Culture In Islam

When I embraced Islam in 2001, I was a round some wonderful Muslims in Saudi Arabia and I shall treasure that time for the rest of my life. Sadly there is much negative press over Muslims and to some certain extent true. Well actually some of the criticism is justified, perhaps as a Muslim saying this I will hear the ah and shouts and shame on you, but I have witnesses many things going on with Muslims for which has no place in Islam.
When we talk about culture, well that effects us all and since the European borders have been lowered the UK is suffocating with eastern block x people  coming here to live. This brings along their culture, some ok, some not. Now in the UK you have a band of people fighting for white culture , mainly from the far right etc.
Muslims are not immune either.
We have Muslim culture and this it must be stressed has no place in Islam as the religion. What you may see in a Muslim or family maybe from a culture point of view and some may think this is part of Islam, certainly not.
Today again like other communities, we have to separate Muslim from Islam.
Some actions that we daily hear, see from media co verge regarding say Asian Muslims or Arab Muslims are actions carried out through ignorance, hatred, but have no place in Islam.

What happened was as Islam spread out of Arabia on its mission to give the world the message from God, it collected new communities, cultures along the way. In a way local traditions as long as they did not contradict the religion were accepted and permitted. Whether this was good or bad well its done now.
What happened was the new Muslims that accepted Islam were bringing along with them pre Islamic culture and as generations moved forward, tradition took  the hook and the new generations thought what they learned from their fathers, grandfathers was correct according to Islam.
Today in many parts of the world we see Muslims praying towards dead people,worshipping saints, statues, graves, which is all totally wrong in Islam. As Muslims the worship is only for God.
Alot of the actions we see in Muslim marriages throughout the world are in fact un Islamic. This could be from having music, free mixing of sexes, etc.

So what is important is today's Muslim's and more so the new Muslim's who are responsible for carrying the torch of Islam forward do so by firstly learning the correct understanding of Islam then putting what is taught in their lives then passing that on with good character to the masses.