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shabang On September 22, 2019




cheshire, United Kingdom
#1New Post! Aug 21, 2011 @ 20:15:20
Having been a christian all my life , brought up in a white christian family ( non practicing like most ) i have now converted to Islam , it is now my Holy month of Ramadhan , and i have been praying 5 times a day and fasting til the sun goes down - i find it a very disciplined religion , i am not a terrorist , i believe in the hereafter , i dont go around putting my religion in peoples faces or ram it down peoples throats !! i believe each to their own

However, i am in a predicament, my parents are now not accepting the fact that my criteria towards life has changed, they think it is idiotic that i amm starving myself. My wife who is also muslim is quite westernised and astray, i love her with all my heart and i love my parents and family equally the same.

Should i carry on hurting them or should i keep at it and please my wife - i am soooo confused in what i should now do. i dont want to do wrong by anyone i just need answers.
hoppy On August 27, 2013




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#2New Post! Aug 21, 2011 @ 20:26:07
If you are happy with living under that much religious control over your life, fine. As far as your wife being "astray" and your family and all, have you considered "honor" killings?
tariki On September 16, 2012

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, United Kingdom
#3New Post! Aug 21, 2011 @ 20:30:40
@hoppy Said

If you are happy with living under that much religious control over your life, fine. As far as your wife being "astray" and your family and all, have you considered "honor" killings?



Really hoppy, if the guy is serious you are out of order.

shabang On September 22, 2019




cheshire, United Kingdom
#4New Post! Aug 21, 2011 @ 20:33:30
i am really serious about this and ' honor killings' is an insult
MadCornishBiker On January 14, 2014

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St Columb Road, United Kingdom
#5New Post! Aug 21, 2011 @ 20:33:54
@tariki Said

Really hoppy, if the guy is serious you are out of order.




Maybe, but it is a practice amongst many Muslims.
shabang On September 22, 2019




cheshire, United Kingdom
#6New Post! Aug 21, 2011 @ 20:36:14
i would never consider this as an option and would burn in hell if i did this and rightly so
GaryL On January 20, 2021




North Branch, Minnesota
#7New Post! Aug 21, 2011 @ 20:52:26
@shabang Said

Having been a christian all my life ,.....i have now converted to Islam ,



Really?

Could've fooled me.


@shabang Said

This is a controversial poem , what do you think.

Me come to England, poor and broke,
Go down dole, see labour bloke,
Fill in form, Stand around,
Kind man gives me plenty pound.
Me thank him very much, Then he Say
"You come next week, Get more pay."
Me writes a letter to Pakistan,
Tell all my friends come as quickly as can.
All is nicely settled down
Nice big house in Bradford town.
Twenty families living up,
Twice as many living down.
More in garden in a tent,
Social Services pay the rent,
Six months later, Big bank roll,
Go down labout, draw mor Dole.
Wife wants glasses, teeth and pills,
All is free, Get no bills.
Me think England is damned fine place,
Much too nice for a white man race.
But God Bless White man, Big and Small,
he pays tax to keep us all.
If you don't like coloured man,
There's Plenty Room in Pakistan.

please leave your comment
shabang On September 22, 2019




cheshire, United Kingdom
#8New Post! Aug 21, 2011 @ 20:56:09
really , thats why i put it as a controversial poem - which i dont agree with - wheres fooling you in this !! it;s clearly an old poem that i wondered how people would react to it - some people GOSH !!
sister_of_mercy On March 11, 2015




London, United Kingdom
#9New Post! Aug 21, 2011 @ 20:56:38
You should do what is in your own best interests. If you want to fast, then fast. It's your religion and your belief, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

But using words like 'astray' implies that perhaps you're not quite as openminded as you claim to be. If so then perhaps you in your glass house shouldn't be the first to throw stones.
shabang On September 22, 2019




cheshire, United Kingdom
#10New Post! Aug 21, 2011 @ 20:58:36
@sister_of_mercy Said

You should do what is in your own best interests. If you want to fast, then fast. It's your religion and your belief, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

But using words like 'astray' implies that perhaps you're not quite as openminded as you claim to be. If so then perhaps you in your glass house shouldn't be the first to throw stones.



i agree , but just assume i am in aglass house or that i am throwing stones
sister_of_mercy On March 11, 2015




London, United Kingdom
#11New Post! Aug 21, 2011 @ 21:00:57
@MadCornishBiker Said

Maybe, but it is a practice amongst many Muslims.



Not most of them, but your ignorance never fails to amaze me. It's also really quite a rude thing to say to someone who genuinely wants advice, if you don't agree with his religion then you don't have to respond to the topic.
shabang On September 22, 2019




cheshire, United Kingdom
#12New Post! Aug 21, 2011 @ 21:02:52
thank you sister of mercy for sticking up for me x
sister_of_mercy On March 11, 2015




London, United Kingdom
#13New Post! Aug 21, 2011 @ 21:06:01
@shabang Said

thank you sister of mercy for sticking up for me x



No problem. It pisses me off how there can still be people so blatantly uneducated and intolerant when we live in such a supposedly enlightened era.
MadCornishBiker On January 14, 2014

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St Columb Road, United Kingdom
#14New Post! Aug 21, 2011 @ 21:46:38
@shabang Said

i would never consider this as an option and would burn in hell if i did this and rightly so



Good, that's cleared that up anywway.
MadCornishBiker On January 14, 2014

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St Columb Road, United Kingdom
#15New Post! Aug 21, 2011 @ 21:49:00
@sister_of_mercy Said

No problem. It pisses me off how there can still be people so blatantly uneducated and intolerant when we live in such a supposedly enlightened era.



I tend to think of it more as endarkened than enlightened. We have moved so far from the light of truth it is almost impossible to see it.
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