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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a muslim who went trick or  treating as child as did all of my Muslim friends but the anti-Halloween fundamentalist Christians have influenced the ppl at my mosque enough that its a no go in our religious community at this point.  I take my kids to their school fall festivals and let them do the parade. On actual Halloween I get together with a bunch of friends and do a big playdate or we get fun snacks and watch a movie. I've explained to my kids that All Hallow's eve is the 'eve' of All Saints Day and so its kinda like christmas eve and we have our own holidays. It was a difficult decision for me since I grew up loving halloween and I think its a bit ridiculous but I'm not teaching my kids to lie to their grandparents and friends at the masjid. Trick or treating is not worth that. My kids accepted the 'we don't do halloween bc its not ours' thing more easily than i did! OTH, my husband and I are on the same page & we would come to a compromise if we weren't and at the end of the day as the mother I have 4 times the right as the father to make tarbiyat decisions regarding our children and any well read Muslim husband would know that. My kids would not be ok with lying to their dad either, that just sounds like those uneducated villager women who immigrated here in the 1950's- my parents used to avoid those ppl like the plague.  You have to figure out as a family how you are going maintain your Muslim faith while being a minority and what is important to you and do that together, your husband doesn't just get to unilaterally make decisions. What about prom, mixers? sleep overs, all of these things are in the future, are you just going to lie and sneak around- on your husband, you deserve better than that, a muslim woman is accorded respect in her home and has the authority to make parenting decisions and I'm a hijab and burqa wearing Muslim woman who prays 5 times a day and sometimes tahajjud- living my faith is incredibly important and i don't agree with women imams.muezzins etc etc so I'm not some kind of radical feminist, these are the values my parents from Pakistan passed on to me. I feel sad that in this day and age there are women who are in marriages like these- husbands like yours who think they can just make unilateral decisions like this are committing a kind of shirk and they should be reminded of this, if your husband wants to be a believer so bad that h is against halloween than he should also realize that he isn't the tinpot god of his home but a partner in parenting your daughter.[/quote]

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