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Richard Thompson accused Sayed Qazwini of “Taqiyya” when he explains that the Boston bombings have nothing to do with Islam

Molana Qazwini is such a boss. Damn.

can we talk about how Sayed Qazwini totally took Thompsons argument and used it against him and Thompson said “no that’s not fair you’re taking it out of context” and failed to recognize his own hypocrisy?

What about how fucking rude he was? Talking over the Sayed when the Sayed allowed him to speak with out interrupting him, ugh.

AND FINALLY FINALLY THIS FUCKNUT MENTIONED TAQIYYA WITH OUT KNOWING WHAT THE FUCK IT ACTUALLY IS. HE EVEN GAVE THE WRONG DEFINITION.

Thompson is a racist and a bigot, and a filthy hypocrite.

(via the-sophisticated-bastard)

My own take on this wonderful, wonderful meme.

I want to write a novel about a shape shifting Muslim girl.

and she becomes leader of her shape shifting people

and she’s a Muslim.

and she shape shifts.

fuck that would be awesome

Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others

by Lila Abu-Lughod

Oh god, this also reminds me

I just told the story to Eli, but here is a better written version of it.

Disclaimer: This has nothing to do with being Christian or not, so if you are Christian and you lose your shit at this post, you are missing the point thank you.

Last year, a bunch of Christian fundamentalists came to Detroit to try and ‘save it’ by doing this weird prayer thing. They always bring them to U-of-M-Dearborn, because we have a large Arabic Population. We can’t go a single semester with out these guys standing outside, yelling about how we’re all going to hell, fire and brimstone, etc. etc. etc. 

They’re really obnoxious and it’s gotten to the point where the interfaith club at our school (which is a primarily Christian club) has been like “Ya’ll crazy”. Which was fantastic! 

Anyway, these people always approach me because I am 1) Muslim and 2) despite being 100% Arabic, my Green eyes scream WHITE PERSON to them so they approach me because I look friendly. Usually, I can derail the conversation (my personal favorite was stopping them from talking about religion and going into an in-depth conversation about all of the arabic sweet stores they needed to stop at before they went back to their home. Yeah, try hating Arabs when you’ve had a Shawarma sandwich. Or Manaeesh. Or Ba2lawa!) 

Sometimes I don’t get lucky.

This dude sits down, intrudes on my personal space (I was sitting alone reading a book—clearly a ‘don’t intrude). He introduces himself, and starts talking and after like ten minutes ‘notices’ he is all in my personal space. He goes “oh sorry, do you want me to leave?” and I just stared at him. He must have taken that as a ‘no go ahead and stay’ because he continued, talking about some miracle that saved his daughter and then asking me questions about my religion.

You better believe I prefaced this with “OKay, well I’m not a representation of all Arabs or all Muslims but I can answer some questions”, because the last thing I want is to say something wrong and for him to go back to his friend, etc. (even though he probably did that already). So we go back and forth, him clearly trying to get me to find a fault in my religion, and me letting him go on and on. 

By this point, I was legitimately sweating because I was really nervous with him around and aggravated. He sat there in total for an hour and by the time I got up, the underside of my knees and my armpits were soaked because I was weirded out.

He leaves and I get up to go to class, and as I’m walking out the door, some guy hands me a CD. I tell him I don’t want it. I don’t throw away things with the names of Prophets on them, regardless because of respect reasons and to top it off, the CD was in Arabic and I clearly saw the name of God on it. I refused again and tried to hand it back and he refused to take it, getting really aggressive with me about wanting it (at one point he pushed it back into my hands and actually pushed me back). I

At that point I lost my temper, already frazzled because someone ruined my lunch break, and I threw the CD back at him. He seemed really surprised that I wasn’t being meek or some shit because he finally got the message. I stalked past him and past the douche outside screaming at me that I was going to hell and went to class.

This ^ is in complete opposition to my experience with other Christians (my best friend is a Christian and you best believe she’s never tried to sit me down and systematically explain why everything I believe is wrong). 

So, missionary Christians please stop being missionaries, if people want to join your religion, your religion should speak for itself, you should not have to shove yourself in my personal space and expect me to be okay.

iconapope asked:
lady gaga can write a song about whatever she wants to. why cant she write a song about a burqua? its no different than writing a song about anything. if people who wear burquas want to be treated equally, they can have songs written about them. freedom of speech.

lol no. You don’t understand, greekbritneyspears. The burqa has a special place in Islamic culture. Lady Gaga writing a song about the burqa (and it’s probably not about the burqa it’s probably about WHITE WOMAN I SAVE OPPRESSED BROWN WOMENS) is like if I wanted to write a song about, say, greek people fucking sheep. 

it’s rude, offensive and disrespectful to people who DO wear it. It has nothing to do with “freedom of speech” or being “treated equally”, it has to do with treating people like fucking people and not like treated like a scapegoat bc LOOK HOW OPPRESSED THOSE WOMEN ARE.

  • Muslim who doesn't celebrate Christmas: IS IT EID YET
Oppressed Muslim Girl Perks:

it’s amazing how much wifi you can get from the closet your husband forces you to sleep in

Sometimes I’m my biggest critic

Sometimes I’m my biggest critic

Princess Hajah Hafizah Sururul Bolkiah during her wedding

Princess Hajah Hafizah Sururul Bolkiah during her wedding

Anonymous asked:
If you're going to blame Gaga, you have to blame Phillip Treacy too because it was his fashion show.

Oh, I’m not just blaming Gaga, trust me. I reblogged something by that man as well and talked about how wrong it was. No worries, anon. 

I just happened to get attention for speaking about Gaga instead of, you know, other people. 

It’s wrong for ALL people to do things like this, especially when it’s not with the intent of respect. :)

Anonymous asked:
ok don't get mad at me for this but since you said that by her wearing a burqua that she was being disrespectful to those women who have a choice. Gaga isn't doing that. She doesn't go around picking people to discriminate against. She probably is trying to raise awareness over male-dominated cultures. She is a feminist after all. She also isn't ignorant. She went to college and is an intelligent individual. Don't let a bias based on her fame blind you.

I totally get you: sometimes discrimination is not intentional, sometimes you don’t MEAN to be racist, but it happens. It honestly does, and when you are racist or discriminating, the least that can happen is call someone out over it.

Here’s the deal though: if you go to the Gagaroyale tumblr page, you see several pictures of her in the same burka. She was PART of the runway show. She wasn’t raising awareness. more than that, the burka was see-through… and she was barely wearing anything underneath. 

It’s one thing to, for example, wear it as a sign of respect because she’s in the middle east and wants to show support with her middle east fans, but it’s another thing to take a cultural and religious symbol and honestly ignore all of the meanings behind it because you want to “one up male-dominated cultures”. 

I mean, the United States IS a male-dominated culture. Her statement would have been a LOT more effective (if her intent with wearing it was to raise awareness and not to be part of the fashion show) if she made a statement of solidarity with women who choose to wear it, such as something like:

“I full support all those who have a choice in wearing the hijab/burqa/whatever. Let’s work together to give those women who do not have a choice the chance to CHOOSE.” because THAT’S WHAT’S IMPORTANT ANON.

not making flash statements you know? I’m a lot more clear headed then I was last night, and I hope this less firey explanation puts what I (and a lot of other muslim women) are finding as a problem with this debacle. 

Now, it is totally true that I don’t particularly enjoy her music myself. But I don’t yell at her songs when they come on the radio. It’s okay to like someone musically or as an actor or whatever and still realise that sometimes they do things that are really, really wrong. It doesn’t mean you have to hate them, it just means you have to be aware that when people call her (or whoever) out on someone, they have a right.

Now do some people actually HATE HER and this is just GREAT FOR THEM? Yes. I’m not one of those people But I can’t let it slide, you know?

Anonymous asked:
Hi, could you explain what's going on, and why it's offensive, in the Lady Gaga picture? I'm not a fan of her even, and I just don't understand what's happening. Thank you.

No problem! 

The burka is something pretty much that only Muslims wear. Some women muslims choose to wear it because it is how they feel comfortable expressing their decision to wear the “veil” (this, anon, can happen in different forms, such as hijab, burka, niqab, shawl whatever, people make it work). 

lately, and I can’t tell you why, people have been taking the burka, an idea of modesty, and turning it into a “hysterical” freak show. There was a recent runway show that showed models wearing colored “burkas”, but that were see-through and a mockery of the idea.

People like lady gaga here are pretty much trying to be “edgy and risky” about the shit they don’t understand. She, like many feminists in the west, believe that the burka is simply a tool of oppression and so wearing one that looks like that makes her “edgy” and “showing all of those women oppressors”. 

I am not pointing this out to say that there ISN’T oppression in places where people wear burkas, but it is SO obvious that she does not understand the significance of the burka to the women who have a CHOICE IN WEARING IT. she pretty much believes that everyone, even a Muslim woman who DECIDES TO WEAR A BURKA, is being oppressed by even thinking it.

Now, did she say this out right? No. But this is pretty much what I have gleaned from those pictures. It’s not edgy and it’s not cool—it’s totally disrepectful.

There is a HUGE difference between creating a line of burkas/niqabs/hijabs/aabyas that are fashionable for hijabis and muslims (which DO exist and are truly BEAUTIFUL) and then turning something that is religiously significant into a fashion statement because they ran out of meat dresses and eggs to hatch out of.

Haram vs. Halal

Yesterday, I decided to go look through the “haram” tag on tumblr; I’m not entirely sure what peaked my interest but it’s fairly interesting to see how people use the tag. I found a list of things considered Haram in Islam through a convert/revert who was confused and asked if this list was right or wrong.

I found a few problematic things with it. Here is a link to the list, for you to follow along.  More under the cut, because it is long.

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