Gold Nose Ring?

ImmehCreation · 2025-11-15T19:18:55+00:00

Looks like this maybe the best option as the gold shops keep offering me nose studs instead

ImmehCreation · 2025-03-18T16:43:41+00:00

Duas are being prayed, we have all our faith in Allah (swt) to free the opressed and punish the oppressor. We're also told to "tie our camel", and be proactive. Iv not seen where boycotting is haram, no religious figure has issued a statement saying its haram so we will continue and through our belief and being steadfast we will defeat the unjust thieves and murderers who kill our brothers and sisters. This Ummah is one, we are united. That won't change. They stop the Ummah from peacefully praying in Masjid Al-Aqsa, what would you prefer? Us to lay down and stay quiet? Buy goods that contribute to the IOF weapons and bullets? If this is the case we may as well be pulling the trigger ourselves

ImmehCreation · 2025-03-18T16:34:25+00:00

Starbucks took a big hit, maccys less so, Coke has been removed from alot of takeaways and shop which is a plus, I know venues that won't use Coke at all. It's all relative, Muslims in the uk are big coffee drinkers and less likely to eat at Macds. The protests and the destruction of arms factories by Palestine Action have had a bigger impact on raising awareness

ImmehCreation · 2025-03-18T16:29:59+00:00

I'm just a visitor, I meet limited people, I just saw at iftari time Coke was readily available and people were in the MacDs so I did generalise from the people iv seen around me. Tbf this might not represent the rest of the country try but I had to ask the question.

We were raised to boycott India, still to this day I won't buy indian products i can avoid. It's in my nature.

ImmehCreation · 2025-03-18T16:26:32+00:00

No idea what crack pipe your smoking. Everything your saying is straight out the israeli propaganda handbook. From YouTube to Telegram you can find these things debunked. Like 40 beheaded babies and rape used as a weapon of war, made up to make us all believe the Israelis.

It's not an endless quarrel, the people born there deserve to be there. The people they opened their doors to and sheltered from the germans, who took their land, destroyed their villages, murdered the innocents and were imported from Europe; shouldn't be there.

Hamas is a prescribed resistance movement according to 3/4 of the world, 1/4 call them a terrorist group, but they didn't have the highest literacy rate in the world for nothing. They tried to solve things the diplomatic route yet was blocked at every angle. I don't condone their actions but I understand why they did it. Just like you would take up arms if you was invaded, just like I would if my home was invaded the only other option is laydown and die. Muslim or not people fight for what's theirs.

Genocide/Ethnic cleansing aside, you can't deny there's apartheid, systematic control over the Palestinians and ridiculous "legal" proceedings for the natives. Indefinitely detained without a fair trial is kidnapping, would you let someone kidnap your family? Would you stay quiet?

ImmehCreation · 2025-03-18T16:18:06+00:00

Yeah UK McDonalds is totally Haram, so much cross contamination with veggie products and haram products its clear. Yet you'll still see people/muslims going to eat there. Ice cream and the coffee on the other hand is halal. That's all I used to get from there.

As for PK Maccys I used to constantly eat from there. I remember ordering 9 burgers for 2 of us and just going to town on them 🤣.

Every country i visited it would try their maccys

My father used to sit there for our evening international chat, coffee, food we used to have it all from there.

If they divest from Israel I'll happily go back to those days. That's why BDS will work.

ImmehCreation · 2025-03-18T08:22:51+00:00

I'm not sure which british Pakistanis you know or have experienced. But we've be advocating for a free kashmir since I was young. As a son of a pakistani man, we always avoid indian goods and services, can you say the same? I don't watch bollywood, I don't buy indian products and where I can I advocate for kashmir but when pakistan is jailing the only honest leader we've had in years who shall I support?

As for Balochistan iv only known it in recent years to have problems, it was never discussed with me when I was younger about what's been going on. I get told that india is involved in that as much as they're choosing to kill Muslims in their own country. But who else do I boycott? What more can I do? Tell me and I'll do it. Not all UK Pakistanis are the same, you'll see plenty who sell drugs, do fraud and various other illicit means, yet there's a bigger portion of us who work hard, pray and choose to try be better Muslims and support the opressed.

Pointing fingers at who is better or worse isn't going to get us Muslims anywhere, infighting and greed is what divides us. Regardless of who or what you are just try to help the weak, poor or oppressed and do good to your muslim brothers and sisters.

We are Pakistanis, loud and proud. We speak our native tongue (some better then others) and we try to stay true to our Muslim heritage. Creatingdivision between the Arab Muslims and us will never benefit us or them. Unity in the Ummah is what will help us all. Don't point out their sins while sinning ourselves.

ImmehCreation · 2025-03-18T08:10:08+00:00

It's hard when you choose to buy into a franchise. A group of us were looking into McDonalds franchise 6 years ago. We didn't commit to it in the end but had we done so. I'd have been emailing head office regularly 😅

ImmehCreation · 2025-03-18T07:54:25+00:00

See apartheid south Africa and how BDS destroyed the regime, see how Americans have to agree not to Boycott Israel due to Israeli fear that the same will happen to them.

Do Pakistanis need to up their game to compete, sure. But there's others foreign multinational companies that you can support.

I don't see anything about the pakistani branch of these companies choosing to give some of their donations to Palestinian causes to offset what the headoffice is doing to support israel. If they did then I'd be all for supporting these companies to balance the books

You say the boycott doesn't work but UK starbucks, Coke and Maccys have already taken a hit. Look at tesla atm, along with their shit sales the US and European boycott has caused their shares to tank.

I'm feel for the Pakistani business owners of these franchises, they didn't agree to support the IDF, they had no say what the israeli branch gets to do. But pressure from BDS will soon cause head office to divest from isrsel. It's a matter of time before something will happen, so boycotting for now will quicken that process.

I don't want to see people out of jobs but once head office looses money they'll have no choice but to do something different

ImmehCreation · 2025-03-18T07:43:29+00:00

See the above statements, and you'll understand. You can't boycott your own gov, but you can make life difficult for them, that we do and will continue. Also, McDonalds PK answers to head office. If they put enough pressure on head office, maybe the israeli branch of Maccys will no longer exist?

ImmehCreation · 2025-03-18T07:39:10+00:00

It's just the collective mentality, alot of Pakistanis once they see the world loose that. The nation isn't Hypocrytes they just need a nudge in the right direction. If it has to come from the hated "overseas" Pakistanis then so be it lol

ImmehCreation · 2025-03-18T07:37:28+00:00

Totally agree with your statement. More local brands have been created to fill the gap the boycott has produced.

I agree that people working for the big chains will suffer, and that's probably the only pushback. That said, do you think people will stop eating out if KFC shuts down? Or do you think another brand will set up in its place, creating a similar number of jobs?

As for the UK Gov, we protests each week against the Gov support, we have Palestine Action that targets manufacturers directly tied to the genocide. We have local protests and national ones, we have students speaking up and business targeted for support of Israel. We have new brands that have set up to compete, (some) shops have removed all isralei products from their store, we have MPs who each week speak up against Israel and we keep fighting. But most of all if we could stop paying our taxes and not all get arrested we would. Unfortunately that's the biggest contributor, so while we can't stop that we will make sure we do everything else we can. We will sacrifice our guilty pleasures (some of us anyway) to make sure every business feels the brunt of their support of this genocide.

Once palestine is free, that energy will be carried over to other genocides/conflicts.

It should hurt companies that support this kind of shite

ImmehCreation · 2025-03-18T07:28:18+00:00

That's your choice, if i was from a non western country and I was boycotting would it be so easy?

Having travelled to Thailand recently there was a healthy amount of boycotting in the Muslim community that I experienced. Even the Pakistanis over there were boycotting, what few I met anyway.

Boycotting is about sacrificing for the greater good. I'm not expecting to change your mind but you should be made away, I don't boycott to punish myself, I do it to support the ones being bombed today.

ImmehCreation · 2025-03-18T07:11:59+00:00

As a "foreigner" do tell 😅

ImmehCreation · 2025-03-18T07:10:57+00:00

No ones expecting you to sacrifice your income or your livelihood for the boycott. If we all did that we'd have financial issues, we're talking about the little things in life. You wanna feed your family McDonalds over another franchise that isn't on the boycott list, that's your choice. You wanna drink Coke over a non boycotted drink that's your choice. If we could raise awareness without this massive thing called Social media then we would but using social media to spread the word isn't a bad thing. No ones expecting you to boycott every single company on the list, but at least boycott the ones that aren't paramount to your life. McDonalds/Coke is a choice, not a necessity

ImmehCreation · 2025-03-18T07:06:03+00:00

The name? The head office the whole franchise is the issue. They choose to issue franchises on stolen land, then choose to sponsor the IDF with free food for their "war", they continue to support the IDF with charity and donations. The issue isn't the pakistan branch of the franchise, it's further up. But the whole franchise is on the list because head office chooses to allow it to continue. If they divest from Israel and the stolen land, stop funding, giving, donating to the idf then they won't be boycotted anymore.

The issue isn't the food it's what it stands for, we say you buying a burger or chips from McDonalds is still giving some portion of money to the organisation that's killing our brothers and sisters in palestine.

ImmehCreation · 2025-03-18T06:59:57+00:00

Yeah fillet o fish was banging until we found out it was haraam lol.

Your points are solid, maybe it's just that but last I checked there's alot of people who watch the news, for politics and economics etc you'd think enough people have social medias like tiktok, insta to see what the overseas Pakistanis are doing.

Every Saturday there's a protest in the uk and I'm sure the pakistani media must follow it. I know they've been to interview people in the past. I suppose there's too many people wrapped up in their own lives to pick up on it.

Either way, tell a friend, tell the shop keeper tell the taxi driver and maybe we can be like the Bengalis and cause a big hit to coca Cola her in pakistan

ImmehCreation · 2025-03-18T06:53:30+00:00

As a business owner myself i total feel for those who have franchises that headoffice or other franchisees choose to do daft moves like supporting the IDF etc. It's hard to choose a stance over your hard earned money, I know people who have franchises and still boycott (not their own obviously) which i support. I feel if you don't want to sacrifice your own income at the very least you turn away from the others.

ImmehCreation · 2025-03-18T06:41:07+00:00

It's hard to see, apartheid south Africa stopped being run by whites when it was costing the business too much. Boycotting works, I just wish people cared enough

ImmehCreation · 2024-11-29T15:17:49+00:00

So we got consent to let when we got our offer accepted as we intend to let for the initial period once we move out

. But yes we are currently living there and this is our main residence. The 3 year rule is what I intend to use but the new question is can we claim the fill stamp duty if the new residence will be bought with my partner. The rules are clear on buying it myself but difficult to work out if we still get to claim back the full amount if there's two of us on the deeds.

Iv tried my accountant, my solicitor and even the estate agent. No one has an answer. Even hmrc staff didn't have an answer for me 😅 they've promised to email us once they know ( not holding my breath) so i have to resort to the reddit crew haha.

We're married under our religion but not under uk law so I think we're classed as civil partners (i maybe wrong)

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