Religious Differences

Submitted by Sera (United States), May 29, 2007 at 17:21

The option of your children being Catholic in a mixed marriage is very small. Egyptian Muslim men feel very strongly about their religion and it is haram for them to have their children become another religion. This is not to say that he won't allow it.

Some Egyptian men are extremely open-minded and tolerant and either do not care about which path the child takes, will allow them to choose in the future, or the children are Muslim, but learn quite a bit about Christianity to make them more aware and tolerant of other faiths. I have to tell you, though, that it is a very very tiny percentage of Muslim men who do this. When two people feel this strongly about which faith their child might be, it can be problematic, and either you need to make a compromise, or you need to look elsewhere.

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