Love is faithful and patient... It has no prejudices nor biases. Love transcends religion...
Last week was the birthday of my friend Sasha. At 41, she has already gone through a lot of emotional roller coaster. Sasha is a Muslim married to a non-Muslim engineer. After finishing her high school, she was sent to a catholic school to study college where she met her husband and fell deeply in love with him.
Her parents vigorously objected to the relationship, but Sasha disobeyed them and eloped with her boyfriend. The parents, out of disgust and shame to the Muslim community, disowned her.
The husband of Sasha was gainfully employed, but when his company closed business, he was left unemployed. It was also during this time that Sasha developed complications from her last pregnancy which eventually drained their resources.
Sasha's parents wanted to get her back to the family on condition that she will leave her husband. But Sasha stayed with her husband. She said to me: "My husband is my life, since the day I met him, the magic has not changed.He still melts me with his loving stares and boyish gestures".
At present Sasha's husband is working abroad and they are picking up financially.
Sasha's story is too common, we have actually watched several movies, read same stories with the same theme but, Sasha's story is still different. It has religious undertones of prejudice and bias towards "the others" who are not of the same tribal or religious affiliation.
Until this very moment, most of us has the social prejudice, if not the social stigma of not being "of the same kind".
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