I keep hearing that Muslim male submissive types in the world of BDSM are hard to find, and I laugh at the kinds of people who say these things. Yes, there are Muslim women in the world of BDSM, and I'm proud to say that I am one of them. My name is Sulafah Faeed, and I'm a young woman living in the City of Toronto, in provincial Ontario. I'm mixed race, born to a Punjab Indian Muslim father and Mexican mother. My parents emigrated from the Republic of India and Mexico, respectively, to the beautiful nation that is Canada.
These days, my parents live in the City of Hamilton, Ontario, enjoying a peaceful retirement. I'm at the University of Toronto, getting my bachelor's degree in accounting while having the kind of fun that most people can only dream about. I discovered the world of fetish and domination four years ago and I can honestly say that it's part of me. It's not a lifestyle, it's my life! A lot of you reading this might scratch your head and wonder what a Muslim woman is doing in the world of BDSM. First of all, there are all kinds of Muslim women. Not all of us are the quiet and repressed burka-wearers that cause you to shudder when you see them on the bus or train station. And I don't wear a hijab either.
Just in case you're wondering, yes, it's always been my choice. I don't come from a traditional Muslim household, whatever that means. To understand why I am the way I am, you need to understand where I come from. My father, Balkar Faeed moved to Canada from his homeland of India in 1980 at the age of eighteen. He embraced the Canadian way of life entirely. My dad was in an indie rock band while attending the University of Toronto, all those years ago, if you can believe that! As for my mother, Joanna Santiago, she was born in a Catholic family but had become an atheist by the time she met my father, two years after she moved to Ontario, Canada, from Mexico on a scholarship at Ryerson University.
My folks fell in love, got married and had little old me. Their respective families did not approve of their union. My mother's very religious Mexican Catholic family didn't approve of her marrying a Muslim guy from India, albeit one who smoked weed, didn't go to mosque and owned a Doberman. As for my father's family, they basically disowned him for marrying a non-Indian and non-Muslim woman. Indians be very racist towards other races, I think it's a leftover from their days as a colony of Britain because they seem to love white people. Oh, well. Nevertheless, I grew up feeling much love for both Mexican and Indian culture, and I always identified as Latino-Indian when asked about my ethnicity. My parents weren't very religious. My dad never took me to mosque or made me wear the hijab or anything along those lines. He was basically shunned by the Indian Muslim community, and since they didn't want anything to do with him, he didn't want his family to have anything to do with them either.
Later, as I grew up, I became interested in the faiths of my parents. I learned about Christianity, a faith that I respect, and about Islam, my father's faith, which I came to cherish but only to a certain extent. Allah is love, peace and forgiveness, and I believe there is no God but Him. I follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed, but find most Muslim men to be dull, boring and predictable. Is it weird of me to say that I love Islam but absolutely cannot stand most of those who call themselves Muslims? Seriously, the actions of brutal, slow-witted and intolerant Muslim men and the silence and passivity of dull, meek and submissive Muslim women give Islam a bad name.
In the days of the prophet, there were women preachers. Among Mongolian Muslims, back in the day, there were female warriors riding on horseback and defending their cities and families, right alongside the men. Yet to most people today, Islam means brutal, intolerant men and meek, submissive women. It means sexism, intolerance and repression. As a Muslim woman, this saddens me but I cannot really blame outsiders for their view on Islam because quite often, they're looking at the way women, gays and religious minorities are treated in the Arab world and shaking their heads. They don't know about Muslim female preachers in China, or Muslim female pilots and women soldiers in places like Turkey and the Republic of Lebanon. They only see the Saudis and their burka-clad women who cannot leave the house without male permission, and they think that's what Islam is all about.
The Prophet respected women, and he told his fellow Muslims to respect other faiths, especially Christians and Jews, whom he called the People of the Book. Sadly, the Arabs had selective hearing when it comes to the Prophet's words. Honestly, I blame my faith's woes on the Arab culture's influence on Islam. Unfortunately, there is no way to separate Islam from the Arab or the Arab from Islam. We're forced to stomach these intolerant and backwards buzzards and their grandiloquent yet nefarious influence in our great religion. We're a family, after all, and you cannot simply cast your misbehaving older siblings from the family, even if their behavior sometimes embarrasses the hell out of you. My policy when it comes to my faith is simply this. Only God can judge me. Those other Muslim men and Muslim women out there who act all holier than thou are no closer to salvation than I am. On the Day of Judgement, all of us will stand before God and He will choose the good from the wicked. Doesn't matter if you're Jewish, Christian or Muslim, God will see you for what you are and pass judgement upon your soul. Worry about God, not those men and women who claim to speak for Him. I'm doing my thing, living my life how I see fit, and to hell with those who disagree.
When I began exploring my sexuality, I indulged myself without restraint. In Mississauga, hooked up with a sexy Lebanese guy named Elijah Wahid, and we had so much fun together that I brought him to tears. Too bad he was only in Ontario for a few months and had to go back to Lebanon. The guy ate my pussy so well that I honestly think he was a lesbian in a past life. Speaking of lesbians, I'll never forget Kristen "Spike" O'Connor, this short and plump, short-haired and tattooed, kind of masculine but still hot white chick I met at a house party while visiting some friends in Ottawa. The moment I laid eyes on this butch beauty, I knew I wanted her. Well, she wanted me too and we just talked and had a good vibe between us all night. I ended up taking her back to my room for some fun. Kristen laid me down, and made sweet love to me. It was my first time with a woman and it was definitely an eye-opener. She kissed me all over, fondled my breasts while sucking them, and also licked my pussy so damn good she made my toes curl as I cried out in joy. Hmmm. I had an awesome time with Kristen!