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Why do people discriminate people of other religions? How does…

- - - - One way to solve this issue is by getting involved in the Dialogues of Everyday Life. Dialogues of Everyday Life are vital for humans survival. This is the simplest way to interact with others and many of us are already engaging daily in this Everyday Life Dialogue. The Dialogues of Everyday life are very reoccurring, they are as simple as talking to your coworker and asking how their day is going, or as easy as having a 5-minute talk with your neighbour about the new nearby Plaza. Besides, this dialogue has no limits. Like all other dialogues, this has many of its own unique benefits, such as meeting new people, finding what similarities and differences you have in common with others around you, becoming more socially active and ultimately becoming self-conscious and gain confidence. Moreover, Dialogues of Everyday Life promote World Peace between every one of every culture, race, religion, and background.
        
        In the chosen article, article number three, the issue was Islamophobia. Everyday Life Dialogue can help solve Islamophobia by letting the other side understand that Muslims are just the same as everyone else with feelings, ups and downs, and so on and so forth. Another important thing is to live our lives by the Golden Rule, "Treat others the way you want to be treated."
        
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    - - The unreasonable fear of Muslims and Islam, based on a prejudice point of view and a bias opinion. It is often made upon fake news and false accusations. Islamophobia is usually against the political Islamic force.
      - What is Islamophobia?
- - - - This happens for example in Ecumenism for Christians by the priests, they all unite in the purpose of bringing everyone together into a unity. Something similar to this could happen to promote Islam, in hope to end Islamophobia. Non-Muslims can learn about Islam through volunteering in their celebrations, such as Eid Al-Fitr and Eid Al-Adha, and in return Muslims can volunteer in Christian celebrations such as Christmas and Easter.
        
        I can promote peace and tolerance in the world with members of other religions for the well-being of humanity by talking to my Catholic friends and to heavily engage in any dialogue or interreligious dialogue with them. Recalling my friend X, he and I are a great example. We talk about our religions consistently and we share many things about each other. My friend X is not only Catholic but they are also from the Philippians, so when we do the action talking, it is deeper than just sounds or just an interreligious dialogue between two people. Any conversation between X and I is very deep because it brings not only two people from different religions, but also two people from different backgrounds and cultures. If I had the power to, I would encourage and organize clubs for interreligious dialogue, run summer camps for the elders, youth and kids of the community to get to know each other better. I would also try to teach people to let go of the mentality that when we meet someone we need to find points that we agree on, and if we do not then we do not call them friends. Sometimes it is okay to not connect on the similarities, but to connect on the differences and to embrace them and try to take all the lessons of them. Tying back to the parable John 21:15-17 - Jesus and Peter, the talk does not do the walk, saying that he loved Jesus, he kept asking him for reaffirmation because he was waiting for Actions to show that he does. The same thing goes for interreligious dialogue, with the wrong mentality, interreligious dialogue can go very wrong. When approaching interreligious activities or dialogues people need to be patient, they need to actively listen and to be open to things that they might not find authentic or things that do not make sense to them.
- - - - Some examples of this is Priests talking to Sheikhs and discussing their truths and sharing their knowledge. Another example is Father Bede. Father Bede was not a born Christian, but he later converted and became a Priest. In 1950 he went to India to have Theological Exchange of dialogue between him, a Roman Catholic, and the Hinduism.
        
        Religious leaders can take part in serious intellectual dialogue in many ways to understand each other religious tradition, way of life and spiritual values such as interacting with others who are like them and are leaders from other religions. Other ways they can have serious intellectual dialogue is by having an interreligious dialogue with others who have experience in other religions and other spiritualities. All world religions share the core beliefs of unity in the community, spreading the word of their truth, whether through evangelization for Catholics or another method for others. Like Ninian Smart mentioned in the Seven Dimensions of Religion, all religions have either a scripture, a holy book, a group of symbols that set out their actions and what they should do and how they should their lives. All World Religions belief that the Earth and universe have been started by a superhuman or a superpower. Moreover, all World Religions have Moral Laws in common. Moral laws set out what is correct and what is wrong to do. All World Religions promote telling the truth, being just when ruling, not to cheat, not to judge others and label them into boxes, to forgive, to be loyal, and so on so forth. All world religions also have in common their stories about how they started, for example, Jesus’s story of how he turned from a Jew to becoming Messiah the Son of God, and prophet Muhammed spreading the message of God of Islam. This can apply to the intolerance and discrimination presented in the article, Opinion: 'The Muslims are coming!' Why Islamophobia is so dangerous Imran Awan, if this was already applied into the real world rather than just being talked about, the intolerance and discrimination against Muslims in the article would have been stopped long ago, because the people would know what they are about, and Muslims would not have to feel victimized.
- - - - In the same way that Sister Elaine MacInnes has learned Zen practice which is a type of Buddhist meditation as a Roman Catholic. She has helped the men in jail by letting them practice Yoga and teaching them the way of doing it. In the same way, we should teach people who are non-Muslim about how calming Islam is, some practices of it and what it truly stands for. Or if not, at least the Four Ground Rules should be followed and accepted by everyone which are to Respect everyone of all types of spiritualities, faiths, and religions. Some other Ground Rules are to understand that each religion or spirituality has its own time, and also to understand that there is no neutral stance. Additionally, to stop all the misconceptions and prejudiceness, such as Islamophobia, Rule number Four of the Four Ground Rules should be followed, Religion is vitally important for its followers!
        
        People from different religious traditions can come together to share in their spiritual rituals and activities to develop a deep appreciation of other religions and a deeper appreciation of our faith through having interreligious dialogues, and exchanging the experience that they have gathered through following the religion or spirituality. The deeper appreciation of other religions and the deeper appreciation of our own can be achieved by actions such as inviting someone over to indulge in an interreligious conversation based on the experiences both sides have gathered through practicing their religion or spirituality. A`s Ninian Smart mentioned in the Seven Dimensions of Religion, on the social dimension, dimension Six, we can share our faith through playing sports and living together as much as we possibly could. An activity that would let people of different religions, backgrounds, and spiritualities get a deeper understanding of the other religions and their own, is to let them spend time together, this could be done through, eating, conversing with each other, sleeping, and doing basic daily activities together, it even could be playing Video Games. Another way is through building things together. When people of different religions, backgrounds, and spiritualities build things together they feel that they are a part of a bigger thing and that feeling could be related to by everyone who has contributed.