Reply #6: Pagans welcome at Dances of Universal Peace [View All]

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

and many have come to various Dance camps I've attended. There are Dances honoring the Goddess and I'm sure somewhere someone studied in the faith has created a Druid Dance.

I know what you mean about being hesitant about wearing symbols. There's a crescent and star within the heart in my avitar-one Sufi brother wore a belt buckle with said crescent and star. His house was invaded by some "good old boys" whose kids had told them about it (my brother was a school teacher). They thought he was a Satanist until they saw a picture of Haz. Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan, founder of our Order. Luckily, Pir-o-Murshid had long hair, a beard, and wore robes-the gobs thought it was a picture of Jesus and let my brother alone. When my brother was killed in a traffic accident, our Sufi community again felt restrained-we only read scripture from the Bible, not from the Gita, Dammapada, Zend Avesta, and Qur'an, as we would usually do. But we did get by reading our Prayer for the Dead. The funeral was held in the school gym, and many people came up to us afterwards and said that it was the most moving and joyous funeral they had ever attended-which showed our ways came through despite the censorship.