I feel like I want to make some people SHOOK today, so here is a free mini-lesson for everyone (P.S: If you’re American then please pay close attention):
-There isn’t a single country in the Middle-East that has the word “stan” in it. Not a single one.
-And yes, that includes Pakistan & Afghanistan.
-Yes you heard me correctly, both of Pakistan & Afghanistan are not in the Middle-East, but instead they’re in South & Central Asia.
-Muslims don’t wear turbans, at all.
-Arabs/Middle-Eastern people also don’t wear turbans either, at all (in some Arabic countries there ARE types of traditional headwraps, but they’re not called turbans, they’re either called “Emamah” or some other name and you can easily tell the difference between how they look and how turbans looks if you bother learning).
-The only Religion/Culture whose people do wear turbans are called Sikhs, follower of the Sikhism religion, and no, Sikhs are not from the Middle-East either, but are primely from India.
-There are over three Muslim majority countries in Europe (Albania, Bosnia and Kosovo) and no, the Muslims there aren’t immigrants, but are in fact native white Europeans who are also Muslims (Yes white European Muslims exists, since you know, Islam is a universal religion not an ethnicity or a race)
-There’s over 50 Muslim countries in this world and aside from Iran there isn’t a single Muslim country in this globe that forces women to wear Hijab (Headscarf) by law. Let me repeat, 49 out of 50 muslim countries don’t have laws forcing women to wear Hijab or face veils.
-A Muslim woman wearing a Burqa is an extremely rare thing that can hardly be found in any Muslim countries, so if you see a Muslim woman covering her face with a type of cloth then that piece of cloth is most likely a Niqab NOT a Burqa (Seriously don’t bother saying Burqa cuz 99.9% of the time the thing you want to describe is probably not a Burqa)
-Only 23% of the world’s Muslims population are from Middle-Eastern countries. Yes, there are more non-Middle-Eastern Muslims in this world than there are Middle-Eastern Muslims.
-Prophet Muhammad’s wife Aisha wasn’t 7 or 9 when she married him, but was actually 19 at the time of the wedding (and this have been debunked for centuries now, yet it’s still used by Islamophobics till this day).
-Almost everything I have said in this post have been true for centuries actually, so if you didn’t already know at least one of the things from this list then you really have no excuse to be this deep in the dark when it comes to basic trivia of a Religion whose followers make ¼ of humans in this world.
