One Fine Day in This 100 % Pretending Country

by dhona | Friday, September 10, 2010 | via Dhona

Today, while I and my husband were coming from my husband’s parents, he asks me why is it so important to have gay rights in this country while anyone can just be gay without declaring themselves as gay. I answered saying maybe because they want to be able to dress as women on the road. He gave me a good reply “look at ‘honey’... a gay man walking around in dress like a woman with no shame, he has guts.. Doesn’t he?”

He was right there he was honey for years and years this man walked on streets like a woman wearing a bra underneath when she didn’t have breasts, everyone knew he was guy but then why is Maldives a 100 percent Muslim country?

What defines us as Muslim, is it a piece of cloth, a beard or a t shirt that’s say ‘flower power ‘next to a print of a big joint? Sometimes some people ask these kinds of questions not to be answered by a sheik (according to him who knows it all) sponsored by the government or an NGO for the confused youth sometimes we ask questions because it’s in a nature to ask and also listening to a sheik is not the only way to seek for answers.

A man is a man, not a god! We all know it and it’s in Quran the “mighty big book” which is definitely just words, words produced by us humans. Why Allah or god would have a need to produce a language when it can produce things that we can’t like trees and sun. If we can produce languages does it mean that we are as equal as god? If we need to believe in a god we would know it very simply by thinking that a glass wouldn’t exist if we didn’t produce it? So who created the water?

It doesn’t matter if some call it the big bang, god, the great architect of universe, Allah or baguvaan. We all are pointing at the same thing. Aren’t we? It’s just like you pointing to a chair and calling it ‘gondi’, while an Indian points at the same chair calling it ‘kurusee’. At this point everything that exists or is created by a being (god or human) is acknowledged by us in our own way and within our own perception; even god is a very personal thing. But there are people out there who would rather make us live and be a part of their delusion than us having our own individual belief. Common we pay to live what else you want more?

The idea of collecting zakai through text messages is a bad idea (if a true Muslim). We can’t pretend that we don’t see it, just like the “honey” situation and pretend that we don’t know Dhiraagu, Wataniya or Bank of Maldives is making money out of it? The funniest thing is that Islamic ministry pays people salary to deliver zakai to people? Why? When I can take zakay money out of my pocket and go out there and give it to poor? Who makes these rules “everyone one should give zakai even poor people”, even if they don’t have food to eat by themselves they will have to give zakai. Why is Islamic ministry making poor people feel as if they will rot in hell for not paying that zakai? This is mental abuse and manipulation to make poor feel unworthy even to god.

Islam and most religions are not about individualism and today the world is all about individualism. We don’t care if someone steps to TV and declares that he is a messenger of god and he wants everyone to pay zakai as long as we can go to a restaurant and drink a couple of wine glass with exotic food! Islamic ministry doesn’t allow us to have dogs not because it’s a thing with dog’s hygiene; it is because dogs can smell thieves. How many young boys die today and how many high class business men are stabbed and robbed today. Well these days only praying in a mosque doesn’t help!

If this argument was held in human rights Court, in this country I will lose the case to a person who will only say three words “Allah, Quran, Prophet” and that’s the end of everything. So once again rather being misunderstood by majority we minority pretend and live a lie everyday just to have a simple life in this land which is given to us by universe, god, Allah etc., where government claims that they have the right to decide what is right for us.

Just a couple of years ago Maldivians thought that the rate of sexually and physically abused people are very low, but when things started becoming clearer and when people were given voices this country's sexual and physical abuse reports red flagged in international charts. Who knows when we all are given the chance or voice to stand up, this so called 100 percent Muslim country’s stats will show up 30 percent gay, 30 percent atheists, 30 percent Muslims and rest that don’t know or don’t even care!

i know what group i will be in... i don't care group as long as i have the freedom to do what i want :)

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