Reflections on Kindness and Generosity

I've been fooled.

This has gotta be the scariest thing about Muslims.

The scariest one

is just how kind they are. I can't count with two hands how

many times a stranger has asked me over to their house for

coffee. Technically, I'm a stranger.

I'm a white Western man, tatted down in a foreign country,

and they just invite me over to their house for coffee.

Coming from the West,

your coworkers barely invite you over, and you work with them

forty-plus hours in a week. The kindness of a

practicing Muslim is unmatched. The second thing is

generosity.

I can't believe how generous these Muslims are.

You go to a restaurant, and I can't even pay for anything.

They're so generous, at the end of our meal,

I c--

At the end of our meal, they'll go pretend like they gotta go to

the bathroom.

They go pay the bill.

The third scariest thing,

these kids.

They're so respectful. They're so sweet.

All they wanna do is give you greetings.

They just wanna come say hello. They wanna see how your day is.

Their behavior is so on point.

Nothing like the West.

In the West, you got kids breaking into cars, stealing

things, not respecting school,

and it comes from the family unit. The family unit is breaking down.

Here, with these Muslims, the kids are on their,

their best behavior. And the scariest thing

is just how happy they really are.

They don't have everything in the world.

They don't have fancy things,

but they're happy with it,

and the most important thing that they do have is Allah,

and every day I'm starting to see more and more

that that's really all we need.

It's a pretty scary list, I know. Which one scared you the

most?