the-noisecomplaint:

zikrayat:

i’m so serious though. the vibes i get from some of these tumblrs:

aw that’s cute, a muslim convert

but that’s all we are ever to them, and then posts start flowing about how some people convert to try and “be arab” and we are just seen as these novelty things. we aren’t muslim enough to run any islamic blogs or have anything worthwhile to say. we are just these random converts that showed up to the party and no one wants to tell us what they are talking about.

excuse you. i was invited to this party, and i am not gonna waste my time waiting around for you to take me seriously, i’m just gonna start talking.

i know this sounds crazy but i swear i could start naming popular muslim bloggers that do this.

yeah and it’s like they don’t even know they do it

and they’ll swear up and down they like converts that they appreciate us

some of the stuff they say without thinking is a hand across the face

like when people say they’d not marry someone who wasn’t from their country or wasn’t arab or desi

thanks we’re damaged goods thanks.

and then they wonder why people burn out on the deen and say they feel alone.

there are popular muslim bloggers?

I do agree with all of this, though. The bias seriously shows, when muslim bloggers argue points with me, and then their worst insult they can muster is, “WELL YOU’RE A STUPID CONVERT YOU DON’T KNOW ANYTHING.” and I’m not even a convert. I was born into the religion, same as you.

My baby sister is trying to get my older one to guess the word miniskirt.

“Girls wear it in the summer. It shows off their knees. It’s haram.”

My brother is trying to get us to guess the word BLT.

“It’s something we can’t eat. It’s haram.”

My older sister tries to get my brother to guess the word grandfather clock.

“It’s a circle with numbers on it that tells the hour. Yes, it’s a clock, now put the word jidee in front of it. No, the English meaning of jidee.”

faineemae:

Hijabis are not the representatives of Islam, all Muslims are. 
Stop telling us that! We all have this responsibility, hijab/beard or not. 

(Source: faineeemae)

navigatethestream:

this question is entirely too vague

i’m going to guess you’re talking about my post saying muslims shouldn’t compare the two

to put it bluntly, i’m going to need folks to think about the posts they reblog and who they reblog it from. because the person who i was responding to is known for making anti-black statements in the past, and when they are called out on their shit their hoard of minions come after anybody who “dares to point that shit out” instead of asking their leader to think more critically about how they are expressing their views and in which context. 

there are legitimate ways to talk about the comparisons of violence between black people {including black muslims} and non-black muslim people in which one isn’t bitterly thrown under the bus because one issue is getting “more attention” than the other. you could have easily said “how can Muslims organize in a way which draws attention and response similar to that of the Trayvon Martin case?” 

but that wasn’t said. instead a deeply caddy and half-assed comparison was drawn. just as a lot of half assed and caddy comparisons are drawn between “black” issues and “muslim” issues as if the two never intersect, and black people let alone black muslims are charged with being unable to care about more than one thing at the same time, or having the wrong attentions when it comes to things. 

so to answer your question, being a black muslim doesn’t mean you get to make anti-black critiques of issues just because you have that intersectional identity. 

sllw:

mosprob:

guesswhoitsnadia:

frowzyteenager:

faineemae:

sohylaaax3:

cemetery-like-a-stage:

• Be really attractive
• Post lots of pictures of yourself (with lots of makeup if you’re a girl)
• Be Pro-Homosexuality and Pro-Abortion
• Never talk about Shariah law or rulings 
• Celebrate Christian holidays

may I add:

•  be okay with any haramery on your dash.
• be okay with doing any haramery yourself.
• make stupid comments and jokes that frankly, aren’t even funny. 

This is exactly why we fight among ourselves instead of uniting together. That’s all I have to say.

Actually this sounds like wah wah wah i’m not popular on tumblr i’m going to publish crap about other people to make myself feel better 

kind of like nice guy syndrome i guess

lol what the hell is haramery?

Fucking lies I tells ya!  I do all of this but only have eight followers.  Where’s my popularity?  Where?  Wheeeeerrrreeeee?

Welp, according to this “logic” I should be the most popular Muslim on tumblr. But alas….

WHAT THE HELL IS HARAMERY?

bahahaha, dying.

sounds like OP is majorly jealous. also, this means i should be hella popular too! where are my tumblr millions?

This is great. 

The only thing I have a problem with is the American lady translating “daraba” as “go away.”

Um. No, sorry, you can’t just put in a nicer, unrelated meaning because you feel it will be better. That’s changing the words, changing the meaning, and casting doubts over the entirety of everything else you translated.

You have to understand the Arabic word, and from what I’ve looked into, and from what the scholars whose lectures I’ve attended have outlined is that the word does not mean “strike,” but a “light tap” which is only supposed to be used when she is disobeying GOD. NOT her husband. The idea is that the husband is telling her a way to become closer to God (i.e. pointing out something that she is doing that is against the religion), and she doesn’t listen, and continues to go against the religion. THEN, you are allowed to TAP her with “a stick that is no thicker than your tumb,” just to remind her that you are only telling her God’s words. 

Now, that doesn’t make it any better, but you can’t just decide to change a word.

(Source: everythingyouweretooafraidtoask)