Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Pet Peeve 1

So I'm in the car with Jazz and walking down the street is a Muslim couple. It is a hot June day, the sun is blazing away and here is this Muslim woman dressed in a thick jilbaab and niqab.
You can barely see her eyes and the tips of her fingers, but at least it wasn't black - She was jazzing it up a bit in a pale green. Meanwhile her husband was sauntering along in a t-shirt and some khakis.
Look I understand that mens' dress requirements are less strict than for us women, but if your wife is going to go all out, can't you even put on a kufi?
It irritates the heck out of me to see these men wandering around in shorts and t-shirts, and I swear tank tops, while their wives cover head to toe. And I know, I know, a beard is not the be all and end all of religious commitment, but c'mon...your wife is a niqabi and you can't grow a little stubble just as a nod to the sunnah?
What would really be funny is if I ran into a guy in full sunnah garb and his wife was in shorts...actually you know I did see something like that once. My friend and I almost had a heart attack. The guy had a fluffy beard and SHORT PANTS, and was walking by with a girl in a skirt and t-shirt with no hijab. It was hysterical. I found out later he was doing dawah..(converting) her...They're married now. I hope they don't see this.

3 Comments:

At 7:07 PM, Blogger Dynamite Soul said...

LOL!

Funny but soooo true. It sort of adds insult to injury when brothers do that in the West.

 
At 9:01 PM, Blogger Irisblue said...

I know!!! Aggravating. My friend knows someone who's husband takes vacations without his wife because he goes places she can't because of her hijab..like the beach.
This us why I get called a femi-nazi - when I hear things like that my ears start smoking and I start to talk in tongues.

 
At 3:18 PM, Blogger nayya said...

omg.. tell me about it. talk about a pet peeve.

 

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