You are right.....the people go away from their religion to catch the things that are really so unimportant in this life. Islam is a cure for all things, a guide for life, but you'd never know it if you look around here.
I think it was Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) who said something like: If I had known Muslims before I knew Islam, I would not have waned to know Islam"
I feel the same.....thank God I was Muslim for many years in the US before I came here to see the behavior of the people. I may have never wante to know Islam either. But alhamdulillah those of us born and raised in the west have the chance to see Islam purely for what it is, not mix cultural things and cloud it. Not all are bad, but when you convert to Islam you have a high expectation that the people will actually behave as the Quran and sunnah guide us to. And when you come here and just find people lying and cheating and slumming around, it is really frustrating. How many men are slumming around with non-Muslim expat women when there are so many of us who've converted to Islam who are still single.
Just venting.....excuse me