Tasmiya

This is Brisbane, Australia. Nothing very exciting to see or do here.

It’s from here that our 8 teams will embark on a race around the world for $1 million. Each team is made up of 2 people with an existing relationship. The 8 teams are:

Abdul Hamid and Farouk
Best friends since primary school

Abdul Hamid: So what is this “Amazing Race?”
Farouk: I don’t know but I think we get to go travelling around the world and tell people how much we hate them.
Abdul Hamid: Ok..yeah a bit about ourselves. We’re young and we hate anyone who isn’t a Muslim.
Farouk: Yeah. Hahahaha. So we decided to join this Amazing Race Season 21
Abdul Hamid: You mean they’ve done something like this before?
Farouk: Umm..yeah, man. This is the first time it’s made exclusively for Muslims, though.
Abdul Hamid: WHAT? YOU MEAN THIS HAS BEEN DONE BY THE KUFFAR ALREADY? IMPOSSIBLE! THAT’S IT! WE ARE SO OUT OF HERE MY FRIEND!!
Farouk: ………
Abdul Hamid: COME ON, FAROUK.
Farouk: What’s wrong?
Abdul Hamid: WHAT’S WRONG? IF WE CONTINUE WITH THIS YOU KNOW WHAT WE’RE DOING?
Farouk: ?
Abdul Hamid: IMITATING THE KUFFAR!!
Farouk: IMITATING KUFFAR?

And with that the two storm out mumbling kuffar this, kuffar that. Looks like we’ve had our first elimination and WITHOUT PHIL! Surely a first for The Amazing Race. Good riddance, anyway – it’s Muslims like these that give us all a bad name. Funnily enough – I’ve never met any Muslims like this, have you?

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Frank and Sumayah
Married couple with 2 small children

Frank: We just try out best to be good people and good Muslims.
Sumayah: I believe the best dawah is practising the deen and to show the rest of the world we are normal people like everyone else.
Frank: Our strategy will be to do our best and putting our trust in Allah.
Sumayah: As a married couple, we work as a team. Always supporting one another and helping each other with the menial boring tasks around the house. Even though Frank works, he helps with things like washing the dishes, ironing, vacuuming or putting the kids to bed.

Looks like I’ve got myself a favourite already!

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Sharif and Aamenah
Brother and sister

Aamenah: We were born here in this country and recognise the difficulties in reconciling this whole “living in the West” and being practising Muslims.
Sharif: Yeah. It would be lying if we said it was easy. But alhamdulillah we have great Muslim friends and..
Aamenah: Well, there’s temptation everywhere. School is hard sometimes. Peer pressure and all that.
Sharif: We’re a great team. We know our strengths and weaknesses and will be working hard to win this thing!

Soft spot for the Doc’s. I think I might have liked them even more if they were cherry.

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Parvez and Ibrahim
Father and son

Parvez: I’m going on this journey with my son to teach him that no matter what we do in the world, pir saheb has all our good deeds taken care of. As long as we watch for the moon and make sure our fingernails aren’t too long – we will be saved.
Ibrahim: So what about salah, dad? What about the other 4 pillars of Islam?
Parvez *winking*: Taken care of, my boy……In India.

Hmmm
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Natasha and Simone
First cousins

Natasha: Well our grandmother was a Muslim but Mum and Dad said since we’re living here and like, we’re like,in this country we have to like. be like everyone else now. We even changed our names to fit in, you know?
Simone: Yeah and gran like tells us stuff about what it was like to be a Muslim and we’re all like…ewwwwww.
Natasha: Yeah oh my God, oh my God she told us this one story where you actually had to cover your arms and we’re like…even in Summer? How boiling is that?
Simone: Yeah well…she even said that she’s never eaten pork before!
Natasha: She is *so* missing out!
Simone: She even gets upset at Christmas time when we get out the Christmas tree and she never joins in with carols.
Natasha: I mean, jeez. What a party-pooper!

I hope they’re going to be Phil-iminated first….

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Sammy and Rashid
Friends

Sammy: Yeah we’re going to call ourselves TEAM PLAYA! Booya!
Rashid: Heeeheee. We’re using this race around the world thing to get as many notches on our you know, belt.
Sammy: Man, I think you mean bedpost?
Rashid (getting distracted): Whatever…hey check out that pretty young thing.
Sammy: WORK IT BABY!
Rashid: So we’re going to sow the worms or whatever.
Sammy: The SEEDS man. Hahahahaha.
Rashid (distracted again): Whatever…ooohhh check out that chick’s ass!
Sammy: We’re getting married to our beautiful virgin fiances in Summer so we’re you know, doing our thang…If you get my meaning
Rashid: And I know you do, baby.

H.A.T.E

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Nadia and Farida
Colleagues

Nadia: Being Muslim is more like a “state of mind” thing.
Farida: Exactly! You can be a Jewish Muslim or a Hindu Muslim. You don’t have to believe in anything you don’t want to.
Nadia: Islam is whatever you want it to be.
Farida: We really need to get rid of these shackles that the patriarchy have so obviously kept us in.
Nadia: Oh gosh..I’m going to be late for Jummah and it’s my first time leading the jamat. I must run.
Farida: You go, girl! I have to get going, too. Since what I have to say is what every Islamophobe wants to hear, I’m doing two TV talk shows today where I’m the Islamic scholar.

Was that one a little too obvious?

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Mahmoud and Irfan
Brothers

Mahmoud: We really want to show people out there that Muslims aren’t all terrorists and that we really care about all people.
Irfan: It’s about representing the faith, know what I mean?
Mahmoud: We are here to win!
Irfan: Hopefully non-Muslims can see just how normal we really are.
Mahmoud: And if we don’t win….
Irfan: It’s a Jewish conspiracy

*Groan* They seemed like such nice, normal people in the beginning. Enough with the Jewish paranoia!

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Tune in next week when teams compete in THE AMAZING RACE. Their first task will be….
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Waking up for fajr.

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