Islamic Art

Islamic Arts Feature: Cartoons, by Abu Ilyas

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May 8, 2010

Welcome to the another edition of MuslimMatters.org’s regular Islamic Art feature. If you want to see your work on MM, then either email us your images to art[@]muslimmatters[.]org or submit them to our Flickr group.

The following are a selection of comic strips produced by brother Abu Ilyas, for his humour-filled blog, Dots Under Consonants. I hope they bring a little laughter into your day. The first one definitely spoke to me!

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12 Comments

Abez

May 8, 2010 at 12:31 PM

Haha! I loved the first one- it reminded me of the time when I was interviewed by my college newspaper, assuming I was new to the place, “the place” being the country where I was born and raised and educated- and was told at the end of the interview that my English was “actually pretty good!” :s

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- Sayf
  
  May 8, 2010 at 3:26 PM
  
  I remember someone praised me on my beard for “holding strong to my country’s background” and proceeded to tell me my accent wasn’t even noticeable. It’s funny how the brain works, I was born and raised in Toronto!
  
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  - DawahIT
    
    May 9, 2010 at 4:05 PM
    
    What I really hate is when Muslims see your beard and think your holding on to culture, not Islam.
    
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    - Sayf
      
      May 10, 2010 at 7:39 PM
      
      ditto!
      
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    - Abez
      
      May 12, 2010 at 11:29 AM
      
      We’re a self-hating bunch, apparently. If a sister wears niqab she must be self-righteous, if a brother has a beard, he must be uneducated and sporting facial hair just because everyone else in his country does too. We really ought to cut ourselves some slack, SubhanAllah!
      
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aLeeNa

May 8, 2010 at 2:47 PM

lol! i love the third one! haha! xD

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Z

May 8, 2010 at 3:25 PM

Awesome!

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elham

May 8, 2010 at 3:30 PM

lol, good humour Mash’Allah. But the 2nd one reeks of nostalgia..school days!

Can’t wait to go on the blog.

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umtalhah

May 9, 2010 at 6:16 PM

lol, nice ma sha Allah

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Amad

May 10, 2010 at 12:27 AM

Love ’em Abu Illyas… keep them coming!

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Abu Ilyas

May 11, 2010 at 3:06 PM

Baraka Allahu feekum, for the positive comments everyone.

And just in passing I’m a school teacher and so unfortunately the classroom scenario is not nostalgia for me but an everyday scene, albeit from the other side of the desk now. :-)

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Tah =)

June 9, 2010 at 9:04 PM

salaam,
haha!! these r funny, i love em dude! the seen one gives me jokes! keep em coming please?

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