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Petey:
brians islam name translates into
"white suburbanite who travels on his parents dime and is ashamed to be caucasian"
Teddy Roosevelt:
--- Quote from: Infinite- African West Coastin' 2010 on June 14, 2011, 02:30:57 PM ---
--- Quote from: MUHFUKKA on June 14, 2011, 11:40:00 AM ---you will never be accepted by real muslims and you know it lyin brian
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I never had a problem being accepted by Muslims. One of the things that makes Muslims happiest is converts to the religion. So that was never a problem.
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Are you sure about that? Cause you use to overcompensate WAY too much back in the day.
Sikotic™:
I recall you mentioning how you're not as deep into Islam as you once were. Why is that?
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: "Supernatural" Sikotic on June 15, 2011, 04:05:13 PM ---I recall you mentioning how you're not as deep into Islam as you once were. Why is that?
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In America, embracing Islam is an embrace of freedom. Because it is counter-culture in America. Your belief in God is strengthened by your worship, because nobody is forcing you to do it, and in fact people are actually working to keep you from it in America.
But when I tried to settle down and live in the Arabic Gulf at the end of 07', it was the opposite. It was expected of me to perform certain behaviors as a Muslim. I thought that the best Muslims had to be abroad, because truly devout Muslims would never want to leave in America. But what I found was that over there most Muslims wish to come to the US, and Islam is expected and sometimes forced in the culture there. So you have more blind followers who have never accepted the religion for themselves, and never had their beliefs challenged. I was praying and worshiping over there but it had lost all of it's meaning. Everything became robotic.
Also, like what Jome guessed, something bad happened to me in 04', and it had to do with my naivety in Islam. Islam was causing me to get in way over my head, and take on more than I was truly capable of. The first 3 years as a Muslim I was around some good people that protected me from the consequences of some of my naivety, but in 04' I got mixed up with some of the wrong people and had some bad consequences. But it only made me turn even deeper to my faith, and to get in even deeper over my head.
So finally it all crashed in January 06' when I was over in the Emirates. This is all a long story short, but then I came back to America and had to re-evaluate my life, and since then I would call myself an individualist and Libertarian first, and a Muslim somewhere behind that.
Petey:
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