Harley and hijabs

[starlite_gone]

There are a number of Muslim families who live in the apartment complex near me. I often see them walking along the paths, and whenever I can I smile and say, "Assalamu Alaykum" to them

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[starlite_gone]

To be honest, I don't remember hearing about it before I learned Somali. I do know that when I studied Islam with women in Fiji, I talked to women who had lived in many places around the world, and the way Islam was practiced varied rather considerably. Generally, the Middle East was strictest in its interpretations, but it was sort of like the government affected the interpretation of Islam. Fiji is really laid back so they had a less strict version practiced there, but even then there were some things that Westerners tend to perceive as problematic, like women couldn't hold land on their own, they had to have a man sign off on it. That part might have been a Fijian law but I think was Muslim in some ways. I can't recall for sure.

Anyway, in Fiji I don't remember them saying anything about dogs and I know there were a lot of stray dogs around. From what I understood when looking it up, dogs are okay if they are guard dogs or working dogs but no other dogs are okay, and then the saliva + wet dog thing I THINK goes on top of that? So maybe even if it's a guard dog the wet/saliva counts? I'm not sure. But I'm not sure if part of this is that Somalia has a slightly stricter view of Islam than Fiji did? Or whether I somehow just didn't hear about it there or my host mom just ignored it. I know she didn't have any pets though.

/rambling

tl;dr: I guess since I'm not Muslim I couldn't say the best answer to it but it seems to be at least partially dependent on the culture and person.

[_profiterole_]

It kind of makes sense and would explain why it's not as widely known as some other rules.