RE: Atheist with a Muslim girlfriend
October 11, 2015 at 4:18 pm
(This post was last modified: October 11, 2015 at 4:19 pm by Regina.)
She's in a vulnerable place at the moment, it's probably just a phase. People do odd things when they're griving, my strict Catholic Nan "fell out with Jesus" when my Dad died, I was shocked.
She's grown. If her parents aren't exactly threatening her then she's old enough to stand up for herself. It sounds like she's done just that thus far, so I can't imagine she's going to stop doing that just because she lost an aunt.
I don't know exactly how radical her parents are or if they're potentially violent, but I'd have found it so hard not to check them for bullying her like that while grieving. Of course I understand why you didn't, you probably don't want the conflict or, heaven forbid, "Islamophobic" thrown at you.
She's grown. If her parents aren't exactly threatening her then she's old enough to stand up for herself. It sounds like she's done just that thus far, so I can't imagine she's going to stop doing that just because she lost an aunt.
I don't know exactly how radical her parents are or if they're potentially violent, but I'd have found it so hard not to check them for bullying her like that while grieving. Of course I understand why you didn't, you probably don't want the conflict or, heaven forbid, "Islamophobic" thrown at you.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
