If you are Muslim (or raised Muslim) and drink...

[Anonymous]

Do you censor photos posted on social media? Or are you pretty open about it (not showy, but also not censored)?

[the conservative Muslims need not respond, we can predict your answer]

[Anonymous]

No one?!

You all are liars!

[Anonymous]

Two points, for the general DCUM population, not just for this OP.

1. I've noticed that traffic has really slowed down on this site lately.

2. There seem to be more baity trolls than ever before, like this one. What's with that?

[Anonymous]

My husband is Muslim and he drinks. I do not post pictures of alcohol online, not even of just me, because more than half my friends are his family from his home country.

[Anonymous]

Yeah I generally don't post drinking pics on FB since I have family members on there, but I do on IG.

[Anonymous]

What do you do?

[Anonymous]

I think most of them who do drink, just do it without advertising. I lived in the Middle East and seen a lot of woman who take off their burkas as soon as they cross the customs check point in the airport. They do it in the woman's bathrooms and underneath have rather provocative clothes, with high hills and tons of make up (almost transvestite type of the make up).

I also seen a lot of Arab men who travel to Europe and drink heavily.

[Anonymous]

I think the OP was asking if you are Muslim, how do you handle it. Not IF muslims drink.

[Anonymous]

Just personal opinion. It seems reasonable to me that the Muslims who find themselves in Kufaar lands for professional reasons, or who emigrate here, are more attuned to our ways than those who are observantly Salafist.

Behavior that would be troublesome if not dangerous back home is remarked upon in the vein of, "Oh, you're an LDS/you're a Muslim who drinks...."

Many non-Muslims who've heard of that proscription know exceeding little about what Sunni Islam's holy texts say. Even fewer care to look and see what they say. Hearsay on the media is good enough for them.

Tangential to OP's question, I wonder how many Muslims here are more culturally Muslim than devout followers of the Qur'an, Sunnah, and whichever maddhab they identify with?

Devout Catholics tend to walk their talk. I would suppose devout Muslims do too.

Let's not confuse "Muslim-in-name-only," when the relatives are there to call them on it, with the observant living in predominantly Muslim locations.

By and large, different behavior.

[Anonymous]

exceedingly

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just personal opinion. It seems reasonable to me that the Muslims who find themselves in Kufaar lands for professional reasons, or who emigrate here, are more attuned to our ways than those who are observantly Salafist.

Behavior that would be troublesome if not dangerous back home is remarked upon in the vein of, "Oh, you're an LDS/you're a Muslim who drinks...."

Many non-Muslims who've heard of that proscription know exceeding little about what Sunni Islam's holy texts say. Even fewer care to look and see what they say. Hearsay on the media is good enough for them.

Tangential to OP's question, I wonder how many Muslims here are more culturally Muslim than devout followers of the Qur'an, Sunnah, and whichever maddhab they identify with?

Devout Catholics tend to walk their talk. I would suppose devout Muslims do too.

Let's not confuse "Muslim-in-name-only," when the relatives are there to call them on it, with the observant living in predominantly Muslim locations.

By and large, different behavior.

You do know that salafism is a relatively new interpretation/practice of Sunni Islam, right? There is so much space between being a salafi and a non-believer. Both here and in majority Muslim nations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just personal opinion. It seems reasonable to me that the Muslims who find themselves in Kufaar lands for professional reasons, or who emigrate here, are more attuned to our ways than those who are observantly Salafist.

Behavior that would be troublesome if not dangerous back home is remarked upon in the vein of, "Oh, you're an LDS/you're a Muslim who drinks...."

Many non-Muslims who've heard of that proscription know exceeding little about what Sunni Islam's holy texts say. Even fewer care to look and see what they say. Hearsay on the media is good enough for them.

Tangential to OP's question, I wonder how many Muslims here are more culturally Muslim than devout followers of the Qur'an, Sunnah, and whichever maddhab they identify with?

Devout Catholics tend to walk their talk. I would suppose devout Muslims do too.

Let's not confuse "Muslim-in-name-only," when the relatives are there to call them on it, with the observant living in predominantly Muslim locations.

By and large, different behavior.

Most Muslims don't even know what the text say. Alcohol isn't even forbidden - the real crime is drunkenness, or rather, the lapses in judgment that result from drunkenness. Wine is flowing abundantly in the Muslim version of heaven, where the time of judgment is over.

But Islamically speaking, a little bit of alcohol here and there is actually halal.

As is the pattern in the way many people practice their religion (Islam, Christianity, or otherwise), people tend to resort to extremes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just personal opinion. It seems reasonable to me that the Muslims who find themselves in Kufaar lands for professional reasons, or who emigrate here, are more attuned to our ways than those who are observantly Salafist.

Behavior that would be troublesome if not dangerous back home is remarked upon in the vein of, "Oh, you're an LDS/you're a Muslim who drinks...."

Many non-Muslims who've heard of that proscription know exceeding little about what Sunni Islam's holy texts say. Even fewer care to look and see what they say. Hearsay on the media is good enough for them.

Tangential to OP's question, I wonder how many Muslims here are more culturally Muslim than devout followers of the Qur'an, Sunnah, and whichever maddhab they identify with?

Devout Catholics tend to walk their talk. I would suppose devout Muslims do too.

Let's not confuse "Muslim-in-name-only," when the relatives are there to call them on it, with the observant living in predominantly Muslim locations.

By and large, different behavior.

You do know that salafism is a relatively new interpretation/practice of Sunni Islam, right? There is so much space between being a salafi and a non-believer. Both here and in majority Muslim nations.

From the time the Prophet walked the earth there have always been deeply devout Muslims, who were into it with their whole hearts.
Are you sure you aren't confusing Salafist with Wahhabist? I think you are.

The real test of what it means to be Muslim isn't whether one sips some alcoholic beverage once in awhile. Or indulges a forbidden fondness for bacon.

If our "esteemed President" got his travel ban, and the test of who's admissible was "eat that bacon, drink that wine" myriad
observant Muslims could breeze on in.

Allah knows what is in one's heart.

The test is Does the person believe Allah is the only god and Muhammad is his (final) messenger. Ideally, one walks the talk. One is allowed to dissemble if one is in danger, or to advance Allah's Cause.

[Anonymous]

The former long time ambassador of Saudi Arabia was fond of whiskey. I spent a month in Salt Lake. City and one member of our group had converted to LDS to marry a Mormon woman. He claimed to believe in Mormonism, but would drink beer with us.

[Anonymous]

I am Muslim and did drink socially for a couple of years. I would censor pics online (rather, avoid taking pics while imbibing). Almost all of the Muslims I know that drink or smoke (or wear revealing clothes) are similar.