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  • Cultural Eid Mubarak
     OP - September 20, 2009, 10:22 AM
    Wishing you all a Cultural Eid Mubarak

    Enjoy and be get merry
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  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #1 - September 20, 2009, 10:28 AM
    Quote from: IsLame on September 20, 2009, 10:22 AM
    Wishing you all a Cultural Eid Mubarak

    Enjoy and be get merry


    A cultural Eid Mubarak to all my fellow murtads. It's a shame that the celebrations aren't as lively as this link.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4afLG0hoJg
  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #2 - September 20, 2009, 10:30 AM
    We are celebrating Eid tomorrow here  Roll Eyes so Eid Mubarak in advance to those who have to deal with it or simply enjoy it as well Smiley
    Pakistan Zindabad? ya Pakistan sey Zinda bhaag?

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  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #3 - September 20, 2009, 10:39 AM
    Khayr mubarak to everyone. Hope you pig out and totally ruin the point of Ramadan thrift! Cheesy
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  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #4 - September 20, 2009, 12:05 PM
    Eid Mubarak Infidels! Cool
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  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #5 - September 20, 2009, 12:55 PM
    Is it islamic to sort of 'salut' your parents at eid, as in with your right hand touch their feets in turn and take your hand to your heart?

    Is anyone else not in the mood for eid? I never was in my life tbh, eid would always be so fake. All of a sudden it's one day in the year and everyone in my family are trying to put a smile on the faces and say 'oh im so happy today'  Roll Eyes I can get if they feel relief from not having to fast anymore, but excited about eid  wacko it's not like we don't have fancy food throughout the year -now and then, and it's not like we never get to wear new clothes...so...other than that there's nothing about eid, especially when parents think the rest of my family are corrupted so we don't go visit them.
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  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #6 - September 20, 2009, 01:09 PM
    stardust: I think it is a more South-Asian tradition, in fact I've heard some Muslims say hands should not touch a foot then your heart ... a bit like how some Muslims say football is bad because a ball should not be kicked if it also touches the head.

    Happy Cultural Eid! I'm not going to see family, bores me, and I'm too different from them anyway. Plus, I've got work to do.
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  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #7 - September 20, 2009, 01:17 PM
    Quote from: HighOctane on September 20, 2009, 01:09 PM
    stardust: I think it is a more South-Asian tradition, in fact I've heard some Muslims say hands should not touch a foot then your heart ... a bit like how some Muslims say football is bad because a ball should not be kicked if it also touches the head.

    Happy Cultural Eid! I'm not going to see family, bores me, and I'm too different from them anyway. Plus, I've got work to do.


    Thanks Octane, yeah same here, it bores me, but Happy Cultrural Eid to you and everyone else! lol
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  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #8 - September 20, 2009, 01:36 PM
    Oh, something that made me laugh out of it's tinpot-ness:

    When entering the Mosque today, there was a big tinpot sign on a white board saying "Women enter around the back entrance". Passers by were able to view this.
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  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #9 - September 20, 2009, 03:09 PM
    Eid Mubarak my friends  Smiley
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  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #10 - September 20, 2009, 03:20 PM
    I think touching the feet of parents and elders is a Hindu tradition. Many South Asian muslims do it no doubt.
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  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #11 - September 20, 2009, 03:22 PM
    Yeah thats very true. It's a hindu tradition. I used to do it, but then refused to do once I learned it was unislamic.
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  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #12 - September 20, 2009, 03:58 PM
    Yes I think it is a Hindu tradition, immersed into Bangladeshi tradition. There is serious power hierarchy meaning in that greeting!

    Another is the 3 ceremony weddings, it's also un-Islamic because there should only be one ceremony according to Islam. Much of the Bengali tradition, such as the jewelery wearing classical/folk dancers, are all overshadowed by Islam.
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  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #13 - September 20, 2009, 04:12 PM
    Was this thing with "Women enter around back entrance" here in the west? Hope it turns out some smart guy took a picture of it. I would love to see that picture on the first page of the Times.

    Oh. And happy holidays!

    /Stefan
  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #14 - September 20, 2009, 04:15 PM
    Quote from: IsLame on September 20, 2009, 10:22 AM
    Wishing you all a Cultural Eid Mubarak

    Enjoy and be get merry


    Eid Mubarak!
  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #15 - September 20, 2009, 04:32 PM
    Eid Mubarak all ye who celebrate. Had a lovely day and still more festivities to look forward to....woop woop!!!!!

    lol
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  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #16 - September 20, 2009, 04:53 PM
    Eid Mubarak everyone! Can't stay for long, just going to Alum Rock Road in my hired Mercedes and with a massive Pakistan flag!
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  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #17 - September 20, 2009, 04:59 PM
    Quote from: HighOctane on September 20, 2009, 03:58 PM
    Much of the Bengali tradition, such as the jewelery wearing classical/folk dancers, are all overshadowed by Islam.


    Yeah it's a shame that the richness of the Bangali culture, and it's own cultural festivities, are being overshadowed or at least being reformed by Islam. It really is a tragedy, as many of the Bangali people are forgetting about their culture, and are instead taking in Arab traditions as their own. I have nothing against cultural pluralism, but I do think one culture should not be overshadowed by another.

    I'm watching a Bangali t.v station right now, and everything on this channel (and every other Bengali channel) is about Eid. There are girls dancing and stuff, but one could very easily tell that the original Bengali festival traditions are being 'arabified'.
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  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #18 - September 20, 2009, 05:47 PM
    Eid Mubarak to everyone
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  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #19 - September 20, 2009, 10:40 PM
    Thanks - my Eid was brilliant.  I even had a hijabi girl who is a family friend ask me if it was OK to say 'Eid Mubarak' to me, as she was worried I might get offended.   dance  I said of course she could, as it was a cultural celebration for me too.
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  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #20 - September 20, 2009, 10:42 PM
    i had my favourite type of eid-non existent!
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  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #21 - September 21, 2009, 07:28 PM
    I went to a Sheesha place last night to celebrate Eid, and I was looking at everyone there and just thinking "munafiq, munafiq, munafiq, munafiq, munafiq"!

    At a place where an Islamic religious festival was being celebrated, there was sheesha being smoked (haram), loud music blaring out (haram), and free intermingling of men and women (haram). But its allright because they were wearing their thobes and headscarfs.
    Muhammad would be turning in his grave!
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  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #22 - September 21, 2009, 07:33 PM
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    Muhammad would be turning in his grave!


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  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #23 - September 21, 2009, 07:44 PM
    Quote from: aliadiere on September 21, 2009, 07:28 PM
    I went to a Sheesha place last night to celebrate Eid, and I was looking at everyone there and just thinking "munafiq, munafiq, munafiq, munafiq, munafiq"!

    I know isn't that funny? I do that sometimes. Think to myself, "Wow, you're riding around with a girl in your car who's non mahram.. tsk tsk" then I remember who I am, then think, "Right on bro, get on wit yo bad self." Cheesy
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  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #24 - September 21, 2009, 07:45 PM
    Quote from: awais on September 21, 2009, 07:44 PM
    I know isn't that funny? I do that sometimes. Think to myself, "Wow, you're riding around with a girl in your car who's non mahram.. tsk tsk" then I remember who I am, then think, "Right on bro, get on wit yo bad self." Cheesy


    I know exactly what you mean. It winds me up, but I also love it at the same time.
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  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #25 - September 21, 2009, 07:46 PM
    Quote from: awais on September 21, 2009, 07:44 PM
    I know isn't that funny? I do that sometimes. Think to myself, "Wow, you're riding around with a girl in your car who's non mahram.. tsk tsk" then I remember who I am, then think, "Right on bro, get on wit yo bad self." Cheesy


    Nah! But it's a "sister" isn't it akhi? Soon to be married.
  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #26 - September 21, 2009, 07:48 PM
    He's giving her 'dawa' Wink.
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  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #27 - September 21, 2009, 07:49 PM
    Quote from: awais on September 21, 2009, 07:48 PM
    He's giving her 'dawa' Wink.


    Its funny you should say that. My cousin with a non muslim english girlfriend says that he is trying to bring her to Islam. Its a shame he doesn't know anything about Islam himself though!
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  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #28 - September 21, 2009, 07:55 PM
    We should arrange a Murtad alternative Eid party next time and all get smashed.
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  • Re: Cultural Eid Mubarak
     Reply #29 - September 21, 2009, 08:10 PM
    Quote from: SE-man on September 20, 2009, 04:12 PM
    Was this thing with "Women enter around back entrance" here in the west? Hope it turns out some smart guy took a picture of it. I would love to see that picture on the first page of the Times.

    Oh. And happy holidays!

    /Stefan


    It was here in Surrey, UK. I didn't have my phone on me. But I didn't think it was of that importance, just petty and lame as usual. What's more obvious is how in nearly all mosques I've been to in the UK and Bangladesh is that women have hardly any space in a Mosque compared to men. This is gender discrimination and shows the visible but never talked about power for men to have so much more room than women. And on Eid this mosque did make some room for them, though through the back entrance. But being so nice here in the UK, such things are just not discussed, even amongst Muslims which I think just reflects the general progressiveness of British Muslims. For a front page on The Times (or, if The Independent spin it as women's rights issue), a survey of the floor spaces for women should be averaged for all UK mosques. I am willing to bet this to be at about oooohhhh ..... hmmm ... 15% at absolute most. I'd wager a higher bet at 5% by taking into account floor space combined with utilization rate. Now I haven't been to all UK Mosques so it maybe that I'm grossly wrong, especailly with the much bigger mosques. But that's my observation on the matter.
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