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Old 07-18-2009, 02:21 PM
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I don't really have any new news on PV2 James, other than he's behaving himself and staying under the radar.
ahh. ok.

and thats good he's behaving! and yes the grandad is a douche!
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Old 07-19-2009, 11:03 AM
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ahh. ok.

and thats good he's behaving! and yes the grandad is a douche!
Fully agree....
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Old 10-26-2009, 07:03 AM
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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.
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Old 11-02-2009, 01:47 AM
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buckcade nice story it must has some thrill
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Old 11-02-2009, 06:38 PM
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buckcade nice story it must has some thrill
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Old 11-16-2009, 12:30 AM
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fantastic story buckcade.....
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Old 11-19-2009, 11:25 PM
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Let me see if I understand you right, you ordered one monitor from Dell and they shipped you three or you ordered three monitors from Dell, didn't like two and attempted to ship two monitors back to Dell? Well for starters you said you went to a UPS Store to ship the monitors back?

I dealt once with a UPS Store in a strip mall shopping center, the store was staffed mostly by kids who didn't seem to know what they were doing, I did that only once but I learned my lesson and now I go directly to a UPS Brown shipping depot and not a store. For smaller items I might have to return I have a UPS account and can ship directly from my home, print out labels on my computer with tracking numbers and UPS bills me once a month but on a return like you described I would definitely load up my van and go to my local UPS Brown depot not far from my home to ship those items back.
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