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muhsin hendricks: "Sodomy according to the Qu'ranic rendition of the Sodom & Gomorrah story is male to male *rape*, involving power and humiliation. This is not fitrah, it is a choice."

me: i can't believe the idea that people choose to rape other people is a revolutionary idea. where are these dumbass scholars thinking it's fitrah

"My sexuality is an involuntary aspect of my being. I have no choice in the matter. Accepting my sexuality as fitrah and not trying to fight it, means submitting to Allah's will."

"Thus Al-Fitrah [...] aims to make the individual realize that he is innately a sexual being but at the same time he needs to take responsibility to his/her actions and to keep the relationship with the Creator constant. The individual's sexuality is but a fraction of who s/he is."

"There cannot be acceptance without tolerance. This is something we can learn from the character of our beloved prophet Muhammed, peace be upon him."

book: mentions charlie hebdo being a load of bullshit and made all muslims the scapegoats for a crime they didn't commit
me: *daBS INTO INFINITY*

“i had to leave
i was tired of
allowing you to
make me feel
anything less
than whole”

me reading milk and honey makes me feel like that gif where the woman's crying but dabbing it away so her eyelashes still look good

this book got a little too fuckin real for me ...
"I don't read much anymore [...] maybe for that reason. Because I didn't want books to have me in their power. It's like poison. I imagined I'd become immune. But you never become immune. On the contrary."

i'm CRYING a frenchwoman that actually acts french and she's supposed to be completely unsympathetic

"I felt an almost physical dependency on her; when she wasn't there I had a dismaying sensation of not being complete." hmmmm feeling that deconstruction of manic pixie dream girl

"Is that why you write books? Because you don't have any children?"
"I don't want to live forever. I really don't. I don't want to leave any traces when I die."
"You must."

*exaggerated gagging sound* yeh probably gonna drop this... will stick to my original goal of 25% tho

ho ho ho holy shit????
"I missed Vaughn madly at first, furiously [...] that gradually diminished into a dull sense of feeling like i'd left my favorite old teddy behind somewhere or forgotten to put on an item of clothing."
way to dehumanize the Only Character of Color so far????/

aH correction he's mixed - jamaican mother and irish dad (tho it should say something that he's indian-coded.......)

*taps microphone* holy shit ok so
vaughn: hey i'm hurt that you abandoned me as a kid because you got richer and i just kinda want to know your reasoning??
MC: uH WHAT THE FUCK WHY ARE YOU EVEN HERE TO BEGIN WITH

oh ok so definitely going the 'fetishizing brown men' route. 'deep and earthy voice' 'doesn't stop me from being doused in hotness' wtffff

this writer: quick!! the readers of color are abandoning this book in troves!! throw in a long lost indian childhood friend!!

*gags* implied teacher/student romance

legit considering dropping this at the 20% mark if it doesn't get any better... so far a shit ton of ableism, MC thinks owning an island is a Burden, and internalized misogyny abound