To Zella re about to commit

Submitted by yasemin (Canada), Jun 14, 2008 at 14:26

Very intelligent comment, Zella. As I read your words, I suddenly realised that a big part of the problem for women who just can't believe that their new-found love is a con artist is the fact that they don't know the culture.

In the western world we have an entirely different way of viewing the world and can't conceive that a whole culture could be so ruthless. Not just the occasional sociopathic con artist as we see here but a whole culture that thinks in a fundamentally different way. We see them in a romanticized way, as fascinating and exotic. They see us in a purely pragmatic way - we are infidels and therefore what happens to us has no importance.

About the man being sweet before marriage/visa...it's so true. I am haunted by the evil in my husband's eyes once he was refused the visa. Go to facebook - middle eastern love rats - and look at his pic and be forewarned.

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