Meet Qais Jassin. He's all of 26 years old. But after a series of one-on-one meetings with the father of his beloved, he got the required approval to marry his wife. That event in itself should be momentous with celebration, right? There should be dancing. There should be smiles. There should be feasting. And probably all of those celebratory activities happened.

But guess how he spent his wedding night.

Yup, you guessed it...not with his wife. Indeed, this young man quite literally:

spent his wedding night petrified that his Sunni wife's relatives would abduct and behead him.

I know. I'm sure you're shaking your head and saying, "Huh? Why would he do that?"

Glad you asked.

oh, man... although he's writing in the context of the the likely suicide death of Col. Ted Westhusing in Baghdad, arthur cuts right to the heart of not only iraq but also of the soul-deadening that has been taking place in this country for a very long time... money and stuff, thanks to the very hard work of those who profit the most from them, have replaced truth, meaning, and noble higher purpose...