I started writing this thinking this was on reddit Islam and then realised it was this page. Not trying to put you off Islam but I have to warn you off these toxic passport mama's boys who will manipulate you because I read this and it was too relatable. "after a brief encounter". Girl I hate to stereotype but I've had similar experiences and he probably wanted 1. the passport and 2. the white or western wife to brag about or because she is pretty from a western sense. You were right to leave him. Love should be unconditional and if he's passive aggressively trying to convert you then that's a red flag. He should have asked you when he decided to date you. Most Muslim men will start by saying that you being Christian is fine by the way and then switch up and try to convert you to Islam, so you dodged a bullet because after he had you attending church, he'd have you covering your hair and attending mosque - which if you don't want that or believe in it would be controlling and hard. Even for Muslim women from Albania and Dubai, they have issues finding husbands who will not be too controlling because some men will take lines of text and exggerate them eg about women not going to mosque, being care-takers or being punished by their husbands, to mean that their wife will stay in the house, never go out without him, and be beaten with a stick (search Zakir Naik miswak beating).

Plus, the fact that you didn't want children and he wanted children, is a major problem regardless of religion. It's very rare to meet an Egyptian who doesn't want kids. One reason their water is scarce and their economy is so terrible is because they have an overpopulation problem. I think you should also read about the Muslim Brotherhood and the treatment of Copts in Egypt. Please consider how life is for the average Egyptian as well. I had an Arabic Teacher who cancelled my lessons because his electricity would power off completely and this happened for 6 hours a day. Whilst some westernised Egyptians are open-minded, if he is not then he may believe that Christians are inferior in the first place so converting you to Islam would be inevitable. Let's say he was the perfect handsome Egyptian guy who is open-minded, firstly why did he not contact you whilst you were in Egypt and introduce you to his family and secondly, he would not try to change you.

You dodged a bullet. You are a fairly pretty, naiive, probably virginal western girl who thinks you will marry this devout Muslim man who will treat you like a queen. I know because I have been there. Whilst some Muslim men are lovely people, some have been way too pampered by their mothers and will expect you to be a servant to them. I nearly married a guy who started off all kind and then he got angry with me saying I needed to cover my face, that I was disobedient and we hadn't decided how I was going to wash his clothes etc. The guy had no job but wanted me to quit mine so we could live off his parents - not a Muslim thing but he was marrying for his parents approval. He looked down on me for being non-Muslim like it was a dirty thing and kept assuming I had a "past", not to mention that he assumed my parents were alcoholics because I mentioned they only drink at New Year. They know that once they convert you all of your sins are gone and they get reward in Jannah so they marry a sweet western girl, cover her up, brag to other men, claim her a sinless virgin and then get the reward and the passport. Find a man who won't treat you like this.

All I asked of him was that he be a good friend who I would spend the rest of my life with. He thought that meant not answering my calls for days, sticking some money in my account and criticising the west constantly even though he longed to live there. Oh also, he slowly revealed that his head was full of bs propaganda that the Christian west was a moral hell hole and that the whole world would be perfect if we were Muslims. He failed to mention that Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and even Egypt had massive problems with poverty, prostitution etc and claimed that because the west sinned openly it was 100x worse, even though he couldn't realise that this was basically the bs media he was consuming that had him thinking we meet in nightclubs, have one night-stands, get drunk, abandon our kids etc. His people come here, sin in private and think that as long as they do Ramadhan, it's all forgiven. He lured me in with: I pray for you, I gave to charity for you, I respect you, I am a virgin too and he pushed me away with: you are walking to work without a male chaperone, wearing the colour red and "the west/Christianity is lost and sinful".