Love Means Never Having to Say You Are An Infidel!

Great Article, Moe!

Keep it up.

RE: fazalm@worldnet.att.com

I was born to a French-Canadienne mother and a Kashmerian father. I was brought up as a Moslem. My mom converted to Islam upon marriage to my dad in 1945. Moe is my given and real name, as it appears on the birth
certificate. The name ``Moe`` does not make me a less of a Moslem than if they had named me ``Mohammed``. I am proud to be a Moslem. I wrote this article to illustrate the issues involved in inter-religious marriages. Each person deals with these issues in their own way and it is something between them and God Almighty who will judge them on the Judgement Day. Who are we as meager humans to act like the judge and the jury and pass judgements on another human being in this world on such Heavenly matters? Those powers are reserved for God Almighty and Him alone!

I am giving my feedback after reading and analyzing your article from the Islamic stand-point. Unlike other religions, Islam is a code of conduct, a way of life and not merely a set of rituals. When it comes to matters of belief, a follower of Islam submits to the orders of his Lord, the Almighty Allah. Quran clearly speaks about what is permitted/forbidden with regards to marriage besides other issues of life. Thus, if someone believes in Quran and the orders of Allah, he/she should try to abide by that.
For those who don`t, meaning they are least bothered about their faith, let alone inter-religious marriage, they do whatever they like in other aspects too. So, why should they at all care about their religious beliefs when they are not following the religion in the first place? Islam is identity of a muslim and one should try to maintain one`s identity. Since there is a clear line of demarcation between social behavior of muslims and non-muslims, one can not ride two boats at the same time.

There is a commonly used term ABCD`s i.e. American Born Confused Desi`s for the US born kids of immigrant parents. Their parents stick to the culture of their motherland but their kids become americanized. The duality of behavior i.e. Americans outside but Indians/Pakistanis at home obviously confuses many of them. Keeping the cultural influence in mind, one can easily foresee the devastating effect dual religious beliefs can have on the offsprings of inter-religious marriages.

Great article! I`m on to you Moe Chaudhry.

Re: Rahat.
Excellent reply Rahat. Hope to see more of you on Chowk. Please write moore I can see you are a good writer.

``Will the marriage take place in a synagogue or a church or a mosque?``
............ how about a court house?

Will the family celebrate Christmas or Eid or Chanuka?
.............. how about all three?


Is such a union recognizable in the eyes of God?
.......... who gives a flip - for all we know she might be as blind as a mole ?

....... no need to sweat the small stuff ......... as the proud father of two daughters, i can honestly say that it really doesn`t matter who they marry as long as it is not a horrible hindoo (or indian muslim) and has good table manners ......... of course the ``community`` will be shocked and tongues will wag for a few weeks but then they will go back to worrying about their tabligi son-in-law who has taken to beating their muslima daughter .............

Btw, know a Palestinian Muslim man who married an Israeli Jewish woman as did two other male members of his family; a Palestinian Marxist who was involved with an Indian Brahmin, a Pakistani Muslim who married a Chinese woman...why is it that of all these cultures and religions, its the Muslims who must impose their say?

Good to see this article....and thanks for pointing out that life is as angst ridden as you make it.....

````as the proud father of two daughters, i can honestly say that it really doesn`t matter who they marry as long as it is not a horrible hindoo (or indian muslim) and has good table manners````(hamidm)

the miserable muslims -- avoid them like bubonic plague -- but WHY the horrible hindoos?? --

do u have something against the indians?

most pakistanis -- most injuns -- have good table manners -- most r hand to mouth.

Moe Choudhary
You say,`` Love Means Never Having to Say You Are An Infidel !``

Wrong!

Love means never asking the other person to convert to a new religion
(i)for the sake of getting married
(ii) to avoid saying one is infidel
(ii) to make sure that person responsible to convert the spouse gains `Sawab` and direct entry to paradise.

Love means love from both sides and not love from one side and emotional black-mailing from the other side.

An Iranian Woman and a Korean American Man, a Pakistani American and a Dutch Man

“Unlike other religions, Islam is a code of conduct” (shahid khan) –

such a heartwarming, high flutin, profoundly meaningless phrase –

don’t u guys ever get tired of repeating the same blather over and over again – why don’t u abbreviate the whole paragraph -- as PBUI -- and get on the subject of discussion.

btw -- what do u know about those ‘unlike’ religions -- like Hinduism, , Buddhism, Christianity – have u studied other people’s religions? – have u taken a course of religion 101 – if u r in college – if u r in a mad rassa taking the course of ignorance 101 – quit it – go & see the normal world beyond the fanatic Islam.

FYI -- Islam is just like any other religion – no better no worse.

if “Islam is a code of conduct” – the current criminal conduct of -- murder and mayhem – of a minority of its -- clueless conductees -- has definitely turned it into an abomination – an anamoly

in that respect -- YOUR Islam (not mine) -- is definitely “UNLIKE” -- any of the other -- ‘gentler-kinder’ -- regular religions …

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A Bulgarian Woman and an Irish American, a Dutch guy and a half Japanese, half Italian woman...

Hydra,

Actually, these marriages took place in ShaitanSheheir-the USA....any one have any figures on how many interreligious marriages are taking place in Pakistan, Iran?

...A Pakistani-American married to a Jamaican American, an Aruban married to a Japanese, an Indian married to a Chinese woman, A Fillipina married to an Italian, an Iranian woman married to an Irish man...there are already some gorgeous children out there....

saminasha

Did you read that beautiful news story about how whites and blacks in America, instead of diverging, are increasingly coming together in marriage?