I’m a very lucky person for a lot of reasons; one of them is that I can digest gluten without a care in the world.
Another reason I feel lucky is that I get to spend my Friday nights on The Project with a number of my favourite people including Gorgi Coughlin, Lehmo and Waleed Aly.
Mamamia spoke to Susan Carland about how she felt the moment Waleed won the Gold Logie. You can read it here.
Waleed in particular is a joy to the rest of us, because we three all grew up Catholic, in regional Australia, in the 1970s and 80s where I’m pretty sure none of us had more than an inkling that Muslims even existed.
He laughs along graciously when we trade stories of teenage drunken idiocy, even though he’s never had a drink in his life, he answers our dumb questions and corrects our terrible pronunciation, he even taught us a crazy Egyptian hand-clap – or is he playing a very long game that will see us make complete fools of ourselves at an Egyptian event one day?
Susan on how never thought she’d end up with Waleed:
It’s hard to say because above all else, Waleed Aly is an hilarious goofball of epic proportions who loves more than anything, having the piss taken out of him.
I am very conscious though, that Waleed, his wife Susan Carland and their children live in a very different Australia to the one I live in.
Those of us who can remember a world before September 11, 2001 know that everything changed that day, including our sense of what Islam was all about, if we even had a sense at all before that.
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On the hand if you marry A Catholic Be it Male or Female you do not have to convert. That is the Only difference!
If you marry a Jew or a Muslim you must convert!! Especially a Jewish Man or a Moslem Man! So for her to say (if she did state this) that she did NOT become Moslem because of him is not true!!
speaking with my knowledge of athemuslim faith, that is not true, and the woman can continue practicing whatever religion she wishes after marriage. in the case of Susan, she converted before seeking to marry :)