Page is loading...  How Could Everyone I Have Ever Known Be
Wrong?  As a child growing up in America, my education about
Islam was very poor. There were one or two times when Islam was
presented briefly in a history book at school. What I remember
from those readings is that Muslims had a god called Allah and a
warlike prophet named Muhammad and that they prayed and dressed
strangely and, finally, that Islam was an Arab religion. I guess
that the rest of my education about Islam came from the media.
Islam was exotic, backward and evil. Muslims were uneducated,
led by tyrant rulers, and were cruel. Some of them thought it
were good to blow up babies on airplanes and to beat women and
treat them like property. I did not understand that there was
any relationship between Islam and Christianity or Judaism. As
far as I knew, Christianity and Judaism were the only two
religions that dealt with the One God, the God of Moses and
Abraham (as). Islam was bunched with all the other religions
like Buddhism and Hinduism.