I grew up in Glasgow, Scotland, the daughter of a Pakistani Muslim immigrant father and a Scottish Catholic mother. My childhood home, for me, was not a happy one.
My father’s religion, Islam, allowed him to have more than one wife, and he chose to have two. Both his wives lived under the same roof with their combined children.
Two women from completely different backgrounds sharing a man is not going to make a happy home, no matter how hard they both try.
I always felt different, and was made to feel different. I was tainted; I had the “gori” gene in me. I was “less” than, I was the “other.”
My mother was the “gori” and I was the “gori’s daughter.” Gori means white woman, but is often used in a derogatory manner, and implies easy, loose and no morals. I grew up amongst blatant racism towards white people, racism no one even today wants to talk about.
I talk about it. I write about it. I tweet about it. I also talk and write and tweet about other harmful practices that occur within the Pakistani community and for that people attempt to intimidate me in the hopes that I will keep quiet.
I won’t keep quiet. Even though I live with a panic button installed in my home because of the constant threats to my life that I receive. How can I keep quiet? Knowing what I know and knowing how miserable life is for many Pakistanis, especially children and women.
I was forced into a marriage at the age of 18, married to a much older man with whom I had nothing in common. Married off because I was becoming too Westernised and bringing “shame” onto my family. And so to save the family “honour,” I was forced to marry a man I met for the first time on my wedding night. I stayed in the marriage for three years until I found the courage to walk out. Walking out meant losing my family, extended family and the Pakistani community I had been part of my entire life.
Being alone was a terrifying experience for me. All my life all I had ever been part of was the Pakistani community, and now I was being forced to live amongst the white Scottish people, the very people I was raised to believe hated me because I was brown, because my father was Pakistani, because I was a Muslim.
The reality of my life amongst white Scottish people, thankfully was not what I had been brainwashed to believe. White Scottish people accepted me and saw me as a Glaswegian, not the “Paki’s daughter.” I was accepted by the white side of my mother’s family and treated as an equal. Of course there were racists, people who let it be known I was not welcome because I had a “Paki” father, and there was also people who told me I was actually quite cool for a “Paki.”
It is because of the Pakistani connection in my life I live with a panic button. I write articles about Islam, child rape in the Pakistani community, the Muslim rape gangs. I am very passionate about raising awareness about female genital mutilation (FGM) and believe that parents who do this should be jailed.
Living in fear of being attacked by devout Pakistani men or women who would rather I keep quiet is something I have gotten used to. I had to, or I would have given up, and giving up is not something I can do. The fear is there every day.
How sad that wanting to protect children, wanting women to live happy and autonomous lives free from patriarchal restrictions should mean that I need to live in fear in modern-day Scotland. How very telling that talking about the Religion of Peace endangers people’s lives.
KRJ says
You are very courageous. And admirable. I don’t have to tell you to please, BE CAREFUL. This world needs you, and more like you, more than ever.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
So true. Being married off at 18 yrs old to a much older stranger had to be tough. Real tough. Leaving the belief system facing a penalty of death indicates that Hobbs has a strong center. Keeping one’s balance under these conditions is remarkable. You’re right, we need Hobbs and more like her. Like maybe about 1.6 billion like her.
Again, the silence of the feminists on Islam shows them as cowards on the level she is a hero.
Christine says
Shazia,
As a white American woman of Scottish descent, I accept you and I admire you. Ask the Blessed Mother to be your spiritual Mother and pray the rosary every day for your protection and salvation. Our Lady’s prayers saved me from brain cancer – she can help you, too.
Dallas Beus says
Amen.
Karen says
I thank God for your healing.
martin says
As A christian I hope she becomes christian, not join a god defying marian cult.
fudge says
A lot of muslim women used to write to my ex-husband complaining about how badly they were treated
J D S says
Bless you for seeing the light…the light if Christ…So sad that all those Muslims are in the dark…but just think how many are forcefully being held in the dark because of FEAR…Without fear Islam would not exist…what a shame. What a waste of humanity Islam is.
Shazia Hobbs says
Thank you
Theophilus says
I commend your courage. Keep up the good work and your stand for what is right.
St. Manuel II Palaiologos says
Religion should be an individual choice, not a cultural expectation. I’m glad for your decision and respect it.
Linde Barrera says
To St. Manuel II- +1.
And to Shazia Hobbs- keep being awesome. Very proud of you! I hope we will read other articles from you as to your “take” on why so many Pakistani people worship a “god” who is bloodthirsty, revengeful and known as “the best of deceivers”. I know there are many boys who go to the madrassa and memorize the Quran. So they know about Allah’s Satanic traits when they have finished memorizing the Quran. Do not young Pakistani men question the kind of “god” they are supposed to follow and worship? It seems so surreal to me. May the one and only Triune God: Creator/
Redeemer/Sanctifier of the universe bless you and keep you safe.
Bob says
Amen indeed, Linde!
SL Fowler says
You truly are a brave women. Please keep speaking out against the atrocities against women in the world.
DFD says
OFF & ON TOPIC
==============.
Immigration
A very interesting video, apparently made before the Trump victory, so about 2015/2016. It’s in American with German subtitles. The presenter uses gum-balls (yes!) to illustrate. As an engineer I am fond of relating, correlating and comparing, particularly with graphical and numerical analysis. Numbers have no ideology…
I was stunned, I am sure some of you may have seen it, others may not. These will be as flabbergasted as I was. The interesting, and inescapable conclusion, no immigration to the west is best for the poor people of the third and developing world.
In this context consider that the head of the BND (Bundes Nachrichten Dients [German secret service]) stated a few weeks ago that there are approx 1 billion (that’s 1,000 million) people in Africa and Asia wanting to migrate to Europe/the West. Consider here that Europe’s population, from the Amur and Ussuri rivers at the Chinese border in the East to Portugal in the West, is roughly 800 million people, that of the US is about 300 million, of which there is about half Euro-American. Anyway, here’s the link
https://youtu.be/YsRQNu9Jg7k
DFD says
Sorry, typo:
Instead of “….Dients….” it should be “Dienst”.
Thanks
Benedict says
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Light_n_Fluffy says
Great video. My jaw is already aching just looking at all those gumballs we in the West are supposed to chew on by taking them in to clothe, feed and house them if our politicians, NGOs and corporate elites had their way. The insanity of mass third world immigration has to end.
RodSerling says
Thanks for posting that, DFD.
I also recall a similar presentation with gumballs making the same point a long time ago. (Apparently this was recorded in 1999). Here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM1YU-Ni_84
These ideas are not new. Our leaders who are using mass immigration know they are not really helping anyone but themselves. We should be taking the approach of the Visegrad Four, Japan, and others, i.e., no mass immigration of hostile people.
gravenimage says
Shazia Hobbs, you are a brave and principled woman. I’m glad you got out.
And thank you for speaking out against the threat of Islam.
KJ for truth says
Ms. Hobbs, thank you for speaking up. Truth is the best weapon against oppression.
DFD says
Ms. Shazia (should you read this)
Get in touch with Sabitina James (not her real name)
About her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatina_James (in English)
Her Website: sabatina-ev.de
You will find you have a lot in common and may want to join her in her struggle, and her successful good works!
If not, I am sure you’ll find the two links interesting.
All the best
DFD
DHazard says
Are there any feminists brave enough, sincere enough or intelligent enough to come to the defense of this women and the millions of other women who suffer in the same way this woman has? Maybe one or two.
ElderlyZionist says
Respect.
mike9a says
Almost everything normal and precious has been taken from this lady and she is seeing truth and light, many feminists and female politicians did not grow up in a such hardship are blind and do not want to see. What a crazy planet.
jude says
Glad for you that you left, and thank you for speaking out, despite fears for your life, you consider truth to be more important. Thank you. I pray you will keep safe and have a fulfilled, joyous life in spite of the hatred.
JawsV says
Scotland permits polygamy now?
Ecosse1314 says
No…but like elsewhere a blind eye is turned.
gravenimage says
Grimly, this is true.
JawsV says
I call it the “3 monkeys club.” (See/Speak/Hear no evil). That is the Left. They’re all members.
Patti Pickerd says
Then the governments responsible for turning a blind eye should immediately be removed from office & decent western civilized people who live in the present & NOT in the 7th century replace ALL of them!!!
It’s not right that we have to put up with their garbage kick them all out to countries is middle east where their 7th century beliefs are practiced & lawful because they sure aren’t in UK!!!!
LeftisruiningCanada says
Mulsim communities are like teflon coated stealth bombers in the UK.
Nobody sees, and nothing sticks.
Laura Young says
An old speeding story from Scotland:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-557331/Muslim-spared-speeding-ban-drive-wives.html
Yokel says
JawsV said: “Scotland permits polygamy now?”
Polygamy and bigamy are attempts at legal marriage. Ever since the Left maintained that cohabiting (aka “Living in Sin”) was as good as marriage and should get all the same benefits there has been a trend to pay no attention to marital status. This applies to the provision of state benefits just as much as the abolition of the stigma of illegitimacy. Their domestic situation is just recorded as two single women sharing the house with their children and a man. The only marriages will have been islamic ones in the mosque; no ceremony recognised by the state.
Just like many aspects of Islam, here the state is being two faced. No it doesn’t register polygamous marriages, yes it does provide state housing and welfare benefits to those participating in such non-marriages. But of course only for certain communities. Others will get their collars felt.
Carlos Danger says
So sorry your parents did that to you.
You’re yet another victim of multiculturalism.
The law in the UK finds it convenient to ignore lots of things.
Sam says
We have to talk about evil Islam or become dhimmies to islam.
That choice would have never entered my mind 20 yrs agao but here we are in western world we fear of being killed by “moderate” muslims for just telling about their religion of peace.
Unbelievable.
PRCS says
Not to be mean–and I realize it would have been difficult to do–but,
1. Why didn’t you go to an appropriate agency (Police? Social Services?) to avoid the marriage?
2. Is your mother still in an illegal polygamous marriage?
3. Was your mother’s family aware of that polygamy?
LeftisruiningCanada says
Reading books written by authors based in the UK, it has become clear to me that if this fine, brave young lady had dared to go to a representative of the State, she would have been in greater danger than doing nothing, or even running away by herself.
They wouldn’t have dared help her out of fear of ‘interfering’ in ‘sensitive community’ issues, because to do so would be a clear sign of ‘institutional racism’. They would have probably made sure to turn her away, but only after informing the appropriate ‘community spokesmen’ IE. the Imams etc.
We can imagine her fate after than.
It rhymes with “gonner drilling”
Peace and safety for the young lady in question, may the Lord guide and protect her.
Yokel says
No need to read books. Just read the news reports of official inaction in the face of the first Rotherham groomers, let alone the trial that is just started. Or listen to the relevant Pat Condell videos.
Troybeam says
Why did she not go to police: often returned back to family/husband
Her mother likely will not leave the marriage, also likely her family wants nothing to do with her therefore she also has no where to go.
When a woman leaves Islam she puts herself in danger from the Islamic community, she should have a backup plan that would enable her some distance from the Islamic communities.
Yokel says
I remember many years ago hearing a Pakistani Christian telling of the lengths they had to go to even then when a Muslim turned to Christ. Almost inevitably he/she had to be spirited away to the other side of the country where he/she was not known.
The killing of an apostate from Islam was not thought by the Muslims to be vengeance, it was instead a mercy that would save that person from committing further sin during the time he/she had turned their back on allah.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
This lady (if at all she exists) is confused. she confessed that it is difficult for a Muslim to adopt filthy Christian way of life full of immortality and that white christians are racists and arrogants. For that she is now producing disgusting bad smells ,because she stopped using water to clean her private part after sex and her filthy christian husband is now inserting hard foreskin into her vagina. Idiot!!
Champ says
The world’s leading hypocrite “Ibrahim itace muhammed” is clearly projecting islam and a muslims evil and treacherous way of life.
And the only thing that is “filthy” around here is his FILTHY MIND–expressed in what he shares with us …yuk!
Filthy in, filthy out–this is what mohammedans are about.
Karen says
Yes, she is now immortal! Way to go, Shazia!!
(Speaking of idiots…)
gravenimage says
The vile Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
This lady (if at all she exists) is confused.
…………………………..
Ibrahim itace muhammed believes that any woman who does not want to be beaten and forcibly married is “confused”. *Ugh*.
More:
she confessed that it is difficult for a Muslim to adopt filthy Christian way of life full of immortality and that white christians are racists and arrogants.
…………………………..
Actually, she said no such thing. She said this is what Muslims falsely told her.
Further, note what he considers “moral”–polygamy and forced marriage, whereas he considers marrying for love to be “immoral”. *Ugh*.
More:
For that she is now producing disgusting bad smells ,because she stopped using water to clean her private part after sex and her filthy christian husband is now inserting hard foreskin into her vagina. Idiot!!
…………………………..
Ibrahim itace muhammed has made these bizarre claims previously–that anyone who leaves Islam is “disgusting bad smells”. Of course, this has nothing to with hygiene which is very high in the civilized West.
And he is *obsessed* with Infidel men’s foreskins–notwithstanding, of course, he understands nothing about basic human anatomy. No surprise there.
Carolyne says
She would likely been arrested for “Hate speech” had she gone to the authorities. Free speech only is allowed in the US now and it will soon be vanishing when the leftists have their way.
Linde Barrera says
To Ibrahim Itace- Are you having a sexual fantasy for the sake of JW readers? ? ? Please spare us.
Carolyne says
Ibrahim actually loves pornography as do most Pakistanis and so he tries to insert it wherever he can.
marc says
@Ibrahim itace muhammed, you really are a bit dim, you assume that because we do not follow islam we do not keep ourselves clean, we just don’t need hygiene advice from the accursed koran, we figured it out on our own, the fact that you need to be ordered to wash yourself says more about you than me. If it wasn’t for that hygiene advice in your book, you lot would have died off years ago from knob rot.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Ha, what a mess.
And note the usual graphic descriptions/imaginings.
Ibrahim, flee to Christ my desperately lost friend, the evil nature of your speech openly declares the depraved nature of your creed.
Even if you are simply here for a laugh, and are messing around in pretense and jest, your comments are ugly.
Blangwort says
I wish you peace Ibrahim Muhammad. Real peace, not submission.
I wonder who you thought you would convince by writing this. Few here take what you wrote at face value and you aren’t particularly convincing where you make outrageous claims of intimate knowledge you don’t have.
More to the point: you question this woman’s existence and then you say that she is “filthy” and “smells bad.”
If this is supposed to be what Islam has to offer humanity, why should we want anything to do with it?
In other words, what did you hope to accomplish by posting this? Do you really think that we would see the light of Islam from what you wrote?
Wellington says
As usual, Ibrahim, you make as good a case against Islam as most anyone else here at JW, only you do so unwittingly. As I have written before, keep posting because in your own “special” way you shine a light on the darkness which is at the core of the religion that is a burden to all mankind.
DFD says
…“special” way you shine a light on the darkness which is at the core of the religion that is a burden to all mankind.”
Indeed so. He should be speaking on street corners…
Andrew says
Confused? A woman with more courage than your cowardly jihadists, who like to kill non combatants to push their godless agenda.
Jayell says
Ah. Mr. Muhammed, you apparently appear again, assuming that you actually exist and are not someone’s idea of a joke. When I was a disgusting little boy aged about 9 I and my equally horrible little friends used to have little puerile ‘discussions’ that were amazingly similar to your rather disgusting post, and sometimes my friends even wrote rude words in chalk on the lavatory wall. Now, I fully realise that there might not be sufficient lavatories in the subcontinent that I believe you might inhabit since plumbing seems to be a problem there, but I really feel that Mr. Spencer’s website should not be used as a substitute wall for your kind of pre-adolescent semi-literate graffiti. Regarding the general topics of sex, and ladies’ and men’s naughty bits, I realise that you as a muslim (assuming you’re not actually a spoof) might have an unfortunate preoccupation with these rather basic matters, following the rather sad example of your ‘prophet'(sic), who apparently had some difficulty rising above that level when he wasn’t out and about creating source material for criminology textbooks. However, do try and grow up. there’s a good chap, and make a SENSIBLE contribution in GOOD ENGLISH to Mr. Spencer’s website, assuming that’s possible within the next century.
By the way. I don’t think you’ve replied to my past posts yet, have you?
maghan says
LOL. This dirty stinking left-hand faeces wiper who can be smelled once he enters a room; a worshipper of a disgusting Arab bandit with foul child-raping and pedophile habits–talks with foul Arab breath.
Standard Oil. You were too greedy.
Norger says
@ Ibrahim itace muhammed
And with that post you reveal yourself as the disgusting vile creature you are. Keep on posting.
R Russell says
Do you think you could get that eejit Sturgeon to listen to what you have to say?
No, I don’t think she would listen to you. She is hell bent on bringing sharia to Scotland.
dave says
Article was so well written, I thought it was a fake BS story. I was wrong.
Karen says
Ms. Shazia Hobb’s courage and grace absolutely humble me.
What is so frightening about her post is that all these things took place, not in Pakistan, but in…..the UK!. Reading about the regressive practices of her father painted a picture of someplace other than modern day Scotland, or even the Scotland of two centuries ago. How sad that Shazia’s mother, a modern Scottish woman, would have entered into a marriage of inequality, and eventually be subjected to the unfaithfulness and humiliation of polygamy. Much damage has been passed on to her daughter, Shazia through this marriage.
Shazia is wonderfully active in her life’s work, and I hope to see many more of her writings at JW.
marc says
Shazia Hobb, welcome back from the dark side, very brave of you, and what amazing work you are doing. If you ever need anything “Computer Security” wise, let me know, Robert can vouch for me and put me in touch with you.
Guest says
You are strong and brave, and you have many people cheering for you here on Jihadwatch. Never let anyone tell you otherwise.
Singh the Sikh says
Muslims who cry racism at every turn are in truth virulently and hatefully racist against whites – the very whites they bludge off. Muslims in general do not have any shame or gratitude. But going by Theresa May’s reckoning Hobbs is an Islamophobe. People like May are their people’s greatest enemy.
maghan says
Let’s face it. The West is a victim of its own success. China, Japan, South Korea, etc. just don’t have these Muslim problems. And they are highly industrialized nations. Why?
Karen says
Japan will flat out say they are protecting their culture from change. They see themselves as a small isolated island with a long, unique, and homogenous culture and want to keep it that way. So, they are a being held to a different standard by the global elites. I believe I read that Japan took in around 30 refugees last year. Korea holds many of the same racial ideas as Japan and China just rules with an iron fist and is never questioned.
Cheer Bear Girl says
Islam is a curse for women and children.
Lydia says
God bless you for speaking out and sounding the alarm!
You are doing the right thing, which is often costly.
We all thank you.
Jesus loves you!
: D
Sarah says
Good luck and stay safe.
Don Evanson says
God bless you, very brave woman. Thank you for your proselytizing for sanity.
jayell says
This must be one of the most disgusting articles I have read in a long, long time because all the events described are “wrong” in just about every possible way. Why did this woman’s father move to Scotland in order to take advantage of the superior socio-economic conditions there and then try to pretend that he was back in a failed State like Pakistan? Or if it was HIS parents that made the move, why were they that stupid? Scottish society was providing him with a standard of living and civility that he could not not possibly have hoped for where he came from, so his arrogant bigotted attitudes need explaining, and where was the respect for Scottish law and standards when he chose to avail himself of a local girl for his apparent delectation? The obnoxious antedilivian matrimonial practices of his homeland may be acceptable a few thousand miles away, but not in Scotland and where he was involving a Scottish person. In that situation you most definitely have the decency to conform to local standards; the sheer conceited insolence of the man is appalingly amazing! To be brutally frank, after the national paedophile grooming gang disaster which is STILL going on, and the growing list of failed and actual Islamic atrocities within the UK, this story just provides more evidence of how much of a gross liability the Pakistani and associated communities are to the people of Great Britain. If they had not been present in the UK in the first place, this atrocious story would not have had to have been written.
Patti Pickerd says
Couldn’t agree with you more! My God I almost threw up, Scotland does NOT recognize plural marriages so why on earth was this imbecile allowed to get away with it???????? He needs to get his scumbaggy hiny back to Pakistan ASAP. My sis was married to a Pakistani for many, many years not once did he ever mention plural marriage cos he knew what she’d do to him!!!! & he never practiced islam so guess he was more British than Paki thank God. He sure was a lovely bloke to know, guess the old sayings still as good as ever “You get good & bad people wherever you go!” 🙂
Please never judge a nation by the actions of one or a few of it’s people!
Jayell says
Hello Patti Pickerd. Sorry, but going on statistics and experience here in the UK we are NOT talking about just the ‘few’. The problem is that research is showing that genetics plays a dominant role in controlling human behaviour and attitudes (i.e., the ‘nature-nurture’ argument is swinging more on the side of ‘nature’) and there is consequently a tendency with members of the human species to revert to type as social pressures allow. So, in this case, you study the sort of things that go on in Pakistan (behaviour, achievements, etc. etc.) to get an idea of what to expect from individuals from that part of the world when they’re allowed to follow their own devices. The problem with this Scottish story is that there were insufficient pressures on the incoming communities and constituent individuals to show proper respect to the wider community that was supporting them with the dire consequences described in the article. And a further problem is that this pattern has been repeated over and over again right across the UK, to the extent that we have had to contend with the gross debacle of the grooming gangs. Perhaps we should also bear in mind worse scenarios than the one described in the article here, where recently a young English woman who married a Pakistani muslim was murdered by her husband and his sister after just two years of marriage, because she refused to obey his every word and objected to wearing Islamic garb; and the case of the ‘first British honour killing’ of an English teenage girl a few years ago who was drowned in a canal because her the family of her Pakistani boyfriend objected to her. And those are just the tip of the iceberg. Your sister was lucky to have met the exception to the rule – but was he socially isolated without a ‘community’ to back him up, therefore forced to behave to your sister’s standards?
dumbledoresarmy says
Islam isn’t genetic.
As one can see by the fact that Muslims of wildly differing ethnicities – and from countries where the pre-Islamic cultures/ belief systems were different from one another – e.g. Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and African and southern/ southeast asian animism – ALL exhibit the same ghastly patterns of behaviour, with a grim monotony. White, black, yellow or brown, Somali or Turk, Arab or Persian or South Asian, they *all* manifest the pathologies of… Islam. (V S Naipaul’s “Among the Believers” has some useful insights on this subject).
And those same pathologies manifest in western converts today – people coming out of cultures where Islam was previously entirely unknown.
Ego says
where are the feminists ? or sasour ? … sad.
thank g-d for women like this ! True feminists !
RodSerling says
Glad to see Shazia Hobbs’ writing on Jihad Watch.
Richard C de L says
.muhammad is getting more putrid every day. I doubt if he lives in a house with a bath or a toilet. I also assume he does not use western products such as soap or toilet paper. How could he smell anything apart from his own stench.
terry says
Prayers are with you!
Robert_K says
Islam should be called the Religion of Peace, but at the same time the Religion of Orwell. This for the sake of consistency.
Because
1) Jihad = Inner Spiritual Struggle.
2) There is no compulsion in Islam.
a) But if you leave Islam you are liable to death.
b) Every people has their religion as we have our religion, but if you are Christian or Jewish you must pay the Jizya or be subject to war, death, and taken as sex slaves.
c) If you are an idolater you are put to death.
d) If you kill one person it’s as if you killed the whole world – except if you kill someone who causes corruption on Earth
I think we get the message.
Im4truth4all says
“The more a society drifts from the truth the more it will hate those who speak it.” – George Orwell
“In time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” – George Orwell
“Take away the supernatural, and what remains is the unnatural.” – G.K. Chesterton
“Whoever does not hate error, does not love the truth”. – G.K. Chesterton
Norger says
Imagine many millions of women around world have to endure forced marriage, polygamy, honor violence etc.. Where are Western feminists on this? Too busy marching with Linda Sarsour.
Warren says
So glad you escaped from the evil ideology of Islam. From birth you have been brainwashed, that enforced marriage set you free in a strange way. You discovered the lies that Islam tells and the racism that it spreads. This sick ideology is far from peaceful. Be very careful as you are on the hit list of Islam. Any Muslim that sees you has the right, according to Islam to kill you as you’re now an apostate . This tells us that Islam is false, what kind of god would sanction your death because you left a so callled religion. Your life sounded like a nightmare, still you can never rest even though you’re free from it. Just carry on being strong and brave against this sick ideology, I praise you strength and courage. Please stay safe.
Mahendra Singh says
Although I am not a Christian I encourage you to spread the word. Advise those
Christian women who are contemplating a marriage with a Muslim. Also, if
a Christian man marries a Muslim woman, he should assert his religion
and make sure his children grow up as Christian. All non-Muslims should
unite against Islam.
Jazz says
I salute you for your courage and fortitude in being forced out of your familiar ‘ support’ network that all human beings need. I cannot imagine how that must feel. I walk alone too, but from a very different background, so I empathise with your situation.
I’ve studied hard to understand religions (and am happy with my choice, but I know what happened to our saviour, so I know He and all his true followers will be hated in this world, so that’s okay, I know I can trust in Him.)
I was pleased to read that my people (the Scots) mostly accepted you and I hope that brings you some comfort. (We’re still sorting out the Rangers/Celtic thing here! :o) but I genuinely hope you find true friendship and support among us all the same. I am proud that when I have travelled people seem to have a good opinion of the Scots, so that implies to me that my people have been good ambassadors and we are known for being friendly and down to Earth.
I was saddened very recently to encounter racism towards ALL whites that I felt was unjust and undeserved, though I know, like all races and peoples there is history where evils have been done.
I was taken to Africa as a small child and everyone was worried how I would react to people of a different skin colour, but apparently when some big black Mamma saw me she exclaimed “Oh! … a white piccin” and held out her arms and I opened my arms and we hugged. I figured if I wasn’t racist then, then I have no cause to be now. It is only what we are taught that makes us prejudiced.
Robert Burns said ” A better day is coming soon – and come it will for a’ that – that man to man the world o’er shall brothers be, for a’ that” and I hope and pray that that day will come soon and people will stop fomenting hate and learn to love for this is the true aim of God who told us to love one another. (even our enemies) and, even facing death, Jesus said “Forgive them – for they know not what they do.”
The Enemy seeks to sow the seeds of division wherever he can, but we must not let them take root in our hearts – or we become his slaves. Peace and Love may cost us our lives, but anger and hatred will cost us our eternal souls.
The true extent of bigotry and falsehood and lies is hidden from us, even by a black-out in the press, so many people will not speak out, because of fear. Again fear is just another tool of the enemy who resorts to the wickedest of schemes to prevent the truth from being shared, because it would expose him and his evil strategies.
“truth has stumbled in the streets,
honesty cannot enter.
Truth is nowhere to be found,
and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey.
The Lord looked and was displeased
that there was no justice.
He saw that there was no one,
he was appalled that there was no one to intervene;
so his own arm achieved salvation for him,” (from Isaiah 59)
You maybe might not want to hear about Jesus, but I share this because I have found in Him the truth and power, freedom from chains and healing and deliverance. Just ask Him. It really is that simple. There will be some baggage to be dealt with, and some learning to do, but in His kingdom is truth, love and peace. He is very much alive and working out his eternal plan still. (This is what the enemy is so desperate to cover up) No-one and nothing can snatch you out of His hand.
Whatever you do, I pray you find happines and learn to take joy in your new found freedom. I also pray that anyone who wishes you ill will be confounded or simply forget all about you and that you will feel a sense of protection and love surrounding you.