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hi! you can answer publicly or privately (as you wish) but would you mind linking your kofi or something so i can drop in some support for the holidays?? hope ur keeping well despite the bollocks and that u find somewhere better very very soon!!!!

hello! thank you this is so kind @mp3sea 🥰

i hope you don't mind me using your ask to publish because i've gotten a handful of messages like this and i want to clarify that, as much as i appreciate it, i really don't need any help financially. at least, not in the immediate future.

i am very privileged to have family able to support me until i find stable work again in the next few months. also, assuming all goes well, i was able to negotiate a decent severance package with the help of my union, and will receive that soon too.

sincerely, i can't believe the support i've been offered and i am so grateful, thank you. but that money you have to spare is far better off going to your local Palestinian advocacy groups, community charities, etc. people who really need it.

if you really want, make a donation to help organisations like Palestinian Legal, Australian Palestinian Advocacy Network (APAN), Australian Friends of Palestine Association (AFOPA), and Muslim Legal Network -- all of them are providing direct aid to people (like me) who have lost their jobs for standing up for Palestine and Palestinians.

thank you so much to you and everyone who's offered but it feels wrong for me to take anything from anyone rn. happy new year <3

[eggsyarchived]

                                        muslim!Eggsy hcs*

-  he's super dilligent with his prayers , but sometimes knee-deep in a mission he'll forget one  ...  or two  ...  sometimes three  ...  in which case he looks up to the sky and yells   “   soz.  i'll make 'em up , yeah  ?  ”     and continues on with his work.   post-mission , u bet he makes up all his prayers before even thinking about sleeping

-  took him ages to remember  HOW  to pray , though.   not for a lack of trying , but praying in a mosque was always daunting.   other men sometimes suspected him of being a tourist , a Religious Studies student just lost on his way.   sometimes he'd pray wrong and get side-eyed by other people in the Mosque.  thank god for his canon Muslim girlfriend , ready to teach him right. 

-  and following on from this , in the initial months Eggsy carried a crumpled piece of paper with him that contained all the prayers , how to pray them , and how long each one was.

-  Isha prayer  was so long for him , initially , that Eggsy took a movie break in between praying.   soon came to realise that watching 20 minutes of Die Hard in between what is meant to be a spiritual connection to God ain't exactly the  best  move.   his canon Muslim girlfriend has not the heart to tell him about Taraweeh prayers , yet  --  the ones during Ramadan , extra extra long.

-  “  but i’ll still get Christmas presents , yeah   ?   ”

-  no sex before marriage honestly ain't a problem.  look , Eggsy’s not a one-night stand , casual relationship sorta guy.   and he loves his Canon Muslim Girlfriend , he's in love with her and in love with everything she stands for.   and he'd wait a thousand lifetimes for her ,  reduced to hearteyes and holding her hand and occasionally , if he's lucky , getting to kiss her on the cheek   (  !!!  )

-  is learning Arabic but struggles with languages in general.  in the meantime , he just knows basic words and phrases that signify the beginning / end of prayers , or  "  Allahu Akbar  "  , God is Great , which in prayers signifies a transition  --  and reads the Quran with English translation

-  occasionally wears  some variation of the Shalwar Kameez  and looks  STUNNING  in it

-  Eggsy on google  :   Adidas Shalwar Kameez

-  “   no Haribos  ?   you're fuckin' kidding me.   why the fuck they gotta add this gelatine shit to everythin'  ?        what the fuck are muslims supposed to eat   ?   "

-  “   oh and look , KFC ain't halal either.   what the fuck.   ”

-  giving up pork   ?   ain't a problem , unless he's stayin' at his mums , because you bet she makes the most  delicious  bacon sandwiches the world has ever seen.   Eggsy takes every precaution necessary to ensure that succulent smell doesn't reach his nostrils  -----------------  yet as it turns out Michelle is more than understanding and just  ???   doesn't cook it , when he's around.   wot a g.

-   gets depressed and frankly , quite angry ,  when he overhears his neighbours calling his conversion to Islam a   “  phase   ”.   but if anything , it makes him wanna try harder to be a better Muslim.

-   prays regularly for Kingsman’s Middle Eastern and Asian counterparts , hoping they’ll have the strength and capabilities to annihilate Daesh one day

-   “   why the fuck are people callin’ them muslims   ?   we ain’t affiliated to them wankas.   ”

-  alcohol is  .......................  still a fighting battle.  he drinks less , for sure , but is still accustomed to just ordering a drink , to taking a sip without thinking , to succumbing to peer pressure when he's out with friends

-  speaking of friends , Jamal is Eggsy's Hero.  Jamal wasn't brought up a strict Muslim , but has family members that are more devout , and therefore knows his fair share about Islam and whatnot.   you bet Jamal got calls from Eggsy at the most random hours , with questions , or problems. and sometimes  NEITHER  of them knew the answer , and it was the beginning of a new and stressful mission.

-  Eggsy on google  :  can I rap the Quran or is that bad

-  Eggsy loves how the Muslim community feels like an extended family , almost  --  in how warm and welcoming they are , and how regardless of whether you know a person , being a Muslim brings everyone together.   he loves how they call each other their   "  Muslim brothers  " , how there's a solidarity amongst religious folk that he's never witnessed before.   he’s fit in so seamlessly it’s almost surreal , to him.    and he's made a lot of new friends.

-  has never been to Ilford before , but now that he's a Muslim  ...  the venture for halal food  /  halal meat leads him to this place  -- and boy   !   it's an experience

-  knows he has to do hajj  /  umrah one day , and has read up on it thoroughly , but finds the concept incredibly daunting , especially as his girl won't be there to guide him every step of the way

-  doesn't agree with segregation , the concept pisses him off  --  where it makes sense in the mosque but doesn't outside of it , to him at least.   but of course , holds his tongue on the subject , and obliges.   and it’s one of the places where upbringing clashes with religious requirements , because Eggsy in a Muslim family would not struggle with certain concepts as much as he is now  --  brought up the way he was , and suddenly conforming to different ideals

-   still doesn’t believe in Djinn. 

-   was blown away the first time he properly heard a recitation of the Qur’an , mesmerised by the almost-melodic flow of its verses and how beautiful it sounded in the right hands , with the right voices.  

-  Eggsy , being well aware that white men like him are the reason Muslims struggle to live their lives on the daily.   especially Muslim women.   

-   hopes his death involves protecting every single woman on the planet because wow he knew women struggled on the daily but now that his perspective has broadened to Muslim women living in the West   ?   WOW.    there are some things he , as a white man , will never truly know , and it breaks his heart

-  gives away his old hoodies to women who wear the headscarf , in case they ever feel endangered or threatened and need to hide their hijab in any way

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what are some things you think magnus would do to feel close to his culture/roots? one thing my mother (who is also south east asian) does is speak her local dialect with her siblings, but i imagine the language will have evolved over the years, and he wouldn’t find speakers who speak it in the same way as him (if that makes sense?)

it makes a lot of sense! and i definitely agree. i think about that all the time, how the language magnus (and warlocks in general) was raised in doesn't exist anymore. and in a way he almost envies warlocks who speak now-dead languages (like not really but there's that thought sometimes) because at least they get to keep them as they were? but with magnus he has to see his language slowly become something else, something that isn't his and that he doesn't follow because he's not at the heart of it while it changes, and it's like it slips through his fingers and is stolen away, you know? like obviously language is constantly changing and there's nothing wrong with that, but esp with magnus having little contact with speakers of his mother tongue, he's not even aware of the changes until he says something and ppl look at him weird or straight up don't understand him

and current indonesian has many words that were borrowed from english, dutch, and portuguese (source: im studying it - not because of magnus, i just heard it on a video and thought it was so beautiful and im a slut for languages - and it's easy to tell) because of colonization, so that in particular is probably what hurts the most. seeing his language slowly be morphed by the language of the ppl who claimed his land, killed and oppressed his people, tried to destroy his culture... it really fucking hurts. especially dutch, as it was his stepfather's language

so yeah he doesn't get to use his language to feel close to his culture anymore and let me tell you that really fucking breaks my heart because your language is who you are, it's how you think, it literally shapes your brain physically. even if you're fluent in other languages, it's a part of you. i can't imagine living in a world where brazilian portuguese as i know it no longer exists except for me. even the idea of like, moving to p*rtugal and speaking their portuguese instead hurts me and makes me really uneasy. so like this is such a huge loss and makes him feel even more like he's being stolen away, you know?

okay this is getting too depressing and isn't really what you asked im sorry ifnfifn

as for what i think he does to feel closer to his culture!

food. yes i've said it a thousand times before and ur probably sick to death of hearing it but what can i say, it's true. especially living in the US like disgusting sometimes i hear about the "food" my US american friends eat and im just like damn yall live like this? and not just that but US americans (and most europeans) really don't.... understand and value food in the way that other cultures do. like i think it might be the individualism inherently entrenched into most of their cultures but to me food is love and food is family, its meanings are so deep and they... don't really understand that. so keeping close to his food is important. and with magic he can even get his ingredients exactly as they used to grow there, tasting exactly the same, so he does get to keep his food

flowers. I'll forever be a slut for magnus and jasmines and the hc that they remind him of his mom? i mean jasmines are even indonesia's official national flower and it matters a lot for indonesian cultures as a whole (same source). so the smell of jasmines, growing jasmines, jasmine tea... it makes him feel like he can keep a part of her with him

tea. i know this technically falls into food but i think tea is special for him in a way that i can't really explain (possibly because i don't really like tea. or coffee for that matter which brazilians and latinos as a whole are all sluts for) because it has its own ritual, you know? the way it's made and drank, the way it's served, everything about it is very important culturally. i think it's no coincidence that magnus was drinking tea when he was being plagued by memories of his stepfather. like usually he goes for alcohol when he needs support, so why tea? i think tea provides him a comfort alcohol can't because it makes him feel close to his roots

religion/spirituality. ok admittedly i can't say a lot about this because i never identified with my family's religion and i'm far from being an expert in Hinduism or Islam, which are the two most likely religions for him to have been raised in, so jdndidnd. but since sh lore doesn't exist in Islam and magnus practices magic, Magnus couldn't be a Muslim, so i think this would be specific for the case of him being Hindu, or having an indigenous javanese religion, according to my muslim friends

but like. religious practices are definitely important community builders and carry super important cultural meanings. so i think this is another way. i know that i have quite a few hindu friends and followers, so if any of y'all want to add into this with more detail, i'd be delighted, and you're definitely all invited to weight in.

another important detail is that if magnus is hindu that adds even more layers to his relationship with flowers, as they are extremely important, especially for indonesian/balinese hindu people

music! again magic helps because with memory magic he can literally bring the sounds of the music he was raised listening to back to life, but like, traditional music styles always live on. so i think singing songs from his childhood definitely helps as well. actually, well, i think art in general falls here

obviously, visiting, since java and its culture are far from dead. it's changed, yes, and i think in that sense it's bittersweet, but there's a lot about it that still feels like home to him, not to mention indonesia still has quite a few traditional communities (although, from what i've seen, most of those are in bali, not java, and with magnus having been raised specifically in jakarta that makes it even more complicated, but also.... previously colonized cities are a weird thing. i live in the biggest city in the whole of south america and there are still plenty of traditional indigenous communities right inside the city. but i can't speak for jakarta) so he could also visit those places. and just like being in a place where everyone (or ok, almost everyone) is javanese? where so many of the small cultural things in everyday life are still present? you know? like the air feels different, it's in the way people move, gesticulate, speak (regardless of language), interact, eat. it feels like home in a way nowhere else can't and it makes him relax and feel so much more like himself, just by being there

and okay that's what i have. take this with a grain of salt as i'm latin american, not south east asian, so most of what i've said here is based on research i've done before for other asks + things i've heard from my SE Asian friends + more generic experiences with being a third worlder/previously colonized. thank you so much for that, i really loved this ask!

all the thanks to @pastaingallday for being an absolute babe with endless patience and helping me out with my muslim magnus questions. this post would probably be a mess without her <3 thank you so much baby, i love you

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Halal snack pack: The kebab that defined Australia in 2016

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"Halal nibble pack" has been named People's Choice Word of the Year 2016 by Australia's Macquarie Dictionary.

 A nibble pack, otherwise called a HSP, is a generous heap of kebab meat, chips and sauce which has turned into a staple of Australian takeaway shops.

 It's maybe an impossible stage for political level headed discussion, however this year the dish soared into Australia's national awareness, turning into an image of serene multiculturalism for some, yet for others, an unwelcome indication of the developing impact of Islam.

 Picture copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionPolitician Pauline Hanson takes the view that halal meat is unsatisfactory in Australia

 This year the dish, made to Islamic religious models, discovered its way into governmental issues, after conservative against Islam legislator Pauline Hanson rejected a welcome to eat one.

 In praising her on her race to the Senate in July, Labor Senator Sam Dastyari - a "non-rehearsing Muslim" - told Ms Hanson: "I'll take you out for halal nibble pack out in Western Sydney, at whatever point you need."

 Mr Dastyari was apparently somewhat trolling Ms Hanson, whose One Nation party trusts that by "purchasing halal affirmed items, it implies that you are monetarily supporting the Islamisation of Australia".

 "It's not happening, not inspired by halal, thank you," she answered, contending (without proof) that "98% of Australians" were likewise against halal.

              What is halal meat?

              The Australian MP battling the trolls

 The dish therefore delighted in a surge in prevalence. One Melbourne kebab shopeven included "The Pauline Hanson" to its menu - "Sheep kebab cooked to flawlessness in the rotisserie, mint yogurt, bean stew sauce, cheddar, brew battered chips".

 'Halal snacky'

 The halal nibble pack is an Australian creation, yet its makers were settlers or relatives of late foreigners from the Middle East and Europe.

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 It's a combination of these foods, and even has its own particular thankfulness society on Facebook, for "sharing incredible nibble pack stories and talking about conceivable best nibble pack in world".

 The discussion requests that individuals "demonstrate to us a tired pic of ur halal snacky, whered ya get it?, will be it wiped out?, is it halal? what's more, salrite or na? likewise, is it a halal nibble pack mountain or na?"

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The gathering, which has near 180,000 individuals, was motivated by a visit its authors made to Oz Turk Jr, a kebab shop in Sydney.

 "Some time recently, we used to offer 10 kebabs for one nibble pack, now it's 10 nibble packs to one kebab," says proprietor Ufuk Bozouglu.

 An Australian Muslim of Turkish cause, he credits his mum for the prevalence of his nibble packs, saying "she showed me you ought to just offer what you'd eat".

 Mr Bozouglu says his clients are essentially understudies living locally - who'll line for up to 40 minute at pinnacle times - however one kid voyages over two hours every week to get one of his nibble packs, which cost about A$10.50 each ($8; £6.30), with cheddar.

 He says he's never observed anybody be bothered by the reality his meat is halal.

 "Where we live, it's extremely multicultural, and individuals see it doesn't make a difference in case you're Christian, Hindu, whatever. You get to be companions and have regard for each other."

 "The general population that is does make a difference to, they're for the most part from little zones so they just thing they see [about Muslims] is the thing that they read in the paper.

 "Individuals around this territory, they're all together," he says. "Now and then, you go on Facebook and it's simply detest towards Muslims," he says, yet on the nibble pack gratefulness discussion, it's about the nourishment.

 'Nothing evil about halal'

 Keysar Trad, leader of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, says normalizing words utilized by different dialects must be something to be thankful for.

 "Particularly in case you're ready to discover it in the lexicon, it takes away the secret," he said.

 "It brings individuals solace and fulfillment that there's nothing evil about the word halal. It's about what's sure, what is great and wholesome."

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 The prevalence of halal nibble packs "demystifies the word, demystifies the way of life from which those words are obtained and ideally, helps constructed congruity in the public arena".

 The Macquarie board of trustees said the decision of the halal nibble pack as expression of the year "enlightens us concerning something once bound to a great extent to the Muslim people group that is currently surfacing all through the more extensive Australian people group".

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The lexicon's editorial manager, Susan Butler, even said it was "the obligation of etymologists to, as much as is humanly conceivable, eat the sustenance things that they put in the word reference".

 "How might you compose the meaning of HSP with eagerness in the event that you have never examined it? So today I ate my first HSP.

 "I can comprehend why this dish has turned into the fast food thing of the day. It is carbo-stacked, calorific wickedness. Once began on it, you can't stop."

 Reflecting comparative patterns, the lexicon council a week ago named "fake news" it's Word of the Year, saying it "catches an intriguing advancement in the making of tricky substance as a method for grouping individuals in a particular course".