I'M A MUSLIM WOMAN MARRIED TO A CATHOLIC MAN

Submitted by Yasmina (United Kingdom), Jan 23, 2007 at 06:10

Im a Muslim and born in the UK, had been married twice to Moroccan men who physically and mentally abused me. I eventually broke away from those marriages and from pressures from my family to re-marry thought i'll give Moroccan or muslim men a chance again. Joined various Muslim/Arab chat rooms as I didn't know how else to meet these people. I'd met a few some without papers just wanting to marry you to stay in the UK and some just wanting to get their leg over using these sites as an Escort agency with free services.

I was disgusted at the way I was treated by these men. I would have thought they ,of all people, would respect their sisters and would want something serious. As being born and bred in the UK I was very naive to how these people were. Although I was born a muslim I am very liberal and question a lot about my religon.

I'd met a Moroccan man, also born in the UK. he was my last attempt to try with my culture. He was a good man, but his family hated me for not wearing (Hijab) head scarf. After we were together a year, he had left me because he family said they would disown him if he stayed with me!! What a wimp!!

Anyway just wanted to say I am now happilly married to a beautiful Portuguese man who adores me and accepts me for who I am. He is a Catholic but not practising, as myself not practising Islam. But sometimes you need to be happy and love comes before religion.

My parents do not accept him but i feel it's time Muslim women think about themselves for a change. And if God didn't want us to unite then why did we meet????

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