{"id":40,"date":"2008-08-07T14:11:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T18:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/wasim\/2008\/08\/07\/random-lessons-from-philadelphia\/"},"modified":"2010-06-04T11:04:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T15:04:01","slug":"random-lessons-from-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/2008\/08\/07\/random-lessons-from-philadelphia\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Lessons from Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Islam is an African American religion in Philly.<\/li>\n
  2. For all Philadelphians, the dessert of choice is water-ice (pronounced wooter-ice), and is basically some soft-serve ice cream with a snow cone.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n
  3. Not every African-American male with a long sunnah beard is Muslim, but many are.\u00a0 The ones who are will probably make eye contact with you, and possibly say salaam if they can tell you’re Muslim.<\/li>\n
  4. Old City Cab comes a lot more often than Quaker Cab.\u00a0 As everywhere else, most of the drivers are Pakistani, Sikh Punjabi or Bangladeshi.<\/li>\n
  5. The “Rocky” statue no longer sits atop\u00a0the Philly Art Museum\u00a0steps.\u00a0 It\u00a0was\u00a0moved recently, disgracefully placed along the curb.<\/li>\n
  6. Muslim clothing is trendy here, to the point where some non-Muslim women occasionally wear headscarves and the pants-above-the-ankle look is trendy for black\u00a0men (called the Philly capri).<\/li>\n
  7. Strangely\u00a0the\u00a0imam of the largest mosque in West Philly cannot speak a word of\u00a0English, and often yells during the Friday Khutba (otherwise I’m sure he\u00a0is probably a very nice, learned\u00a0man).<\/li>\n
  8. There are no halal pizza places in West Philly.<\/li>\n
  9. The Germantown Mosque brothers are a really loving group who enjoy life in a halal way.\u00a0 Just don’t take photos of them or their mosque — they follow the salafi ruling on photography.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Islam is an African American religion in Philly. For all Philadelphians, the dessert of choice is water-ice (pronounced wooter-ice), and is basically some soft-serve ice cream with a snow cone.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Not every African-American male with a long sunnah beard is Muslim, but many are.\u00a0 The ones who are will probably make eye contact with you, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":304,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}