escape while you can

Submitted by Rebecca Moulds (United States), Feb 21, 2008 at 16:39

Dear Heartbroken,

Your story is so sad but also so common. I was once warned by a former Muslim man that Western women do not understand Muslims or Islam or what they are getting into when they fall in love with Muslim men.

I have read so many true stories about women in your situation and most of them have ended badly. I also have an Egyptian friend who met a beautiful English woman on a plane to Dubai. This woman was going to meet her online boyfriend. She said he was getting an apartment for her and she would have everything she wanted.

My friend told her that when they arrived to Dubai, she had better turn around and go back to the UK. The stories are legion of Western women thinking they are either getting married to some wealthy Arab, or just being set up in a luxury lifestyle as his girlfriend, then finding out that they are prisoners in the beautiful apartment which was bought for them, without a chance to ever leave. I know this sounds like some stupid Hollywood movie, but things like this do happen, even in the 21st Century.

Are you that much in love with him to risk your life? Besides, you really don't know him at all. It would be best to end this relationship full stop, nip it in the bud, so to speak, before it's too late.

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