Huff Post: Islamophobia has become frighteningly commonplace in the U.S. There’s a lot of hatred, misinformation and misplaced fear being directed at Muslims and the faith that they follow. And it’s coming from all levels of society — from GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, who capitalizes on this fear for votes, to local hate groups who take it upon themselves to vandalize American Muslims’ houses of prayer.
Prominent Christian leaders and organizations have continually spoken out against Islamophobic rhetoric. Still, negative feelings towards Muslims remain. A 2014 Pew Research Center survey asked people to rate religious groups on a “feeling thermometer” that measured positive and negative attitudes. Muslims received the lowest ratings of all religious groups in the country. White evangelical Christians in particular harbored negative feelings towards Muslims.
According to The Brookings Institution, Americans differentiate between “Muslim people” and the “Muslim religion.” They tend to view Islam more unfavorably than they view people who practice this faith. Shibley Telhami, a nonresident senior fellow at the Institution, suggested that “it is probably easier for many Americans — with strong anti-discrimination norms — to express dislike of an abstract idea rather than to appear prejudiced toward people.”
Categories: Answers to Anti-Islam, Bible, Christianity, ISLAM, Qur'an, The Muslim Times
Q’uran was derived from Bible. It is very obvious. It was altered to deceive people with. Islam requires the reading of the Four Gospels of Isa (“Jesus”) but few Muslims, if any, are obedient to that requirement.