Stereotypes Among Adolescents

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Islam is an Arabic word meaning peace and obedience. The greeting word is “peace is unto you”. Islam is a religion and your way of life depends on the complete acceptance of the instructions of God through his prophet. Muslims believe in all prophets of God from Adam and Abraham to Jesus and lastly Muhammad. Followers of Islam are called Muslims. Most Muslims are Sunnis, followers of the Sunna (model) of the Prophet Muhammad as recorded by his companions. Some Muslims are Shi'a Muslims who also follow the teaching of Muhammad, but as taught by his son-in-law, Ali (Racism no way, n.d).
Muslims believe that the Quran is God’s words and is the guide for all Muslims’ lives. Muslims do what God asks us to do. The word God in Islam is called Allah (the only God for Muslims and there is no other God) and the messenger of Islam is prophet Mohamed. Arabic is the language of the Quran and most Muslims are Arabic speakers, but also …show more content…

A total of 321 high school Muslim students (149 males and 172 females) aged between 14 and 18 years finished self-report questionnaires. The study discovered a hierarchical model of recognition among Australian adolescent Muslims, with connection to their religion being the most important, then by heritage culture identification and being Australian in third place. Australian adolescent Muslims’ religious identification was perceived overall as more critical to their socio-cultural and psychological adaptation, than their heritage culture identification or Australian identification. As a conclusion of this research most of adolescent Muslim’s feel prejudice and need some special strategies to help resolving this issue. Muslim students need support from their teachers and their communities too(Abu-Rayya et al,

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