Greta75
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Kafumba Kromah, of Minneapolis, said his 8-year-old daughter asked him: "Why we are Muslims? Why can't we be what everybody else is?"
Very good question to ask your papa Little girl, ask your papa, why can't you choose the religion you wish you be in, why didn't he give you a choice and insist you are Muslim from birth? You have the choice not to be one if you wanted to! So you don't have to be one! Why is your father so afraid to tell you, you have the choice to choose if you want to?
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As Khan, the father in Maryland, tucked his son in last week, he left him with the words he recited when he became a U.S. citizen two decades ago: "One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
"I don't know why, I don't know how people forget that," Khan said later, fighting back tears. "We have to; otherwise we're dividing ourselves."
I would say to this dude, there will be liberty and justice to all. Bullying is not exclusive to Muslim kids. Bullying happens, if you are overweight, if you are too skinny, if you are a runt, if you are seen as physically repulsive, if you have a disability, if you seem different in anyway from everybody else, goth kids get bullied too, emo kids get bullied, many mix racial kids have been bullied, bullying happens equally all across the board to all sort of demographics. It's not exclusive to Muslims.
But when the bully cross the line and cause physical injury to you, there will be liberty and justice where the bully will be prosecuted.
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"We're not prepared for this," said Madi, whose father fled Iraq in the 1970s. "We're not prepared to sit and educate our children why they're not any different from anybody else. I don't think any parent is prepared for that. I don't care what religion you believe or don't believe."
But they are different from everybody else. They don't have the choice to choose to be Muslim or not. Most people in this world can't choose race, but can choose Religion. Muslims seem to be the only religion in the world, which they can't even choose or even are taught they have the choice to be anything else but Muslims. Could that be the reason why you say parents are not prepared to educate children why they are not different? Perhaps because you are different! You have victimised your own kid, you have ran away from Muslim countries to live in a country where you can have more freedom, but you deny that freedom to your own child. Otherwise, there should be absolutely ZERO problems educating kids exactly how they are not different, if they are genuinely not different and live with the same freedom as everybody else.
As a buddhist kid in a Methodist school with majority christians, I was ostracized alot too, also why I mentioned my childhood best girlfriend was a muslim, because we were both not Christians, and also told by teachers our whole family is going to hell for not believing in Jesus. But my parents always made it clear, I can be whatever religion I want, it doesn't matter, they were bad in their own way, but being buddhist (mom)and an atheist (dad), they never controlled religion. So I switch to Christianity to fit in, even follow some of my school mates to church, and everything went okay, but I was always clear I was only into it to fit in and get through school without constant grief. But it helped me fit in. My Muslim friend was not allowed to claim she is anything else but Muslim though. I find it strange her fundie muslim parents puts her in a christian school, that always puzzled me, there are many muslim schools around. My mom put me in this school because she knows I will get beaten up in there, and that's why she did. It was intentional, she told me so.
I saw this Oprah episode where you have this blue eye, blonde girl, 8 yr old, who looked perfectly white, being ostracised in school, because her parents INSIST she tells everyone she is half black. I also need to mention, both her parents are white, as she is adopted, so the kids in school will never know, if she doesn't say anything. The blacks shun her, the whites shun her, she fit in no where and was ostracised. How silly. I don't agree with this, if she doesn't say anything and just claim she's white, nobody will notice she's half black. When you become an adult, there are also politics in working world and prejudices you gotta maneuver around it. It's life. And it's how you deal with it and roll with it, that will make impossible circumstances become possible.
And no matter what, with a kid, I think it is 100% wrong to stick a religion upon them when they are young. They should be told, they can choose. If they can choose, they can make whatever decision they want. They can choose to stay Muslim to battle the prejudice, and stay Muslim and proud, that is good too, might built strong character, might find true friends who accept them for what they are, those that stand by their side. Or they can choose to just go with everybody else. Just to fit in, like I did. I choose my battles, and over all, religions mean nothing to me, so it doesn't bother me. And as a kid, singing hymms and listening to bible stories, were actually like fun activities to participate in for me so it wasn't so bad to just join them and do all that stuffs.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/schools-streets-tv-children-feel-muslim-backlash-160724097.html
< Message edited by Greta75 -- 12/14/2015 9:45:14 PM >
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