I am not happy and I need to vent!

[criossa]

Several of you know that I live in a very red neck area of the U.S. (Tennessee). Anyway in my apartment complex most people here are white, southern and baptist. We have 2 mixed race couples who stay to themselves and I hear others making comments behind their backs. My daughter has had people say racist and religious comments to her. Unaware that she is of mix race and muslim. (Hubby's mum is black and sweet and beautiful inside and out!) We do not worry about people saying anything to her because she has a fierce temper and she maybe small but she will put them in their place.
But now a neighbor who is hebrew is a victim of a hate crime. Just because he is of another faith. And I try to keep myself calm but now I want to beat the bajabbers out of someone.
I am tired of all the crap around here. I am tired of stupid people. I am tired of the looks if I wear a salwar
I want to wear my salwars. My daughter wants to wear hijab. I want to be able to put my bumper sticker on my car that says "warning: protected by allah". I want to walk up to one of those ignorant fools and say if your so much better why does your wife and daughter dress like *****s?
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
sorry I obviously need therapy or something. I am just tired of this.
Huggles,
Criossa

[criossa]

1. I am American married to a moroccan. Because of all the 9/11 stuff and the fear and all he has not gotten to the states yet.
INS is a pain and very expensive.

2. I did not choose to live here. I did not want to move here. I had no choice and have no money to move.

3. I would move to our home in Casa in a heartbeat if I could.

4. My husband is a very good man. He would die if anything happened to me. And he is very protective of me and our kids. But he can do nothing to help me right now. And I try not to tell him how bad it is here so he will not be upset.

It is complicated.

[Boogski]

Originally posted by criossa
1. I am American married to a moroccan. Because of all the 9/11 stuff and the fear and all he has not gotten to the states yet.
INS is a pain and very expensive.

Is your husband a citizen of the US? If not, how did you get hooked up with a Moroccan national? Since you've chosen to share your situation with us, more details would be helpful and appreciated.

[razrif]

I'm very interested also,
one tip though,
don't take any head of what
c.p says,
he couldn't even take care
of a poor defenseless kitty cat!

[-theTruth-]

Salam Criossa
I live in a remote village full of whites and no Halah food or a mosque, even a local shop is 30 minutes walk and I still wear what i want and do what I want because I look at people as humans like me and only Allah SWT is the powerful and no one will hurt me except if God wishes. You should do the same. if people upset you go to them and confront them
take them to court answer them back or whatever you makes you happy. As long as you take care of your safety. this kind of Bullying is out of control and no one should sit and listen to them.
My son has been treated the same way before and was called so many names from Dirty Indian to Half cast etc...And the school refused to do anything until one day i drove straight in front of the boys. I got out and told them that I would break their legs bit by bit if anyone hurt my son and I was damn serious they were so scared that they went making a complaint to the school and were going to take action against me. i phoned the head teacher and told her that I would take the school to court for Not doing anything about Bullying and they shut up. since that day My boy never had any problem, I am not saying that you should follow my example(hell no ) but everyone has a way to deal with situations the best way they can.
If you believe in Allah SWT then the answer is easy. Don't let anyone upset you. go out and wear what you want and drive what you want and if someone comes to you tell them you do not care to die and would not mind taken others with you(Joking) because what is decreed for you is what Allah has chosen for many reasons which no one knows . Remember every hardship comes ease that is what God told us and we need to believe in it. God has also gave you the free will to change things and Allah SWT said that He will not help people till they help themselves meaning that sometimes you need to take two steps back in order to move one forward. so if the Area is not your cup of tea. Put your full trust in God and make a decision to move somewhere else and remember that every creation has its provision regardless of where you live or who you are, so really it is up to you to change your life and no one else can help you. God can help you by making things easy for you if your intentions are noble.
Good luck and Inshallah everything will be cool

[Tekab]

Guys, she is in Tennesse and not London. Poeple in Tennesse still have a lot in common with the cave man what ever work for you in London won't do her any good in her area. These are different people if u want to call them people
Croissa, I suggest you put you kids safety first before anything else. You can't react to these people any way u want. I suggest you move somewhere else where people are more educated/advanced/civilized.

[criossa]

Thanks everyone for letting me vent.
First I will give details about how I met my hubby. I met him over the internet in February 1998. Ok go ahead and laugh I placed an ad on a singles web site. I got over 200 hundred responces in 2 weeks. In 2 months he was the only one I was still emailing. Mind you I had never even seen the movie Casablanca. And I had no clue where Morocco even was. So for me it was just a pen pal thing at first.
Long story short a year later he emailed me this ridiculously long email. I did not have time to read it and I forgot about it. Karim was acting funny the next few days. His emails were ...off. And I called him and he seemed to be distant. I thought maybe something in email rubbed him wrong. Then I came across the poem again and I read it. Well it turns out the last line was will you be my wife. He thought I did not want to marry him hehehe. So I said yes. And on August 28,1999 we met face to face in Morocco. And were married 3 days later.
I never believed in love at first site till I saw him at the airport. And he is trully my prince charming!