Indigo Jo on January 17th, 2010

I didn’t watch the Muslim Driving School programme, which was on BBC2 last Tuesday (at the right time to clash with Defamation, which I reviewed in my last entry), but I finally got round to seeing it just now, and I was pleasantly surprised. It was all shown in the north of England around […]

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Indigo Jo on October 27th, 2009

“But You Have to Tell them” « Ginny’s Thoughts & Things

Ginny on one of my pet hates about dealing with (some) born Muslims: those who think any convert can easily “make someone Muslim”, and expect us to start preaching Islam as soon as we convert even though they may never have done any such thing […]

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Indigo Jo on June 9th, 2009

Did you change your name when you converted? I did what I suspect most did: adopted a Muslim name to use with my Muslim friends, and kept my old one to use with everyone else. It helped that my middle name was (or rather, is still) Joseph, a name with a very convenient […]

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In the recent discussion on White privilege and the Muslim community, it has been suggested that white converts to Islam who experience both discrimination and difficulty in integrating to their new community have the option of simply taking off their hijabs or robes and shortening their beards somewhat, and all their problems will go away, […]

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Indigo Jo on May 16th, 2009

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Indigo Jo on September 19th, 2008

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