He’s talking about the CJ in Pakistan, not here. He said, “The Islamic rule is that if you have a mustache, when you drink water, it shouldn’t get wet from dipping into it. Now, when a man doesn’t know the basics of Islam, what’s left?”

…There is so much wrong with this that I just can’t even.

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For one thing, my dad is clean-shaven. I’m sure he wouldn’t like it if someone lectured him about the “basics of Islam” mandating a Sunnah beard. Which, to be clear, I don’t believe. I have a very hard time believing that God gives a crap about a man’s face being bearded or clean shaven.

Second, this mustache rule is hardly a “basic” rule of Islam. That would be like, oh, I don’t know, don’t steal, take care of the poor especially teh widows and orphans, don’t talk ill of others, fast, pray five times a day, perform the pilgrimage, read Quran, repent for your sins, and eat halaal food. Off the top of my head, THOSE would be the things I would rattle off as the basics of Islam.

Third, WHO.GIVES.A.SHIT. Because, seriously, it’s so much more important to me that a man follow the mustache rule than, I don’t know, actually be a good person. And if I come to know a person who is a really, really good man and helps those around him and is pleasant and well-intentioned, but his mustache is kept a touch too long, frankly, that’s all I need to condemn him TO THE FIRES OF HELL.

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Fourth, judge not lest ye be judged. I try to remember that always. I don’t always succeed, but I absolutely try my best. (And if pressed, I’d say I’m far less judgy IRL than I seem on the interwebz. Which isn’t right, because it’s all the same, judging folks via crap you write on a blog or crap you tweet, and judging them IRL. So I need to work on that.)

GRAH.

WHY DO I TALK TO PEOPLE.