i was reading your blog about rebelious arab girl have no idea how i managed to come across such a shallow page, however i sympathise for you because surely your a very insecure individual with serious depression and negativity to come up with such a silly thing, i was born arabian (alhamdullah) my mother is iraqi and my father is lebanese/palestinian, the way i have been brought up has nothing to do with who i am, i grew up in the Uk and i get away with things no race on earth could possibly get away with because my parents are very undersanding and caring, thing is i dont choose to do any rebelious acts because i am a muslimah and nothing on this planet not even love can get between my religion, ive seen plenty of rebelious bitches that are pregnant from there silly acts and your telling me there happier than i am? naa i would rather stay a virgin and get married to one very sexy ARAB guy than lay around getting played about my europeans who are using me for one thing and one thing only. bottom line is your one unsatisfied ugly bitch that stares at her self day in and day out in the mirror trying to find an answer to why you dont fit into your roots, majorly because arabs are beautiful and perfect and you look nothing like them so obviously there going to pick on you

sorry for my honesty
Timaa stunninger arab

And I agree. I am a hideous ugly bitch who is rebellious and screws around all day with guys. I have been pregnant 10 times and every time I had an abortion and I am going to hell for killing 10 lives. Hence, that is exactly what Rebellious means.

God help you.

Don’t judge an entire culture and religion by their skin colour.

For those naive people that think Arabs are white or Muslims are white should get out of their little nests and see the world around them. We are so diverse, we are so mixed, we are not all WHITE!

Please, I am begging you! For your own sanity and to calm your nerves, we are not all WHITE! And for the most shocking news of all that you did not think about, WE ARE all homo-sapiens! We have a brain and we function just like you too! We are not the bottom feeders of the food chain. I just want to make that clear you know so you stop wondering that all Arabs or Muslims are white or should be white.

I wrote white far too many times in this post. I want to say green now because I am thinking that maybe we are aliens.

Why are Muslims turning Atheists?

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I had a pretty interesting afternoon trying to figure out why so many Muslims have turned Atheists. They seem to come out more now, and don’t care. You would think, that out of all the religions, a conservative one such as Islam, you would not have such a lack of faith.

A few weeks ago, when I learned that my cousins turned Christian, I was a bit dumbfounded. It is disappointing; however, it would have been worse if they completely lacked the faith of a higher power. At least they still believe in God, right?

In general, this lack of faith has a lot to do with where they are currently living, or what they are exposed to. Also, more and more Muslims are reading too much into their religion, and see how others are slowly destroying the image of it. Western media is trying to destroy it slowly. Muslims are lacking faith and don’t want to live this life, and are turning into a complete and opposite direction. I feel like we are back over 1400 years ago at the time of Jahiliyyah. I thought we ended this era. However, it doesn’t seem to be the case at all in such an exposed technology driven world.

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I am not a Muslim scholar, or have the right to preach about any religion. All I know is that we are all raised a certain way. However, we all grow up to chose what is best for us. Some of us seem to lack faith, effected by media, or just read too much into a very simplistic religion. Why can’t people learn the basics of a religion? If everyone does that, no one would use religion in violent manners, to oppress others, or to manipulate other’s thoughts.

Also, what’s up with Muslims that say they are Muslims, but don’t follow the religion at all? What does it matter what others think of you religiously, if you don’t follow it or care enough to learn about it?

NOTE! Please, if you want to reply to this post, avoid talking about science, evolution, or the story of Adam & Eve. I don’t have time for never ending debates, and stick to the point of this article. Muslims that turned Atheists, or people who lack faith in their religion. Thank you.

Anyways, I will stop being my true mean self for a second and be a bit serious. A lot of people have been asking me about religion and if I am religious. Does it matter? You know what I can’t stand though? Defining religion in scales of being truly faithful or semi or not as much. How can that be? I was born into the Islamic faith. I love it. I do believe it is a great religion and I follow it the way I think is fit for my life style.

I am in no way an extremist or even use religion to justify anything. I just believe in One God. I believe we will be all judged at the end of all this, and we have to accept our fate and live our lives to the fullest. I mean it, to the fullest. We should never back down or use religion to keep saying no to things or classify people in ranges of religion. You can’t do that.

Also, I have a huge pet peeve about something. You see, I do believe we are all brothers and sisters in some form of another. I mean we are all intelligent beings who live in a very small world and labeling each other and brother and sister is what really binds us together. However, I don’t like it when people use that term trying to bond others in a religious sense but don’t really mean it.

Brothers and sisters in Isalm. Ok, I get the point. However, I am seeing so much corruption in the Arab world that has a ratio of 80% Muslims and the birth of the religon, and that being a brother or sister is last in anyone’s mind. Like the crap I have been reading of excessive murders of innocent people, rape, etc. What the hell? This is how you define brothers and sisters? Is this how you use religion or even speak of the name of religion?

Not only that, it seems that all the mass revolts and destruction happen on Fridays, right after prayer. Friday is our holy day to make peace with our selves, ask God for forgiveness, and spread the love and prosperity between our people. Now, in the Arab world they are using it to spread hate and invoke people to defy the rules. I understand the frustration of living in a corrupt political system and totalitarian rule, but give me a break. This is not a way to resolve things and just using religion to justify what you are doing.

I think my brothers and sisters, my Arab friends and distant blood relatives living in the most critical, beautiful, magnificent portion of the world, I understand the boiling blood permeating through your veins. I understand your anger and frustration of being great nations labeled as 3rd world countries because of the injustice and corrupt political systems. I understand how you desire basic human rights and freedom of voice and choice. However, why is the devil playing with your minds making you believe that force, corruption, hate, and extreme violence is the answer?

All I can say is stop the madness. Nothing good is coming out of this.

From: http://news.sympatico.ca/oped/coffee-talk/dubai_hotel_apologizes_for_11m_christmas_tree/b9756dd2

Abu Dhabi hotel apologizes for $11M Christmas tree

21/12/2010 8:30:00 AM
by Daniela Syrovy

Emirates Palace hotel in the United Arab Emirates erected a 13 metre Christmas tree adorned with $11 million worth of jewels. They now regret it. Is the tree in bad taste or should we loosen up and enjoy the elaborate gesture?

The folks in Abu Dhabi have received international attention after luxury hotel Emirates Palace decked out a 13 metre Christmas tree with $11 million worth of jewels. The government news agency has now issued a statement saying they regret the “attempts to overload the tradition” of decorating a tree for the holiday season. The statement was issued after critics condemned the tree as being in bad taste.

At first this story did not compute for me. Emirates Palace, a hotel in a predominantly Muslim country, has erected a giant, jewel-covered Christmas tree?! Something has gone awry in the world. It turns out that in the United Arab Emirates many hotels follow the tradition of putting a tree up in the lobby, to make visitors from abroad feel welcome.

I can appreciate the gesture though the irony of it leaves me wondering if extreme cultural sensitivity only occurs in Canada. Here, schools are removing ‘Santa’ images and have replaced the term ‘Christmas concert’ with ‘winter concert,’ leading some to speculate about our country’s cultural compassion and its ability to kill Christmas. Meanwhile in the Muslim country of UAE, publicly displayed Christmas trees are commonplace.

That said, this particular tree – described as the most expensive tree in the world – is a gaudy, tacky, tasteless PR stunt. I understand an ambitious attempt to get into the Guinness Book of Records, but if you were decorating a tree to truly show your holiday spirit, perhaps you’d be better off with a tree that is dressed by the community and not an overzealous jeweler.

A more modest tree might have done a better job of not rubbing in the fact that you’re one of the wealthiest cities in the world. Abu Dhabi holds 9% of the world’s oil reserves. We get it. You’re rich. You’re really rich. No need to shove it in our faces, especially not during a time when the emphasis is meant to be on giving. There are so many better ways to spend $11 million.

If the hotel and the country truly wanted to draw positive attention to themselves they should have donated a large portion of the $11 million to the countries starving labourers, who for twenty years have worked tirelessly to build the UAE up to its current state of metropolitan glory.

Oh the poor people of my home land Palestine. That money could have fed a family or two for the next couple of centuries.

So today I want to discuss a bigger issue. Why do many Arabs seem far too emotional when they start talking about themselves or when others talk about them?

Look at me for example. When I am pissed off and feeling like crap, I take unknown visitors words to heart and want to scream from anger at such pointless comments. I keep telling my self that it is about time to end this crap and get on with my life. Then from day to night I change my mind instantly without questioning the reason why I did.

Arabs are the same. I think it is in our blood or something. We seem to be so emotionally driven by anything that we always forget the bigger picture. So far in my whole 29 years of life, I have NEVER met an Arab who was NOT far too emotional about the most mundane things. Why is that? Are we just raised this way?

Is it too much love from the family or the emotional control from our families that caused this?

Also guilt! We are raised to always feel guilty. We feel guilty about anything. So to push aside such an emotion when we do anything that is remotely unapproved by authority, we end up doing stuff in secrecy without anyone’s knowledge to erase this guilt from our heads.

However, all the previous are excuses of the bigger issue. The real reason for all this is what we see on TV and read in the news. The way we react to it and our helplessness to do anything about it. We see how Arabs are treated and the crap that is said about us. We see our families in Palestine, our neighbors in Iraq, and the way the western media controls the oil driven Arab country’s way of life. So we sit there and watch how our culture is falling, how our traditions are dying,  and how the simplest means of life are controlled by others.

No wonder we are emotional.

I have been sporadically posting on my blog to avoid problems. You see, it is me V.S the entire 250,000,000+ Arabs out there. No seriously. I am not joking. My blog is written in such a way that causes an entire culture to get pissed off.

1. I get the overly religious sect that think they are doing me a favour by reciting verses of Quran and Ahadeeth to enlighten me.

2. I get the overly cultural sect that think I am damaging their reputation by talking about “them.” (Self centered eh?)

3. I get the overly demanding neurotic Arab League (inside joke, har har) who want to tell me what to write since they fear others criticizing their opinions, so they do to mine because they love their one way streets.

4. And finally, there are the handful of young Arab ladies that think I can give them advice on how to solve their secretive relationship problems.

Here is my advice. Do not listen to some wacko Arab girl from up north in Eskimo land. (Oh Canada!) And don’t bother to tell her anything, because she is as stubborn as a mule.

Answers:

A1. Religion is important if you can apply it to your self first and not unto others. So going on some random Arab chicks website and insulting her is not a way to support your claim. Can you imagine if Muslims back in the golden days when they spread the beautiful religion did it by insulting others and forcing everyone to LISTEN and OBEY or ELSE. Do you think anyone would have joined in?

By the way, I was always a member, and never was out. So why you guys think I need to join in and learn!!

A2. My words are more powerful than Western Media to ruin an entire culture’s rep. I am an insider with tools to destroy!! (Sighing from disbelief from some people.)

A3. I can write whatever I want. I can write whatever I want. I can write whatever I want. If you want to start your own topic, then get your own blog and feel the wrath of the masses when they enforce their opinions on you!!

A4. My home girls from A-land. You see.. secret relations are no longer the trend. You either like a guy and tell the folks in your crib about it, or you just don’t. If you are not 100% sure about the guy, then that’s why you are hiding it. Otherwise you would spread the news faster than Reuters to the entire galaxy and extended family members with a set wedding date.

So there you have it. I am a pure thorn in most of your necks. And guess what! You still like it and you come here wanting to be pierced some more.

Unfortunately, the boss fired him today. IT WAS NOT MY FAULT! God did it! The Pakistani guy had serious issues with performing simple tasks. For example, taking screen shots and putting them in a pre-written manual. Is that such a hard task? Seriously? Come on. AND IT TOOK HIM 3 WEEKS TO DO! You are a technical person, but you cannot perform the simple task of doing that and doing it properly?

I am not being overly critical here, but I am being extremely critical! Sometimes I wonder how people get jobs. People like him lie their way to get a job, and memorize a few verses from the interview bible. However, you can only lie for so long.

I remember when I had my interview for this job almost a year ago. I am far too shy and nervous. When I am nervous, I cannot for the life of me make up stories. I can only say what I know and if I don’t know it, I say I DO NOT.

I don’t understand how good honest people are having hard time finding a job by saying, well, I do not know this, but I AM GOOD AT something else. Employers don’t like that, but they really hate liars.

So be warned, not only is lying a sin, but also thinking you can never get caught is just an illusion.

I really felt bad for this guy today. I kept wishing that the bosses should have gotten rid of him after work last Friday without any of us being there. Just me seeing someone forced to leave and pack up is beyond painful.

Oh well, wish him and everyone the best.

This new Pakistani guy at my work looks like he is in his mid to late 30′s. His last name cannot be more obvious that he is Muslim. However, Ramadan started 2 days ago, and this is the 3rd, and he doesn’t fast.

I am the last person to approach others and tell them why. People have their excuses, but for goodness sake, you know better! When he first started he kept asking me a million and a half questions about me. I am Arab. I am Muslim, and any other question. So out of respect, he sees that I am not indulging in my morning cup of java, nor am I eating lunch, then he should at least be considerate.

I am used to this life living in the Western world, and surrounded by non-Muslims, and it never affected me that they are eating. I never was pressured or felt like “why me!” However, seeing it from a “Muslim” brother as we love to label one another as, then I find it hard to take. Also, I start to quickly lose any respect I had for them.

I know many of you have asked me on Twitter if he is sick or whatever. I said that I do not think he is, because he goes to the gym every morning, and never mentioned to me (oh he talks a lot about him self and asks questions) that he is under any form of medication. Therefore, what is the excuse? Do I want to know?

So, I told my sister about it yesterday, and her answer is, “He is probably white washed. Are you sure he is Muslim?” I said, “He can’t be any more obvious from his name.”

All this have taught me one thing, the world is slowly diminishing to a vast whole of people with empty souls. They are losing their religion and faith, and I think the next generation will only get worse because their parents set a very bad example.

I hope this year all Muslims in the world live peacefully in their home lands and outside. Amen!