all feel this way about our religion. Regardless of the fact that we are in a position that is not Islamic, or how many death threats or SNICKERS rarely be strong, because we are the only company that is a God, please.