Le choc des cultures sur un blog d'un djihadiste britanniqueSi l'intégration est un défi chez nous, elle l'est également pour les apprentis djihadistes européens qui partent en Syrie.
Quelques extraits croustillants: an Indonesian brother was working on his laptop and was using it to speak to his family[...]As he was in the other room eating, an Arab brother went through his laptop and deleted all his conversations the brother was having with his family on his Messenger service. He also deleted his web server and was browsing the net without hesitation.
Another common trait is that they see no issue in unplugging your mobile phone to charge their own phone. Even if it’s your own charger,[...]even if there is no real need for them to charge their phone at that current time.
Sometimes it may get quite hard to hold a civilised conversation with a Syrian man, one minute he’s listening to you speak and the next he’s playing around with the other Syrian brother standing next to him.
here in Shām, our Syrian brothers [...]believe that everyone can share each other’s footwear[...]Someone who is a size 40 will casually walk out the room wearing your footwear even though you are a size 44, and strangely he may not even realise
Sometimes you would enter a building and when leaving, you would see the person with your shoes walking 100 yards ahead of you and it can be quite irritating to have to wait for him to return, especially if you are in a rush to go somewhere. Even more irritating is when he comes back really slowly or stops about 50 yards away casually talking to another brother while he knows you’re waiting for him.
The Prophet (saw) taught us all that we need to know about the manners of eating[...]However our Arab brothers, or Syrians to be more precise, lack these basic manners.[...] It is not unusual to see Syrians fight over food, even though there is more than enough for everyone. Every day one of us would be appointed to serve the food, and when it was my turn, I entered the room with a handful of spoons and a bucket full of boiled eggs; and as soon as I entered, I was pounced upon on by everyone in the room. I therefore refused to give anyone food until every single one of them was sitting down in their seat, and only after every one of them sat down did I go around serving them. Unfortunately I had to treat them like primary school students, but it was the only way to get some law and order in the room and for them to learn.
It is also a habit for Syrians to eat other people’s food without question. Not only would they eat your food without prior permission but they neither inform you of it. If you purchase something and put it in the fridge, expect it to be missing within a few hours. It is common to hear an Arab in administration reply with the words “bukrah inshāAllāh” (which means “hopefully tomorrow”) or in plain English, “I’m too lazy, leave me alone and come back some other time!”
The typical Arab in administration tends to be very lazy.
For example, if he is too lazy to work and deal with the problem at hand, saying “bukrah inshāAllāh” will give him an extra day to relax. Smart hey?
any times you would go to the office that deals with military work, and he would direct you to the office for the Wāli (Amīr of the Wilāyah). At this office, the Arab behind the desk would direct you to the office that deals with finance, and from here you would be redirected to the office you went to right in the start. Arabs always throw you around to another office if they do not know what to do. Instead of saying they do not know whether this task falls under their responsibility or not (even though it seems very obvious it does), they would direct you elsewhere in an attempt to get another workload off their shoulders.[...]. And when you do return to the office from where you started, you will be told the famous phrase of “bukrah inshāAllāh”, as this would give him some time to figure out what to do.
Another ‘great’ feature of Arabs in administration is that there is no queue in any of their offices. You could be waiting in line for half an hour and then another Arab would come and push in the queue and go straight in
If you need something from an Arab in administration, it seems that the only way your request will be heard is if you raise your voce and show signs of slight irritation at their laziness to do simple tasks.[...]The brothers from Chechnya are likewise very good at this.