05-29-2005, 01:19 PM
Bismillah
as salam alykom welcome back home Intuition so your field trip is over Alhamdulelah. may be the thread is even going again off topic. but I will just make this comment. Dont regret that u gave salam to someone, dont stop and observe, give it to her again, we never treat people the way they treat us but we rather deal with Allah. So just let always Allah be your aim, by giving it to her again u r expressing a Muslim attitude, she will learn Insh aAllah
As for the nationalism issue, it is sooooo manifest that is why Islamic correct education is becoming a necessity to teach people that our ID is Muslims.
I mean even among Arabs, that is what they teach children in schools here. I was discussing with a mother telling her they teach them what the occupation did to us like more 200 years ago, and we actually establishing it. We were one area, England and France came to divide us, not only this, but also makes Arabic as a language a second class thing. Like it is being from the elite if u dont speak or write good Arabic but do so with English and French.
la hawla wala qowata ila billah