Christian men marrying Muslim women

[Julio1021]

Hello,I am a non-religious Christian man,and I want to know if king Mohammed VI and the government of Morocco is going to allow Christian men to marry Muslim women in Morocco as part of the Moudawana reforms in the country?

I find that the current status quo of a Christian man having to convert to Islam in order to get married to a Muslim is very discriminatory against Christian men.

Muslim men are not required to commit apostasy in order to marry a Christian woman in the West, why Christian men in Morocco are not given the same right??

I have read about the reason that Christian men can't marry Muslims,but those are just baseless assumptions that don't apply to the 21th century.

A Christian man in the West can't force a wife, no matter what her religion is,to change her religion, or to eat or serve pork, teach her children christianity, or even force her to have sex with him (marital rape is illegal).

That was the case centuries ago, When in Europe a wife was just the property of her husband. Nowadays in 2010, women are not property and can live their lives as they see fit within marriage.

I used to be with a Budhist woman and I didn't interfere in her religion at all. Most Christian men aren't even religious, don't even go to church often, pray or anything, they are just Christians because of cultural tradition.

[Arwen]

Interesting question. I don't know if rules will ever change as they are made by people with their own agendas in mind.

I think it's sad when religion comes between people who love each other. Personally I don't think it should matter what religion a person is. There is one God. What should it matter what name you pray to him by? Just because you do not worship God in a place of worship...church, mosque whatever....it does'nt mean your prayers are worth any less. I'm Christian, go to church maybe not as often as most. But try and live my life in a good and kind way, seeing the good in the people I meet and and taking joy in the beauty of the world around me. God teaches love, forgiveness and tolerence of others, if you have that in your life then I think you are on the right side.......Just my opinion....

[desert winds]

In the religion of islam it is not permissable for a muslim women to marry a non muslim man.
I'm Sorry.

[Arwen]

Originally Posted by desert winds

In the religion of islam it is not permissable for a muslim women to marry a non muslim man.
I'm Sorry.

What a shame, thats very sad if two people who meet just wish to be together.

[desert winds]

Originally Posted by Arwen

What a shame, thats very sad if two people who meet just wish to be together.

actually we muslim women hope that Allahswt has a muslim man instore for us, a muslim man is better than a man who is a not a muslim. islam gives us rights and when we choose to be muslim we choose to obide by the rules of our God so its not really ashame, our God has the best instore for us and everything we suffer is for the better of it.

[enjoyfulife]

very intersting tread here , why ? hum ...because I am concerned ..how? I am muslim woman married to a lovely ,understanding , tender , generous , respectable non-musulm man . when wé decided to get married w errased all bounderies . none of us changed his religion wether or not to please each but because wé believe that our differences make us more stronger . how ? very simple , wé both understood our culture better than any time before .. because of my christian hubby my beliefs grow , I started to be more interested in religion , more I lear more my curiousity brings me to well understand things much better and my beliefs in God has just become stronger over and over .

I can hear some of you reading this comment and just : hum hum , you are not a muslim at all or you are not anymore , it is just sillly ! yes , I can hear you may be saying the worst thought , I don't if it was in this forum I read somebody commenting that
“if a muslim woman married to a non-muslim , she is a prostitu ” oh wow !! that really was like I don't know how to describ it ... ridiculous !! no fair absolutely not

anyway , here I made my comment and hope from the bottom that the narrow -minded turns to tolerant . whatever black , white , men , woman , budhist , christian ... wé all unique and like anyone else. wé feel sadness when things bad happen , we all enjoy hapiness when wé have to celebrate something . we aren't so that différente the moment we know each other except the ways that everyone make for ourselves .

[Sista]

Interesting discussion and one close to my heart. I have thought/read alot about this question and the point that I have heard many times is "well it says in the Quran it is okay for men to marry non Muslims, so it's okay for women to". This is an incorrect assumption, if it was okay for women then it would have said in the Quran. As to why this is this case, well it is not about being current or up to date, this guidance was laid down before our time and there is more wisdom in it than we will know.