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1. My neighbor is Muslim
Tue Dec 11, 2018, 08:52 AM
Dec 2018

His daughter, who was between my daughter, in grades wore her Hijab out of the house. Strangely by the time she got to school she had already removed it.

Nice guy in general. He once asked me how I keep my girls in line. I told them that I didn't know. I let them live their lives, and they decide how they are going to act.

Both his kids and my kids graduated college early. I did appreciate how he emphasized education. I see so many of my daughters' peer group floundering around and spending big bucks in college with little discernible purpose.

People who criticize standards set by Muslim families forget that similar restrictions are applied to Orthodox Jews and Pentecostal Christians. A girl I liked in high school was a Pentecostal Christian. Unfortunately we drifted apart, and she graduated early.

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