Gotta Read

[neversremedy8]

Sometimes, when I actually look at my friends list without a filter (factor in how many times lately I've even read that much), I love coming across a quote that inspires me to read something new. literaryquotes is a community I joined some time back, and this was an entry I happened to see before I switched to one of my filters (from here):

"Why does Rabeya wear the full burqa?" I asked Fasiq while sitting on the roof. Blunt hanging from his lips, he closed up the Qur'an and placed it on his right. Took a hit before replying.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, she doesn't wear it for the notion that it's sunna, we know that much... and she doesn't wear it because her family is really strict... and I don't think she wears it for some Islamo-Feminist gesture.. So I don't know why --"

Fasiq interrupted me only with a suddenly active, alert silence that felt as though he would say something. He looked at me and said it.

"Ever have a bad day when you didn't want people looking at you?"

"Yeah," I replied, "I guess so. Is that why she wears it?"

"I don't know," he said with a puff and then dramatic exhale. "But that's why I'd wear it."

--The Taqwacores by Michael Muhammad Knight

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[reginaclarejane.livejournal.com]

I commented on that one, too- an amazing excerpt!
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