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Nasha the muslim pragmatist

The beautiful thing about practicing Islam is its practicality, for a person who by appearance has been judged by unfortunately, my own muslim friends more than once, (which i don't blame them for, since this post too was risen out of my own judgment of what I have been witnessing as of late)just by thinking pragmatically, can understand the do's and don't of my own religion without having to have a substantial knowledge of the Qur'an. (I am not proud of this).

Ever since I arrived in Adelaide, I have had people of different religions well, at first shocked to find out I am a muslim, because I don't wear a headscarf or dress it ( I am not proud of this) and they immediately get into the three " So, you don't eat pork?", " So, you can't touch a boy?", "So, you don't drink?" and if but for my respect and want to appear presentable and diplomatic I would have given them a piece of my mind of their obnoxious insinuations. Very rarely you meet, well atleast that I have met, people who genuinely want to learn and are curious about other religions, and this includes my fellow muslim friends as well.

I am ,as always, far off the issue i initially wanted to bring up, so i guess i will just break this article into two and first address the stereotypical insinuations more often than not thrown at me.

In regards to not drinking, I cannot think of a better way to explain this than what my dad already has on his blog;

I’ll just have to bring to their realisation that any religion that has a ban or admonishment for alcoholic drinks is merely banning the only beverage in the world that requires legalization.

It’s the only beverage that prerequisites a legal drinking age; it’s the only one that has a roadworthy driving legal limit; sales of it is regulated and requires a license; open consummation of it is not globally allowed; nations made attempts to prohibit it; and I won’t even begin to go into social crimes and issues that are directly related to it. To none of the aforementioned would you find any parallel with the widespread consumption of say, caffeine – of which no religion has been known to ban. But of course to hollow heads who need to fill their volume with booze, that only applies to others and it could never be them – they are the apogee of human restraint; which is probably what a DUI driver would have thought to have gotten into their vehicle after a ‘coupla’ glasses.

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i'm just laying it down generally, whether or not one, a muslim drinks is of choice and a different issue.not to be mistaken with my points of argument.
ps. will continue the main reason for bringing this up soon-ish.