tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398611943115596793.post1794708230716974243..comments2024-03-28T05:55:54.342+00:00Comments on Happy Muslim Mama: Book Review: Daniyal Mueenuddin - In Other Rooms Other WondersHappy Muslim Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16144849663355612169noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398611943115596793.post-59321671400987742012011-04-08T14:19:08.167+01:002011-04-08T14:19:08.167+01:00@LSS i disagree with you on the point of morality....@LSS i disagree with you on the point of morality. too often in an effort to placate readers' sensibilities about what a "muslim" country should look like, writers are forced to reserve their stories of what people actually are like. Muslim or no, people go through different things in life, and their stories should be told. It humanizes them, and doesn't hurt our religion, which is perfect with or without us.<br /><br />@Umm Salihah...Having visited Pakistan with my husband and his family, I sometimes felt there was a mask on the faces of our hosts, and they presented us with a palatable version of their lives. I'm not sure why, and I asked my husband afterwards, if the way his (English) family viewed his (Pakistani) family was realistic and not just a bit idealized and based on their own need to appear to be "better off" than they really were in the UK. So pakistan became this place where they went to relax and escape the daily grind, like a resort. My father spent a lot of time working alongside Pakistani migrant workers in the UK, and the lasting impression he has of them was their idealization of the their homeland.<br /><br />Maybe it's possible for us to have facets of both ourselves? There are good things, but perhaps the writer was trying to say to us, and to himself, yes, there is "this room" but there are "other rooms" with experiences unseen?Asiyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18122345875026981510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398611943115596793.post-85581023438830895082011-04-08T12:44:34.655+01:002011-04-08T12:44:34.655+01:00Having read this book, i wasn't too pleased wi...Having read this book, i wasn't too pleased with the morality with almost all of the characters in this book, Made me keep thinking 'is this not an islamic country?!' The last story is the best and i feel the most realistic but i agree with the point made that we don't see what people really do get up to behind closed doorsLSSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398611943115596793.post-998901388179694082011-04-08T10:39:31.320+01:002011-04-08T10:39:31.320+01:00Asalaamu Alaikum
Sounds a lot lke White Tiger...h...Asalaamu Alaikum<br /><br />Sounds a lot lke White Tiger...have you read that?Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08016249614421972151noreply@blogger.com