Oppressed?

Lately I’ve been receiving the worst comments from the same couple of people and I’ve been deleting them because it seems that trying to reason with these kinds of people is just not possible. So I’ve had all of this stuff building up inside of me to the point where I am simply about to explode or break down; so I’ve decided that I will spill some of it on my blog.

I am tired of being judged by everyone. Do you realize how hard I’ve worked my life? No do you really know?(unless if you actually personally know me) But other than that you don’t, you simply read my blog. If you were to see my somewhere in public you wouldn’t take many things in consideration after taking a glance at me. The only key factor that you would take into consideration is that I am Muslim, I wear a ‘thingy’ on my head and then all of the stereotypes will begin to pour out. You don’t know a thing about me but yet you all ready judge. The cold stare. You look down upon me, and scorn me. Thank you all of you rude people for you are the ones that are beginning to make my heart colder each day and beginning to make me block out my senses.

I am tired of having these kinds of people who discourage me. Who make me feel like I have accomplished nothing, make me feel like a failure. Who take away from me everything that I have worked hard for. Any of the good characteristic that I have developed gets violently ripped away form me and makes me feel as if I am a horrible person that deserves this. But the fact is that no one deserves this. No one should ever have to feel this way, No one should ever have to feel this way.

You know what, I dare one of you to try to put up with the things that Muslims have to go through. Instead of pointing fingers at psychos and being like wow then they all must be like that, how about you try to look at practicing Muslims. Talk to them, ask them all of the questions you have. Or go to the local Masjid (Mosque). Walk in there and try to get a feeling of the surrounding. Talk to some of the people I promise that Muslims are not cannibal’s and we don’t bite. Ask them some basic questions, and then ask the ones who are the head of Masjid your detailed questions.

I sit here and read comment after comment of all these horrendous things about my religion, about my people and all I can do is press the delete button so I wouldn’t have to see it anymore, so I can try to forget about it. I delete it because I don;t want the others that may be as sensitive as me or even more sensitive to get shaken up by the comments. I delete it because of the select fews that are educated and don’t agree with those comments made, and I don’t want them to get upset either. But here’s a little FYI, people may forget what you say to them, but they will never forget how you make them feel.

I am going to simply say one more thing and then stop because if I was to continue babbling about my issues then I would hate myself for turning my blog into a lets listen to my problems corner. The poem I have in my About me section, the poem that apparently many people felt the necessity to say nasty things about, well read it again. You all sit there and say O Islam oppresses women, la ti da lets make fun of it some more blah blah blah blah, it’s a religion that hates women. Ugh! women in Islam are not oppressed, get your facts straight and stop generalizing because of what you heard or what you think is right. What you think is right is different from what the actual facts may be so be careful with that.

You know what, if anything it is you guys that oppresses the Muslims. We don’t do anything, we can’t do anything. If a white guy kills someone, its not on the front of the paper as ‘White man kills someone’ or ‘Christian man kills someone.’ If a white man shoves someone on the street, or is impolite in public no one’s gunna think big about it. If your Muslim and you do something the slightest bit negative then its the hugest thing in the world.
I challenge each of you who reads this post to go to a Masjid (Mosque) and try this out. (If you would like I can give you a list of any Masjid’s that you may be looking for near you.) And if you don’t want to take the wanna be challenge that’s cool too. But please, please, please, just stop passing along the things that you hear. Go and ask about it.
Remember, even though we are separated by cultures, religions, and even by each of our own individuality, we all do share humanity, so why can’t we try to cope with each other? Why can’t we just try instead of stating oh it’ too much of a hard concept?