skittles
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Nov 15, 2004, 7:16 PM
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Assalamualaikum brothers and sisters in Islam,
I have an issue that I would like to discuss to bring peace to my mind. I attend a high school in the United States where I am one of very few muslims in the school. I have many friends who are non-muslims and I respect their faiths and normally do not discuss religion with them. Recently a friend of mine, my ex-friend now, being a christian, was going around my school saying that if you were not a christian, you were going to hell. It did not bother me that he had this belief because everyone has the freedom to believe whatever they want to believe. It bothered me because he was disrespecting my beliefs by saying this outloud. I am a strong believer in respecting people whatever there religion may be. So I took offense to his remarks and decided that I was better off not being his friend.
The next week when this ex-friend of mine came to school, he tied a shirt around his head pretending that it was a hijab. He wore the shirt on his head all day as a joke. Only a few people were mature enough to realize that this was a very ignorant, childish thing to do and was very disrespectful to my beliefs. I immediatly took offense because he was making fun of my religion and disrespecting me.
I feel that I have no support in my school because I cannot believe that someone who once called themselves my friend would disrespect me and my religion in such a way and everyone thinks it's funny. It is amazing to me how ignorant people can be.
Thank you brothers and sisters for listening. I needed to vent.
Salam always,
~Jamila~
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skittles
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