AssalaamuAlaikum,
I must clear one thing to aamad and muslima_1. There is a scale to measure the good and bad, and for the time being one of the scale is America. It is a welknown fact that America is a Shaitaan and party which is being supported by America will always be on wrong side and any group of people who are declared enemies of America or terrorists or Alqaeda supporters, that group has something to do rightious, thats why that groups is being cursed by America.
In this case, Please shut your mouth against those people who are being declared by America as Alqaeda supporters. And try to assume that you people dont know enough yet.
The kind of think which is being reflected by aamad and muslima_1 is mostly in abundance in the born muslims of the Europe or America.(Even I dont know where do these two belong to). I give an example, I will look very pathetic to an American born young Muslim that most of marriages in the estern Muslims countries are "Arranged Marriages" in which parents of both the girl and the boy arrange marriage and even in many situations girl and boy dont even see each other before marriage. This arranged marriage thing is very much normal in the east and considered miserable in the western thinkers. Now this is a welknown fact in the eastern Muslim countries that arranged marriages are much more successful than love marriages.
Please dont herd everything or every Muslims group with your own stick of lame logic. Keep your freedom of speech to certain limit.
WassalaamuAlaikum,
VirtualEye.