I think everyone here has a pretty odd impression of the average Muslim university student...
I’ve met many, but most are like the ethnic Jews who go to Shabbat dinner for the free booze and go home for Passover Seder because their parents make them.
I have two close Muslim friends.. The only religious expression I ever noticed was them not eating pork. They certainly get drunk and party and fornicate and worry about fashion and have the same insecurities and doubts and often the ebullience of every other typical college student.
In other words, their parents are Muslim.. So it’s fun to get them in trouble by putting beer cans or porn magazines in their room when their parents come to visit. That’s pretty much the only thing that ever came up, except joking around.. like I’ll call them towelhead, he’ll call me a dumb polack, et cetera.
You said — “I have two close Muslim friends.. The only religious expression I ever noticed was them not eating pork. They certainly get drunk and party and fornicate and worry about fashion and have the same insecurities and doubts and often the ebullience of every other typical college student.”
And the *absolutely frightening* thing about what you just said — is — so did Osama bin Ladin.
FURTHERMORE, and so did Mohamed Atta....
It’s *definitely* puts what you just said in a *completely different light*....
Regards,
Star Traveler
Do you think that they're like Christians as well?And what's an "ethnic Jew"?
I have many Muslim coworkers. That is how it is in engineering in big cities. We don’t graduate nearly enough engineers to meet the need, so many come from the Middle East, India, China, etc...
My experience mirrors yours. American Muslims are all over the map, from fundamentalist to Muslim party girls that would make Paris Hilton blush.
Most people are a little selfish, but not particularly harmful. That goes for Muslims, liberals, conservatives, what have you. The most damage these Muslims and liberals cause is getting caught up selfishly in the rat race or in some Utopian idealism and abrogating their responsibility to fight for our Constitutional rights.
But only a very few of them are actually dangerous in and of themselves. I am sure there are huge numbers of Freepers who have never met or known a Muslim and are biased as a result. I can’t really blame them. Ignorance tends to do that to you. Until you have a 1st hand experience, you are swayed by your impression of what others tell you.