life is beautiful...

Submitted by Clara (United Kingdom), Apr 7, 2008 at 06:50

Dear life is beautiful......

.I think you have answered your own question regarding this matter just by having asked it, it shows you have doubts and worries in your head about your relationship with this man and having kids with him (and those kids being forced to be Muslim).

I think in your heart you know what he is asking is wrong. PLEASE take my advice and go back to Italy and start a new life where you will be able to give your children a childhood without religious constraints. It is not right of him to say that your children must be Muslim, it should be up to the children what they choose to believe in, it's their human right to be able to think and believe in what they want, not have it forced onto them.

If this man wants to be Muslim that is up to him and that is his right, but he doesn't have the right to say that your children have to be, he doesn't own them. One of the greatest things you can do as a mother for your child is allow him or her to make up their own mind regarding God and religion and never have to force it on them, we don't own our children's minds and souls and therefore no one should have the right to force a particular religion onto them. Please do not allow this man to control you or any future children.

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