Love stories- any good ones?
I am a romantic at heart, and with all of this gloom, has there been any love stories that have blossomed between Muslim, Jew, Christian or other religions here in the Middle East? Everytime I google the keywords for it, I find one, but it always ends up with with two sides fighting each other. Has there been one that hasn’t? Love is the most powerful antidote for hate, but why are people so feverish to stomp it out? Yes, a Muslim man can take a wife from “people of the book- Jew and Christian”, but when the table is turned, it becomes some sort of fatwah. There are stories here in Bahrain where a non-Muslim man fell in love with a local Muslim woman and went through the proper courtesy to do the right thing which led to the marriage of the two people. One couple, I know, and I have heard of others. I’d love to document some of these as lessons we can all learn.
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Love does not necessarily brings a haapy-end. if it were not for the sake of sad moments, love would loose much of its power. check short or very short stories to find many romantic ones (and romance, to me, is not just marriage).
how is this 6-words-story from Hemingway:
“For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn”
A marriage with no romance is just a business. I love romance.
Marriage is work. Both people must work together to make it a successful marriage. Love is happiness and pain and sometimes both at the same time. To feel pain and to feel happiness is the human experience.
On the cover of Newsweek Oct 22, 2007 edition is the picture of Dr. Zena Majeed and her husband US Army Lt. Col. Richard Allinger. The cover story is on page 28. The stories and the people involved give me the greatest hope and the example that love knows no bounds and that love can overcome so many obstacles. Love stories involving soldiers and women of the area they are stationed at goes back thousands of years. The Iraq War is a little different because love between the “invader” and women and the men (yes, there are marriages between American women and Iraqi men as a result of this war) can mean death to the Iraqi and to her or his family members. There aren’t too many marriages happening, and it’s not for lack of trying, but because of the red tape and the prejudice of some individuals who work for the American State Department. Anyway, give it a read, and I applaud Newsweek for breaking this story for all to read and to understand that love can survive and does grow in some of the harshest places on this earth, and I most highly applaud those couples who have chosen to make a life and to be together no matter how hard and dangerous things can get.
dawoud, my (formerly catholic) cousin married a muslim girl (from morocco) + a good (turkish) friend is getting married to a (formerly) protestant guy. so yes, there’s romance.
I am a Muslim in a relationship with a Protestant for 4 years and a half. We are in love. There is definitely romance. As we are growing together, almost living together and carefully guarding our secret, we feel choked and hurt because there are so many barriers that could stop us from ending up together. Maybe this marks the end of romance- when “rules of the world” start taking over you and setting you where you belong. I wonder who made those rules. I am sure God did not intend that we all struggle to find peace.