ISLAM MORE THAN A RELIGION # 3. Despite its huge following around the world and the growing Muslim communities in the United States, Islam is foreign to most Americans who are familiar with Christianity or Judaism. Because most Americans know little or nothing about Islam, they have many misconceptions about Muslim beliefs and rituals. The negative image many people in the United States and Europe have of Islam and the Muslim world has a long history. Many …showed first 75 words of 958 total…

…showed last 75 words of 958 total…there is much evidence to suggest that this is not true. In many societies, including the United States, religion and religious values shape the lives of millions of individuals and play a key role in culture. Due to the fact that people are so ignorant about the religion itself it is sometimes thought of as a religion not worth believing in. Nevertheless it is because it is the roots of many people in todays society.