30 Days as a Muslim
Look at the video at this link, in which Dave Stacey from West Virginia tries to live for 30 Days like a Muslim would, though he is in fact a small-town, pork-eating, beer-drinking, Christian European American who has never believed anything other than that the Messiah is also Lord and God Almighty. Well, for the first 17 minutes of the film, you see his prejudices and he is not even that good at hiding them. Fact is, he is close-minded, and he is trying to learn and still he cannot get past his own closed mind and cannot get his mind around the idea that Muslims aren’t creating a distinct god to worship aside from him. In his mind, Allah had to be a specifically Arab god that Muslims worship and not the creator of Jesus and everyone else. He expressed no qualams about believing that Jews and Christians worshipped the same deity, but then again the image in the minds of white Christians is of white Jews walking around Mount Sinai with a white Moses awaiting a white Jesus to descend and represent a white God who is loyal to the perspectives of Europeans and European Americans. I credit Dave with a willingness to learn and to tell the truth about what he learned, but it took him 30 days to get where many would get in a week. Part of that problem was he himself. The other part is the apologetic imam who could explain so little and had no kind of testicular fortitude. Props to the Muslim brother who told him towards the end, “We owe no apologies for 9/11 and you owe none for Eric Rudolph. We condemn it, but apologizing means I had something to do with it.”
Now, the biases of most Americans against Islam is evident when they are interviewed in some of the clips. They fought the idea of masajid calling to prayer but then again they supported the idea of church bells. And not one Muslim was shown saying to the disbelievers, “If you’re not Muslim, ignore it! Why is it so important to you that you can’t ignore it? Is your conscience bothering you that much for sleeping through the call to prayer?” And that first Imam needed to be beat down, at about the 12th minute, trying to accommodate Dave and tell him how similar they are without the differences. He had no courage to tell Dave, “Here are the likes AND dislikes between us, to give you an honest and balanced picture of it. Believe what you will.” See, some Muslims were trying more so to impress him that to educate him, and that wasn’t fair to him. And despite this, what did he say in response? He still refused to believe that these darkies could possibly be worshipping the same gods as him. It did not assuage his prejudice and bias at all. It was direct information from some self-respecting Muslims that taught him better.
Muslims, buck up. They will not love us until we apostatize, but they can respect us if we respect ourselves first and stop viewing them from an inferiority complex.
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