How would you feel if your daughter married a Muslim man?

Question

i hear so many lies spouted by islam bashers saying dumb things like "muslim men hit their wives" "muslims men step on women".(which is not true)

so how would you feel if your daughter married a Muslim man? would you believe what the media says about them or base your opinion on his personality?

Answer 1

I would not be afraid if I got to know the man personally, and knew that he loved my daughter sincerely and would not harm her. However, I might get pretty nervous if he wanted to emigrate to Iran or something. Then the problem would not be whether or not he was unjust to her, but whether his family and his country had a policy which was harmful or dangerous to her. There was a movie, "Not With My Daughter You Don't" which, though I do not like Sally Fields much, might be instructive in this regard.

Answer 2

Since I am Muslim as is my husband and our future children will be I will feel perfectly fine with my daughter marrying a Muslim man as that is the law in Islam for Muslim women to marry Muslim men. I think that people are too judgmental about how Islam treats women and I think that people are ignorant of how Muslim men treat their wives and daughters. Women and girls are treated like queens in Islam.

Answer 3

Inface if he is religious he will be better then a man of different religion because he will folow the islam rules which are made to protect women. Muslim womans are not steped on or beaten or anything in the islam family. What you hear about are some crimes made by one or two people who dont represent all muslims. Muslims have 33 times less divorce then nonmuslims.

Answer 4

My only concern would be from a faith standpoint. I would have to assume that my daughter knew him well enough to know whether or not he would tend to beat her or whatever so that would not be of concern.

However, I would be concerned about the differences that I assume they would have to face regarding their religious practices. I am not saying that I would condemn the man for his beliefs...but I would not want him to insist upon converting my daughter to his way of thinking either. As a Christian, I believe that Christianity is the way that God wants us to do things. He on the other hand would be very much against that idea. As Abraham Lincoln said so many years ago.."A house divided against itself cannot stand". I think this applies to people marrying when they have major religious differences as well as two parts of our country fighting over slavery etc. Would I walk away from my daughter if she decided to marry a Muslim or even if she converted to being a Muslim...No.

Answer 5

Judge the man, not the faith.

While there are certain things you can predict about someone who claims to be a 'Muslim' (i.e: Concept of a singular God, the existence of key Islamic prophets); there are people who consider themselves Muslims, but are not accepted as Muslim by most other Muslims, or who follow a spirituality only BASED on most basic principles of the Muslim faith and not inherently orthodox to the core teachings.

A persons interpretation of their faith, the way they embody it and do not embody it, and their views of others, all influence the nature of ANY person who follows a set religion.

If a child of mine told me they were marrying a Muslim man , it would mean very little to me if I hadn't yet met the man.

Answer 6

My first comment is to all the young women who are not yet mothers its all nice to say it would not bother you at all but in reality when it does happen it would. The reality is marriages with mixed religions are very difficult. Deciding whose faith to raise your children in is not as easy as it seems. If you are a religious person and you care deeply for your beliefs you are not going to agree to raise your children in your spouses beliefs. I would not encourage my daughter to marry a Muslim only for the sake that my family is Christian. I would have know problem with my daughter marring a middle eastern man if he was a Christian.

Answer 7

Look, Islam is an ideology. If you can't judge someone based on their beliefs (their ideology) then you can't judge NAMBLA members or the Klan or the American Serial Killer society members. If a person chooses to subscribe to an ideology then it's ok to judge them based on what that society believes. Islam supports Sharia and Sharia supports killing rape victims and sex with children. I don't see a problem here. Muslims are practically begging to be spit on and ridiculed. I say give 'em what they want.

Answer 8

I will marry only a muslim man inshaAllah and my familia will ofcourse be so happy lol

I guess people dont watch that fox show called COPS. Men that hit women are not following thier religion, no matter what it is.

Answer 9

Although I be Muslim I would eye him suspiciously look him up and down while circling him like a shark looking for the best place to bite. Then I would ask him what does he do for a living, how much money does he make. Does he have any felonies has he ever smoked pot meth crack cigarrettes drank alcohal, paid for sex , slept outside of marriage have any tattoes hit any women in his life and if I where to ask any of his former girlfriends what they think of him what kind of reference would they give?

Answer 10

if i know that he has good personality qualities,i don't mind
if he is a muslim or christian or someone else!the main thing as i said is his personality as human beeings!what about
hitting wives by muslim husband,i don't believe it,because they learn not to break someones heart and etc.most of them are very nice people!i say it so certain because i had a muslim friend and had been to some of muslim coutries!ofcource not all of them are good,not all of the people in the world are nice!