Nerd is my Gender
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![This is what scholars think men in Israel looked like during the time of Jesus. If he tried to board an airplane today, he’d probably be hassled with racial profiling for looking too Muslim.
[Image of man with medium-tone skin, brown eyes, and thick dark brown hair and beard, similar to many Middle-Eastern men.]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhszp8ZttL1qgm6edo1_250.jpg)
This is what scholars think men in Israel looked like during the time of Jesus. If he tried to board an airplane today, he’d probably be hassled with racial profiling for looking too Muslim.
[Image of man with medium-tone skin, brown eyes, and thick dark brown hair and beard, similar to many Middle-Eastern men.]
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How to stereotype an educated liberal Muslim woman? Draw shit like this.
(via How to de-stereotype a Muslim woman)
(Source: furiouspurpose.me)
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I visit my family in Iran every year or so. People often ask me what life is like there. It’s just evil 24/7! Here’s an average Iranian living room:
- Death to America Couch
- Fanatic Feline
- Extremist Pillow
- Terrorist Table
- Fundamentalist Fruit
- Anti-American Antenna
The really sad part is that Hostess only makes Fundie Fruit Pies. Secular snacks are nowhere to be found.
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My girlfriend is a former Catholic, recent convert to Islam, and a staunch meat-eater, and I am atheist and vegetarian (not vegan). I can see the vegan aspect making it more difficult, since I do eat dairy and (very limited) eggs. But, I respect her choices, and she respects mine, with neither trying to impose or indoctrinate the other. Incidentally, she is also transgendered (but wasn’t for the first 3 years of our relationship), and I formerly identified as “gay,” but now moreso as bisexual…so we’re probably in the minority so small we ARE the fraction. :) We’re coming up on 5 years, and we’re fine. I think it’s really up to the individuals in the relationship, and what each is willing to compromise on/be open to.JW Tarin, in response to someone asking for advice about his relationship in which he is an atheist vegan and his girlfriend is a meat-eating Catholic.
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If you have a Bible on your bookshelf, you may be a Christian.
If you have a Koran on your bookshelf, you may be a Muslim.
If you have a Torah on your bookshelf, you may be Jewish.
If you have all three, you are probably an atheist.
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From ‘not racist’ to ‘stormfront member’ in 6 hours
First post: “Seriously I’m not racist but these Muslims are really pissing me off”
Several violent ramblings later…
Last post: “Stormfront.org”
Is hate really that easy to catch on?
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Before You Dismiss Breivik as Crazy...
I heartily agree:
The second reason to avoid making such claims until all the evidence is in is that they serve to reinforce the already present stigma against people with mental illness. Despite considerable research showing that persons suffering from mental illness are, on average, less likely to be commit acts of violence than the rest of us, damaging public misconceptions and stereotypes abound. If it turns out to be true that Breivik was mentally ill, there will be plenty of time to discuss it. But why strengthen the stigma without first having the evidence?
What people with mental illness are actually more likely to be is homeless and in poverty, lacking the resources to make better lives for themselves as the government cuts services.
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French businessman 'to pay all burqa fines'
This man is a hero!
A French businessman has set up a fund to pay fines for women who wear Islamic veils or the burqa in public “in whatever country in the world that bans women from doing so”.
“I’m in favour of a law to convict a husband who forces a women to wear the niqab and who forces her to stay at home. But I’m also for a law that lets these women move freely in the streets, because freedom of movement, just like any freedom, is the most fundamental thing in a democracy, ” Nekkaz told reporters outside the courtroom in Belgium.
Rachid Nekkaz, 38, a real-estate businessman based in Paris, travelled to Belgium on Wednesday to pay 100 euros for two women fined in the first case in the country since the law was adopted there.
I’m against forcing women to dress a certain way because they’re women. This ban is attempting to fight evil with evil, and they’ll never win their battle because they don’t have the moral high ground.
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[Warning: bigotry.] Father Daughter Talk …My daughter just walked into the room and said, “Dad, cancel my allowance, rent my room out, throw all my clothes out, take my TV, iPhone, IPod, and my laptop. Please take all of my jewelry. Then sell my car, take my house key. And then write me out of your will.” Well, she didn’t put it quite like that… she actually said, “Dad this is my new boyfriend, Mohammed from Iran.Facebook status of a member of the Illinois Senate. (via microaggressions)
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Spot on analysis of religious cultural conflicts. Too bad they renamed the gender symbols to be “gay rights”.
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DeferreDreams: Experiences of being Muslim, genderqueer and asexual
Thank you to Eli, aka Strawberreli, for allowing us to share these personal answers and experiences. As you can see from some of the questions asked below, genderqueer people face a lot of different challenges to LGB people, especially where people feel as if they have the right be to know the answer to extremely personal information and are extremely disrespectful. We hope that sharing these experiences, will raise awareness about the issues that genderqueer and asexual people face.
For the sake of ease, I have summarised the gist of each post/ask and linked it to the post on Eli’s blog.
Click here to read Eli’s post about coming out to friends as asexual
Question: How do you balance being genderqueer with being Muslim
Question: Are your parents ok with you being gay and Muslim
Question about genitals
Question about the hijab, and how Eli presents themselves
Questions about Eli’s gender identity 1, 2, 3, 4
Message about coming outCredit for all posts go to Eli at strawberreli.tumblr.com
Thank you again to Eli, who is most certainly NOT Haraam. -
Muslim Women
Someone shared this link as proof that Islam gives rights to women. I am not arguing whether at one point in time Islam increased rights for women. But clearly we as a society have have evolved past the rights described in the link. For example, here are 6 rules listed which dictate women’s employment opportunities:
1. Outside employment should not come before, or seriously interfere with her responsibilities as wife and mother.
Each family should make the choice for themselves how they will balance work and childcare, and women shouldn’t be the default care taker.
2. Her work should not be a source of friction within the family, and the husband’s consent is required in order to eliminate later disagreements. If she is not married, she must have her guardian’s consent.
A woman is justified in making her own career decisions without seeking permission from another person. She of course may ask her family what their preference is, just as a man would who loves and cares for others, but her life is not by force of rule lived at the mercy of another.
3. Her appearance, manner and tone of speech and overall behavior should follow Islamic guidelines. These include: restraining her glances in relation to any men near the work place, wearing correct Islamic dress, avoiding men, not walking in a provocative manner, and not using make-up or perfume in public.
A woman may dress in a way which brings her greatest comfort and confidence int he workplace, and should not need seek to serve the sexual insecurities of male co-workers.
4. Her job should not be one which causes moral corruption in society, or involve any prohibited trade or activity, affect her own religion, morals, dignity and good behavior, or subject her to temptations.
All people, women included, should operate according to the dictates of their on conscience.
5. Her job should not be one which is mixing and associating with men.
Women should be allowed to circulate freely in any space which any other human being is allowed to circulate. No gender should be allowed to bully any other gender out of a workplace.
6. A woman should try to seek employment in positions which require a woman’s special skills, or which relate to the needs of women and children, such as teaching, nursing other women, midwifery, medicine with specialization’s like pediatric or obstetrics-gynecology.
Any special skill possessed by a woman is a “woman’s special skill” by virtue of that woman possessing it. Therefore, women may be assured that any career path whatsoever is one which is suited to their skills.
Genderqueer with a touch of happy humanism.
