Islam More Than A Religion Despite its huge following around the world and the growing Muslim communities in the United States, Islam is foreign to most Americans who are familiar with Christianity or Judaism. Because most Americans know little or nothing about Islam, they have many misconceptions about Muslim beliefs and rituals. The negative image many people in the United States and Europe have of Islam and the Muslim world has a long history. Many …showed first 75 words of 1325 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1325 total…suggest that this is not true. In many societies, including the United States, religion and religious values shape the lives of millions of individuals and play a key role in culture. Bibliography REFERENCES Dawood, N.J. The Koran. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Classics, 1974 Gordon, S. Matthew., Islam World Religions, New York: Brown Publishing, 1991 Hiro, Dilip., Holy Wars: The Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism, New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall Inc. 1989 The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, Chicago: 15th Edition: 1987