When Utopia is not Morocco
Umar Lee has interesting observations regarding the phenomenon of some African Aamerican Muslims going to Morocco to get married. It reminded me of the phenomenon where the ‘local Muslims’ hold their brethern to be of lower stature than their Arab counterparts even in cases when there is evidence to the contrary. Thus one sometimes sees absurdaties like seeing the Arab Muslim brothers reprimand non-Arab Muslims for listening to “Un-Islamic” music (read local music) and then you will see the same people at concerts of Arab Musicians. Again I would emphasize that this is not a generalization for all Arab Muslims but only a tiny few.
Part of it is an inferiorty complex
Abdur-Rahman M
10 Nov 07 at 8:43 pm
To be fair, it’s not just Arabs. I’ve been told the Hip Hop I listen to is haraam by people who are totally into Urdu Ghazals.
Incidentally, if you don’t mind me asking, where are you from?
parallelsidewalk
10 Nov 07 at 9:36 pm
Abdur-Rahman, You are correct.
parallelsidewalk, I have observed that also. There is also a whole dimension of similar behavior in the South Asian community. I will do a post on the South Asian community also. On the question where I am from - USA.:)
ibngarcia
10 Nov 07 at 11:44 pm