My mom is just genuinely scared for me being out late. That is her primary reasoning for restricting my time out at night, she trusts me and she knows all my friends. It's just that the idea of me being out past 10pm scares her to death. I can see it now, she literally just pictures me walking through dark woods with a serial killer/rapist following me and once I take my expensive iPhone out he'll jump on me. I think when I go out she just waits at the door for the inevitable police officer to knock and break the news to her.. I'm not even kidding, this is how her mind works.
Every time I go out I am treated with a very delightful horror story and told to repeat my du'as over and over. I love my mum dearly. I just wish she wasn't this protective.
Do I think this has anything to do with Islam? Of course, this mentality is within every Muslim from past generations, that a girl needs to be protected by all means. All of this going out business is out of my mamas comfort zone. This isn't what they did back in her home country where girls stay home all the time and the streets are deserted after maghrib. But she's slowly getting to grips with it.
I'll never understand people that leave Islam or hate their parents for this type of thing. You can't help your mama being the way she is, love her for it don't hate her. It's hardly her fault. Fathers too. Sure, they can be unreasonable and sometimes downright intolerable in the way they cannot simply comprehend your way of thinking but.. it what it is. You should be glad someone even cares for you this much in the first place, some people don't have this and would give an arm and a leg for someone to love them as much as our parents do. The look in my moms eyes when I get home a bit later than I said reminds me that my mother would genuinely and with a doubt in the world give everything she has to protect me and my brothers and sisters. This just enhances my belief in Islam even more.