Out Of Place As A Muslim

Who are we? Where is here? Why we are here at all? Who is the owner of this blog? All of these questions are good ones. Also this question: why do we really need to make a group blog? Are we here only to be here together? Do we want to make a circle of writers? Maybe there are a thousand questions in your mind. I tell you, all of your questions are good ones for me.

I want to write something sincere, without using complicated literature. So I start from this point. Making a group blog like this was not really even in my dreams. The whole idea and even the name comes from Unique’s mind. I always run away from getting engaged to something or somewhere. So why I’m writing this post? Well, because finally I’ve found my reasons to stay.

Since I’ve been writing on my Shahrazad blog, I was under too many attacks. Spammers? Ah, of course they are always there to attack any blog.

To be honest, the problem with me is that I am an Iranian Muslim and not just Iranian or just Muslim. Do you ask me now, “so what?”

Being Iranian is something that maybe I didn’t choose. It is my identity. My culture and my language are related to it. It is also the nationality of my passport, and the nationality of my parents and my parents’ parents. It is something that can not be pleasant by some people around the world. I don’t care, really. You know?

But the second and most important part of my identity is my religion. The fact that I am a Muslim on earth. It has its influence on my culture too. And on my lifestyle and point of view on the world. It even prepares me for political ideas, a spiritual connection to a Creator and a theory for the whole universe.

It is something that can not be pleasant at all for some “certain” groups. Even for some people who have the same nationality as me, some people who are “Iranian” and call themselves “Persian”.

I am under attack by them as an Iranian Muslim on earth. Because their “so called” democracy can not accept the title of a Muslim being attached to my nationality. Is that the reason for writing on this blog? No. It was just some sincere words with you. But the story has other side too.

Recently I was invited to write on a site about the Middle East and its issues. I don’t accept these kind of jobs before I research the sources and the goals of group. And I noticed the site is not enough just about Muslims. I noticed that the attacks that I experienced before, exists in these kind of sites too. Something based on stereotyped ideas which, intended or unintended, is creating a kind of misunderstanding towards people of the Muslim World.

It was just a good reason for me to accept Unique’s offer. I felt as a Muslim, I am misunderstood in the world I live in. I noticed as an Iranian Muslim, I am misunderstood whether from some Muslims because of my nationality, or from some Iranians because of my religion. Even as a Muslim woman I am misunderstood.

Unique and I don’t think about a revolution here. It is just a blog. And I hope it to be an informative one. In this world where being aMuslim is going to be very difficult, we try to write our thoughts about the Muslim world so we can defy any stereotyped ideas.

I believe that the young generation of today has both good qualities and some deficiencies in them. This generation has a series of understandings and emotions that the previous generations did not possess and also they have the benefit of the doubt. They are going up the stairs of life. At the same time, they also have some corrupt thoughts and negative ethical traits which must be removed from their character.

There is no dead end in life. In the previous generations, the thoughts and minds of the people were not as open as the generation of today. These emotions and good qualities were not present in the people of the past, and so we must show respect to the youth for their noble qualities and it is Islam itself which has shown respect to these traits.

So…Here we are as the young generation of today. Out of place, as a Muslim? That’s our choice…