Here's to being rational... Every year on may 15th the MSA panics and thinks that every single Muslim on campus is making it their personal goal to go to sungod festival. Let's stop and think about this for a second, IF there were a large group of muslims planning on getting drunk with friends and going to sungod, do you really think they would come to Jumma prayer and then get dissuaded by an MSA BBQ at the bay? Now lets say there's another group that decided to go to sungod but they refuse to drink, they just want to hang out with friends and see the shows. Do you think they would leave the biggest celebration of the year at UCSD for a barbeque with the MSA? Again lets be rational, that's obviously not going to happen, instead, by borderline begging people not to attend sungod you're going to make the people who didn't even think about attending feel that a lot of muslims are going, and that they might be missing out on something fun. Granted sungod is a dark gray area for a muslim to be, we should not be going out of our way to tell people not to go. Instead we should be ignoring it, or even joking about going to it, in order to make the people who are going feel like nobody is really going. But this whole "sungod is haram" fear tactic isn't effective, in fact it is counter productive. We're essentially making the sungod into a modern day boogie man and by doing so we are engaging the curiosity of the members in our community that haven't gone. So please, for the sake of being rational, don't fear the sungod, just fear God and all will be right.
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