Vatican Warns Catholics Against Marrying Muslims ("Put Down the Burqa and Back Away SLOWLY...!")

Reuters ^ | 5/14/04 | Shasta Darlington

[nmh]

I don't despise you. I despise false teachings.

[nmh]

BTW, my reply was directed to The Lumster and never mentioned Catholics. Have a guilty conscience or a complex? Actually I really don't want to know. I've run across you and you are a very hostile, unChristian person.

[nmh]

BTW, my exchange was with The Lumster. It didn't mention Catholics.

[budwiesest]

Western women should shy away from men who ride camels or low-riders. They should run toward men whose trucks are jacked up, own horses, or listen to any music with a fiddle in it.

[Desdemona]

What say you to this?

Looking for a good Catholic man to marry.

I'm not a fan of mixed marriages.

[montag813]

This issue arose last month when Muslims in Spain asked to be able to pray in Cordoba cathedral, which was once a mosque. A senior Vatican official said this would be "problematic."

Problematic??? Just say "NO"! What the hell is wrong with Western culture?

[Dan from Michigan]

It wasn't 60%. It was 52%. Bad enough, but there's a BIG difference.

[SuziQ]

I've never understood why any Western woman would even consider marrying a Muslim man.

[Dajjal]

I'd have to see this document before I praise it. What does "the comments ... were preceded by remarks about points of agreement between Christians and Muslims" mean? Were there 20 pages of "bridge-building" before one paragraph warning Catholic women about Muslim husbands?

Or are there even 50 pages about the hardships that "migrants around the world" face, with one paragraph about Islam hidden inside somewhere?

How prominent is this warning? How forcefully is it written? Excuse me for say so, but the phrase "bitter experience teaches us that a particularly careful and in-depth preparation is called for" strikes me as rather mealy-mouthed as dire warnings go.

Exactly which office issued this document? Is it from the desk of Cardinal Kasper or Cardinal Ratzinger or someone else?

I hope my fears are wrong about this, but at the moment, I find this news announcement ... (ahem) ... "problematic."

[Dajjal]

this just in
the vatican says "dont bring a knife to a gun fight" and "wait an hour after eating to go swimming"

ROTFLMHO!!!

[freebilly]

Same church, same statement except it referred to Jews when I was in Catholic High School.

I don't think Jews have been big on honor killing in the last 15 or 16 centuries....

[My Dog Likes Me]

Keep your focus on the central issue, my dear friends! Do not take this warning from the Vatican lightly. A muslim swine shot the Pope years ago and, well, payback is Hell.
This is only the Vatican's first salvo fired against this gutter religion. We'll win.

Ronald Reagan and the Vatican ended the Cold War. They couldn't have done it without each other. They dismantled the USSR without a shot fired. Let's hope GWB and the Vatican are on the same sheet of music here.

[zinochka]

I've never understood why any Western woman would even consider marrying a Muslim man.

My husband was telling me about some Russian girls who dated or married muslim men from the Caucauses. This was in Soviet times, before the Wahabbi rebels started causing s--- in Chechnya. The men were Sufi Muslims. They treated the girls like PROPERTY!!If a girl tried to break up the boy would'nt let her leave because she "belonged to him." When a Chechen girl gets married there is an evil custom. Her father gives the new son inlaw a bullit. Which means he has his permission to KILL HER if she dishonors him! Why would any girl want to marry a Muslim man is beyond me!

[FITZ]

I can remember being told to "think" before marrying a Baptist or any other Protestant.

I think that's good advice actually --- anytime someone feels strongly about something, they should marry someone who is pretty compatible with that. If you're a country person, you should think hard before marrying someone who has to live in a city, if you have to have cats, don't marry a cat hater. I know people in mixed marriages who say that religion wasn't so important during the courtship but suddenly after the kids start coming it becomes more important and the source of many problems. But it depends on how important it is to both parties.

[FITZ]

I've never understood why any Western woman would even consider marrying a Muslim man.

Maybe for a lot those were the only men who would pay attention to them, any husband is better than no husband --- until they find themselves wrapped up in a burka riding in the back of a truck like a dog or told they will never see their children again if they try to escape.

[happygrl]

The highest point was specifically built to be taller than the highest vertical point in the Vatican, a psychological message if there ever was one.

That makes me ill.

It also is a problem begging for a solution.

[happygrl]

Thanks for the insight you've provided regarding Sufis. They often get a "pass" here because they claim to be more liberal than other Muslims.

Your report indicates that is not so.

Welcome to FR. I share your prayer regarding our two nations.

[a_Turk]

>> I saw a movie about this based on a true story.

She escaped from Iran to Turkey where my mother was a balerina and then a professor and my grandma was a judge..

Where, btw, I went to a catholic high school even though I am a muslim.

I have seen plenty of American women with broken mouths married to "christian" Americans. This broad brush crap has got to stop on all sides..