Can We Be More Tolerant And Open-Minded?

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Halloo,

It really doesn’t matter how educated you are or the number of years you spent schooling, if you are close-minded, you are still an illiterate. Whether you realize it or not, life is not always black and white. There are grey areas.

These grey areas are what make it so hard to sit and judge anything as right or wrong. The most humane thing to do is to keep an open-mind always. This is really needed in religious settings.

If you are one of those who have boxes for everything, and once a situation or a person do not fit into one of your boxes, you automatically marked WRONG! You are an ignorant person.

It is foolish to expect everyone to see things from your point of view. But it is very reasonable to expect that people who think deeply before reacting should know that every decision is made based on varying circumstances.

Many people are out there who are their own enemy because of their inability to weigh things properly before labeling things as WRONG. Yet they hero-worship great people who are making a difference because they decided to be open-minded.

One of the ways to tick me off is by preaching religion to me. Most of these people (Muslims and Christians) have no idea what boundary is. They come into your personal space and tread anyhow, expecting you to be okay with it because they are performing religious activities.

I have lost many friends over this and I know I will loose more. Am I bothered? NO!!!!

The little people who know me, know that my personal space is highly valued. I have zero tolerance for drama and negativity.

A younger version of me used to explain to people that I do not appreciate my space being invaded. Which always end up with us falling out. The new me don’t explain. You start drama, negativity, or mess or disrespect my space. And you are out, no explanation.

I am a Muslim. I have no problem interacting with my Christian friends, I have lots of them. I respect their religion and practices. In return I want mine to be respected too.

So I consider it a very negative thing if you, a Christian, stand in front of my children in my sitting room and start praying loudly. I feel my space is being violated. You know I am a Muslim. So pray if you must. Do it quietly and in private if possible.

It is not from shame when I pray privately in my Christian friends homes. It is RESPECT!

I see many people already disagreeing with me. That is fine. These are my opinions, please share yours in the comment section below.

Differences in religion shouldn’t be a problem if you are very comfortable in your own faith. You ever talk to some Muslims and it seems everything is ‘Haram’ (Sin)? You just got bored with these kind of self-righteous attitudes.

Apparently it is not permitted in Islam, according to them, to wish your Christians family and friends ‘Merry Christmas’. How sad is that? Some Christians will not eat the Eid Celebration foods given to them by their Muslim family and friends. And we claimed to worship God?

These types of behaviours annoy me no end. So by celebrating each other’s faith is reducing the other person’s level of faith or commitment to God?

Are we still worshiping ‘God’ or are we worshiping ‘fear’? I get really annoyed with people like these. I know I do not fit into many people’s definition of a Muslim. I honestly don’t care. My faith, My religion, and My God.

I think most of these people are so afraid that they will rather project their fear unto others and keep them on leash. Some people are so closed minded that they know absolutely nothing about other religions. Except what has been fed them by biased religious leaders.

You will cringe when you hear some people talk. The bigotry, no tolerance, and lack of knowledge so glaring. And this is how we want to show beauty of our religion?

Someone once said to me ‘Islam is not a buffet, where you pick and choose what you will do’. And that is where most of our problems are. Absolute adoption of anything is dangerous. FACT!

And only a deluded person will think that we don’t pick and choose. WE ALL DO!

Only difference is some people need to go seek permission from their leaders before making a choice, while others, like me, think about my choices and weigh it in context to serving God and practicality.

That makes me a bad person? Or not enough Muslim for you?

It is laughable when people think my choices are based on convenience. Good luck to those who want to proof to such people that it’s not the case. I will simply advice you to let that be between you and your creator.

Our Prophet, Muhammad (SAW), was a very tolerant and accommodating person. Most people became Muslims because of these qualities. He was never reported to show hatred towards Non-Muslims. What are we then doing?

Jesus Christ, from the little I know of the bible, was a very humble human being. He led with humility and tolerance. But today we have Christians who think that it is beneath them associating with someone from another religion. A boy once picked on my daughter to bully for being a Muslim.

This is what we are teaching and showing our children as example? There are so many religions in the world, each to their own. If you don’t support what is happening somewhere, stop going there. Move away. Don’t start forcing your ways down people’s gullet in the name of being holy.

You can talk till you are blue in the face, close-minded people will never change their minds. But I hope those who truly seek God’s mercy will hear me and realised that we can live together in harmony without our faiths being affected. We just have to respect each other, and be open-minded.

Thanks a lot for reading. Please, your contributions to this post will be appreciated in the comment section below. Help by clicking like and share with your friends. Also, don’t forget to join other subscribers to receive notifications of new posts by email. I appreciate it.

Stay with me,

Ruka.

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Ruka

My name is Ruka. Born and bred in Nigeria. Now living in Ireland. I am a Woman, Feminist, Wife, Mother, Muslim, Black, and African. I am an Entrepreneur who also works in Finance Administration. I am a Fibromyalgia & Chronic Pain Warrior. I love writing and hope to make a name for myself doing it.

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