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What is it about THAT destination?


Now, I’m going to let you into a sordid secret that people are brushing under the carpet.

It concerns holiday destinations that are becoming more and more popular within our community.

Let us be totally honest there are a few people going to places like Morocco so they can take part in things that they would not want people around them to find out about.

These things include guys going abroad to play around with other women in holiday resorts and dabbling in the alchohol drugs and anything else that is not permitted within Islam.

Before you start ringing me asking me for my head I say this because many family people are being put-off going to such wonderful destinations because of the stories they have heard.

It is extremely difficult for families to be able to go to the same venues and have a respectful time.

Those families that have gone come back with stories about how they saw so many ‘familiar faces’ there.

Sorry to burst your bubble boys but some of us need to make a stand and let people know what really goes on. I’ve heard of some people going alone three or four times a year!

The strangest and most worrying thing is the Muslims are choosing Muslim countries to be able to do these things.

Local communties in places like Morrocco are being torn apart because of our ‘great British Asian pound’.

Some of us put on this image within our community that butter would not melt in our mouths yet we then are at the forefront of such activity behind closed doors or just in other countries.

What we forget is God can see you in the middle of a holiday resort and in the middle of Whalley Range.

I think some in our community need to wisen up and start behaving in a manner more suited to being a Muslim and stop tarnishing the image.

This minority of people who are doing this should be ashamed of themselves.


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abdullah, blackburn says...
10:34am Tue 15 Dec 09

Well done,i must thank you from the bottom of my heart for bringing up this issue into the open.Youre article hits the mark in plain writing as to what our fellow brethren are getting upto in Morrocco.Its become a sex tourism destination,same way as Thailand is except here we have our fellow muslims indulging in their sexual gratification in a muslim country.Its such a shame and dishonour on our community that people are exploiting morroccan women on the strength of the money in their pocket.

man_of_the_world, says...
4:45pm Wed 23 Dec 09

Whilst I agree that this is absolutely outrageous and shines a bad light on the young muslim men from the UK, however, remember that phrase "it takes 2 to tango"..??? The men going out there would be unsuccessful in their antics if there were no girls to lead them along. Yes! some of the blame must go to the girls. Its too easy to blame the strong british pound. Self respect is more important than money, and I think a lot of the women over there probably dont have too much of that. I've been to Marakech, and it isnt such a poverty stricken region that girls have to sell their bodies. Moroccans in general are NOT very islamic, the mosques have a low attendance. This kind of behaviour was probably already happening there, but as usual, us south asians take things to the extreme and hence get cuaght out and labelled. Same things happen when brit asians go to Dubai, India and Pakistan.

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