#sometimes islamic communities can be so harsh to girls who don't strictly adhere to the faith and it was just interesting to see

[spiderintheathenacabin]

Sometimes I see some hate about the way that rick wrote Samirah Al-Abbas' religion in mcga, and as a muslim girl passing through that stage in her life I wanted to throw my hat into the ring. Samirah, for me, is such a realistic character, and I don't think rick even intended what I see when I think of her. She has her own understanding of what her faith means and I was so bowled over by the scene where she prays in the direction that feels right because she's just doing the best that she can! She's far away from home and there's nothing about this in the Qur'an but despite that all she still has faith in her deen and I think that that's so powerful. Even with this massive understanding of life and faith though she's still not perfect! She's still a girl with a crush and and axe and her wits doing the best that she can and sometimes she takes steps that other people would tear her apart for.

HOWEVER I still think that rick didn't do his research because I KNOW you did not do that on purpose, you were just spitballing and went "oh her found family? Yeah that's DEFINITELY her mahram"