050312 The barber shop is still not open. Why? "In Charlotte Allah"

050312 The barber shop is still not open.  Why? "In Charlotte Allah"

 

I've 'lived' in the mid-east now for over seven years.  Granted that time has always been on a US military base in a combat zone but it's still within a muslim country.  Iraq and Afghanistan are not small countries either.  Iraq is about 3% larger than the state of California and Afghanistan is 93% the size of Texas. 

California 163707 sq miles 
Iraq  169234 sq miles 103.38%
Texas  268820 sq miles
Afghanistan 251772 sq miles 93.66%

The point is that the country/culture still has a dominating affect on the specks of land that make up the the US military bases here.  So anyway I got to get a haircut at 9 AM (the time at which the sign says they open.) And there is no barber.  Ok, maybe they're running a few minutes late.  I go back to the cafe and wait.  At 9:45 AM, I think surely they're open now. So I go back and no-go. But there are two guys waiting now and they're obviously peeved.  Then I relax and pretty much say "In Charotte Allah."
There is an attitude among many muslims (and christians) here (Iraq and Afghanistan) that if something doesn't happen like it should then 'eh, God did not will it to happen.'  So if you're late (say you slept late through that snooze alarm) then....obviously God didn't want you to be on time.  Any way it's part of the country/culture here just as much as trains running on time is in Germany.  The correct pronunciation and some background can be found in the article below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insha'Allah

But if you say Charlotte with a very soft 't' then it sounds about the same.  So why is the barber shop still not open?  Because "In Charlotte Allah".

 

R/Chris