The most ANNOYING misconception about YOUR faith? (myth, worship, Jewish)

[Djamila]

What, for you, is the most annoying misconception about your faith?

I don't really know where to begin. I suppose the most annoying misconception about Islam, to me, is that it hasn't played as significant a role as it did in the development of the world. So much, in terms of architecture, music, dance, and so on - styles found universally around the globe - owe their roots to Islam. So much science and literature, so many aspects of modern civilization.

It really saddens me that students in Paris, for example, learn about European inventors while students in Bosnia learn about the Arabs and Persians who invented the same things often centuries earlier. This misconception of world history, I think, also plays a role in the rare but present misconception that all Muslims are terrorists today.

Another misconception that bothers me relates to Muslim women. I am frustrated with the Arab world's implementation of scripture in countries like Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan, and frustrated with non-Muslim misconceptions about Muslim women. I notice when I'm in Norway that if I'm wearing a veil, people speak more slowly to me as though they somehow have this belief that I am stupid. It's not a mean thing, they're still extraordinarily polite, but still they speak as though they're talking to a child - and its not because I'm Bosnian, it never happens when I don't wear a veil.

Those would be it for me.

What's it for you?

[dawny0826]

That we handle snakes and jump about like we're crazy.

Untrue.

(Pentecostal)

[Bishka]

That we practice polygamy

That we worship Joseph Smith


I could go on and on and on and on (LDS)

[Djamila]

Originally Posted by dawny0826

That we handle snakes and jump about like we're crazy.

Untrue.

(Pentecostal)

Hahaha, people really think that? I have seen a movie in which a character was Pentecostal and the boys wouldn't go near her because "they're crazies", but I didn't think their stereotype was that extreme.

[Djamila]

Originally Posted by beckysoup61

That we practice polygamy

That we worship Joseph Smith


I could go on and on and on and on (LDS)

The polygamy thing must be just as frustrating for you as the terrorism thing, because the polygamists claim your faith.

You have my sincere sympathies, becky. That makes it so difficult outside of your own community - who already know better anyway.

[Jaymes]

That wu wei means "sitting around and doing nothing".

[Ody]

Our political views are based on our religion.
That we control the media.
That we control all governments.
That protocols is real.
That we created communism to "kill all christians"
That the Holocaust is a myth to help the Zionist cause.
That Zionism is one and the same with Judaism.


If you look up 'Jew' in google the second thing that comes up is www.jewwatch.com that is to quote wiki

Jew Watch is a website that claims to "report accurate information regarding Jewish ownership and control over mass media and politics," and which describes its objective as "Keeping a Close Watch on Jewish Communities & Organizations Worldwide." It is owned and maintained by Frank Weltner, a member of the National Alliance, a nazi organization.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewwatch

[Djamila]

Eva said the same thing. She said the belief that Jews are global puppet masters who always pull the strings in immoral directions is the most annoying thing. She also finds annoying that Jews everyone are misconcepted as "Israeli", when most Sephards have never been, never will be, and couldn't care less.

[Katzpur]

Originally Posted by dawny0826

That we handle snakes and jump about like we're crazy.

Untrue.

(Pentecostal)

You dont? Oh, darn! You mean I was impressed all this time over nothing? You guys are just a bunch of wimps like everybody else. You do roll in the aisles like you're having a seizure don't you? Oh, please, don't disappoint me a second time!!!!