to yasemin

Submitted by hisham zein (Egypt), Jun 26, 2008 at 19:14

as a US business friend of mine once told me that in our area people say yes when they mean no and that is true to a great extent .

do people hate to tell the truth ? yes

do people prefer to tell colorful stories that are far from being true ? to a certain extent yes

are these part of the thousands of years of accumulated culture ? No

its the way of raising kids, the ignorance, the lack of proper awareness, poor education actually very poor education, people are too much local if you know what i mean .

does the islamic religion ecourage its followers to lie ? a very big NO contrary to that it urges people to always stick with the truth and NEVEER lie .

the islamic religion is something that moslims dont really practice ..they dont understand the high values of the religion, as a moderate islamist once said people are moslims without islam .

its really very unfair to judge the religion from the acts of people like binladen and his likes .

the religion is not really the enemy of the west, actually its the best ally because we simply believe in jesus christ, moses, jacob, isaac, abraham and all the other messangers of the other religions , we worship the very same god .

think of this ..there are some 6 billion people living on that earth, 2 billions of them believe in god in a way or another and we still have 4 billions whose beliefs range from worshipping cows, souls, monkey, statues ....etc ... should we target the 4 billions to show them the logic of the existence of a god or keep fighting each other ?

back to your question , my point of view here is that most men in question here are of poor background , what will you expect but poor behaviour .

i can say 5 of 10 will always say the truth in an honest way which is a very poor percentage .

i should also admit that most men do not really love the broken hearted women here, they are after either money or a greencard and that is pity because if a broken hearted woman falls again in love with one of the 5 honest men she will be very reluctant to proceed as the desperate experience will have its shadow and that is really unfair .

i myself had a desperate experience with an american woman when i was young and stupid . have i judged all american women according th that sad experience ? NO ...fair is fair .. i may one day share this with you to see the other side of the story that proves eastern men can have broken heart due to a love with a westerner too .

anyway i know many successful stories of marriages between egyptian friends and western women from the US and europe that last for years and years ...women can be mistreated or deceived by its fellow citizen that is not a middle eastern product .

generally people hide their real being and fabricate stories to prove they level with the other part and that is really stupid .

for the money issue..its so much shameful for men in the east to let women spend money on them extremly shameful and men who accept to spend women's money are despiced by the society but that doesnt negate the fact that YES there are men who do everything possible to get as much as they could ..from a sick father who needs money , to a sister who needs tuition fees ....etc

i hope i answered your questions in a fair way

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