Not Without My Cat
I just now found a new blog that gives me great joy: "Not Without My Cat" has been up since September and is the blogging home of Rani, a German girl who converted to Islam before she married her Saudi husband. You should read the full entries, let me just post some teaser-quotes:A Good Fake Muslima
I gave it a chance, though, I've read the bible from the first page to the last, just to find out that it was definetely the most stupid, intolerant and narrowminded book I've ever read. It well explained the more embarrassing parts of European history.. In short, I really wasn't from the material you make pious people from. And I didn't become a Muslima because I suddenly became religious or wanted to be pious. Actually, I only became a Muslima because my husband asked me to. ... As my husband once pointed out, if America would have been conquered by Arabs the natives would nowadays run around in thobes and go to the mosque at friday. ... And so I became a Muslima. It wasn't really difficult, it didn't even require me to lie. There are actually only two little things that you have to agree with... What really struck me as weird was that no-one from the family that so vehemently insisted on me becoming a Muslima seemed to care much afterwards. Sure they all were happy but that was it.
What do you know?
Now I'm constantly on the jump to take care that the cats won't catch anything again, and if, take it away from them as fast as possible. Ah, if anything had happened to my sweetie they would have had a Saudi terrorist here that would have make Osama bin Laden look like a Vienna choir boy!!
The dreaded Abaya
Okay, let's face it - women in Saudi Arabia are all forced to wear an ominous black cloak and hide themself as much as possible. My macho husband even expects me to wear a niqab which covers the face beneath the eyes. Shocking, isn't it? ... So do I mind wearing the abaya? No. And why should I? It's the tradition of my husband's country and I just respect it, as a matter of politeness. Running around on a Saudi street without the abaya is something akin to visiting the Cologne philharmony in your nightie, I guess I would be ashamed of doing either one.
posted by ritzy @ 9:32 PM
8 Comments:
At 5/10/05 23:11,
programmer craig said…
So, she went from a nominal Christian to a nominal Muslim? Not much of a sacrifice on her part :)
She says she is agnostic. That's, like, really BAD in Islam, isn't it? I have no problem with agnostics, myself, people should evolve their own beliefs... but for her to flaunt her contempt for religion seems... dunno... kinda hateful?
At 6/10/05 00:22,
ritzy said…
She's not taking it too seriously and she says so, isn't that what makes the write up amuzing?
At 6/10/05 06:34,
CMAR II said…
I predict trouble down the line for this marriage (if they stay in SA). Hopefully the crash will come before they have children but it probably won't.
Then that title "Not Without My Cat" (a quip from the movie "Not Without My Daughter") might not be so funny.
At 6/10/05 11:45,
ritzy said…
let's keep an eye on the unfolding drama!
At 6/10/05 17:22,
gluphus said…
poor lost soul.
I am sure Allah is sad that he can't bend reality, space and time to her every desire.
Her formula for using the minimum words to irritate the maximum demographics astounded me. The raw efficiency of the work made me think, she should work for one of those faceless, multinationals. Her bitterness would fit in well at a cubical farm. Perhaps in a city, a dark, cold city.
As someone living in the "native american" lands, I really enjoyed her ghetto reference, I am so glad she took time to visit our humble corner of the world. I just hope it wasn't on a Tuesday (those are the days the Christians sodomize the Indians with cactus, so we're usually too busy that day to suffer tourists). Perhaps in her next article, she could work on alienating other demographics...
...heck, lets just have her fly to the UN and talk with everyone at once. That way she can piss-off the entire globe in one statement.
Bless her heart. I hope she finds real happiness soon.
At 6/10/05 21:12,
Mister Ghost said…
Got to love the Germans. They
went from being Nazis to being Moslems. And they both hate the Jews. /facetiousness
At 9/10/05 13:54,
Anonymous said…
still prefer her attitude to that of many oh so pious brothers who pray 5 times a day but treat their families and most of the umma pretty indecent...
At 12/11/05 12:51,
Qatar Cat said…
I don't think there is anything wrong with the girl, her attitude, and least of all, her marriage. We are all entitled to an opinion, after all :^) So what if hers contradicts the common point of view?
=^..^=
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