#IM STILL MUSLIM!!!

[kuyanh]

Thx 4 tagging me tho xD here ya go>:))

Hi this is the real me.

I don't have much friend tho 🥲. @axeyzn @chikarizma chika, know the way ys pren

I want to start a Christmas/Winter/Holidays picrew chain

[rubysevens]

anyway in the past week the irish government has voted down two motions which would have condemned the genocide in gaza.

i need everyone to stop lionising ireland as if its not also a european government with strong ties to the us. american weapons pass through shannon airport and will continue to, because yesterday the motion to stop that was voted down 83 to 50.

other governments have done much more but somehow people still act as though ireland is the ultimate palestinian ally and exempt from criticism on its handling of palestine bc it was once colonised, even though that past experience clearly isnt being taken into account by the irish government when creating policy.

i live here i know there’s a lot of public support and sympathy for palestine, which is great, but that isnt reflected in government, and i think ireland should be treated like other countries whose governments have done nothing.

[isittheghost]

(wip) its ramadan so gotta draw my favorite (headcanon) Muslim

[kindaorangey]

well i'm comforted by the knowledge that book!armand has some faith in the christian god (and, like, that this faith is vital to his character) because it means theres absolutely no fucking way they'd just do that one-to-one in the show and so we're one step closer to an exploration of show!armand's relationship with islam

[ehlihr]

im so happy everyone likes cassidy and fayrouzzz i need to do the comic ive planned for them

[butchniqabi]

now why do i need to publish in the newspaper that im changing my name like how is that your business!

[pickled-flowers]

Having very big thoughts about spirituality and humanity.. alas I am never articulate enough so I'm just gonna rent in the tags as always

[janjoona-almajnoona]

I hate being queer sometimes,

Why am I like this?

Why do i feel like this?

~~

I know what my parents would do when they found out,

And I hate the fact that I'll still love them even when they stop loving me,

I know most of my friends would leave me if they found out,

And i don't blame them, because I was taught to be just like them,

I know not all of them will leave,

But the fact that some will still hurts,

I know that I'll have my sister no matter what,

She is the only one to know my secret after all,

But sometimes I cant help the way i feel like she looks at me disgustedly,

I hate the way she tells me that my love is a sin,

But continues to tell me that she loves me,

She tells me that its normal to feel like that,

But I should leave my feelings as just that... Feelings.

~~

I hate the fact that me existing feels like a sin sometimes,

I want to love God,

But why doesn't He love me.

[minttealoverrrr]

The Barbie Movie and Chris McCandless

The Barbie Movie and Chris McCandless

*Note: In reference to Into The Wild, I reference the story and Chris McCanless with the reverence of a fictional character, simply living in the story and that is all. Chris, the character in a book. I have nothing but deep respect for Chris, the real man, and his loved ones. 

      I don’t know anyone who didn’t love the Barbie movie. Every woman in my life (not including my mother) raved about it. Teachers, friends, vague acquaintances I follow on instagram. How much it made them cry, how accurate, how personal, how totally and utterly perfect the movie was. I had high hopes going in, fully dressed in all the pink I could scrounge out of my closet. Expecting to watch a movie that would make me cry, sob, feel seen and feel understood- I left the theater feeling… none of those things. If anything, I was a little discontented and I needed to pee. On the way back home, me and my mother tried to decipher why exactly we both failed to experience the same world-altering-life-changing-film experience we heard our peers sing praises for. 

      The book Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer was a part of my AP Lang classes required reading this year.  A nonfiction recollection of the life and death of Chris McCandless. McCandless grew up in Annandale, Virginia where his father worked as an antenna specialist for NASA. After graduating from Emory University he donated all his money and decided to become a traveler/hermit/hitchhiker of sorts- rejecting worldly things like money, objects, deep connections with others, and any contact with his family. On one of his stints, McCandless travels through Rural Alaska for months and dies after running out of food and consuming a poisonous plant. This is an arguably reductive summary, you can find the full wikipedia pages for the book and Chris’s story here and here. Throughout reading this book, my class had several discussions about McCandless and the book Into The Wild. What could have driven McCandless to do what he did? Did he have a death wish, going into the Alaskan wilderness with no survival training and knowledge, frighteningly low amounts of food, and no gear? Were his actions justified? Do we relate to his decisions, his actions? Some people argue McCandless was simply a free spirit, that his rejections of the material in favor for the individual and intangible were ones we should strive for. Others are confused with his choice to totally desert his family, to the point where McCandless’s mother sent a private investigator to look for her son upon his supposed disappearance. Some felt he was sort of naive or unintelligent, going into the woods in the dead of winter utterly unprepared. While my peers gingerly gave their takes on their sympathies and gripes with McCandlesses story and McCandless himself I found myself feeling a similar feeling from earlier that summer. A sort of wall, a barrier. I found myself fully unable to sympathize with McCandless, totally and utterly. 

    Why? What is it about McCandlesses story that makes it so difficult for me to resonate with? The answer here is, at its core, the same reason I found myself discontented with the Barbie movie. With regards to McCandless, a few notes are vital. Chris McCandless was white, very upper-middle class, immensely privileged and fourtenate, wealthy, and educated. Still, he rejected all his fortune and privilege for a life in the woods. Rejecting his family, loved ones, friends, and anyone who cared for him. As someone who has very different values (developed through my identity in a Pakistani and Muslim home/ as a Pakistani Muslim person) , herein lies my hangup. I find it nearly impossible to understand or sympathize with someone so steeped in privilege, only to pretend it doesn’t exist. His rejection of family, immense wealth, and deep privilege in nearly all aspects of life. Now, that is by no means Chris’s fault- failing to acknowledge or understand his privilege and its complexities. He was 20 something in the 90’s and read Tolstoy in the woods! I don’t expect him to know the first thing about race or privilege. But there are some things that irrevocably make it difficult for me to truly, really truly, sympathize with his story. Someone a few prongs up on the privilege ladder might take more of his story to heart, understand it more, be able to see his story for just and only that, his story. I am in a position to see the bigger picture, this story I’m the context of larger things. I am unable to sympathize with his story due to factors outside of both of our control. This doesn’t mean either of us are at fault, and it doesn't mean I should be expected to change how I feel to suit his story. I have no inclination to change how I feel about McCandlesses story or his choices.  Some might argue I should get a heart and try to understand what he went through. And I’m not saying I feel gleeful or joyous at his demise, not in the slightest. It is just that I, as someone a few prongs lower on the privilege ladder, shouldn’t be expected to be more sympathetic to someone who’s values and choices are both a) only able to of happened as a result of his privilege and b) miles away from what I value as important in this life. 

Back to Barbie. Barbie is not the story of womanhood. It does not encapsulate what it means to be a woman. It may encapsulate what it means to be a white woman, but not a woman. Barbie treats whiteness as the default. A white woman is a woman and that is all, a brown woman is a woman and she is brown- a woman and then some. It's not anyone’s fault that I failed to understand Barbie.  But Barbie tells the story of a white woman, which is different from a brown woman- not a basis for all womanhood. White womanhood is not the default, despite it being treated as such within the film. This innate feature, (unintentionally) driven to the core of the story, keeps me from understanding. And I should not be expected to look past my brownness, remove it from myself (or all the other things that make my girl-ness different from Barbie) to placate some sort of understanding- because all the things that make me myself are inseparable from each other, you cannot separate me from myself like a heterogenous mixture of traits, concepts, identities, and ideas. In the case of Barbie and McCanless, I find myself unable to truly understand their stories thanks to innate and unchanging factors on both sides- at the fault of neither.

[i-am-simply-here]

I'm going to be doing my shahada at the mosque tonight and I'm so nervous I wanna throw up

[heatwa-ves]

people are so weird about muslims like omggg I hate you all

[hungee-boy]

checked out a girl I recognized and said "we went to school together didn't we" and she said "oh yeah you're the Muslim" y'all. it was the girl that wrote a poem about me called "know your Muslim"........ know your Muslim dude.

[gammija]

i keep constructing elaborate political speeches in my mind. as if somehow if i could just talk to pvv-voters compellingly enough, explain to all of em why this is moronic on every level, they'd all suddenly find out that they're actually leftists at heart who just heard a few facts wrong

[magnoliamyrrh]

im always so apprehensive to get into convos w ppl abt religion bc like yes im muslim and yes i was more orthodox for yrs and yes i am very well aware of orthox doctrines and know them but my beliefs are more similar to some wondering sufi going on abt universality and oneness and the truth in all religions. like less muslim like a youtube sheiks less muslim like what your local masjid would accept more muslim like i like to spend my time reading abt saints which traveled countries and peoples wrote about love practicing plenty of religions and cultures and then wrote something abt the oneness of god and were declared heretics.

[aceoffangirls]

I am just so sick of this

Anti Zionism does not equal anti-semitism

Criticising Israel and the IDF is not anti semitic

Israel does not in anyway represent Judaism

I am so sick of people calling people anti semitic just because they want a free palestine.

This not saying some people haven't. I have seen some god awful, hateful and actual anti semitic comments in relation to this. But majority of the people just want peace.

I am so sick of governments, terrorist organisations and people using religion to justify their hate.

Just like how some terrorist groups claim to do things in the name of Islam. You cannot be a Muslim and a terrorist.

You cannot claim to be a Christian and then be hateful (Jesus whole message was to love your neighbor). Majority of religions spread messages of love, peace and meaning.

Governments (cough cough Australia are following USAs actions like always) are talking about Anti-Semestism now because people are protesting a genocide. They were silent when people where doing the Nazi Salute.

Also what about the rise of Islamophobia, some dude gets a bomb left on his car due to have a palestinian flag.

[rafole]

crazy how KSA uses sportswashing in an attempt to “westernize” when the things they’re trying to distance themselves from were bought upon by Western imperialism in the Gulf states.

It is difficult for Westerners to criticize KSA without coming off as Islamaphobic, but modern Islam extremism is not a religious phenomenon, but a response to Western imperialism. Which is why it's completely valid to criticize KSA's actions, especially with their history of systematic oppression against women.

But you must realize that you cannot, as a Westerner, just blame Arab countries for these issues without holding the West accountable as well.