Ho Hum Yaaawn.
Another day, another match (India-Pak, to be precise) and another round of questions. Clearly, my being a muslim puts a BIG question mark on my loyalties.
I guess I started hating this game when a colleague at work asked me to go back to Pakistan because India had lost a match to them. “Aap to wahin ke ho, wahin jao”.
Sigh. Sometimes, education is not enough. Sometimes, the hatred for us kinds is so inbuilt, that no amount of education (or free-wheeling around the world ) is enough to uproot it.
I’m no longer upset. Though I think I should be.
Because each time a match comes up, I’m judged.
I’m judged on my choice.
I’m judged on my patriotism.
I’m judged on my loyalties.
And by people, to whom I owe nothing.
I guess I’m better off washing my hands off the game. I don’t want a part of its victory. Or its loss.
Just.Leave.Me.Be.
Yours Ultra-Sad,
Edited to add :-
I got some very heartening response to this post. It sure made me feel good :) . But what I wrote is what I guess most muslims in India feel.Whenever it is an India-Pakistan match, the muslims have to go overboard in displaying their loyalties. They have to try harder to let the others know that they are rooting for their own country and not the other one. It is something I've seen all people close to my family doing. What I face is nothing new. The BF has faced it, so has my brother. In their case, it was much worse. Of course it makes us seethe inside. It makes us rue the injustice of it all.
But there's not much we can do about it. And that, is the bottomline.
Come on… Don’t listen to the morons… There are people like me who need you to support India, there is these team India which needs support in everyone’s wishes. Don’t disown the game for people. Disown the people who doubt your loyalties.
Hi Prats, the team had my undivided support and prayers.
Thats all 🙂
Seriously you don’t have to show your loyalties. I am sure for every person who doubt it there would be 100s who would believe in them. So as I said ignore the morons, and please go and ask the idiot who questioned you loyalties in game against Pakistan, if he is going now to question the loyalty of Tamilians in the Final against SL
LOL!!
Good one Prats 🙂
Thanks for the support 🙂
Don’t disown the game for people. Disown the people who doubt your loyalties. – Well said Prats 🙂
Yes, I agree with Prats. I shouldn’t be disowning the game.
But the game itself brings back so many bad memories, its tough to like it anymore 🙂
Aww cheer up. You don’t need to prove anything to anyone.. people like your colleague were born with blinkers. Ignore them. You’re right you owe them nothing, so chill.
I am pretty chilled now OM.
But yet, I cant help feeling irked when I see that look in people’s eyes.
what rubbish..how can anyone talk like this? Noor darling, you should have given this person some answer or for that matter anyone… if u don’t want to answer, then was there nobody around to teach that colleague of yours?
I am sorry, but if i was around to hear this, would have given that person a lifetime gift…
it just pisses me off to hear such things.. Pls don’t let such fools bother you this much..
Hehe!!
Archu dear, I just wish you are with me next time 😉
It’ll be such fun to see you going at them 🙂
Love ya girl!!
Oh God! I dont believe people actually say that! Please dont take offence..they are just plain stupid…we support the game, doesnt really matter who wins right?
Apparently, when we say, “let the best team win”, we are insinuating that we really don’t care for India.
Yes, I’ve been accused thus too!!
Depending on their size, I would physically beat anyone who said this to you. Or at least humiliate them and question their upbringing in public. This pisses me off no end.
LOL!!
Pallu darling, I swear, size doesn’t matter!
One look from your blazing eyes and the offender is doomed for life 😀
Oh, Noor, it’s just so brave of you to put up with all this nonsense. Can’t imagine how I would handle the looks that you are talking about 😦
Not brave, just resigned 😀
Hello Noor
I come to your blog frequently to get my quota of laughs and to see what will come my way in about 10 months time (my daughter is about that much younger than your twins).
However, this is sad and unacceptable – that too to the daughter of an army man!
And just as most people from your community root for India, I would like to believe that a majority from mine do not behave in the way your colleague does (may be I am a fool). Just as the “liberal” muslim is not heard, the “straight thinking” hindu is also not heard (or so I believe).
I know this post does not change the way you would have felt, but I sure do hope that I can bring up my daughter in a way that she does not fall prey to such thoughts.
Take care and hope the pain has reduced a bit.
Mukund
Hi Mukund, this is exactly my worry, to bring up my kids in a world where they do not have to face hatred for such trivial matters.
Or at the max, to teach them how not to let it affect them much.
I have come out of it only because I have an excellent friend circle and a strong family.
Hoping and praying that the kids get a similar environment too 🙂
And also wishing that my kids get friends whose parents are like you 🙂
More power to you, Mukund! We need more parents like you to bring up a better-thinking and more tolerant generation.
I agree 🙂
What better work do ppl hv N! U r rt ! U shud no longer be upset. Difficult to set those crooked minds straight. Hugs 🙂
Hugs back S 🙂
Noor, WTF, who is he/she, send him/her over, will give such a blasting, this is beyond comprehension, makes me sick.
He’s not in our company anymore (should I be thankful?!)
Oh… Noorrr 😦 .. just chuck those ppl out of your life and Chiillaaxx … Tell the morons who ask you so … – ‘thodi naku phodi naaku bhooko kari nako’ 🙂
LOL!!!
This is Funny!!
MUST try it out on the next person who opens his mouth like that 😀
Thanks Sheets !!
What a mean thing to say to anyone!!!!!!!!! I cant believe someone actually said that. I’d like to pull out their tongue. grrrrrr
And I’d die to be a fly on the wall when you do that .
((Hugs))