Sunday, January 27, 2008

The Wacky World of Muslim Dating

So yeah, I though this was funny...from HERE:

January 27, 2008 -- A Wall Street stockbroker fears for her life after she rebuffed a Brooklyn imam she met on a Muslim dating Web site.

In an explosive $50 million lawsuit that blows the lid off the wacky world of Muslim dating in New York, Cherine Allaithy alleges the religious leader promised he would make her one of four future wives and boasted of a cousin in al Qaeda. When she dumped him, he trashed her reputation in the Arab press.

The imam, Tarek Youssoff Hassan Saleh, 42, says Allaithy is a loose, mentally unstable woman. He has filed criminal charges against her in Brooklyn for allegedly destroying two computers at the Oulel-Albab mosque in Bay Ridge. He also claims she threatened to frame him for rape.

Allaithy, 32, says she met the imam, who goes by the name Sheikh Saleh, online at the Muslim Matrimonial Network site in May 2007. They courted for a month.

In June, she claims in court documents, Saleh proposed marriage, telling her she would have to start wearing a veil and be subservient to him.

When Allaithy rejected the sheik's proposal, she alleges, he suggested they have a temporary marriage, or mu'ta, so they could have sex without committing a sin....

Worst of all, she fears she is now a target for an "honor killing" by al Qaeda, according to court papers. Saleh admitted to The Post that a distant relative is a member of the terrorist organization, but said he has had no communication with him....

2 comments:

Ellen said...

Technically, for it to be a dishonor killing, it must be intrafamilial. Unless the woman's family comes after her, it isn't a dishonor killing.

Ellen R. Sheeley, Author
"Reclaiming Honor in Jordan"

Abu Daoud said...

Excellent point, thank you Ellen. Have you written anything on the recent events in Texas and Canada? Those were daughters of fathers, so they would indeed be honor killings, right?

Hope all is well. Can we now buy your book online?