Stop Stereotyping Islamic

Culture
With everything happening around the world right now,
people tend to over-generalize and take to blaming things on
large groups of people, rather than narrowing in on the true
root of the issue -- and this is wrong. It is not only wrong, but
it is enormously ignorant to place blame on an entire group
of people for the atrocities committed by the hands of a
number of individuals.
The slapping of the words "Islamic State" at the beginning of
ISIS has only helped to foster what is already of skewed
stereotype attached to all Middle Eastern descendants. It is
not the actions Islamic people, as a whole. Not all those
affiliated with the religion of Islam are out attacking cities
around the world or sending threats. No, those are terrorists.
Islam is a religion, one of the largest in the world, and
terrorism knows no religions. A terrorist is a person who
uses violence and hateful criminal activity in the pursuit of
some sort of gain, whether it be monetary or to fulfill their
own delusions of religious grandeur they think will await
them. These people are not on the search for God or Allah,
they are killing people and terrorizing people around the
world. The only way we can hope to keep some semblance of
order is to unite and overcome this group of radical
extremists, we have to know the truth. These are bad people,
and bad people come from any religion, any culture and any
country. To stereotype all of Islamic culture as terrorists only
plants seeds of intolerance into the social psyche, and
definitely doesn't further our goal of unification against
them, and that is what they want.

When a white, Christian American goes into a school or a

building and starts to shoot, do we say that all of American
Christians are murders? No, we say that this one loner had
mental issues and committed a heinous crime against the
innocent. Let's have this same mindset for other humans
who are not from this country. Why can't we open our minds
to see that we are all human? We are all individuals, have
their own agendas and it doesn't matter whether you are a
Christian, Muslim, or any other religion for that matter, acts
of cruelty and terrorism see no color and no religion, only
hate.
While it is easy to sit inside and read what the Facebook
world says and what a lot of uninformed Americans write
everywhere, it is our job to recognize the truth from the
meaningless and say something. Open the minds of people
and make them see that putting this on the Islamic people as
a whole makes bigots and spreads hate amongst the rest of
everyone, and that is the opposite of what this world needs
right now. What this world needs now is love and
compassion, sympathy for those affected, empathy for each
other as humans, but also strength and a thirst for truth and
justice. Know that many of those who believe in the core
values of the Islamic faith are good and are facing these
threats of terrorism much the same as we, and in times like
these we can't alienate those that share in our same goal, to
evolve from our current world a into one of peace and
acceptance.