Comments on: It’s my country too! http://arabilluminist.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/its-my-country-too/ An inconceivable reality by an Arab Illuminist Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:07:00 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Arabilluminist http://arabilluminist.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/its-my-country-too/#comment-87 Arabilluminist Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:05:33 +0000 http://arabilluminist.wordpress.com/?p=50#comment-87 haha! real funny moment AbuSinan! I've always loved tattoos and still do.. But I don't think I can do it :P haha!
real funny moment AbuSinan!

I’ve always loved tattoos and still do.. But I don’t think I can do it :P

]]> By: AbuSinan http://arabilluminist.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/its-my-country-too/#comment-85 AbuSinan Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:15:53 +0000 http://arabilluminist.wordpress.com/?p=50#comment-85 My wife has had a few incidents like that. They expect her to break out in this FOB accent and when the American accented, university educated English comes out of her mouth they do not know what to think. As a white American who speaks a fair amount of Arabic, I have to say I have had kind of the same stuff happen to me. Arabs speaking in lines waiting to check out, talking in Arabic, never thinking that the white dude in front of them speaks Arabic. I have tattoos that I got before I converted to Islam, yeah, I'm an idiot. I had a couple of young guys talking behind me once in Arabic about my tattoos, nothing too rude, but it kind of annoyed me that people use their language to talk about people. I waited a couple of minutes and turned around and asked "Intu min fen"? After about 30 seconds the one guys says "ne7na....ana......min Musr". The look on their faces was classic. A real YouTube moment. My wife has had a few incidents like that. They expect her to break out in this FOB accent and when the American accented, university educated English comes out of her mouth they do not know what to think.

As a white American who speaks a fair amount of Arabic, I have to say I have had kind of the same stuff happen to me. Arabs speaking in lines waiting to check out, talking in Arabic, never thinking that the white dude in front of them speaks Arabic.

I have tattoos that I got before I converted to Islam, yeah, I’m an idiot. I had a couple of young guys talking behind me once in Arabic about my tattoos, nothing too rude, but it kind of annoyed me that people use their language to talk about people.

I waited a couple of minutes and turned around and asked “Intu min fen”?

After about 30 seconds the one guys says “ne7na….ana……min Musr”. The look on their faces was classic. A real YouTube moment.

]]> By: devotion http://arabilluminist.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/its-my-country-too/#comment-63 devotion Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:29:57 +0000 http://arabilluminist.wordpress.com/?p=50#comment-63 really nice story good imagination i had a lovely moment... thanx devotion really nice story
good imagination

i had a lovely moment…

thanx

devotion

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