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"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

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Some N.A. Arab Muslims are full of hypocrisy

14/10/07 @ 12:56 pm

I said “some.” Not “all!” I wanted to write about random thoughts of North American Arab Muslims’ behaviour for a while now. I finally decided to get off my facebook playing ass and write something meaningful. So why am I wanting to discuss such a topic and specific group? Simple, because I am one and it is the only people I interact with. So I am going to list a bunch of situations where those group of people can be hypocrites.

“Don’t eat food from Kuffar (non-believers)”

Why the hell you go out to restaurants and also buy groceries from them? I mean Halal meat is one thing, but saying don’t eat from them at all is pure ridiculous since the only way to buy groceries in this country is from “them.”

“Don’t eat food from Shi’a!”

We actually know Lebanese Sunnis who refuse to go to Shi’a restaurants till this day. (Lebanese civil war mentality?) Yet, they go and eat at “other” restaurants of non-Muslims.

“If you don’t wear Hijab (head veil) you are going to hell!”

1. I have my reasons for not wearing it. I have studied a field where women are a minority and wearing a hijab to make my self more of a minority is not going to land me a job. I knew a lot of girls who wore Hijab and studied the same thing as me, but till this day, no work, and just decided to stay home or get married and raise kids with a $35,000 diploma hanging on the wall for display.

2. Also, who the hell are you to judge me if I will go to hell or not? I thought God did, not you!

3. Wearing a Hijab will not portray me as a pure innocent girl in front of my community. There is always good and bad in everything. Girls who wear Hijab now a days are either forced, think it is the norm, or are hiding behind it to masque some evil deeds they have done in the past or currently doing. I only respect those girls who wear it from pure intentions and are convinced of why they are doing it.

4. Covering your hair and wearing tight clothes where men can still see your chest and ass is not called Hijab. It is just another fashion statement like wearing hoop earings and flare jeans.

5. Those who wear a Hijab refuse to talk to other Muslim girls who don’t wear it in fear to be seen with such deviant girls. Oh no. I am not accepted to my own society with my own people because I don’t dress like them! I am going to hell!

And this is the best one..

6. My dad one day went to an Arabic convenient store and asked the owner why his daughter (barely 7 or 8 years old who was sitting there too in the store) is wearing a Hijab. The guy replied saying, “because we live in this sinful country.” My dad replied then, “so your daughters would not wear it back home?” He said, “no, why would they, men there are not evil like here.” My dad laughed, didn’t buy anything from him and left the store in disbelief. Men are men everywhere!

“Why don’t you wear a skirt? How will you get married? Girls have to, so men will like them more for being good Arab Muslim girls.”

I had a lady tell me this because I was wearing pants and her daughters didn’t. She said that when you have people visiting your home; girls must dress up all the time in skirts or dresses. It is the only way that potential husbands will look at her.

So wearing pants is sinful now and the reason I am not married?

“Don’t befriend non-Muslims. If you are Sunni, also double bonus to not befriend Shi’a.”

Yes, I suffer from this too from my family. They prefer if I only befriend Muslim girls (or guys). However, why the hell do Arab Muslim men marry non-Arab Muslim girls? Can’t befriend them, so marry them? This goes for girls, because if a girl is friends with non-Muslim Arab, then it is a big time sin and walking with them is blasphemous!

So if I lived in Nunavut Canada, I can’t befriend anyone except a penguin?

“All non-Muslims are Kuffar (non-believers).”

Non-believers in One God? Is this what it means because I am confused why the Quran keeps talking about Jews and Christians. It makes you wonder why God wants us to learn from them. To see the mistakes (Christians were swayed from the true religion, and Jews who God is angry with them), and see what happened. Yet God said they are also holders of the holy books.

An Arab Muslim girl comes up to me and says, “why do you talk to Christians? They are Kuffar.” I said, “please translate some Chapters in the Quran, about 30% - 50% of it that mentions Jesus the son of Mariam, and Mariam her self all the time, and explain to me why I have to read about them if I can’t talk to them at all. She looked at me and changed the subject. But she wasn’t convinced and who am I to convince her?

“I hate living in this country, people are disgusting, Kuffar, everything has pork in it, and no Arabs here at all that you can befriend.”

This is a quote from a Palestinian girl I knew that just moved to the country. She is a refugee who became a resident. Canada was the only country that accepted her family after living all her life, and her parents life being a refugee. I said, “if you hate it here, why did you come here? You are Palestinian! Thank God you are no longer a refugee living in the Arab world treated like you are nothing. Maids from Malaysia and Sri Lanka are treated better than Palestinians!” She said, “and living here is any better within Kuffar?” I said, “better than treated like crap by your own people. Just give it a rest and accept life and fate. If you have a problem with their food, then become a vegetarian. So many of those Western people are preaching animal rights, you can too!” She said, “well, there are hardly any Arabs here, and if there are, all they do is talk shit about each other.” I said, “same as you are doing now. You talk shit about them too. What’s your point?”

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  1. David
    October 14th, 2007 at 13:56 | #1

    If some Arabs hate living in this country, why are they here? When I was in college met this extremelly bright Muslim girl from Kenya (east asian origin) we socialized for 2 years confiding in each other over evrything. The friendship was so far removed from normal. Yet we never did anything that would be considered inappraite with each other other then the frequent cladestine get together over tea. She had the highest morels of any of my college associates; (by my Western standard) never did I once see her without her Hijab, this girl prayed frequently with compete diligence. And yet by her standards she was considered the black sheep in the family. I mean Ruby (her neme) never swore was kind and generous to everyone (except ismiali muslims, I never got that one) and yet her Mother viewed her as sploiled ungrateful bad muslim girl. I think it’s easy to be good Muslim in a Muslim Country where the social norms are consistantly Muslim with strict laws abound everywhere. I think a great Muslim is one who fulfills islamic oblications in the mist of a free society with temptations abound everywhere. It’s not easy fasting for Ramadan when there is easy access to good food or when there is no loud speaker calling you to prayer 5 times a day. I did notice the huge sexist double standard in her family though we kept are friendship low key, yet her male cousins partied hard on the weekends (drinking, coke and fucking) then they would switch into I hate westerners attitude I’m a good Muslim. These boys were the family golden children and yet she was a Blacksheep!! :shock: you Muslim girls even the true blue good ones get raw deal.

  2. October 14th, 2007 at 18:11 | #2

    Wow at this girl! How could she say that!!?! WOW! People strike me with their stupidity sometimes..

    As for Hejab, it is an obligation bas you should put it on when & IF you are ready for it, it’s not easy.. I was fine the first coupla months then started having second thoughts.. am convinced now with my decision.. Hejab is not a factor to a girl’s good manners or righteousness…

    as for those who are uptight they are weird… one has to have balance in anything he - she does, I hate that! How people like those give a wrong image on us muslims around the world

  3. October 14th, 2007 at 21:35 | #3

    David.. interesting story

    Chika - many Arab girls are weird.. that’s why I don’t talk to them much!

  4. Robert
    October 15th, 2007 at 09:27 | #4

    As always Miss Mona,…your blog is fascinating… despite my world travels i know very little of Arab culture… Not your intention i know.. but its very refreshing since i refuse to listen to media heresay about anything.

  5. October 15th, 2007 at 13:31 | #5

    thanks Robert.. you may learn a lot from me.. from my one sided view of things.. I bet you other Arab Muslims out there think differently.

  6. Robert
    October 15th, 2007 at 16:10 | #6

    Well, we’re all pretty different arent we?? if we were all the same….it’d be ..A: Dull, B: Pointless getting to know about anyone.

    I wouldnt say things are terribly one sided…you have your opinion, which on occasion creates sprited debate, nothing wrong with that is there? People should believe in SOMETHING and support it….of course when its shown there is an error…people should be able to adjust themselves…

    As always i have few answers, but lots of questions :smile: i have a few issues with my “Christian” brethren…so dont feel alone
    in a “cultural” regard. You would be amazed
    at how poorly ive been treated at times because
    ive played guitar in Church before.. :razz:
    It’s truly appalling…with two PP’s

    Hypocrisy is everywhere, like a cancer it eats
    away slowly at us until we dont even realize
    what we’re doing. Suddenly ant hills are like
    mountains….

  7. October 15th, 2007 at 20:25 | #7

    “Hypocrisy is everywhere, like a cancer it eats
    away slowly at us until we dont even realize
    what we’re doing. Suddenly ant hills are like
    mountains….”

    well said.. i couldn’t have put it in better words than this..

  8. October 17th, 2007 at 17:57 | #8

    Sometimes it’s just too embarresing to be an arab, I swear. Most of them tend to mix stupid traditions with Islam and blame their stupid acts on religion. And then, most non-muslims see Islam from an Arab prespective which makes them think that Islam is a crazy religion. That’s how it is, always and I find that very frustrating.

    If they were truly Islamic they would know that:
    1- christians and jews are called Ahl Al Ketab ( People of holy books ) and it is perfectly OK to eat from their foods.
    2- Prophet’s mohammed uncle, who raised him, was “kaffer” and the prophet loved him dearly. So there’s no reason why you shouldn’t LOVE non-believers.. let alone talk to them.
    3- In Islam, you’re not supposed to say if anyone of ANY religion is going to hell.. because you never know who’s going to hell and who isn’t. What makes it okay for them to tell a muslim girl she’s going to hell?
    4- that woman and her skirts,dress talk I won’t even comment on because it’s plain koko talk.

    Seriously, Arab are frustrating!

  9. October 17th, 2007 at 18:27 | #9

    yep.. I agree with every point you said D.
    So you started a new blog? What’s it about? I will add it to my blog roll so I can keep up.

  10. October 17th, 2007 at 19:36 | #10

    Thanks for the add on the blogroll. I’m hoping the blog will cover all sorts of topics, that’s why I’m looking for contributors. Because I pretty much specialize only in Meta blogging ( blogging about blogging ) Technology and Internet.

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