Quite true. There is no romantic love in Islam. There is only love of Allah, Mohammed, the Koran and Islam. This is by design. Romantic love means the wife competes with Allah and jihad for first place in his heart and mind.
The way the Islamic conquest plan is structured, a man is always willing to leave his wife to go off on jihad, and if he dies, 72 virgins. The wife? Who cares. Allah and jihad ALWAYS come first.
This is also a reason for polygamy. The wife never has security in marriage, and can be replaced or thrown out at the whim of the husband. Most marriages are “arranged” in the first place. The girl (most are married in their teens) has zero input in the marriage process. She is just sold off like a goat or sheep to a man who is a stranger to her.
I highly recommend the 2017 book by an Egyptian-born woman named Nonie Darwish, “Wholly Different: Why I chose Biblical values over Islamic values.
https://www.amazon.com/Wholly-Different-Biblical-Values-Islamic/dp/1621575780/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
Thank you for the book recommendation! It looks really interesting.
I recall when footage of Muslim men dancing in the streets celebrating 9/11 was on the news, a wealthy Muslim woman said we should excuse them, they are ignorant and don’t understand etc. But that’s not exactly true, is it? Sure they are malleable due to lack of education, but it’s that they have been abused as children and warped as adults to the point where they lack compassion and everything is a sick game, right?