Explosives.... and me????

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So we started a new section today in our forensic lectures… Explosives.

The lecturer started off by saying that she won’t go into too much detail about the investigation of a scene of an explosion because luckily, in Ireland, they’re very rare.

And then she moved onto some case studies of crimes involving explosives such as the london bombings, belfast bombings, and the recently caught nigerian man suspected of blowing up an aircraft. She was just talking about what explosives were used, what devices were used and how the investigations were carried out by forensic scientists, which evidence led to prosecution etc.

As she was presenting the lecture, she kept on looking at me in a strange way! I can’t explain it but it was just… strange!
And from the corner of my eye, I could see a number of my class mates staring at me! I pretended I wasn’t aware of any of it! But jeeez the lecture today was really uncomfortable!!

I heard a muslim comedian once say, “If you haven’t done anything wrong, act like it too!” But I just couldn’t help but feel weird!

I know for a fact that almost everyone at the lecture immediately associated islam with the bombings going on these days, and then immediately thought of me, being a muslim. So I understand why they were looking at me again n again during the lecture,… but I just don’t understand the ignorance!

They’ve known me for the last 4 years of our undergrad, they weren’t thinking of me as a terrorist or anything like that, but what I felt today was that they were associating me with the radical islam. As if they were looking for some answers or explainations..

Why is this in the Life forum? Because I would like you guys to share your experiences with your non-muslim friends at times like the world trade center incident… All my friends here are non-muslims so I’m not saying that you can’t get along with them., I’m just saying that I think deep down in their hearts they do have some questions for us…

Would you feel uncomfortable when, for example, watching a piece of news on islamic terrorism while your non-muslim friends are sitting beside you?

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ppl some time are little shallow about other ppl.

I say put hibjab on and play basketball or some thing. That will change their perception of muslims in a sec.

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lolz.. I play badminton. Would that suffice?

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hmmm

too grily.

try some thing they love, and kick their butt. walk around with sports gear.
hey its cheap, but it will work.

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HS,
I have similar story but I will save it for some other day for some other thread.
I get paid for opening meaningful threads. :D

Your way of dealing with :
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lolz no I don't need to do any of that. I wasn't asking how I can "integrate" more with their lifestyle.

I was just asking how your non-muslim friends react when they hear something negative related to islam and they know ur a muslim.

What was the verdict of the three Judge Panel regarding PM Nawaz Sharif?
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people are shallow sometimes ... learn to ignore ... i'm sure if they get to kno u better they'll kno that ur not that kind ... its just their ignorance

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I was hired to derailed them :snooty:

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lolz no I don't need to do any of that. I wasn't asking how I can "integrate" more with their lifestyle.

I was just asking how your non-muslim friends react when they hear something negative related to islam and they know ur a muslim.
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my non muslim frnds have known me for a very long time 5-6 years again so they kno that the few muslims that the couple of muslims that we have in the group are not that kind ... so they're kinda sensitive to us whn talkin about htese kinda things ... its usually the ignorant people who have never had any real contact with muslim ppl that give you the weird vibes

Your way of dealing with :
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lolz no I don't need to do any of that. I wasn't asking how I can "integrate" more with their lifestyle.

I was just asking how your non-muslim friends react when they hear something negative related to islam and they know ur a muslim.
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Its not their life style.

Its just in their heads. They associate every thing positive to western life style, and every thing negative to islam.

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You should have started talking about what Irish people did to England.

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That's ture libran.

I was going to work one day and one of my colleagues was giving me a lift that day. The FM radio was turned on in the car. And the radio channel was interviewing this weird guy about some of his controversional statements against the imam of the Dublin Mosque in Ireland... and this guy was like "Moslems hate everything about us and they're coming to get us!" blah blah blah...

I could see my colleague was really really embarrased to hear that.. he knew what kind of a person I was and that not all five fingers are the same... so he was totally embarrassed by the guy on the radio insulting islam.

I tried to lighten the mood and said "That guy needs to do a bit of readin" and then we just laughed it off..

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lolzz no irish dude wants to talk about that!

@ Jimmy: That's true to a certain extent.

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lolzz no irish dude wants to talk about that!

@ Jimmy: That's true to a certain extent.
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You know I have an Irish friend and once she told me that when she was in junior school, English children used to call her terrorist and make fun of her, so she said that she can understand how a Muslim might feel when he/she gets the blame for someone else's action.

Why SC would disqualify NS from holding public office and would send cases to NAB.
Why SC would disqualify NS from holding public office and would send cases to NAB.
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Your friend is one of those rare people who understand...

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Your friend is one of those rare people who understand...
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May be because she's married to an English. lol

Why did you choose to study in Ireland?

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I didn't choose anything. I was 11 when we shifted to Ireland.

I would go back to Saudi Arabia any day...

What R U Doing??
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Dunno what is to be said, I salute all you people living in non muslim countries..I'm also one of you but Alhamdolillah, never had a chance/ misfortune to bump into such people! But yeah, being a part of scantily clad people's college event in full hijab and then being looked at as an alien is disgusting enough!

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Lived all of my life in America.... and have to say that those that have put in the effort to get to know me... family and friends and co-workers have never made me feel awkward or weird about my ethnicity and religion. You can imagine what the atmosphere over here is and was post 9/11. But alhumdullilah I have never had any issues. I studied in a huge university that was extremely diverse. The muslim student associations was the third largest associations... Indian student association was the first... and Arab association was second largest. So you can imagine. The topic of terrorism and the "why's" have been discussed alot throughout my education ... I was a political science major in undergrad and then went on to law school. People were curious - yes... but respectful. I feel like people have been tactful in the way they discuss this topic in general in front of others and especially with me.

I think the only time I ever feel weird is crossing the border btw canada and america.... they look at the pakistani visa in my american passport and immediately take me in for questioning. It has gotten really annoying. I used to cross the border alot so I think they just got suspicious for that (hey .. i lived 15 minutes away from the border... and the shopping and food is better on the other side :D).

I have heard unfortunate stories about ignorance obviously. It definitely unfortunately exist. I have heard its particularly bad down south. Hey... Bush is from texas.... the majority of his followers are southerners. Makes sense why I have heard there are more ignorant people down there.

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They let us into their countries... that should be enough. Be thankful and ignore occasional BS.

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