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>[EnlightenedChristians] From Hindunationalists >Wed, 21 Aug 2002

09:02:02 -0700 (PDT) > >A real life horror story of Hindu woman and Muslim

manPublication: http://www.secularislam.org/testimonies/add.htm >26 Jun

2002 >Comments >Dear ISIS, >I was born into a very staunch Muslim family in the

US. Learning to read the Quran the moment I could read. I was under the

misconception that if I did not do as Allah told me to do, I would be punished

severely. I was also told that if I didn't wear modest clothes I was being

immoral. Right from a little girl I wore the head scarf. My friends would ask

me why, and I would tell them "because God said so'. >Around the age of 14, I

realized how much of life I was missing out on. How my father commanded that I

do my prayers 5 times a day and never play any sports because they would only

lead me to the devil. One night I was talking to my parents about college and

my father said that I would never go to college because he had chosen a boy for

me and I was about to get married to him as soon as I turned 18. I was

shocked....my mother ran out of the room crying. I began to plead with my

father to let me go to college. But he said no. When I asked him why, he told

me that Muslim women are not supposed to be educated or go to work. They are

supposed to be good wives, who never disagree with their husbands and be good

honorable women. I couldn't belive my ears. This man was still living in the

dark-ages. >The next day after school I went to the mosque to talk with our

Maulvi Sahab. When I told him about my father's irrational behavior---he agreed

with him. He told me that if all the Muslim men in our community thought like

your father, we would be in a really good place right now. >I was stuck and

didn't know what to do. I kept thinking about it till late that night. At

around 2am my mom came to check up on me and found me crying. That night I came

to know what a sick religion Islam was. She told me that she had been a well

educated (Doctor) Hindu woman who had fallen in love with my father in India.

During their courtship my father had told her that he was very broad-minded and

did not want her to convert when they got married. Against my grand-parent's

wishes she married him and did the Nikaah just so her mother-in-law would like

her. Thats where her nightmare began. Her In-laws would not let her go out of

the house. No one could come and visit her. She was confined in a home where

everyone would spit on her for being a 'Kafir'. They made her read the Quran

and do Namaz. If she didn't they would beat her. My father would come home and

force himself on her. When she would ask him not to, he would tell her that it

was written in the Quran, and she was nothing more than a slave to him. After

about a year of their marriage, they left for the US. My mom was already

pregnant with me. >When I was born he was not too happy with my Mom. He said

that if he had married someone of his own faith he would have had a boy for

sure. Giving him a girl was the way Allah was punishing him for marrying a

Hindu. >When I heard all this I began to hate my father and Islam. I promised

to get my mom out of this situation and also never ever end up like her. When I

turned 18, along with the help of a lawyer, I managed to get my mom and dad

divorced. My mom actually went back to school and has a flourishing practice

now. >As for me, you mighwt say that I reverted. I am a practising and loving

Hindu now. I have changed my name. I live a life full of love and adoration for

a God who does not preach hate, who encourages me to think and gain knowledge,

who shows me the way without fear and who loves everyone no matter who they

are. >Thank You ISIS for letting me tell my story. > > > > >Send your children

to such schools! > >http://www.mceeindia.com/(Maharishi Centre for Educational

Excellence) >http://www.maharishiinstituteofmanagement.com

>http://maharishividyamandir.com/ >http://www.maharishividyamandirch.com/ > > >

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