Want to know about Islam? And did you even read what I said, Julie?

Submitted by Straight_Talk_Luigi (United States), Apr 29, 2008 at 17:30

I can give you some pointers about Islam, whether you are with a Muslim man or not:

1) Look at not just what your man tells you, do some research yourself.

2) Moderate Muslims are moderate because

a) they don't KNOW the full teaching of the hadith or koran or

b) they know about it and reject it's othrodoxy. Islam is also a system of government (see sharia law). This isn't even my idea, it's Robert Spencer's, and EVERYONE who lives in a democracy ought to hear what he has to say.

I also encourage you to read some of the other blogs on here by Dr. Pipes. Both are experts in Islam without all the political correct BS that's crippling our society today. In fact. Dr. Pipes probably knows more about Islam that most Muslims do.

3) Lisa is NOT experiencing the "real" thing. Meeting someone and developing a distance relationship with someone: been there, done that, Julie. In fact, it's been done LONG before post-modern liberalism and the internet. There are documented cases where this happened over the phone.

4) And that's exactly what happened with me. I actually MET with my myspace woman on NUMEROUS occasions, and the whole time, Julie, literally HOURS we became officially together, she started cheating on me.

That's a glimpse into the real world of on-line relationships, friendships, ect.

5) Unless you're meeting someone, oh, in your own town and plan to scrap the whole internet thing after you're in a relationship, THEY DON'T WORK,

Why? Because I've seen all kinds of analysis that people who are on the internet all the time have nothing better to do. It's hardly a step-up from prank calling.

Want to know when pornographic sites get the most hits? at 8 am in the morning. Why? Because people are just getting into work. Nice, huh? And if you've ever on Yahoo message boards on the news section (they're actually closed now because people kept posting garbage), you'd see that it's mostly employees and college students. People who SHOULD be working, but ARE NOT. The same is true with youtube.

6) Tour guides all over the second and third world are paid big bucks to be nice to Westerners, whom they pretty are disgusted by in many cases. That teritary training involves safety, not because they care about us, but because an international incident would be devastating to their economy. So yes, tour guides make or break it for Egypt and its swelling population.

So, still think those on-line men make good husband material?

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