To me Halloween is just a fancy costume party with sugary treats as the main course and can be a waste of a time. It’s fun for children and sometimes grow-ups. Like all festivals/celebrations, it has been extremely commercialized and can also be very heavy on your wallet.
Sometimes ago, I remember a few friends wanting to bring their children to my house for Halloween. Although we don’t really celebrate the Halloween at our home but you can’t really say ‘No’ to your friends’ children whose only mission in life is to grab and hoard as many candies as possible on the 31st of October. Also back then, I didn’t recall even a single downside of opening the door to the trick-a-treating crowd.
I opened the door on Halloween to my friends’ children. They were very happy and appreciative and we had a lovely time in my yard socializing – talking about mundane everyday stuff (nothing demonic in any way, shape or form).
All the noises and commotions in front of my house were attracting some folks in the neighborhood. Suddenly, a group of kids arrived, followed by another group of kids..and then another…it looked like Zombie apocalypse!
The kids went away with my fancy chocolates unfortunately :( Like I said, I wasn’t prepared for Halloween and the only candies we had were the fancy chocolaty type that we keep for ourselves mostly.
If you don’t live in a country that has a ‘culture’ of celebrating the Halloween then you are probably not sure why folks are dressing silly…you could also wonder if this ‘festival’ is just another form of imperialism undercover. Some of you may even wonder if you can join in all the fun …
I’m reading this news that the Muslims in some countries perceive Halloween as a threat.
A fatwa from Malaysia’s religious affairs ministry telling Muslims there they cannot celebrate Halloween is not the only troubling development to have hit the Southeast Asian country recently.
As The Wall Street Journal’s James Hookway writes, a Muslim religious edict denouncing Halloween parties in Malaysia might not seem like a significant move. Plenty of Christian groups also view the commerce and frivolity that accompany the celebration as vaguely pagan and a little bit off-color.
Fearing of the unknown? Or Islamic supremacy?
“Malay supremacy was the old school. People like (Isma president) Abdullah Zaik and others like him belong to the new school, and that’s Islamist supremacy,” professor James Chin of Monash University was quoted as saying. “It’s potentially more volatile.”
I personally don’t prefer someone else making decision about my belief. But seem like many don’t have that problem. Am I a rebel to think that only a brain dead religion needs gullible followers and yes-man type?
References
[1] http://online.wsj.com/articles/halloween-draws-muslim-ire-in-malaysia-as-tensions-simmer-1414660190
[2] http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/halloween-ban-an-attempt-to-uphold-malay-supremacy-says-report
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween
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