Jamila: Why the conversions? Responsibility required!

Submitted by Viking Woman (Kuwait), Apr 24, 2008 at 05:30

You haven't mentioned the finer details of this marriage, such as what religion any children would be raised.

As a Christian who married a Muslim, I deeply resent the fact that Muslims have the attitude that all non Muslims must change, and/or convert to their religion to appease society, their families, the laws. Changing one's religion (even on paper for deception) is a part of a "deception" no person should be asked to do.

I've yet to see any Muslims convert to Christianity or Judaism for the "love" and acceptance of a spouse and their entire family. This is total deception in the eyes of GOD to sign, or utter a declaration of faith to change one's religion for another. Why is this "deception" so acceptable to Muslims?

The Catholic church needs to seriously ban all marriages to Muslims. The marital tenets are not acceptable to a Christian. Polygamy is just a start of the anti Christian marriage. Do you accept any man swearing before God to become Muslim for you? What if he asked you to study Catholicism for a year, then convert? What if he asked you to study Judaism and then convert?

The major difference here is, to convert to Islam requires "no" study, just a simple utterance of words without any "responsible" studies of the Islamic laws or tenets. To become a Catholic or a Jew, one must take a responsible step and study, be tested, be baptized (Catholic)--- be knowledgable of the religion!!! Would you do this for him?

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