Dear Dora

Submitted by Jean (United States), Jan 21, 2009 at 01:22

Yes, I did read after my last post that you had moved on. I guess in between my own ranting I wanted to make the point that it IS culture and personality. Islam is just something that is often warped to meet the needs of insecure, ignorant men. Islam is perfect, Muslims are not. That is what I believe.

Having said that, I do believe that I will get reward for not stooping to his level when he plays unfair (so to speak.) My husband is MUCH more worried about me going out without him when we are in Egypt because he knows how some men can be there. Being foreign makes us a target, so some of it is being protective...it just more often comes accross as controlling because of the delivery or justification, etc.

I don't know quite sure how I would cope if I had to live there. Where in Egypt were you? I just found this site googling some words related to marriage etc. I really don't know much about it other than it seems pro-Israeli. Oh well. If you want to converse maybe we could arrange that.

Peace, Jean

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