Yes - the religion has to be blamed, Sara!!!

Submitted by Jaladhi (United States), Jun 27, 2007 at 17:10

Sara, you write: "I think some people need to open their eyes and be a little more culturally diverse. There are good and bad people in every religion / culture, its a fact of life. It all comes down to what a woman wants and what a woman will tolerate in her life when it comes to the behavior of a significant other."

When it comes to cultural diversity, Muslims don't believe in it at all (i.e. , let the other person keep his or her religion). Do you know that when a non-Muslim marries a Muslim, he or she has to convert to Islam sooner or later. Your Muslim boyfriend may tell you now it is not so but the pressure will mount on you later for conversion, since the non-Muslim wife has no rights to her husbands property or inheritence.

Muslims almost invariably forbid their daughters/sisters to marry a non-Muslim man unless he converts to Islam first and the children are to be raised as Muslims. Haven't you read of so many cases of "honor killings" of women in Islamic countries and even among the Muslims living in the West( cases in UK, Italy., and other European countries). And what is the crime of poor girl that dishonored the family - she was planning to mary a non-Muslim or a person from some other tribe that the family did not approve off. Not only the girl is killed, even the prospective groom is killed or threatened to end the relationship. Honor killing is permitted under shariah law and the perpetrators either mostly go scot free or with a slap on the wrist in the Muslim countries.

So, would you or would you not expect the same "cultural diversity" from Muslims that you are asking here from non-Muslims??? Muslim men can mary a non-Muslim girls with impunity but for Muslim girls to mary a non-Muslim, it's a no no!!! This double standard or hypocrisy is permitted by their religion only!!

We will be better off without this kind of "cultural diversity"!!!

You should learn more about Islam/Muslims from websites that tell the truth about them. Here are a few: thereligionofpeace.com, faithfreedom.org, jihadwatch.org.

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