a January afternoon in Islamic prayer room of my university in London. It's just sitting time for the afternoon prayer and a group of girls on the floor and lined with carpet waiting for someone still ready for prayer makes. I sit next Shamima that comes from the UK and has Bengali parents, and a girl who came from Lebanon for her studies in London. Another girl in the room, I've seen it a few times, she is from Pakistan and has lived for almost three years in the UK. It has - it was just holiday - for a while not seen and greeted each other warmly.
comes fast on the topic of the study of the two girls from Lebanon and Pakistan, which they will complete this summer. About what they want to write their Bachelor thesis, the girl from Pakistan asked. "Oh," she says, she thought about for a while, but eventually opted to write about the history of prostitution in Pakistan. "Really?" We make great eyes and someone jokingly asks if her parents knew already know. She laughs and shakes her long brown hair with a nod over his shoulder. Yes, and it was not easy. Her parents - it comes from the very western-oriented elite of the country - Are very liberal, but that would have been hard. You have to tell them long to ensure that they would address the whole socio-historical and think it is a scientific work easy. The parents still do not seem to be enthusiastic, but would you not at least being in their way.
The girl from Lebanon, nods sympathetically. Yes, they know this then your sister wanted to do a masters in medicine with an emphasis on HIV and AIDS. Her parents were not a bit excited and ultimately to have the sister for a different focus - diseases in the Middle East - decided.
The girl is from Pakistan, it looks like, write his bachelor's thesis on prostitution in Pakistan. The sister of the girl from Lebanon might be happy with a different focus. But what's going on within the Muslim community if anything that remotely looks like "Sex" is hysterical reaction? One can have a conservative sexual morality. This is everyone's own decision. You can also send these morals to his children. But if there will be so far, that the social outcast is because you research the history of prostitution in their own country, or would like to help AIDS victims - then something is very wrong. And Islam also has to do not much.
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