You are most welcome, Prashant

Submitted by A very concerned reader (Australia), May 5, 2021 at 15:47

You're most welcome, Prashant.

Whenever I read your posts, it's like you could read my mind about my feelings towards this religion. As you said in your other post, I feel delighted as well with the discussion that we have started here about the Qur'an and its interpretation. You have read us all very well too, and I truly thank you as well for this.

Putting the quranic teaching to review by qualified people is a must at this time and age. As I said yesterday, even with the bogus translations, the message is beyond crystal clear for me. And as long as believers don't question the nature of their beliefs, we are nothing but screwed. And as you mentioned, our democratic systems are endangered. Our freedom is at stake.

Prashant, you read Tracey's post about the married Muslim man with the same terror I did. Be sure that this has happened to her for real. Although she knows the truth, she refuses to believe it. I can tell you that she must have been reading the forum quite a lot before deciding to post here. However, she still asks, she still hopes. Can't you see why? Muslim men know how to manipulate very well, in such a sneaky way that one can't notice. She is questioning her own reality, and what's more concerning, this man has been able to cause this from a very far distance. How is this possible? Mind games and very sophisticated manipulation techniques to leave their prey at their mercy. They empty their victims until they become empty shells. Then, filling their minds with all the Islamic preaching is easy, as is it a matter of time that the women give up their sanity to fit in a nonsense context and take the step to "accept" Islam as their religion.

This is what I want to stop, Prashant. Because it is happening more often than one may expect. I see women trapped in this drama every day, and it breaks my heart that many of them will never get out of it.

I earnestly ask Dr Pipes to write more articles related to this phenomenon because it's far from being stopped. In this "love" jihad, Islam is expanding even without the need to travel. For the sake of these women, their children and our societal values, I think we have to keep politely educating people to not fall into this doomed life. We owe this to our fellows and our systems which took us so long to build up to provide us with all the rights that we enjoy today.

BTW Prashant, I couldn't agree with you more about your last paragraph in Tracey's response. That's the way it is and what entails to engage with a Muslim man:

"Then there is the question of life-long commitment for violence and non-democracy. Unjust treatment of women (burkha etc), lower inheritence, possibility of additional wives, punishments for blasphemy, and life-long hell for ever leaving Islam are additional issues to consider."

Let's keep questioning the Qur'an Prashant, Dhimmi No More and M Tovey in hopes that more people join us. And please, Dr Pipes, keep writing and updating about the consequences that this interfaith marriage brings out and the modus operandi of this phenomenon of targeting victims via Facebook, Instagram or whatever dating site these con men are using to deceive their preys.

Thank you all.

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