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OP - April 01, 2009, 12:03 PM

I want to shave my beard off but I know it will be a massive step! Nobody has known me as being clean shaven for about five years and it will be a shock to everyone! Although my beard is no longer a religious beard and more a trendy beard, I am still apprehensive about shaving. Maybe because I can't be bothered with everyone asking me why I have shaved and giving me lectures on the virtues of a beard. Any men on here done the same thing, and what was the reaction? Also, what was the reaction when the women took off their hijabs?

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Re: Beards
Reply #1 - April 01, 2009, 12:15 PM

I got a few lectures about my hijab, but I am fortunate in that I do not live among the community anymore, so I didn't have to face it daily.

Are you totally sure you want to be clean shaven? I mean if it's just a trendy beard and you like it, you don't need to.

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Reply #2 - April 01, 2009, 12:17 PM

Quote from: aliadiere on April 01, 2009, 12:03 PM
I want to shave my beard off but I know it will be a massive step! Nobody has known me as being clean shaven for about five years and it will be a shock to everyone! Although my beard is no longer a religious beard and more a trendy beard, I am still apprehensive about shaving. Maybe because I can't be bothered with everyone asking me why I have shaved and giving me lectures on the virtues of a beard. Any men on here done the same thing, and what was the reaction? Also, what was the reaction when the women took off their hijabs?

Get rid of it (unless you have a peculiar looking chin), & let them give you lectures. Your beard, your face, your decision.

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Reply #3 - April 01, 2009, 12:19 PM

Aliadiere, tell them you're applying to join the Fire Brigade, and beards aren't allowed.

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Reply #4 - April 01, 2009, 12:22 PM

The reason I went from a religious beard to a trendy beard was because it seemed like a halfway house. It did not look like I was definitely Muslim, but I still had a beard so people could not have a go at me for not having a beard! If I completely got rid of it, that would open up a whole new can of worms. The reason I want to do it is not because I dislike my trendy beard, it is because I do not want to be identified as something I am not.

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Reply #5 - April 01, 2009, 12:23 PM

Quote from: Cheetah on April 01, 2009, 12:19 PM
Aliadiere, tell them you're applying to join the Fire Brigade, and beards aren't allowed.

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Reply #6 - April 01, 2009, 12:30 PM

Quote from: aliadiere on April 01, 2009, 12:23 PM
Quote from: Cheetah on April 01, 2009, 12:19 PM
Aliadiere, tell them you're applying to join the Fire Brigade, and beards aren't allowed.

You could (if you aren't too old) try telling people that your beard started to cause acne or a rash or something. When I was made to try and grow a beard, I started getting acne on the area at the same time, so it was a great excuse to shave.

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Reply #7 - April 01, 2009, 12:54 PM

Or tell them you started to develop alopecia areata (spot baldness) on your face, so you'd better get rid of the beard. Add a sad face for maximum effect :(

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Reply #8 - April 01, 2009, 01:14 PM

Quote from: aliadiere on April 01, 2009, 12:03 PM
I want to shave my beard off but I know it will be a massive step! Nobody has known me as being clean shaven for about five years and it will be a shock to everyone! Although my beard is no longer a religious beard and more a trendy beard, I am still apprehensive about shaving. Maybe because I can't be bothered with everyone asking me why I have shaved and giving me lectures on the virtues of a beard. Any men on here done the same thing, and what was the reaction? Also, what was the reaction when the women took off their hijabs?

I shave my beard periodically but let the stubble grow back coz I don't like the way I look when I'm clean shaven. (In fact I don't like the way I look full stop lol)

I had no problem shaving my beard clean even when I was a Muslim and when the Salafis at the school I worked told me it was Haram I told them it wasn't in my opinion - end of
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Reply #9 - April 01, 2009, 03:13 PM

Quote from: Hassan on April 01, 2009, 01:14 PM
(In fact I don't like the way I look full stop lol)

*slap*

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Reply #10 - April 03, 2009, 02:32 AM

I shaved my beard for the first time in five years. Just to see what I look like without it, some girl was begging me too, and just defiance. I don't like my face clean shaven, letting it grow back, maybe not as full and 'fundamentalist-ish' though .

It was funny how some people didn't recognize me without it. Plenty of muslims here shave their beards, so no one really said anything to me except the most fundy (he couldn't look me in the eye, I am such a grave sinner! Fuck him).

Now I will keep a beard because I like it; not cuz Allah, Muhammad, or any muslim says I should!

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Reply #11 - April 03, 2009, 02:59 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY8gja0_CCA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na37dOc_XSQ

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Reply #12 - April 03, 2009, 07:00 AM

When I removed my hijab after 18 years of wearing it (by force) I felt like a hardened criminal...even though I didnt believe in it it was still a huge part of my life and how I was viewed by my community. For the first few days I just removed it after I left my neighborhood...I had recently gotten a job that was mostly staffed by foreigners...so wearing the hijab there actually made me stand out. Eventually I would drive home without wearing it...and go directly in the house...but it gave people a chance to see me driving by in the car...sort of mini shocks all though that didnt stop me from ducking down in the seat whenever I seen a particular hard lined Muslim that knew me...then I took the plunge and removed it all together.

It truly does feel like you are walking around half naked when you remove the hijab after so many years...at least for me. It took me awhile to get use to the idea that my hair belonged to me...and not my community....and I could do with it as I pleased.

Well for sure there was lots of backlash...especially for my children that are half Arab (but considered full Arab) and some nasty shouts etc thrown my way...and some accusations that I had reverted to Christianity but in the end it wasnt as bad as it could have been...I figure that because Im american and nobody here in the is Muslim country ever really believed I was or could be an acutal muslim...to western and all...so the scandal died down in no time as everyone assumed I just went back to what I was before....and all because my oh so pious muslim husband was no longer in the picture having divorced him a few months earlier...whatever
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Re: Beards
Reply #13 - April 03, 2009, 07:02 AM

Quote from: Pazuzu on April 01, 2009, 03:13 PM
Quote from: Hassan on April 01, 2009, 01:14 PM
(In fact I don't like the way I look full stop lol)

*slap*

Silly man!

agreed!

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