Dean Obeidallah

Furthermore to why Americans should not assume all Muslims are terrorists is because Muslims hate terrorism. According to Dean Obeidallah, a writer for The Daily Beast, there are two biggest Muslim- American groups, ISNA and CAIR, who denounced ISIS. CAIR stated, “American Muslims view the actions of ISIS as un-Islamic and morally repugnant. No religion condones the murder of innocent civilians, beheadings of religious scholars or the desecration of houses of worship.” Obeidallah provides us with favorability ratings for Muslims in the U.S. that had fallen from 36 percent to 27 percent in 2010. When people are exposed to seeing only the negative activities caused by Muslims, they naturally believe the worst of it. Obeidallah states there are