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I am SO glad this is not MY son......(luckily 
, he puts on something like Don Carlos 
when he gets up, so I did sómething right! 
).
I was mailing with my Norwegian friend who I met in Africa 20 years ago, we still have contact, she comes here at least once a year for a long weekend, since 3 years.
Our sons were born 5 days apart. The father is Ethiopian, o.k. if you wanna split hairs, he is Eritrean. My kid's dad is from Mali. Both are back there, mine permanently, hers temp. (he has a new Ethiopian wife and kid in Oslo).
Anyway, this is it. Since a good year ago, her kid has been going to the mosque - his dad is christian - and is getting into it in a serious way, he says he is searching and needs the role model of a man. (thank god my son has great teachers at school for that!).
He has stopped smoking spliffs and taking responsibility for stuff most 18 year-old wouldn't bother about , like shopping for a bed-ridden woman with cancer....
She is very cool about it, and is talking to him lots about it. I said get him into Sufism, which is a spiritual side of Islam and non-violent. I don't think he is planning to do any nasty stuff, but he is young, impressionable and those imams are weird and sick with their ideas and sermons.....and if not
them, some others are, in the congregation.
We were just mailing about our plans for summer holidays. She has 3 kids, her daughter, with her big bambi eyes loves Amsterdam, she has a cool half Ghanian/Norwegian boyfriend and they may come here and stay in my house if and when I go off somewhere.
She is going to Tunisia with her daughter in June.
She said her son wants to go to Mecca
Wow! so glad it's not my son, like I said. Tho I know and have many muslims as friends/ex-husband/ex-boyfriend, they are very chill. And not into any of that stuff.One was joking saying "Yes, I have my rucksack right here" (Madrid, London)when I met him
I would be worried!! But yea, what can you do? Can't tell an 18 year old what to do....just hope and pray!
Let's hope he stays safe with it. Poor girl, she has enough to cope with...
What would you do if it was your son?
, he puts on something like Don Carlos when he gets up, so I did sómething right! ).I was mailing with my Norwegian friend who I met in Africa 20 years ago, we still have contact, she comes here at least once a year for a long weekend, since 3 years.
Our sons were born 5 days apart. The father is Ethiopian, o.k. if you wanna split hairs, he is Eritrean. My kid's dad is from Mali. Both are back there, mine permanently, hers temp. (he has a new Ethiopian wife and kid in Oslo).
Anyway, this is it. Since a good year ago, her kid has been going to the mosque - his dad is christian - and is getting into it in a serious way, he says he is searching and needs the role model of a man. (thank god my son has great teachers at school for that!).
He has stopped smoking spliffs and taking responsibility for stuff most 18 year-old wouldn't bother about
, like shopping for a bed-ridden woman with cancer....She is very cool about it, and is talking to him lots about it. I said get him into Sufism, which is a spiritual side of Islam and non-violent. I don't think he is planning to do any nasty stuff, but he is young, impressionable and those imams are weird and sick with their ideas and sermons.....and if not
them, some others are, in the congregation.
We were just mailing about our plans for summer holidays. She has 3 kids, her daughter, with her big bambi eyes loves Amsterdam, she has a cool half Ghanian/Norwegian boyfriend and they may come here and stay in my house if and when I go off somewhere.
She is going to Tunisia with her daughter in June.
She said her son wants to go to Mecca
Wow! so glad it's not my son, like I said. Tho I know and have many muslims as friends/ex-husband/ex-boyfriend, they are very chill. And not into any of that stuff.One was joking saying "Yes, I have my rucksack right here" (Madrid, London)when I met him
I would be worried!! But yea, what can you do? Can't tell an 18 year old what to do....just hope and pray!
Let's hope he stays safe with it. Poor girl, she has enough to cope with...
What would you do if it was your son?
what's my prize for deciphering the post???
and Ayaan Hirsi Ali 
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