Am getting a little tired with all the rubbishing of “born Muslims”
How often have I heard that it’s us “born Muslims” who mix culture with religion and it’s the convert/revert (can never get the word right) who have the true Islam because they aren’t jaded by culture (if they adopt the Arab one then that’s ok ya’ni) How often have I heard how born Muslims don’t know s**t about Islam.How often have I heard how convert Muslims will save the day.
AND to top it all off, born Muslims are sooo funny and hilarious because they always ask the white convert where they are from. Those stupid born ethnic Muslims think the white convert is from an Arab country. LOLZ!
Us brownies get the same question all the time. But not only from Muslims, but from non-Muslims too. We are constantly reminded that no matter how long we live in “the West” we will always be the other. I’m glad (and I really say this without any sarcasm) you white converts find it amusing and that the questions don’t (and probably won’t) ever affect you in the same way.
Amen!
Shabaash!
Sorry you’ve been dissed, Tassles. That totally sucks. Really.
If it helps (errr….I imagine from the rage coming off the page in your post that it won’t but I’ll push ahead nonetheless), I’m always being told, implicitly or explicitly, that I don’t know anything because I’m a convert, no matter how long I’ve been Muslim. I’ve been Muslim for more than a decade and people still tell me how to pray. And whenever convert friends and I raise our concerns about X practice in the community, we are told we “are just converts who want to change the religion”, because we “are too Westernized”. Non-Muslims not only ask me where I’m from, but when they find out, I often also get the “you TRAITOR” treatment. I also get to listen to “born Muslims” bang on and on (and ON), unapologetically, about Whitey and how inherently racist Whitey is (and stupid, and uncultured), right in front of me.
I’m not trying to tell you you’re wrong about your experiences, or that mine/converts are worse. Your experiences are real and they are sh!thouse, no doubt, and I can only imagine how wearing it is to hear them all the time. More that I’m just letting you know that maybe it’s just people being d!ckheads. Probably the same people being d!ckheads to both of us.
And THIS convert loves you. In your immortal words: don’t hate!