Educating Yourself Is Not As Hard As You Think
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Educating Yourself Is Not As Hard As You Think

Credible information is just a Google search away.

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Educating Yourself Is Not As Hard As You Think
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We live in a world where new and truthful information is at our fingertips, yet some people still do not use this to their advantage. It could be a solution, it is able to educate people with all of this information yet people do not attempt to educate themselves. Even the United States President is an example of this.

After retweeting "anti-Muslim" videos from Britain's right-wing leader, Jayda Fransen, it caused controversy. Educating himself about the Islamic religion is just a google search away, probably would take less time to do that than reading tweets on his timeline.

As a President, he should want to educate himself on a religion a lot of the population follows. Instead, he chooses to preach uneducated nonsense to the rest of the population. As he is in the highest office in the country, more uneducated people believe everything that spews out of his non-filtered mouth.

Of course, the media has filled many with fear of this religion including the President - claiming most Muslims are extremists believing the same ideologies the most feared and violent terrorist group does –– ISIS. Yet, there's so much that differentiates Muslims from ISIS. What most people are unaware of is that out of the all of the terrorist investigations being conducted in the United States, 40% of those who join ISIS were not raised as Muslims.

The profile of those who are most likely to join ISIS are those who feel isolated and alienated from society, those are the people that ISIS preys on. If our media is attempting to alienate many Muslims from the rest of the United States population it only helps ISIS, how is it so hard for the President to grasp this concept?

Many of these cases in the United States had little to do with "twisted" religious beliefs, instead, having to do with the idea that ISIS would make them feel like they belonged to a community, a place they would be taken care of. Less than 10% of people recruited were done for religious reasons - ISIS has nothing to do with true Islam.

According to Sheikh Hamza, an Islamic scholar and college president, what shifts from mercy to cruelty isn't Islam at all - once again, ISIS is not Islam.

All of the information I was able to find about this topic was done through a quick google search. I didn't take me long to attempt to educate myself on this religion, it's not that people aren't able to it's that they don't want to. This is what is sad, with everything being the touch of a finger away, people still believe being ignorant is right.

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