Zella re: your post

Submitted by Mariam (United States), Feb 17, 2010 at 16:05

Zella, you are in THE USA voicing your opinions. Times are changing for some countries. Morocco for one, you can find women in the streets and girls in the street and NO, they are not accompanied by a MALE partner or relative. Also, My Muslim relative also leaves her husband when they are fighting and she is not easy to live with, so there goes your theory too that all women do WHATEVER their Muslim man tells them. BOTH are MUSLIMS and these women can make a lot of stress in the Male Muslim's world not to mention too, they are VERY demanding and want MORE than what a Muslim man can give them. They sometimes do not give these men the time of the day and majority of these men are turned off by this treatment and want a woman who looks a little deeper than the wallet, if you know what I mean. Some don't want to go back to this life or want a woman who never wanted them to begin with. I do not believe all these men want women from their own cultures as stated here.

I know of friends who married outside of the culture and have been married for years and have not decided to marry there own, and surprisingly too Zella, the couples do not have the Muslim man's children as well. He raises other men's children they gave birth to by their ex's. Some of these Muslim men have Divorced sisters and do you think they feel these sisters are washed up and used? I don't get this impression from my husband. having a LOST virginity to a previous marriage does not make his sister or any woman bad. Some of these men don't sit around and let their minds race or even ask how many men you have had sex with. Some avoid these questions altogether to not argue about the past that can't be changed. Depends on the man's personality, character, how jealous and a controlled person he is.

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