Uncle Sams Adventures...

Hey All,

Its been a while relatively since the previous few posts where i was posting almost every few days whilst in India, but now as i been so busy in USA not really had the chance..

Ok so ill start up since my lucky escape from the Mumbai attacks, well i was stucky in Mumbai that day on the thursday and was actually arrested by the Mumbai police as i was shopping around the city whilst my mum waited at the airport for me, i went into the city to do some Eid shopping and was doing my usual self and taking aload of picytures and i had bags of shopping so i brought a big black rucksack to put the shopping so it may have looked dodge, anyway i was questioned for a while and it was intresting experience i mean i been questioned by immigration officeirs and other people but with the indian probably because ofthe day they seemed so nervou and were looking into some random things like the book i was reading which was Salman Rushdies new book the 'Enchantees of Florence' which i think went in my favour as they were like ummm whats a supposed muslim activitist doing with one of his books. Then they went thru my photos on my camera and i had some dodgy pics in terms of like random guys praying in the street and stuff like that which obviousoy looked dodgy but then i had some other pics which in the end either make me look like the biggest perv they ever met or some proper fundo anyway eventually they let me go so i jus went straight back to the airport. I didnt choose to tell my mum as i know she would be worried especial qabout any future traveling i did, it wasnt a big things in the end and wouldnt have happened if the attacks didnt happen.

Anyway once i got back to doha, then i went to manchester and came to the usa via amsterdam which was the usually high standards it sets :p

So USA the land of opportunity and hope and supposedly the land of where muslims are at war with is for me after seeing it such a beautiful country. And for those that know me they cant believe probably i just said that but the people are so nice and its a really nice looking country. I arrived in Newark and my friend Tauseef came and met me, we drove down to some restaurant that provided halal food in jersey. ITs supposedly quite hard to find halal restaurants in the USA generally unless ur in a proper islamic area and they are few and far between so alot of americans end up eating anything but pork here and its common whereas for British muslims thats like a big no-no!

Anyway we then subsequently drove down to Washington DC and i ended up sleeping the whole journey which was quiye harsh on Tauseef as he made like the 5 hour journey on his own basically, i never really had a problem with my bodyclock over the last couple of years as i was only ever plus or minus 3 hours from like qatari time, where as this is like 7-8 hours so its harder to deal with but i think my body clock has finally DJUSTED.

So Washington was really beautiful the Goverment area of the mall is really well maintained and nicely done, the musuems are amazing and if you go you would have to check it out even if ur not into musuems.

I have to go now so inshallah will write more later...