The Importance Of Freedom To Religion In The United States

Freedom to Religion here in the United States means that you have the freedom to practice any religion, whether you want to practice your religion wearing the traditional clothing or celebrate religious holidays. While the majority of Americans identify as Christian, it doesn’t mean that Muslims do not exist or that it is right to judge them for believing something different than what most of America believes. On Fox News, Reza Aslan, a Muslim man was interviewed about a book he wrote about Jesus. Aslan has multiple degrees in religion, views Jesus as his “hero” and converted to Christianity in his teens, but is now Muslim again. The anchor interviewing him first asks the Aslan why he wrote a book about Jesus if he is Muslim (“Zealot”), ignoring his advance education in religion. She then states that his book is about bashing Christianity simply because he is Muslim, but Aslan argues back that the book has nothing to do with what Islam believes or teaches and is

The New York Times writer claims that since Abedin “was raised in Saudi Arabia, where women are treated worse by men than anywhere else on the planet”, she was staying with her husband because her religion taught her to ignore her husband’s bad behavior because she was raised Muslim in Saudi Arabia (Dowd). It is ironic that they believe that Abedin would only stay with her husband because she is used to being treated badly by men in her religion because Her boss Hillary Clinton stayed with her husband after he had an extra-marital affair and Clinton is not from Saudi Arabia, nor is she Muslim. This article has examples of how anti-Muslim slant is evident in American media and how Muslim women are judged more harshly than American women would be because of the bias Americans have against the