Another View on Islam

So yeah, I was getting interested in how the world sees Islam and spent about 5-6 hours watching documentaries, short videos, social experiments, reading tons of comments, reading infographics, news, and people’s opinions. It’s gotten all over other things tho, feminism, cultures, pro-life, racism, sexuality, human trafficking, and like, everything. And whoa. There are literally stereotypes everywhere. I opened my eyes and saw terrifying, gruesome even, things that muslim people do and yeah, I feel sick. But which part of it don’t you understand.

It’s the human, not the religion.

Sure, there are forced marriage and pedophile sick old men who marry 8-year-old girl, and as you can guess there will be violence and abuse. Yes, they were Muslims. But Islam is nothing like that. Islam teaches peace, forgiveness, and beauty. Blaming Islam for something a man did and thinking all Muslims are all like that is stereotyping. If they were white and American (stating something, not being racist here), would you blame his religion? Say a murderer is an atheist. Would you blame his atheism instead of his moral? I think not.

The next thing I want to say is ISIS IS NOT THE REPRESENTATION OF ISLAM. People are so absorbed with media’s over-exploiting on ISIS and terrorism and muslim rape and riot and basically every bad things under the name of Islam that people don’t realize they are being deceived and manipulated. Politic hands are all over it and spice news up one way or other. Don’t be blind. See. Islam doesn’t teach terrorism. ISIS is not supposed to be the thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word “Islam”. ISIS doesn’t represent Islam at all.

WOMEN WEARS HIJAB IS NOT A SYMBOL OF MAN OPPRESSION AND OBJECTIFICATION. It literally has nothing to do with self expression. I mean, I myself started out wearing hijab because of my own will. It is a form of my obedience to Allah. It’s okay if someone wears it, it’s okay if they don’t. Just because I wear one doesn’t necessarily mean I have a higher or lower self-respect than those who don’t. No woman (or human) should be treated like an object, regardless of how they dress.

I was reading the comment section on this video about “kidnapping bride” culture (which is a way to marry someone, rather forceful in my opinion) in some city called Kyrgyzstan, and there were so many comments that basically said “Muslims are so fucked up. Is this the kind of ‘peace’ they brought? Poor women. We should just kill them all.”

Look now, just because they wear head-cover doesn’t mean they’re muslims, OKAY? What kind of muslims cover their hair but wear miniskirt at the same time? They drink, don’t do shalats, their lives are not colored by islamic lives at all. People mix up culture and religion too far. Culture is a thing that grows in some area, it has so little to do with religions. Islam never forces other humanbeing. Islam delivers gentle care and loving, especially to women. Women are precious and must be handled with care.That’s the truth about Islam. Muslim women also have a right to say, to speak, to take action. Look at muslimah woman figures (such as Aisyah, Khadijah, Fatimah), they were strong, independent, worthy, smart, motherly, caring, tender, and were not afraid to speak up. 

If you heard that Islam oppresses women, it's not true at all. Islam values women so highly that there is actually one whole surah made for them in Quraan called An-Nisaa (translation: Woman). Here are some sayings in Quraan that shows how precious women are.
"Islam has raised the status of woman from below the earth so high that paradise lies under her feet." (MasyaaAllah:"") I mean, what else could you ask for? Your worth is more than any jewelry, any decent men, any happiness in the world. Your worth is so high that even God's heaven existed below your feet)
"If the eyes of a female cry over a man that oppressed her, angels will curse him with every step he walks"

And this is a fake one that you may come across on the internet. Tabari is not even a suraah in our holy Quraan, it simply doesn't exist. So yeah, nice try.

In spite of all the raging hatred I saw, I found some positive comments that just made me smile.

“I remember, I was in a store, JCPenny, I think, and I noticed a woman in a hijab and I noticed that she was getting dirty looks from everyone (it was in a white majority area). I looked at her and I just smiled at her, the smile you give to tell someone you care and you think they're beautiful as they are, and the look of gratitude I got back was amazing. It was similar to what the one woman in the video was saying, only I wasn't wearing a hijab.”

“I live in a country where it's such an utter melting pot that you can wear a hijab to school and no one even blinks. Like okay this girl's Muslim/Malay whatever. It's really weird seeing this whole hijabs are weird/oppressive thing in other countries. Personally I like the hijab, I think it looks classy, it seems practical (Hairbuff fans know what I'm talking about: Just chuck all your hair in there, adjust it every so often and you're good to go) and I'll admit to being fairly religious, so I think the whole modesty thing is pretty cool.”

"One person commits a crime: he's blamed...

Fair enough

One Muslim commits a crime: the whole religion's blamed!!"

I'm not spreading any hate nor did I try to shove my beliefs down people's throats here. All I'm saying is, there are great and human things that Muslims make in this world everyday. I'm just hoping you would be blessed enough to not be a victim of today's twisted medias, to be wise enough to see into these issues with a clear head and objective judgement, to be mature enough to not swallow everything that's thrown to you. Because the truth of Islam can be found rather easily if you have the will to look deeper.

Don't forget to check these videos (must-see!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5DwStbT6rg (restored my faith in humanity, I'm literally crying in the corner of my bed)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpDnw4Wevxs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUvnD5GVAXg