stereotypes

Submitted by Lina (United Kingdom), Sep 21, 2008 at 05:26

It's just my personal belief that no one should be stereotyped. Everyone should have the chance in life to be judged by their actions, not their background. This has nothing to do with restricting muslim women from marrying non-muslims, that's much sooner a religious thing. It depends on the future, eg. whether you want muslim/non-muslim kids, whether your man could live with your religious beliefs etc. It's your choice of course, and you can do whatever you want. But you could meet a nasty, horrible man who happens to be non-muslim and one of the nicest men who is muslim, and vice versa - the fact is, being muslim doesn't automatically make a man a monster.

Sometimes men/women from outside our communities can seem "ideal". Maybe I had a bad experience with a man who happens to be Algerian, but I'm not like: "oh, I hate ALL Algerian men, I would rather marry a French man who lets me do whatever I want".

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