Here we go again

Submitted by Straight_Talk_Luigi (United States), Jan 27, 2008 at 14:23

Egypt has the same problems that many African countries have with crime, namely robbery.

Just because your personal experience has been good so far doesn't mean that things are good there, and you can't use your personal situation to assess the whole.

And there are Muslims there who force Coptic Christians into converting. Just because your husband is nice and doesn't do that doesn't mean others do not. It may not be as bad as Saudi Arabia, but it still happens.

I have no idea how what % of people who meet internationally on-line are scams, but I was doing that for three years and never met a geninue person. And actually, Kelly, many of the problems start AFTER the couple gets married, because now the scammer knows he/she is legally tied to that person.

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