Interesting discussion about Islam after the Persepolis

What images come to your mind whenever you listen to the word Islam?

Today, after watching The Persepolis movie we had an interesting panel with two students, one from Afghanistan and the other from Pakistan. They talked about how Islam is different on each country on the Middle East, and how, the wars are not a result of religion, but political issues. This was very interesting for me, first because I do not know a lot about this religion, that is in fact one of the biggest in the world, and also, because in some way I think that the media created a negative perspective of Islam, always like the conservationist religion, or the people who are always are on war, but as one of the students pointed out that these misconceptions are wrong.

It was sad to hear that is some countries they are not letting Muslim woman to use their veils, what if they just want to use it because, doesn’t matter the reason, I think that everybody should be free to wear whatever they want to.

Religion is a strong part of humans that can be used either to unify or separate people.