There is a feeling of surrealness working in the city of London these past few days. All sorts of things are happening around the city, but at the same time you just sit at your desk following the news on one monitor and doing your work on the other (yep, i have two monitors for my computer).
I have definitely noticed the long probing stares that i get from people in the street and on the trains now. After the first bombs went off on 7/7 i didn't feel a major difference in people's reactions to me. Now, its completely different. People look at you continuously. One passerby after the other is checking you out.
When i got on the train on the way home i saw people look at my face, and then immediately look at the carrier bag i was holding.
But you can't blame them.
One of the themes being pushed hard in the media is that a potential bomber could be any brown looking person - beard or no beard, British born or foreign. As a result non-practising Muslims are starting to feel the heat too. I wonder what the effect of this will be? If they receive a harsh backlash from the widerpublic, will the non-practising Muslims turn back and strengthen their ties with the Muslim community?
Anyway, whatever happens is written. And Allah prevails in His purpose. :)
Counselling links
Blogroll
Labels
- Arsenal (2)
- Free Ali (4)
- Islam and the West (3)
- Islam in the West (2)
- Life in the UK (1)
- Salafi issues (5)
- State of the UK (1)
5 comments:
we can all thank the misguided few for making life difficult for the larger muslim community. their actions also discourage nonmuslims to look at islam in a positive light, and on the other hand makes the disillusioned muslims look elsewhere for answers!
Assalamu Alaikum
I work with a sister who will always smiles and will talk with non muslims. A smile is a type of dawah she beleives and if you have a friendly tone and talk to them nicely they are more likely to listen to you about Islam. A sister was telling me today that her neighbour had told them the only way a muslim could go into paradise is to to convert five people or to kill five. Some people know nothing at all about Islam and we have some muslims who give a terrible picture of islam.
That is absolutely disgusting...kill five people to get to heaven...what kind of immpression does that give to others? I know one time in Pak, I was with a shia kid, and he was telling me that he has been told that Sunnis are wrong Muslims and that it was his job to kill as many Sunnis as he can, and the more he kills, the higher his place will be in Heaven...it is absoutely disgusting to me!
M
Noora, that is really strange. But it also shows how great the need is for Muslims to go out and forge links with neighbours and in their communities.
A couple of weeks ago i was speaking to my manager about a Muslim couple expecting their first baby, and he suddenly switched to talk about "some cultures engaging in female infanticide." I was like what the?? where did that come from?
He didn't mean anything malicious though. He's a nice chap.
Mansur- That is very scary to here, is this part of the shias, or at least this particular shia sect?
Post a Comment