Essay About Religion In America

Islam is the second most popular religion in the world. Islam was created to bring peace and unity throughout the world. In the United States, citizens often view fellow Muslims as a threat, due to encounters, such as nine eleven. We have been stereotyped as violent individuals who forcefully try to instill our religion unto others, when that is certainly untrue. When I lived in Texas, I did not have any means of transportation so I had to catch the bus. I had rode the bus to UPS to pick up my PlayStation 4 my mom had sent me. When I walked back towards the bus stop, this man had left and sat on the other side of the street. Then, when I got on the bus, I could not believe my eyes. All of the passengers who were on the bus got off once they saw me board the bus with the brown box. The bus driver had saw the disbelief and my eyes and he sympathetically told me I could sit the box near him. He apologized and told his assistant to help me with the box and wait with me until my next bus came. I was grateful but upset because this is what America was truly like towards Muslim individuals.
I saw a variety of Muslims. I met people from the Nation of Islam, Nation of God and Earths, and Arabic Muslims. They were very wise and gave me insights on their knowledge. It was all confusing because Nation of Islam and Nation of Gods and Earth both were a majority of Blacks and they all had very racial points of view. Meanwhile, the People of The Quran, original Muslims, had very racial point of views about their fellow Muslim brothers and sisters. They also both told me I would encounter a lot of racism being Black and Muslim, especially in Chicago. I thought they were overreacting, but surely enough I