Posted on 09/22/2013 2:52:22 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
I once lived in a harem in Afghanistan.
I did not enter the kingdom as a diplomat, soldier, teacher, journalist or foreign aid worker. I came as a young Jewish bride of the son of one of the country’s wealthiest men. I was held in a type of captivity — but it’s not as if I had been kidnapped.
I walked into it of my own free will.
It is 1959. I am only 18 when my prince — a dark, older, handsome, westernized foreigner who had traveled abroad from his native home in Afghanistan — bedazzles me.
We meet at Bard College, where he is studying economics and politics and I am studying literature on scholarship.
Abdul-Kareem is the son of one of the founders of the modern banking system in Afghanistan. He wears designers sunglasses and bespoke suits and when he visits New York City, he stays at the Plaza.
He is also Muslim.
I am Jewish, raised in an Orthodox home in Borough Park, Brooklyn, the daughter of Polish immigrants. My dad worked door-to-door selling soda and seltzer.
But none of this matters. We don’t talk about religion. Instead, we stay up all night discussing film, opera and theater. We are bohemians.
We date for two years. Then, when I express my desire to travel, he asks me to marry him.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Old story line....ignorant females marrying mussies then regretting it later....suicide rate is extremely high for these bimbos.
I have no sympathy for them at all.
I guess my take on this, is that she was naive and didn’t know what she was getting into. She was in love, and her husband seemed to be westernized. And if she had never been exposed to the Muslim world, she wouldn’t have known how she would be treated.
This is worth reading and should be given to every teenage girl in America.
some idiot Jewish girl in my law school class did the same thing
married a Saudi
came back in about 2 years
She was extremely lucky to have escaped.
Yep..I know one with a similar story...she lets 2 kids behind ......collage educated didnt know there would be 3 other wives.......
She left a nice happy girl..came back real tough.
Sigh.....Bacon is Good,Dogs are nice,Women are people.
Twelve years after 9-11, I still wait in vain to learn anything at all about Islam that isn’t completely disgusting.
“My parents are outraged and hysterical.”
But she didn’t listen to them, and they’re likely the only ones who’d forgive her for it. She should be going door to door like her father, telling her story to the new young idiots out there.
I thought Abdul-Kareem was a basketball player.
Interesting read ZF......a fake ‘religion’ indeed...
The article should be titled "Misadventures of Jewish dumbass in burkaland"
This is a very important read.
She is very lucky she got out.
A girl I grew up with we to college for nursing school. She met a Saudi resident physician (at the hospital associated w/the school). It was a whirlwind romance. I was a “quickie” Bridesmaid (actually one of the witnesses to the civil ceremony. This was pre 9/11 and I thought he was marrying her to gain US citizenship. I don’t believe that was the case. She dropped out of school when she got pregnant; their 1st child was a boy. They went to Saudi Arabia for a visit to show his family his son. They NEVER came back. No contact at all in the ensuing years. When Facebook started up & I started looking up old friends I NEVER found her. None of the other HS friends ever heard from her again. She just went poof. Disappeared.
Her dad passed away when we were in late years of grade school; and I never knew her moms first name. She had much older brothers (who I also tried to find on FB but no avail).
I wonder if she got out, wanted to stay, was made to stay or worse.
The writer of this article is very, very lucky.
Dumb broadhood hasn’t changed much, has it?
That my FRiend is a brilliant synopsis.
Well at least she has walked away to be able to pen 50 Shades of Saffron.
Learn anything Phyllis?
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