I meant, of course, that she was very liberal AND drank, not that she was liberal BECAUSE she drank.
Jesus, some people.
LOL!
How lucky. If only everyone could have ongoing permanent learning discussions about Marxist-Leninism, Jehovah’s Witnessism, Scientology, Randist-Libertarianism, Roman Catholicism, Calvinism, LaVey Satanism, The Order of the Golden Dawn, Anarcho-Synicalism, Feminism, Baptism, Fifth Monarchism, Political Economy, and the heavenly host of other unimportant bizarre unbelievably tedious irreconcilable belief systems that sustain us below.
How much we would all Learn !
My final thought on this…we never questioned lil’wrekker decision to date her muslim boyfriend…we trust her on these kinda things…shes never given us reasons to not trust her…and he has been nothing but a perfect friend to her…my only concern would be ,is how his family feels about it…i always think it is better yo be on the up and up about this kinda thing…truth is always the better way…so I have encouraged them both about not 'hiding or 'sneaking around '…i can only hope he is being honest with his family…i have no way to know for sure.And I advised my daughter to never try and change herself just to fit in with his customs.She should always be who she is.imho…all in all it has been quite educational and enlightening…so there you have it!
No that is incorrect, we have no problems among the majority with any sea food. This is a shia thing.
I had a Muslim neighbor too now that I think about it, the first time I lived in Hawaii. My student job in the Housing Department of the East-West Center on the U of Hawaii campus gave me a free room. I lived in the Hale Manoa residence hall, a large building divvied up into six units per module, with several modules per floor. Another student worker living in my module was a guy named Muhammed from Pakistan. He was okay.
Among the several Muslim co-workers I’ve had was an Afghan surname of Khan, also a student worker at the East-West Center, although his job did not rate him a free room. But he’d been a freedom fighter in Afghanistan in the 1980s – this was the early 1990s when we we were students – and he was a damned interesting guy to talk to. A huge drinker himself, which caused him no end of grief with his more orthodox Muslim girlfriend. Can’t remember his first name.
A quick Google search confirms Eid al-Adha fireworks in the UK, Australia and the US at minimum. I didn’t try to find more. It seems, Ramira that you are doing the very thing of which you accuse BigT, namely lumping all Muslims into one way of doing things. Some celebrate with fireworks, some don’t. Amazingly, the same can be said of Christians and fireworks, Jews and fireworks, Buddhists and fireworks, ad infinitum.
Obama!?!?
Be sure to enunciate that properly. 
Cool - basically what I was going to suggest. IME, “Hey neighbors” are just about the best you can ask for. You know, the kind that you know their names, have some idea of their occupations, but pretty much just say “Hey” to as you see each other mowing the lawn. Maybe ask them if they know anything about local matters like street/sewer repairs and the like.
Better to NOT try to get to know them (and their beliefs) better, piss each other off, and end up having to live next to each other, not even saying “Hey” to each other. If they turn out to be the type of neighbor who you occasionally chat with, share a drink or tool with, that’s great. But let that occur over time.
I know the folk right next to us go to a Methodist church, but have no idea what churches (if any) anyone else on our block attends. No reason it should be any different for your possibly-Muslim neighbors.
The OP needs neighbors like John and Anne, who live across the street from my parents. Every time my mother wants to know something (i.e., Who moved in down the street? Why was the fire department at the yellow house?), she can count on Anne knowing what’s going on. In short, Anne is the nosy neighbor so my mother doesn’t need to be.
Just passing through to note that it’s news to me that the end of Ramadan is normally celebrated with fireworks. Here in the UK the main tradition amongst Muslims appears to be “eat until you can’t move anymore”.
unimportant bizarre unbelievably tedious irreconcilable belief systems?
You forgot to mention capitalism, free-market economics, republicanism, democracy, Christianity, monotheism, monogamy, nationalism, justice, and all those movements dedicated to everything from public nudity to eating horse meat to the octatonic scale. Which our public education system takes great pains to assure that everyone is well conversant with them.
What, are you afraid of knowledge? :dubious:
Never thought I’d hear uncontested advocacy of ignorance here.
Some things aren’t worth knowing.
Try reading through a 1830 Bible Concordance sometime.
Sorry, missed that. As an anti-capitalist absolute monarchist vegan, I kinda object to most of those.
But most — right or wrong — are not idiotic religious belief systems of the kind I listed.
Nor, apart from capital and democracy, are they purposed to transfer believers’ monies into the coffers of a small priesthood.
I have. It’s very interesting.
The thing that I find interesting in this is that you apparently can legally shoot fireworks off any time of year in Arkansas.
Here in SD, it’s only legal to shoot fireworks off from June 27 to July 5 and, recently, from December 28 to January 1. Doesn’t matter where you live in the state.
I hear guns and fireworks fairly often but never considered it may be Muslims. In fact I doubt it is.
This was the evening before Labor Day? Lily white folk in my neighborhood also shot fireworks Sunday night (and Monday).
So Thanksgiving, basically.
I live a stone’s throw from Dearborn, which has the largest population of Muslims outside of the middle East, so Muslims (Arabs in general, actually) aren’t exactly a rarity. There were also many who attended school with me in Ann Arbor.
I really took it for granted until I moved. I struggled to find good middle Eastern food anywhere else. In Jersey they looked at me like I had two heads when I asked for garlic sauce.
No garlic sauce with your fattoush? Talk about bizarre unreconcilable beliefs.