Submitted by Steph (United States), Nov 19, 2006 at 18:09

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"You've seen her--the veiled, dark-robed woman in the checkout line at Wal-Mart or Target. She's Muslim, you think to yourself. 

Probably from the Middle East or Asia.  But on closer inspection, you discover that she has blue eyes. A few strands of sandy 

blond hair peek out from her head veil. Or perhaps she's black and speaks with a distinctly American accent.

She's not from the Middle East, you realize, but from your own backyard! In fact, she could be someone you went to high school with.

Why would an American woman marry a Muslim man and convert to his religion and way of life?

The answer might surprise you: She could have been tricked into conversion. And the result might be intense physical and emotional abuse.

In growing numbers, women all over the United States are marrying Muslim men from other countries. Many find themselves trapped in a 

nightmare  of oppression, abuse and control, according to W.L. Cati, founder of Zennah Ministries, an organization that reaches

 out to women married to Muslims."

"I should not be alive," says Cati, an American woman who endured an abusive relationship with a Muslim man from 

the Middle East. After 14 years of horror, she managed to escape. Most women, she says, don't make it out alive.

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