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[quote=Anonymous]In fairness to OP, she MAY have been responding to other parts of the poster's description of American Muslim when she said they were not practicing Muslims--even though the description did NOT say the Muslims depicted did not practice their faith:

"That show was nonsense, the families they showed were shia, aka non-Muslims, its a completely different faith! They had tattoos, the women weren't covering all the time, a few were wrapped up in haram (forbidden) money making (The club) and the list goes on and on. It was an extremely poor representation of what a real american Muslim is. Now don't get me wrong they had some key points and very real life situations that everyone goes through, but I'm glad they didn't renew it."

So perhaps OP inferred that the families did not practice Islam because:

1. They had tattoos--Unlikely, tattoos are not necessarily unIslamic

2. The women didn't cover up all the time--I guess it depends on your view about the necessity of women covering up in Islam.  I certainly know practicing Muslims who do not cover their head ever, but maybe OP thinks this is enough to make one not practicing?

3. Some were involved in suspect businesses--This kind of makes me laugh.  Plenty of people out there going to the mosque every Friday and making their wives cover from head to toe who are involved in unsavory business enterprises.

So we are left with one of two conclusions as to why OP said the Muslims depicted were not practicing Muslims:  either it was because they were Shi'ite or it was because the women didn't cover up all all the time,  If it's the former, she should own up.  If it's the latter, she should come out and just tell us that the sine qua non of Islam is that women cover up, which is pretty much the view of every fundamentalist group that has gotten power in the Middle East.

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