Influence Of A Skype Date With Zara Wasi

Improved Essays
For this interview, I had a Skype date with Zara Wasi. She is a young female living and studying in New York, and she is also a Muslima. She is one of my Facebook friends. Even though I have never had met her personally, we have a mutual friend, who is from Bangladesh, and I have met him at a party. When I go through her pictures, I can see how strong her family bond is, but also that she lives in freedom and to the fullest extent. When the opportunity arises that I can go to New York, I definitely go grab some coffee with her.
Zara, was born into a Muslim family; Islam is the religion. She followed her entire life. She was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and in her country, most of the Muslims are Sunni Muslims. She is also a Sunni. Her family
…show more content…
The biggest takeaway in her life has been to acknowledge and believe that Allah does not want to be feared by his followers. He wants to be loved by his creation as he loves them. Just like a child for a parent, she feels like I’m much more accountable for my actions because the love of her parents and the thought of disappointing them hurt her, rather than being fearful of what they would do to her if she strayed. Nevertheless, she won 't stray because she does it out of love, not out of …show more content…
Even so, I have to leave a little footnote. Just as her friend who I met here Zara comes from a wealthy family to study in the United states, so are other Muslims I meet in the party scene. I believe that this interview would have been totally different when she had come from a poor family, one reason is that for the poor, the religion is the sole thing they have, so they try to hold on more to old accustoms, and they simply don 't receive any education gives you the ability to think and question. Her values could be seen as the fundamentals of life. The unique thing I did notice is that she has a problem with the drinking rule. I do know a lot of other Muslim males do drink when they go to a night club, but they are also the majority; it is rare to see a Muslima in those establishments. However, that might be different in New York. I believe that every generation will loosen up just like this happened in other religions. People have the tendency to only look, and see the extreme, while the majority is beautiful and harmless and

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    September 11, 2001: 19 militants associated with Al-Qaeda, an Islamic extremist group, hijacked four commercial airliners headed for Los Angeles and San Francisco. The hijackers took over the planes, crashing two into the World Trade Center in NYC, one into the Pentagon in Virginia, and another one into an empty field in Pennsylvania. None these planes were found with survivors; around 2,996 deaths altogether. Think that’s the worst of it? What about the 4 million muslims who unwillingly died in the Middle East as a result of 9/11? Muslims all around the world were, and still are, being punished for the actions of those 19 terrorists, in whom they had no association with.…

    • 691 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The article “What It Means to Be a Muslim Woman in Today's America” by Reem Nasr, explores what it’s like to be Muslim in America at this current age. It shows how women are questioned for their clothing and their religion. The article also informs the reader how people badmouth muslims by grouping them with terrorist even though they have no evidence to back their statements up. At this age, many muslims go through so much work just to integrate with society by working while at the same time doing their best to ignore discrimination from society. I have seen that both muslims and latinos such as myself are always being discriminated by those who think that they are better than us.…

    • 500 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Ayaan had many doubts about her religion and the true meaning of it. As she grew older she wanted to take control over her love life but she couldn't or it would damage her family’s honor, “Religion gave me a sense of peace only from its assurance of a life after death. It was fairly easy to follow most of the rules… But I had found that I couldn't follow the deeper rules of Islam that control the sexuality and the mind” (Ali 132). Ayaan truly understands what her religion means to her and her notion on what her culture could not take away from her.…

    • 1499 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    What is the point of this assignment? I am not sure. The actual assignment is to interview a person belong do a different culture than I belong to. Ok I can do that. Why am I interviewing them?…

    • 1615 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    The person that I interviewed is from the Wolof people group and is from the Gambia/Senegal region of West Africa. She had lived there in the urban setting for a good majority of her life, but has also had good amount of western influence. She identifies herself as a Muslim but is not as serious about her religion as the majority of the people in her culture and she does not believe in a lot of the unorthodox Islamic practices. This factor gave an interesting perspective during the religion section of the interview. Family Structure…

    • 2058 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Great Essays

    Henrietta Lacks Women

    • 1074 Words
    • 5 Pages

    “Bobette stormed over to Galen and Ethel’s house, and burst in their front door screaming that if either of them touched one of those Lacks children again, she’d kill them herself” (Skloot, 115). This was the first time the Lacks children were truly stood up for, at least since their mother passed. For too many years, Deborah, Sonny, and Joe were harassed, abused and neglected. They were voiceless and they had no one to look up to. Until Bobette came into their lives, and with open arms she gave them a second chance.…

    • 1074 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Decent Essays

    In the article What’s It Like To Be Muslim In America, Zehra Naqvi a Pakistani-American Muslim immigrant explains what it’s like to be Muslim in America today. She explains that being Muslim in America is tough because she doesn’t have any control over what others think being Muslim is. In the article she explains her struggles, beliefs and her views on what others say and believe muslims do based on some incidents that have been occurring around the world. Zehra states that she is too scared of terrorist attacks, Who isn’t after all of the recent attacks. She is scared of being attacked for wearing her hijab.…

    • 115 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I think Washburn values diversity because having diversity at a university presents all kinds of thinking and reasoning strategies from different types of students. Also, there are more ways to come up with results and solutions when there is a diverse setting containing students from different backgrounds. In my opinion, I think the most important part of the WU diversity statement is the first sentence that says, “The mission of our diversity initiative is to honor the Washburn University commitment to respect, embrace, enhance and celebrate diversity at all levels of the University and surrounding communities through faculty, staff, student and administrative efforts and community partnerships.” I think this sentence is important because it is stating what the mission of diversity is at Washburn. I support the WU diversity statement because the last sentence states, “Washburn defines diversity broadly to encompass gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, sexual orientation and identity, disability, age, religion and national origin” and this greatly reflects my views on diversity.…

    • 830 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Nagwa Ibrahim

    • 380 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Nagwa Ibrahim, Egypt Nagwa Ibrahim is a Muslim female born and raised in Cairo Egypt. Her life wasn't that special just work and school till she got married. After that she was stay at home mom. When her husband introduced the idea of moving to the United states, she was scared but at the same time it was the best for her 2 kids. She had a girl named Nesma at the time she was 14 and a younger girl her name was basma and she was 7.…

    • 380 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I interviewed a beautiful and courageous woman, of African descent. She is from the western part of Africa. She was born and raised in Monrovia, Liberia on May 20, 1969. In addition, she has one biological brother and three step siblings. Now she is currently living in Loganville, Georgia where she resides with her two children.…

    • 1389 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Thesis: The Canadian television sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie is a tremendous series that not only gives viewers numerous laughs, but also educates viewers on Islam. The show give viewers insight on the daily life of Muslims living in the western world. Although this series is fictional, it does an exemplary job of depicting diversity among the group of Muslims living in Mercy, Saskatchewan. The Muslim characters in the show all seem to have different jobs and behaviors while still remaining strongly connected to their faith. From doctors, to politicians, to handymen and many others the Muslims in Mercy are just as much a part of the community as anyone else.…

    • 826 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Naheed Mustafa in “My body Is My Own Business” says, “in the Western world, the hijab has come to symbolize either forced silence or radical, unconscionable militancy.” As she explains the true meaning behind the hijab she talks about the perceptions that people have of her. Mustafa breaks this perceived silence as she compares her reality to the flawed viewpoints of other Canadians. By explaining the significance of the hijab through her own experiences, this story shows that women in Canada are subjected to absurd standards of beauty that are oppressing women and in turn hindering them from achieving their right to equality. Mustafa connects with the reader from the way the story is told through a personal narrative, collective language, and clever structuring of the content.…

    • 954 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Anna Håkanson Case Study

    • 1014 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Another thing to keep in mind along with all of the generalizations that one can make about a particular culture is the fact that within these broad frameworks all cultures allow for individuality. There are also many different subcultures within each culture, and these all have their unique characteristics as well. These generalizations about culture can only serve to explain, rather than to predict behaviors (Steers, 2013). When doing business abroad, it is important to consider the individual first, and seek to understand them within the context of their culture. In the case of Anna and Nahed, the fact that Nahed holds the position that she does flies in the face of all of the broad generalizations that can be made about Arab culture due to the fact that their private business culture varies wildly from their social and institutional cultures in that they are meritocracies where the normal hierarchies are eschewed in favor of a…

    • 1014 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Cultural Interview Essay

    • 1254 Words
    • 6 Pages

    For this assignment, we were tasked with interviewing people from different backgrounds. As a person of Arab descent, I tried to find two people with vastly different ethnic backgrounds. The first person I interviewed was a fellow student from University. The student is a male, and his background is Irish and English. The student is an American, but his grandparents had migrated from Ireland over 80 years ago.…

    • 1254 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The person I chose to interview is my close friend, Jessica, who I view as a sister even. We are very close with one another and we spend a lot of time together and support one another. Process 1. Interview your partner to discover how your words and deeds influence his or her self-concept.…

    • 1173 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays

Related Topics