05-12-2004, 03:52 PM
I once had a best friend who had a girlfriend from Arabia... his girlfriend's parents really hated the americans even though they live in California. My best friend Jeff had a hard time trying to see her and she had to sneak around behind her parents back. I asked why, and this is what I was told at the time (1981) it is because of their Islamic religion and their Islamic culture. They felt that Islam was becoming too westernized for their own comfort. They blame it on us. Our behavior is too offensive when it comes to their comfort zone. It has to do with intrusion of western culture upon their own people. Also, they feel that westerners are meddling with their own affairs and culture as well. Islamic in their own extreme level, will include hateful feelings to be indoctrinated in the impressionable mind (almost to the point of brainwashing). I seriously beleive that girl's parents had tried to do that to her, and she resisted. She was sneaking out of the house to favor the american lifestyle, and with a american boyfriend.
Well she got caught, and was meted out severe punishment inflicted upon her by her parents. She was not allowed to see Jeff anymore... to make the long story short, it had the Romeo and Juliet ending... she committed suicide as she could not accept her parents' demands and the wrath that was directed at her. Jeff called me one day late 1981, and he had been ditching school, so I went to visit him, he was very despondent. He felt responsible for her death, I tried to talk him out of it for two hours. I was looking out the window of his bedroom, he grabbed his shotgun, I felt something telling me to turn around and look. Jeff had his shotgun in his mouth... I was too slow to grab it, albeit, it was too late!
I heard someone said at the funeral, that the girlfriend's parents said that Jeff got what he deserved. I was agasted at the coldness of the situation. It is just way too bad that we live in a messed up world where there are people who hate americans for no good reasons, especially when it is their own people who bought into the western culture.
I feel bad for the dude from Pennsylvania for having his head lopped off. It is hard to turn to the other cheek as Christ would want us to do. But we do have the duty to God to defend our country against fanatics like those guys wielding their sword on a common american civilian.
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Well she got caught, and was meted out severe punishment inflicted upon her by her parents. She was not allowed to see Jeff anymore... to make the long story short, it had the Romeo and Juliet ending... she committed suicide as she could not accept her parents' demands and the wrath that was directed at her. Jeff called me one day late 1981, and he had been ditching school, so I went to visit him, he was very despondent. He felt responsible for her death, I tried to talk him out of it for two hours. I was looking out the window of his bedroom, he grabbed his shotgun, I felt something telling me to turn around and look. Jeff had his shotgun in his mouth... I was too slow to grab it, albeit, it was too late!
I heard someone said at the funeral, that the girlfriend's parents said that Jeff got what he deserved. I was agasted at the coldness of the situation. It is just way too bad that we live in a messed up world where there are people who hate americans for no good reasons, especially when it is their own people who bought into the western culture.
I feel bad for the dude from Pennsylvania for having his head lopped off. It is hard to turn to the other cheek as Christ would want us to do. But we do have the duty to God to defend our country against fanatics like those guys wielding their sword on a common american civilian.
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