Muslims in America

"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

We as Americans are a very proud people. Proud of our country. We believe that our nation should be one nation under God. Back in 2008, we elected a president named Barak Obama and one big concern that spread was the rumor that he was a Muslim. "Why are we electing a Muslim president?" was the question of many. This brought up a huge concern because there was, and still is, a huge stereotype towards Muslims. In other places in the world Muslims are a majority, but here in America they are a minority and many people are scared of that. Here are some evidences of the panic when Obama was elected:

Muslims really are a nice, friendly, peaceful group of people, but are often mistakenly associated with terrorists. People call them intolerant and evil and accuse them of trying to take over the world and many other things. If you follow this following link, you can see a video of Richard Dawkins calling Islam a great evil: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhYus6TiGEE. The ominous adds to that video in making the claim that they really all evil. And here is another picture that represents this:

Now as I look around on the internet, it is quite apparent that there is a war of words and opinions going on about Muslims. Not all people have the same belief of how evil Muslims are, but yet even many who don't believe that Muslims are terrorists misunderstand them, having no idea what they really are and what they believe. Members of the Mormon church would find it almost preposterous if I were to claim that Muslims and Mormons actually are very close in what they believe. But it is actually quite true. Yes, there are Muslim Extremists that give Muslims a bad name, but the difference between the Muslim Extremists and actual Muslims is about the same as the LDS church and the FLDS church. Most Americans and even lots of members of the LDS church don't even realize this and many Muslims have to spend their whole life trying to fight the stereotype that they are an unpeaceful, terrorist religion and that is sad.