#convert problems

[shadowweaver06]

Get to spend the day doing forced social interaction with family and eating food I hate for a holiday I don't celebrate or care about for the purposes of keeping the peace - all the while, I'm sure my feelings will be hurt at some point by someone being rude and dismissive, and my boundaries will get trampled on because 'it's Christmas'.

I'd rather go for a run, come back and watch Die Hard and eat Honey Garlic Chicken and work on becoming one with my couch the rest of the day.

Somehow this one day is more exhausting than an entire *month* of holiday observances. Then again... at least the high holidays don't involve a ton of family emotional baggage for me and are at least spiritually fulfilling.

[sobbingoverthechallah]

Someone literally just told me that I don’t get to be emotionally affected by the Shoah because I’m a convert and not a Jew by birth.

... Are they right?!

[relentlessnapper]

[jewishconvertthings]

the one synagogue in my country that's left wing enough to accept me as a person won't accept converts at the moment, I think 'cause they don't have a regular rabbi. :( i'm just so sad 'cause I know I can't study with someone for years, now

I’m really sorry to hear that, anon.

Unfortunately, I’m not sure what to tell you.... any followers have suggestions for anon?

[flawedhoneyy]

Someone told me today I can’t be Muslim because my name doesn’t sound Muslim…

[imaan-sabr]

I made a post on Facebook. It said: I don't know how many times people have to tell ya'll, but: Islam stands for peace and Muslims are not responsible for these atrocities. 

I received a message from a family member, telling me to be careful what I post and going on to say, “Who do you think is responsible? We all know it’s them!”

I schooled this family member so hard.

And it really shows me that I can never, ever ‘come out’ to my family as a Muslim. At least not any time soon.

I’ve been struggling with all of this for years now, and it seems to just get worse: the racism, the Islamophobia, the xenophobia. All of it.

I need to become stronger in my religion, stronger in my mentality, and — quite frankly — just learn to not give a fuck anymore. I need to learn to say: “If ya’ll don’t accept me because of this religion, so be it. I am still me; in fact, I am a better version of me. Can’t accept that? Peace.”

[baebythebay-blog]

memorizing surah’s protip

I, like many converts/non-arabic speaking Muslims, am struggling with memorizing surah’s for prayer, but I realized something the other day that’s been a huge help

The Quran is poetry fam. Literally. All those surah’s are poems, so look for poetic qualities in them - repetition, rhym, etc I realized Surah Iklahs lowkey rhymes all the way down, and as soon as I did I had the whole thing memorized & my pronunciation improved!

[purplemouseprince]

So, etiquette question...

I live in a town where there is no shul I can find. No listing, no website, nothing. No comunity center or anything iether. But recently Ive been seeing a small handfull of men in kippot around town. I kinda want to go up to them and ask "Where do you even go to shul? Is there some totaly non-listed comunity I just dont know about because I'm a crazy isolated convert wannabe?" I don't drive, and from the closest shul I can find, the last bus to where I live on Friday nights leaves before services start and the first one from here on Saterday arrives after the end of services, so I haven't gone, because I wouldn't be able to attend really. I've been studying alone and trying to keep shabbat and holidays the best I can, till I finish school and can move, but you can't really be jewish alone forever. Or really at all. How do I ask and not make it super awkward? Is that even possible?