Muslimah next door {Editing}

[@FissionCube]

im still losing it over 'head of the CEO company'

[@jcdf2]

Yes. A company that is entirely made up of CEOs or a company that produces CEOs (wait, wouldn't that be Yale and Harvard)? I am not sure which it is but it would be cool to work there. I could wander around telling everyone that I am a CEO. :)

[@thewingedserpent5823]

probably some kind of education entity that oversees all ivy league collages

[@kritische3959]

So here is where all Capitalist Pigs are made, huh.

[@squid1481]

Curb your tongue James. Years from now this story will be used in schools all over the world to help understand the Israel-Palestine conflict.

[@lishanglong6762]

It will also help understand bad writing

[@runningcommentary2125]

I'm trying to imagine someone asking those two how they met. "How did you meet your husband?" "Oh, he screamed abuse and me and then threw a rock at my head."

[@michael83479]

He committed a hate crime against me and I just knew he was the one

[@gingivitis9148]

When I was little a kid told me her parents met in a magic shop and one of those spining plate hit the her mum in the head and that's why she has a scar there. Sooo yeah... They did the dad you'll be happy to know.

[@wavecentral]

Maybe he's a Klingon?

[@2winghost431]

When I grow-up, I want to work at the CEO company!

[@ashleighcalvert8937]

Hate crime is a really strange place to base a romance upon

[@Nr4747]

But you have to admit: It's pretty creative.

[@glitterdentist1873]

@@Nr4747 ;-;

[@athenagreen5390]

"If this is the second draft, how bad was the first one?" Me every time I look at my work...

[@V2ULTRAKill]

Why you callin me out like that!

[@TheAdarkerglow]

*Cries in third draft* Why isn't it good yet?!

[@OkCare1786]

Imagine being the CEO of the CEO company.

[@reviewman]

You should read one of Onision’s books they make watpad look like classic literature.

[@DaveMiller6042]

Wait. That asshole wrote books?

[@marunomi]

@@DaveMiller6042 Yup.

[@DaveMiller6042]

@@marunomi WHY?!

[@V2ULTRAKill]

@@DaveMiller6042 theyre as awful as you think1

[@irisaferg2524]

@@V2ULTRAKill If not worse.

[@KrimsonVagus]

This kind of writing deserves its own animation to highlight how hilariously bad it is. Some KZbin animators should tap into that market.

[@kennedyhogan9484]

internet historian would be perfect, have you seen his reading of my immortal?

[@ameetfaisal8723]

Wow the writing is so trash. As a muslim guy it just makes me cringe.

[@maryamhussain8182]

😂😂😂 my very religious Muslim mum wanted to see what I was reading on wattpad so I showed her this

[@Mike_of_the_Sonora]

I am so confused, I mean Im a muslim, but this whole story is just confusing. Not in the sense of context ( well sometimes ) but the "why". I can't stop laughing

[@socialanxietydora4112]

I feel like a 13 year old girl watched Elite and hated the Nadia X Guzman slow burn

[@athenagreen5390]

I don't know why but this comment made me so happy.

[@scoutobrien3406]

Theory: The writer isn't actually muslim. This, especially the booze part, is the kind of stupidity that someone IMAGINES another group experiences.

[@doomguy19931]

They could also be self-pandering. All the "good guys" are Muslim while the "bad guys" are some other group, either Christian or agnostic/atheist.

[@scoutobrien3406]

@@doomguy19931 it's definitely pandering it just doesn't strike me as the type of pandering that comes from somebody who actually knows much about Muslims. It reminds me of Japanese or Chinese fan fiction characters that are made out to be super awesome but fall into EVERY SINGLE common stereotype and show none of the less obvious aspects of those cultures. Bonus points when the author knows a couple words from the language and throws them in at every turn with everything else being english terminology ("Oh Kami! Instead of "Oh God/s")

[@izunahosaki6133]

Honestly..it could be a young muslim girl writing it xD because.. i'm a muslim too and sometimes when we're still young and easily influenced, the only picture we get from occidental countries if we've never been there are Hollywood movies, with all it cliches about bad boys, "cute Girl main character that is not like other girls" huge prom parties, slut bad girl that is the villain, cliche bullying, and it really gives a distorded view about it

[@rexappleby4731]

www.wattpad.com/295083525-muslimah-next-door-editing-about-this-story

[@thegreattotemaster]

Either that or James is just Russian. :P

[@AsdfghjkL-lv6kb]

As a Muslim I wouldn’t go to my neighbours while they are partying because it can happen bad things when people are drunk ...

[@eave01]

As a human, I wouldn't go to my neighbors when they are partying or arguing, because you are right, bad things and misunderstanding.

[@ObeyBunny]

Despite 50 people in the class, there's only one girl what's his face can turn to when he doesn't have a pencil.

[@shanior2837]

As a middle eastern person I got a full on metaphorical panic attack thinking about a watped story handling of the isr/pls topic 😨

[@leileyaravencroft]

Wow... he must be a superhero for being able to drink 10+ bottles of alcohol constantly and not be dead. And he just walked after 12 bottles? Even the most hardcore drinkers would have been stumbling around, moving forwards and backwards (because they don't know whether or not they are coming or going)

[@nico_zero]

I can't believe the author used a hate crime as a trigger for a romance story. The cringe...

[@plantemor]

It also kinda reads like religious propaganda akin to God's not dead. You can only be a good person if you convert to the religion of the authors/filmmakers choice. Pretty hilarious story! Also white Muslims do exist. I have a good friend who is Muslims and from an Arabic country but she has very light skin and has mentioned to me that people think she's a western convert which used to annoy her a little bit. :b

[@kklondikke9019]

silja lin having pale skin doesn’t mean white tho :0

[@plantemor]

@@kklondikke9019 true but white Muslims still exist.

[@khaorix2667]

Islam is a religion and some whites decide to convert into it. Also Arabs are basically white, anthropologically, they just got browner from living in hot, sunny regions of the world. Many have very light skin. But most of them have dark hair so the actress choice is meh.

[@raynatumbeva780]

Arabs, Albanians, Bosnians, Bulgaro-Muhammadans, Pakistani, Bangladeshi... All are 'white' if we go by science. The difference is that 2-4 were forcefully Islamized by Ottomans.

[@chevvy427]

@@raynatumbeva780 There's no such thing as being "white" by science. It's not a scientific concept that you can test for.

[@Strannik01]

14:11 Honestly, that depends. In my neighborhood in Chicago, it's not that unusual hijabis/Musilm women in head wraps walking around. A lot of it has to do with the fact that the neighborhood is home to a lot of refugees -and- there's a college campus nearby. And there are other communities like that in metro Detroit, parts of Minnesota, etc.

[@DrPhil-om8hb]

I’m in the suburbs of Chicago. In warehouses and production floors around here a good portion of the workforce in my experience are Muslim

[@wyzasukitan]

Facts. If this were set in Toronto (or the GTA tbh) in almost any neighbourhood, this would be completely normal.

[@citizensguard3433]

"You can't drink 5 bottles of vodka." Well, James. I think that all depends on the size of the bottle. Also... can't? Or shouldn't? Because I have now taken this as a personal challenge. ...and, now I'm dead.

[@RedMaple02]

Being head of the CEO company is the highest form of ascension😧

[@cac_deadlyrang]

“A white actor would be a bit whitewashy” **Laughs in Albanian**

[@Strannik01]

I don't think the author or the characters are meant to be Albanian, though

[@Ma_ksi]

What about bosnians and volga burglars and most muslims communities in central western Russia

[@daniellemhall1358]

I get your criticism but I think the story said the protagonist has a mother from Yemen.

[@raynatumbeva780]

@@daniellemhall1358 Arab, still the same race.

[@Agentmg17]

"I wont read it, but feel free" 😂😂😂

[@kennedyhogan9484]

this made me genuinely laugh for the first time in a long time, I know you will not read it but thank you

[@JamesTullos]

You're welcome

[@philippstetter5611]

I really, really hope my book doesn't sound like that when read by someone else

[@flameloude]

Yeah... Same here. Same here.

[@ahmednadim5859]

I assume the male MC converted to Islam since in Muslim families, women marrying non-Muslims is highly frowned upon. So the author might have added that detail in to allow for a happy ending.

[@cur1ouscatf1sh]

Next time someone asks me what I’m gonna do after I graduate from college, I’m gonna tell them that I want to be head of the CEO company

[@aisha6494]

"almadudula" HAJKAJKAJLAKL

[@theaquinnwrites]

In fairness to the author she's probably a teenager and also I have seen stories that do dumb shit with alcohol written by adults who have definitely drank in their lives - after which got published recently has the love interest drink a whole bottle of vodka and sober up half an hour later cause he had a fight with his girlfriend. That was written by a 24yo woman and it got published!

[@moola9755]

my Muslim ass cannot finish this the cringe is too strong 😩😭😭😭😭😭

[@DaveMiller6042]

I'm not even Muslim, and have basic knowledge of Islam, and I can barely get through it.

[@allmylovers1]

"You cannot drink 5 bottles of vodka and be alive" - only on west from Odra, my friend.

[@RedMaple02]

*”The more we question it, the more lost we’re gonna get.*

[@Shenaldrac]

Shit, I wish *my* dad was the head of the CEO company and didn't mind spending money on this building.

[@runningcommentary2125]

Just a heads up 'alhamdulilah' is pronounced 'al-ham-du-li-lah'. It's Arabic for 'thanks be to God'.

[@loukritiablack3573]

I don't know if I actually watched this, or if this whole thing was just a weird fever dream because someone slipped me acid without noticing.

[@peterkrothotkin8700]

Bro don't fuck with me, my dad owns the CEO Factory

[@nellid.3264]

3:12 I just put it in here so I can rewatch it again and again

[@GrimmDelightsDice]

Watching this video after drinking a full pint of whiskey is great because the worst thing you have to say is "actually I mean you could take five bottles of vodka and not die... if they were shooters?"

[@eave01]

I find it strange that James is throwing a raunch party yet he and his attendees are drunken puritans, offended that a woman is not only willing to acquiesce, but actively seeking intimate contact...the idea boggles the mind. I can not imagine such a world...the dreadful consequences of those sexual encounters is one of the reasons women don't go to the restroom alone. OK. I do get that it's fantasy, like superman can fly, but this behavior is so odd, it needs more explanation.

[@MaestroAlvis]

25:29 "with open eyes" as you do

[@vincentthecatisinnocent1774]

Gosh I'm muslim but this is so weird😂

[@doomguy19931]

So I just took my dog outside and talked to myself about how to fix this book for 8-12 minutes and I, your average straight white male, who has had scarce interaction with Muslims, and with information regarding the Quran granted to me by only history, some minor research, and what I gleaned from the well-written-but-still-unrecommended-from-me-chief book _A Thousand Splendid Suns_ by a Khaled Hosseini, wrote a better Romeo and Juliet style, two-worlds-one-romance novel about a Muslim girl and a white guy who dislikes Muslims than this person, who supposedly is, in fact, a Muslim.

[@mitchellline3398]

Could you please review my fanfic "The legion" on fanfiction under the name TheCheerfulCynic? I feel like you would be an honest critic. If you ever do, please don't hold back.

[@lishanglong6762]

Oh no

[@TheAdarkerglow]

I mean, it isn't like Muslims pray 5 times a day, of course his Dad's conversion was a secret....

[@egomaniac7230]

Ex-Muslim here. I think the reason for James's conversion has to do with the fact that Muslim women aren't allowed to marry non-Muslim men.

[@bilalwaheed1125]

They are technically allowed. But it is not encouraged (tolerated)

[@egomaniac7230]

@@bilalwaheed1125 do Shia and Sunni rules differ on this matter because I remember my religion teacher spent 2 hours saying how not allowed it is and how women are too weak minded to keep their religion and will convert to their husband's religion eventually and stuff like this.

[@mclovinjr9086]

@@egomaniac7230 I’m a Shia and I don’t think it is allowed in any case for any sect, but I might be wrong. A Muslim man can marry Muslim, Jewish and Christian women, however a Muslim woman can only marry a Muslim man.

[@---ul9eq]

@@egomaniac7230 I was told by my arabic teacher it’s because your religion is inherited from your father in Islam. Though I also have heard that it may be because women are too “weak” and their husbands will eventually manipulate them into converting (but people usually give this explanation so I’m not sure if it has any basis). It’s kind of the same sentiment for why men can get divorced way easier than women. Women are apparently too emotional and fickle and will end up accidentally divorcing their husbands if they don’t compliment them enough or something. It’s so infantilising and insulting. And I was just expected to accept it.

[@egomaniac7230]

@@---ul9eq Loved everything you said 🤌

[@terriblestudentfilms4643]

Honestly, I really don’t like enemies to lovers plots. How many times have you dated somebody who you started out absolutely hating? I mean it probably happens but like…

[@Filbertsupremacy]

When he said Emily Rudd a part of me died inside. The girl he showed isn't her tho.

[@morethanjustasloth5528]

It's like if God's Not Dead hate-fucked My Immortal.

[@anica2112]

This comment wins the comments section

[@jjgjdigid]

Astaghfirullah, Ah- Stag- Fir- Eh- Lah , and you pronounced Mash'Allah so well Mash'Allah ahhhhhhhh

[@mnschoen]

No, no. Don't correct his pronunciation. He explicitly said he doesn't care.

[@jjgjdigid]

@@mnschoen Too bad 🙂

[@willowfaye670]

Even with the pronunciation spelled out in front of me I'm still struggling. Thanks for the help though.

[@gutza1782]

This must be the muslim version of Harry Potter Becomes a Communist.

[@taiki8419]

Excuse me, the fuck ?

[@Djinn_Entonic]

What about hogwarts, school of prayers and miracles

[@eave01]

Maybe it's not a love story, but a hate story.

[@anica2112]

Confirmation of James' whiteness being able to touch a cop and not get shot on the spot is 😂😂😂

[@MrOverHeels]

It's pronounced Al-Hum-Do-lil-lah. Means 'Thank God'

[@totalwar1793]

How do people even get spelling wrong with Word and Google Docs having spellcheck?

[@gingivitis9148]

✨Talent✨(๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧

[@nachinachi5085]

Someone should write a deconstruction on this.

[@anica2112]

How does a guy miss his father praying 5-6 times a day (6 if the dad prays Tahajjud), fasting and abstaining from alcohol and pork??

[@purine1400]

ah yes alhamadoodeelah

[@ooogaboogabahh9401]

I could barley get through this.

[@PriyaPans]

Some of the better authors on the site include: www.wattpad.com/user/TheOrangutan www.wattpad.com/user/AngusEcrivain And two great stories: www.wattpad.com/story/72436618-sounds-of-murder www.wattpad.com/22519580-chapter-1-a-mermaid-in-the-bath I'll be honest.... Wattpad about seven years ago was the BEST. Now...it's not as great.

[@thewingedserpent5823]

Yup, the bias isn't noticable at all

[@ssa3101]

Hmmmmm..... Pretty sure the author is a non muslim

[@Ma_ksi]

8:17 wait what but how is my grandfather still alive tho?

[@antipsychotic451]

There are no "two sides" or "nuance" to the Israel-Palestine "conflict". Either you support Israeli settler colonialism and genocide, or you don't.

[@shay2804]

You can reach the same conclusion (apartheid is wrong) while remembering and acknowledging that the Jewish populations in the neighboring arab countries were getting ethically cleansed and had to flee to Palestine for fear for their lives.

[@Notfallkaramell]

14:20 From the amound of Muslims crammed together, could be Germany. We have a lot of immigrants here.

[@ObeyBunny]

Wait. James converts? I assume he was previously atheist before, so what convinced him? I've listened to some readings of the Quran and it gets basic facts about the nature of the universe wrong. Like that the mountains are pegs that hold the earth in place to prevent earthquakes, or that the sky can literally break apart and fall on people, that the sun sets in murky mud, that slavery is a good thing, etc.

[@doomguy19931]

If you look at the "plot" of the "book," all the "good guys" end up being Muslim. Personally, I think it's self pandering to the idea of "my group can do NOTHING wrong"

[@mammal2281]

@@doomguy19931 Yeah, and that typically happens when either an idiot or a really young kid who is biased to any group (religion/belief they grew up in, hobby group, etc) decides to write something, its **awful**

[@itsgonnaBmay]

Tbh any ancient holy text alone probably wouldn't convert someone. I don't know as much about the Qu'ran as I do the bible, but I've listened to part of it (there's a KZbin channel called The Qu'ran Reloaded that does an atheist Qu'ran study,) and it seems like if you open it to a random page, you're likely going to find political stuff from the era it was written in complaining about polytheists. If you're a bible/Qu'ran scholar or already in the religion these things might be super interesting and profound to you, but the average person probably isn't even going to fully understand the text, let alone convert

[@itsgonnaBmay]

Like imagine if someone opened the bible to a random page and found Sodom and Gomorah or Rachel and Leah. I doubt they're going to be convinced

[@nm9688]

Eh I mean most Muslims probably don't believe those things too.

[@helenhankey3632]

The author of this book: the Palestinians were just throwing rocks! Also the author: how dare James throw a rock!

[@nm9688]

Wtf those situations are not comparable lol

[@MisterJang0]

@@nm9688 Why not?

[@somegirl4631]

yea... and years ago they used to throw rocks at my grandfather as he run to a synagogue and today they are still trowing rocks at me when I'm trying to go to pry at the temple mountain the holiest place for Jews in the world (that they conquered and destroyed 1,400years ago) some things never change 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@antipsychotic451]

@@somegirl4631 You are a colonizer living on stolen land. They have every right to throw rocks at you.

[@halaelgargani1211]

@@somegirl4631 and who was the one to bomb, imprison and displace palestinians because they thought roots = ownership? who is gentrifying their homes and cemeteries, bombing hospitals and schools, who is shooting kids for fun? oh but the monster is the one throwing the rocks huh

[@ΜαρίαΠ-ζ7δ]

Can we talk about the blatant evangelism at the part where James' dad reveals that he's converted to islam? It's so strange how vehement this author (and frankly a lot of muslims) are so obsessed with grandstanding about how much they love their religion. It's so disingenuous and overkill. This author is using islam as a personality trait like american girls use painting or "quirkiness"

[@mnschoen]

So your complaint is that a story written by a Muslim woman doesn't...tickle your white American teenaged male fancy? You don't seem to have a lot of complaints about the writing itself. It sounds fine to me. It's amateur, but it's fine. You do, however, seem to be extremely butthurt about how a Muslim woman views America and American men. Keep critiquing Muslim culture (you're not Muslim) as written by a woman (you're not a woman), and giggling about it like it's ridiculous. "Sorry, there's an Arabic word there and I'm not going to try" -- When did you start trying? Did you think maybe you shouldn't have done this review? It's a book about and by a Muslim woman about a Muslim woman trying to navigate American culture. None of your critiques are about the world-building, or the writing, or the character development. Your critiques are "I don't care, you don't care" YOU don't care because you're not the target audience. This review is actually gross.

[@willowfaye670]

He committed a hate crime against sis😭. I'm not Muslim so I don't want to overstep my bounds but it's more about the romance of the story, even more specifically the bigot.

[@rae4624]

dude most of the criticism is about the main characters' flawed logic, and the fact that it's a romance between a muslim girl and a man who has actively harmed her and committed hate crimes against her. That's the absurdity of this story. AND, most of the criticism WAS about the writing- inconsistencies, plot holes, and problems with the setting.