to Aysha - a query

Submitted by Magda (Poland), Oct 21, 2006 at 15:17

"...marriage is sacred and promising. for better or for worse, through sickness and health, till death do us apart."

Hmmm... That doesn't sound much like a muslim woman's belief, rather utterly christian. Lol.

As my knowledge of islam is still rahter limited, please enlighten me: where in the Quran or any other islamic writing, or the islamic law for that matter, is marriage considered anything near the above description???

Take no offence, Aysha - for of course I may be totally wrong about what your motivation is - but I find it extremely difficult to belive the character you claim you are to be true. Sounds to me like you're not a muslim at all, rather some overly zealous christian/jew/whoever pretending to be muslim in order to gain some undeserved credibility for the opinions you present here. A muslim woman expressing such negative opinions about muslim men - that's unheard of.

Or maybe - here's my other theory as to your possible motivation - you really are a muslim, but one bitter about western women 'stealing' muslim men and determined to contribute some effort to stopping that?

I sincerely do apologise if I'm wrong about you, but I also sincerely doubt I am.

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