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The Bad Muslim Discount
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I am what is considered a pious practicing Muslim and I loved the book.
There are a lot of triggered Muslims posting on Goodreads. This book is not about Islam or Muslims. It’s a book about two diaspora people who *happen* to be Muslim. They are reacting within the norms of what is going on in a Desi household and a war torn country. Their struggle with faith is their own. They represent the characters themselves and is not meant to be a portrait of the religion.
Like in real life, the book has characters that are practicing Muslims but bad people, practicing and good, not practicing and not good, not practicing and good.
The whole book, especially at the end, highlights moral dilemmas. Our whole life, we are picking between what works for us and what doesn’t in the set of circumstances we are born in. We may want to judge people, but we never know what’s going on deeper in their life.
We all have issues in our lives and will have hard choices to make. And through the dramatization of Anvar and Azza’s narrative, this theme is highlighted.
Will we be courageous enough to make the decisions right/necessary for us?
I sure hope so.
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For non-Muslims: Please don’t let triggered Muslims from letting you enjoy the book! I hope you enjoy as much or more than I did!! Also, if you have any cultural or religious references you didn’t understand in the book, you can ask below!
There are a lot of triggered Muslims posting on Goodreads. This book is not about Islam or Muslims. It’s a book about two diaspora people who *happen* to be Muslim. They are reacting within the norms of what is going on in a Desi household and a war torn country. Their struggle with faith is their own. They represent the characters themselves and is not meant to be a portrait of the religion.
Like in real life, the book has characters that are practicing Muslims but bad people, practicing and good, not practicing and not good, not practicing and good.
The whole book, especially at the end, highlights moral dilemmas. Our whole life, we are picking between what works for us and what doesn’t in the set of circumstances we are born in. We may want to judge people, but we never know what’s going on deeper in their life.
We all have issues in our lives and will have hard choices to make. And through the dramatization of Anvar and Azza’s narrative, this theme is highlighted.
Will we be courageous enough to make the decisions right/necessary for us?
I sure hope so.
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For non-Muslims: Please don’t let triggered Muslims from letting you enjoy the book! I hope you enjoy as much or more than I did!! Also, if you have any cultural or religious references you didn’t understand in the book, you can ask below!
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Apr 11, 2022 09:00PM
I appreciate this review so much. I am not Muslim, but I find much of beauty in the faith, as I do all religions. I feel that in our ongoing culture wars that it is often forgotten in every corner that human beings are flawed and a continual work in progress and can therefore never be a perfect representation of the dogmas we embrace. This often causes us to throw the baby out with the bathwater. I appreciate your openness to allow such beautifully written characters to live in your head as they would in the world rather than being disappointed in their inability to be perfect.
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