This is really getting old here on Dr. Pipes' personal page

Submitted by Straight_Talk_Luigi (United States), Jun 26, 2008 at 12:28

Okay, first of all, Stella, I really gotta ask: Have you read the blog written by Dr. Pipes? It pertains pretty specifically to Muslim men from Saudi Arabia. The reason why we see so many cases of Moroccan men on here are because it's more common for women from the West to date them than a Saudi man for a variety of reasons, namely that sharia law in Morocco isn't enforced nearly as much.

The reason why you don't find things on here about Western men is because everything they could ever want is in their own country. No one is going to scam a Moroccan girl for a visa to go live in Casablanca, it's easier to get one through the embassy. As for money and sex? Plenty of Western women are into the same.

I will say though: they fall a lot easier for the scams than women seem. Yep, all you need is a hot model pic and a sob story and they are yours forever...well, until you milk out their bank account.

I have been critical of Western men, but as I tirelessly point out women who on are the internet to defend their intercultural relationship don't care, all they really want is for me the bless them and glorify their man, his religion and his culture and provide third-party reinforcement, even if it looks like a total farce.

It's not that than different that high schoolers and college undergrads who join groups on facebook or write comments on youtube videos they don't agree with to show everyone else who has a different opinion that they are right, and everyone else is wrong, and that's that.

Heaven forbid, should those high schoolers and college undergrads be proven wrong, they've got the race card, the white guilt card, the islamophobic/homophobic card, the insult card and the "I'll never talk to you again!" oath card.

This is what gives them their confidence for the most part to speak out, not confidence in the knowledge or experience they have.

I've seen it all, Stella and the defense being put up on here is hardly any different.

If that's the case, it's a total waste of time and is very immature, and I really have to believe you're above that at heart. I mean, you're married and starting a family for goodness sake. You haven't said a whole lot on here, but do you really need to secure yourself and your marriage by knocking down men in your own culture? That's something I only see on the nutty left!

These kids on facebook and youtube just have too much time on their hands and instead of being constructive, they have to waste time trying to tell adults with twice the life experience and families of their own what they should do, and they think that a 4.0 in high school and taking AP classes gives them that right.

Believe me, they'll even be happy to share that with you (the reaction they want from you is to be impressed).

I mean, if you want someone to tell you what you WANT to hear, by all means, visit topix, Y! answers or even youtube. I'm sure there's some 13-15 year old there posing as adult who'd be more than happy to weigh on your marriage. I've caught four of them posing as adults on the net myself.

Once again, we do agree on one important thing: A lot of women who post on here have been in bad relationships with Western men.

I can't say I'm surprised. Post-modern liberalism is tearing at the fabric of human interaction, especially in romantic relationships.

Some of the women on here are divorced. But does that mean all Western men are bad? No, as I implied to angie in my two responses to her.

But I think that is one huge reason why they feel they have to go the ends of the earth to find a man.

And they really don't.

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