I was watching Milk Tea react to her livestream when the thought occurred to me that “I really do not give a fuck about Islam”. I know it’s a major religion and is important to lots of people but I don’t care....Milk Tea discussing wearing her abaya or Chinny droning on about prayers is not why I’m here. It’s boring and, if I dare say the quiet part out loud, it’s not a belief system that sits comfortably with a predominantly Western audience.
Her audience is overwhelmingly women from the US and Canada, with a scattering of Europeans—women who are accustomed to the personal freedom and equality under the law that comes with living in Western societies. Islam and Sharia law are
not woman-friendly, and not the Religion of Peace, and as dumb as the typical Chantal follower is, even they know this.
Chantal's totally content to stay locked in an apartment, swathed in polyester tarps, and completely dependent upon her husband, as long as she gets to keep stuffing her face and has unlimited internet access. That's all she really cares about; to her, being able to sit and eat all she wants is freedom, and things like flimsy domestic violence laws, honor killings, and a woman being effectively the property of her husband, father, or brothers don't matter to her as long as they don't affect her.
But the vast majority of Western women are going to disagree with that, and sitting there watching Chantal act as an apologist for Islam when it's clear she knows next to nothing about her new religion, or the culture she claims to have embraced, and hasn't bothered to learn any Arabic, and hasn't read the Koran—yeah, it all rubs the wrong way. "Ooh, Arab men are so protective—" Bitch, they're only protective of any woman who they have a stake in, and only for as long as she behaves. It's not about respect for women; it's about guarding property and family honor.
Add to that, every time the word "God" comes out of her filthy, piggish, whore mouth, it feels like a desecration. I don't belong to any religion, but I do have a set of spiritual beliefs, and despite being non-dogmatic it fills me with profound disgust every single time she says it—so I can't even imagine how devout Christians, Jews, or even other Muslims must feel. Everyone knows she's not a believer; everyone knows she's a hideous fake; and I sometimes wonder how many people have noped out on her because they had the same visceral disgust at it that I do.
Relevance to the thread is her views are declining and I’m wondering if this is the unspoken reason why.
It could be. I'm more inclined to think it's just because she's boring as fuck right now.
Rainbows but I really hope she survives this and goes full on ex-Muslim Islamophobe.
To go full-on ex-Muslim Islamophobe, she would have had to be invested in Islam in the first place. And she's not.
When couples break up, the most rabidly hate-filled, vengeful hating of one's ex only happens in people who intensely loved that person. The amount of screeching and shit-slinging is directly proportionate to how over-the-moon in love they were. And the same thing happens in religions, cults, and cult-like groups—it's always former True Believers who turn apostate with a vengeance.
Chantal is not a believer; she's just LARPing as one. She has no emotional investment in Islam. So if she ever fucks off back to Canada and abandons the chin spanx, she'll play it like it's no big deal, it's just another decision about what's right for her, and complain about the haters who think she should never be allowed to change her mind.
ETA:
The jilbab purchase was a choice. Was it because she is so lazy she can't be bothered to style her hijab?
Has she sized out of abaya's?
I'm going to say "Yes" to both.
I was wondering what she was going to do, given that she'd already bought the largest available abayas, and was out-fatting them by the end of last year. So I'm not surprised that she's sized up into jilbabs, which have more room. Solving her pesky hijab problem? That's a nice bonus.