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**softy54534** · 04-01-2014, 11:25 AM

It is mainly because they confuse us to be members or supporters of Al Qaeda due to the turbans. After 9/11, the media constantly showed brown guys with beards and turbans as the 'bad guys'. In fact, in 2007, I was talking to some people near a Muslim Student Association booth and I heard one of their members, also, say that Islam was not bad but 'guys with beards and turbans in the Middle East' were ruining the name of Islam. I can understand the desire to correct the incorrect perceptions about Islam, but using turbans / beards as 'bad people' was very prevalent in the first decade after 9/11, even from Muslims, understandably.

04-01-2014, 11:25 AM	#5
softy54534 Join Date Apr 2007 Posts 5,457 Senior Member	It is mainly because they confuse us to be members or supporters of Al Qaeda due to the turbans. After 9/11, the media constantly showed brown guys with beards and turbans as the 'bad guys'. In fact, in 2007, I was talking to some people near a Muslim Student Association booth and I heard one of their members, also, say that Islam was not bad but 'guys with beards and turbans in the Middle East' were ruining the name of Islam. I can understand the desire to correct the incorrect perceptions about Islam, but using turbans / beards as 'bad people' was very prevalent in the first decade after 9/11, even from Muslims, understandably.
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