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The second thing to be aware of is something that psychologists have called in-group bias.

In-group bias.

In-group bias basically means, and again we're all guilty of it, these are things,

there's nothing wrong with it as human beings do this.

In-group bias, as the term applies,

implies, refers to the fact that you are always bias towards your own group and you make excuses for your own group

and you look positively at your own group versus those who are outside of it. And again, there's nothing wrong with this. It is human nature. That what your group does, if the same thing were to be done by somebody outside you

will problemize it but when it's done by your side your people, group, in your minds you find a justification. Now why is

this important? Because we are the other when it comes to this society and things that our religion has done or

the prophecy has done or has happened in the Sahabas time this is not in-group

bias we have in-group bias when we look at those things. We find an easy

justification from our paradigm it makes sense, but realize if the same things

had happened against us, we would have not found justification for those things.

And there's nothing wrong with this, it's human nature. In group bias, you do it.

And the point is that whoever you identify with, you will always look at in a more sympathetic light.

And whoever you think of as the other, as outside of you, you don't identify it.

You will dismiss, you will criticize, you will exaggerate.

And I think the most obvious example for this in our times is the issue of terrorism and the

tactics of terrorism and the counter tactics of terrorism.

This whole debate for the last 15 years, we as the Muslim community have been put in such an awkward position

because outsiders don't understand what is going on in our side of the world.

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