Why name your kid Jihad? (If you live in the US/EU)

[Cerveza mas fina]

Seriously though. Why saddle up your lil baby with a name like that in the Western world.

Im sure its a normal name. But if I was a german immigrant living in the West in the 50's I wouldn't name my kid Adolf either.

Muslim bore, am I missing something?

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Oh I get it if you live in Saudi etc.

This is a kid that just joined my daughters daycare though, this week. Here dead smack in Europe.

Parents are either completely ignorant and stupid. Or making some statement? Whats your take Wrath?

If you had a kid growing up in the US or Europe. Would you name him Osama Jihad?

I'm completely baffled.

[seagrams hotsauce]

I think I'd rather name my kid Osama Jihad than Ryder Aspen or whatever twee shit suburbanites are naming their kids lately.

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Sure it's just a name, like Adolf, so many Adolfs around.

If you want your kid to grow up and be bullied and harassed forever then it's a great name to pick.

Also kind of insensitive to your surroundings, you know with a Jihad against the western world and all.

[Cerveza mas fina]

You doubt how bad I feel for this kid? Clearly you aren't thinking like a parent yet (parent card!) and don't understand what you are saying. This kid will be stigmatised for life here Europe. Looked weird at. Harder to get jobs. Bullied. It's already hard to get an interview with a traditional muslim name like Mohammed, with Jihad it will be fucking impossible.

You think it's because I'm anti muslim? When I go to pro-refugee rallies to support admission of Syrians just when right wing governments come in to place? Fuck that Wrath. Seriously. If you want to continue thinking I'm a racist, for whatever reason, fine. But you couldn't be more wrong buddy.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Yes life will already be tougher for him, but with a name like Jihad you aren't giving him much of a fighting chance. I won't ever judge a person by his name, but I'm judging his parents.

Look at how shit things are already, why make it harder still? (job applications)

In general, men are less likely than women to be called back. But the penalty for being a Muslim man is particularly large: Only 5 percent of Muslim men received any contact from employers. Valfort writes:

    Whereas the callback rate for practicing female Catholic applicants is “only” 40% higher than that for practicing Muslim women, the callback rate for practicing Catholic men is close to four times higher than that of practicing Muslim men.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/11/23/new-research-shows-that-french-muslims-experience-extraordinary-discrimination-in-the-job-market/

[Rufus]

Life will put an extra big pile of shit on that kid's plate, I have little doubt about that. No employer (especially smaller businesses) will care about how common the name is, he's going to be extra suspect to them. Not to mention the bullying in school.

I have a weird name too, but I'm lucky enough that my people aren't strongly accociated with any stereotype. Not that I'm aware of, anyway.

[mormapope]

[mormapope]

Parents have all the power in the world to name their kid however they want. However, no matter what, you can't escape your heritage when it comes to your name and how it sounds, unless the kid changes their entire name before going to school. Or the parents change their surname from that point on.

Like, lets say Arab parents try to name their kid something less Arab, maybe they want their kid to pass of as latino. Ricky Amari doesn't sound latino. Adam Amari, Frankie Amari, Jesus Amari, you can't escape that.

[mormapope]

Albania is also another European country that has brown(er) white people. Had an Albanian friend growing up, his dad was dark brown, his mom looked a lot whiter but was also Albanian.

Albanian and Italian women
 

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Seriously though. Why saddle up your lil baby with a name like that in the Western world.

Im sure its a normal name. But if I was a german immigrant living in the West in the 50's I wouldn't name my kid Adolf either.

Muslim bore, am I missing something?

Because it's like Jamie or John here in the US? It's pretty common man.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Life will put an extra big pile of shit on that kid's plate, I have little doubt about that. No employer (especially smaller businesses) will care about how common the name is, he's going to be extra suspect to them. Not to mention the bullying in school.

I have a weird name too, but I'm lucky enough that my people aren't strongly accociated with any stereotype. Not that I'm aware of, anyway.

I have a weird name(offensive to some)too.

Cunty McCunterson Ali-Babba.

[Stoney Mason]

As long as you accept the basic tenets of what living in a western society means and you respect the separation of church and state, it doesn't really matter what you name your kid and its nothing to really worry about.

Kids are going to pick on "difference" no matter what form it comes in. That's what kids do (and adults and presidential candidates). If it wasn't the name, it would be something else.

I mean our president is named Barack Hussein Obama II. I'm sure that wasn't/isn't an easy name for him in this country

[tiesto]

Albania is also another European country that has brown(er) white people. Had an Albanian friend growing up, his dad was dark brown, his mom looked a lot whiter but was also Albanian.

Albanian and Italian women
 

In NYC a lot of Albanians try to pass themselves off as Italian. Most pizza places in Manhattan are owned by Albanians.

[brawndolicious]

In some Muslim families, certain first names or combinations of first and middle names are repeated every generation because parents are afraid of being too creative (whoa ironic). I have a very obscure Arabic name that only an native Arab speaker would recognize the origin of but I look the most "ethnic" of my brothers who look whiter and have more traditional names. Maybe my blue eyed little brother should have been named Jihad?

I dunno about that, but I would bet there's some family pressure here to name their kid that.

[Dennis]

I am going to name my kid Crusader McWhiteknight.

[Madrun Badrun]

This thread is dumb.  You should all get name changes to reflect this.   

[Phoenix Dark]

Why would you have a child? Who cares what the name is. Leave it in the streets.

[jakefromstatefarm]

This is like blaming black parents for naming their kids too "creatively" because it'll negatively effect them in the job market. Maybe, just maybe, it's the employer who needs to shoulder the blame here.

[Rufus]

Oh, they absolutely should, but they won't.

[Tasty]

I would. If only because then I could call my kid "the bomb" unironically.

[Trent Dole]

Why would you have a child? Who cares what the name is. Leave it in the streets.

RUN OVER IT AFTER THE SHOW~

[Brehvolution]

The running back for my daughter's high school football team this year was named Allah.