Solitary Thoughts
SERIOUSLY? This is the most idiotic thing I have seen today!
1. “Punk” is not defined by having pointy hair (or head-dress?) or ugly checkered clothing. It’s an anti-establishment attitude that goes along with abrasive music.
2. Defining “muslim punk” is just as ignorant and separatist as “afro-punk”, “black skinhead”, “white reggae” or any other stupid portmanteau of “my-race/religion-hyphen-all-of-our-subculture/genre”. “Punk”, as it IS, unhyphenated, is ALREADY open to people of all colors & backgrounds. There is no need for ever “hyphenating” punk, unless you are specifically talking about the style of a genre for musically descriptive purposes (i.e. “pop punk”, “Hardcore punk”, “street punk”).
3. If you’re so serious about being “punk” (anti-establishment), then just go withOUT the hijab! If you CAN’T go without a hijab in your country because of a Muslim-run government or because of hardline Muslim religious violence, then why define yourself as “Muslim punk”? Why not just be a punk from Turkey?
4. That crazy pointy thing on her head really seriously makes her look incredibly ridiculous and she wears no patches or any other visible symbols of what she is supposed to be representing ideologically. So, she ends up just looking like a crazy person. How will this do anything positive for muslim women?
‘21 year old Tesnim Sayar was born and raised in Odense, with the Turkish Muslim descent. She defines herself as Muslim punk and grow rebellious punk clothing style and culture, but live according to his own religious beliefs. Tesnim says:’
“my message is also that you should not continue to believe that Muslim girls are just sitting at home is boring. . I’m tired of people’s generalizations and stereotypes about Muslim girls. Therefore, I am punk.”
check out original site http://mydisguises.com/2011/08/25/muslim-punk-fashion/
1. So cool.
2. I want that dress.
Punk is personal to each individual
and should not be policed by arrogant people with a ‘savior’ mentality
1. fuck you 2. she looks like a dinosaur therefore your argument is invalid
Raise your hand if you would totally rather look like this fucking awesome dinosaur rather than an anti-muslim, image-policing, ass-backwards faux white knight complex douchebag.
are you kidding i wanna be her SO BAD
um, fuck you sister zion
you did LD no wonder you’re so mean
This highly concerns me, and please bear with me for a few minutes so that I may explain why. And if you’re already turned off by this blog for continually finding time to address things that personally concern me, I must have you know that that only slightly disappoints me.
What’s very concerning about this is not the initial message - because I’ll get to that later - but this whole notion of accepting hadiths as though they are inspired by the Lord literature. If you would like to suggest otherwise, I would recommend you have a bit knowledge on Islamic history before deciding to raise this issue with me. Because what’s problematic is that we presume that literature written during a politically driven dynasty is somehow religious text that is as holy as our holy Quran. To be quite honest, I don’t understand how this is the case. And I’m also not sure how many Muslims are so politically unaware of their own religious history.
Hence, this is why I take hadiths with a grain of salt. It’s not because I am inclined to obey my desires (or that I’m depleting parts of the religion to suit my desires), but because I truly believe the production and use of hadith should not be associated with the religion of Islam. I have a problem with literature that finds it legit to pass of words, ideas, and concepts supposedly said by the Prophet (saaw) as Islam. I find it a problem when women truly believe that they’re the main inhabitants in hell because a hadith tells them so. I find it a problem when men justify beating and abusing their wives and children because a hadith describes this act permissible. And I also find it a problem when people use Prophet Muhammad’s words in vain in order to exemplify their main objective or self interest. But more importantly, I find it a problem when these things are being understood as Islamic concepts when ideas such as these don’t even exist within Quran.
In terms of what’s being quoted here, I’m not sure I understand why you feel obliged to defend people who used to accompany the Prophet to the mosque or in the market. Also, I’m not sure why you feel inclined to place much honor to people who’ve mocked, spat, and spoken ill of the Prophet. Now wait, I haven’t mentioned any names or time periods, nor have I spoken of any Muslim in particular. I just need to understand how the companions of the Prophet - and by companions, I mean a literal companion (because we seem to confuse this notion of friendship and companionship) - have anything to do with my Islamic faith.
I need to understand what’s problematic with questioning or even doubting people, ideologies, faiths, or religion. I also need to understand how the questioning and doubting of particular people is the doubting of my Islam. I understand how doubting Quran is doubting Allah - because once you place yourself in that position, your entire Islam falls into bits and pieces - but I’m just not sure how doubting fallible, hypocritical, wretched, and awfully bipolar people (in terms of faith) is doubting Islam. Again, I haven’t mentioned particular “companions,” but it would be foolish to not acknowledge that people like that existed within the time of the Prophet Muhammad (and dare I say, there were those who walked alongside the Prophet who behaved this way).
Again, I don’t mean to sound controversial or condescending, I just feel it’s very critical and necessary that we take a step back and try to distinguish what’s been infiltrated into this religion and what the religion actually is. All we know of what Islam is what Allah says in Quran, to assume otherwise is questionable.
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Photo of the Day: May 25, 2012
Midday Monkey Mischief
A couple monkeys quenches their thirst as another takes a dip on a hot summer afternoon in Jammu, India.
(photo: Channi Anand)
very stylish dress
the melancholy thoughts of cat named henri
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ah my dream bedroom
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Arm of a #Srebrenica victim with ligature and Qur’an; found in a secondary mass grave. October 2002. Kamenica near Zvornik
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