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Originally Posted by Schaumburger
An observation from someone who is still in the workforce...I have several Muslim coworkers (they are engineers) that I have to work with on a daily basis. If I don't treat them with the same respect and cooperation that I have for non-Muslim coworkers, I could lose my job.
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I hope you will look at people based on their individual behaviors and not on whatever the media tells you about some group. I read that attack on Muslims with a bunch of over-generalizations and found it appalling in its ignorance.
I had a good friend at the University of Denver for the University of Mosul Library Mahmood Jergis Mohammad who unfortunately was taken over by the generalizations told to him about us Americans when he got back to Iraq. There was also the Iran-Iraq War going on at full swing back around then so he was expected to fight and his brother was some kind of high ranking officer in Saddam Hussein's army. While my friend was in the US, he was an intelligent, kind, and sophisticated person who happened to be a Muslim. He got taken into the same hate that fuels many wars which is based on sticking individuals into generalizations. I had tried to reason with him through various letters about his hatred towards the West after he got back to Iraq, but found it rather useless as an endeavour and just stopped writing him.
I had met about six other Muslims from different countries while at the University of Denver and all were very different in outlook about the West. None of them though unlike Mahmood were seeing things from probably having to face a battlefield at some point in their lives.
ISIS is stirring up a lot of hatred and fear in Muslim/Arab countries based on the ignorance and stupidity they are selling about us. I do not think we should be adding to these same flames but spreading over-generalizations about Muslims/Arabs.