Islam as a religious Ideology...

Submitted by Evan Mark (United States), Jul 12, 2011 at 01:25

First off, Islam is not a race. It is a religion. And more specifically, for most of its adherents, it is a religious ideology. I fail to see how I am exacerbating problems surrounding race-relations merely by pointing this out.

And my intention was not to lump all Muslims into "one basket." Clearly there is a difference generally between the way Muslims in America worship vis-a-vis Muslims in Saudi Arabia and other places in the Muslim world. Many American Muslims emigrated from Muslim-majority countries precisely because they had wanted to flee repressive authoritarian/totalitarian regimes.

But it is also true that many of those same individuals hold draconian attitudes regarding issues surrounding family law: marriage, divorce, custody, inheritance, etc.

Obviously it is important for anyone who is thinking of marrying someone who has been ideologically indoctrinated (typically as a child) to know exactly what it is that they believe and understand about the world before marriage.

I have personally witnessed dozens of failed marriages/relationships because one party decides that ideology is more important than his or her spouse/significant other.

Nasty, feuding custody battles almost always follow.

So no, I don't see any problem with someone sitting down and taking ten minutes to read a sensible, reasonably-worded caveat emptor which could serve to counteract what often amounts to, in many relationships, nothing but a very stingy haze of infatuation.

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