Nice post Gwen...

Submitted by Margaret (Poland), Nov 19, 2009 at 16:17

Love is one of the most misused and misinterpreted words of the English language....

How very true...

from the beginning I was swept off my feet for this all encompassing, overwhelming love...where at first they seem protective..then that quickly turns into controlling, manipulative, and abusive..

Probably it was control from the beginning but you were blind for love...

then you're quickly trapped fighting for your freedom and very lives of you and your children.

That is really sad but the saddest part of it is that probably your post and mine too wont make any difference women will still "go for it"...

My husband I still love...I will love him until I die. But his notion of love and mine are two different concepts. We as women, are their property,

Exactly- that is what I try to explain to the women here- even if the man is for "real" it will be a disaster...

We are possessions to them, avenues of exploitation....

True- but for some reason nothing we write or say can help those poor women who fall for them...
I partly blame the media for that- there is too much of political corectness and whitewashing islam ( strangely ONLY islam- other religions are rather mocked or criticized in the main stream media)

Plus there is the infamous taqiya- lying for the sake of islam...It works...

Nevertheless that was a nice post- thank you Gwen...

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