subject - death threats

Submitted by yasemin (Canada), May 18, 2008 at 18:09

I haven't seen this issue addressed in this forum so I want to ask if any of you have received death threats from your middle eastern men. And was it just a bluff and how does one know if the man is bluffing ? And lastly what did you do about it ?

I was told it's mostly bluff but i think the people there like to paint a pretty picture. Revealing the nastier aspects of their culture brings dishonor and thus i've noticed they don't like to talk about negative things. Bluff by the way is a very useful survival tool - keep this in mind if you require protection one day. I learned this from some romance novel heroine in a book bought on impulse at the airport before travelling to hell.

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