Muslim women badly treated.

PS! As a woman, I feel the pressure of our western society as outlined in the poem above. I am not of any particular religion/faith but I believe in the concept of a creator. I am searching, you could say. Anyway, I feel this creator would not want us to feel unhappy with our looks, to dwell on our waist size, our 'earthly' beauty. He loves us as we are, I am sure of that.

 

Clara 

Sandra I am an Australian and I know just as you know that you are pulling punches here.

Sandra your allegations against Muslims based on few experiences with some Muslim women are exasperating. Your posts seem to indicate that you are the saviour of Muslim women and it is Islam that is driving men to treat their women in the manner that they are alleged to being treated (badly or whatever). But first of all the book on which you started this topic is a hoax and Norma Khouri is a fake. Here is some info about Norma Khouri whose main intention is to discredit Islam.

Khouri - the troubled life of a fake

Norma Khouri was a fugitive not from Jordan but from a life of shady deals and tempestuous family relations, report Malcolm Knox and Caroline Overington.

In September last year, Norma Khouri wrote a long letter to Amal al-Sabbagh, the Jordanian women's rights activist who was questioning the authenticity of Khouri's book, Forbidden Love, about the so-called honour killing of Khouri's best friend Dalia.

Khouri wrote: "On a personal note, I hope and pray that no woman that you care for and love is ever taken from you in this way, but I do believe that you cannot truly understand my motivation unless you find yourself in my shoes, and I am truly offended by your request to label Forbidden Love as fiction."

At another point she wrote: "Bring Dalia back to life and then I will agree to call this story fiction. Forbidden Love is a memoir. It is my memoir, documenting my life and my memories and feelings and experiences. I do not believe that I am in any way misleading anyone."

We now know that Khouri misled everyone who read and believed her book, which was published in the US under the title Honor Lost. Dalia did not exist, because Khouri was not in Jordan when the events of the book - covering Khouri's childhood and young adulthood - took place. Forbidden Love is a fiction written by a woman who lived in Chicago from the age of three, and who left that city in 1999, when the FBI wanted her for questioning over a series of possibly criminal property transactions.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/30/1091080433708.h tml

There is a lot of information available about this fake on the web. Sandra you also rely on very dubious sources of information mostly from (non-Muslim sources) some of whom are working mainly towards demonising Islam. For example that Silas website you refer to is a christian who claims converting many Muslims to Christianity. Their method of operating is to get hold of some weak or ignorant Muslims and exploit them, demonise Islam. We all know that there are many Quran translations by Christians and Jews. Those who are bent on demonising Islam get hold of these translations and use it for their evil purposes. In fact I have heard of a Christian church who conducts seminars on Islam in Australia and this church has been asked by the courts to apologise to the Muslims for some of their statements.

Mary

 

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None of you would ever know how much I am learning from this forum. How much I owe to the wisdom, the spirit and the knowledge of my friends here.

How would I ever find the words to thank you for really making me feel as a part of a whole universe?

And, how would I ever thank Him for His kindness of granting me these few moments to know you?

Do I still need to spell out how I loved being in this string.

Let's make peace with Sandra and let her feel the truth and measure the reality. We could save her from the mere spin.

clara,to your qustion,no i had no religion before,i was in a world of my own i wont go into details as i dont like to remember it,anyway i got to know someone who taught me about islam,hes now my husabnd who i love very much,i believe that allah guided him to me,i will always love allah for taking away my blindfold and bringing me to islam,and giving me a great husband and beautiful children.what are your real thoughts on islam?