Tasmiya

1. Non Muslim men - Shut up about it.

2. Non Muslim women - see 1

3. Muslim men - see 1. I don’t know about anyone else but I’m really tired of men speaking for women. ESPECIALLY if your sole reason for supporting niqab is that tempting flesh must be covered because otherwise you can’t possibly keep it in your pants.

4. Muslim women who don’t cover - see 1 ESPECIALLY if you wax lyrical about how it’s all just cultural and it’s just a piece of cloth. Yes FOR YOU it is. Not necessarily for others.

5. Muslim women in hijab - see 1 ESPECIALLY if you feel the need to point out why you don’t wear it. Honestly. Are people not getting it yet? You don’t wear it so why YOU don’t doesn’t mean anything to someone who DOES.

6. Non-Muslim women who wear hijab/niqab for a day and think they know how it feels – SHUT UP.

7. Muslim women in niqab – Talk

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Or to summarise:

1. Muslim women in niqab: Talk

2. Everyone else: Friggin’ LISTEN

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.