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WHY CHRISTIAN WOMEN MARRY MUSLIM MEN
http://www.crosswalk.com/ ^ | Monday, November 5, 2007 | By Mark Earley

Posted on 11/05/2007 2:08:38 PM PST by Finally Awake

WHY CHRISTIAN WOMEN MARRY MUSLIM MEN Wake-Up Call By Mark Earley

Note: This commentary was delivered by PFM President Mark Earley.

It was while vacationing in Turkey that Miriam, a British subject, became fascinated with Islam. She was mesmerized by the beauty of the mosques and spellbound as she heard the daily calls to prayer. Miriam had been raised a Christian, but had turned against God when her mother died. The simplicity and security that Islam seemed to offer appealed to her: She decided to convert and married a Muslim man.

But within a few years, cracks began to form in her new faith. She felt that she could never be good enough to earn a place in Paradise, and that God did not love her. One day Miriam picked up her old Bible, and a few months later, re-embraced her commitment to Christ. But when Miriam told her husband what she had done, he promptly left her and their little girl. Islamic law required it: She was now an apostate.

Miriam tells her story in a new book by Rosemary Sookhdeo titled Why Christian Women Convert to Islam. What is shocking is how many of these women come from strong, evangelical backgrounds. Many converts, like Miriam, are brought up by Christian parents, accept Christ, and get involved in church activities. But as they grow older, their commitment fades, or they become disillusioned with Christianity. Islam, they think, may offer the answer.

Younger women often meet Muslims at college-men who convince them that there is really not much difference between Islam and Christianity. When their wives discover the truth that Christianity is not the same as Islam, it is often too late. Any children they have will be raised Muslim-and great pressure is put on wives to convert.

Some women marry with the best of intentions: Their husbands are recent Muslim converts to Christianity. The women learn later that they should have put off wedding plans in order to test the strength of this commitment, because all too often, these men convert back to Islam when their families pressure them.

The sobering truth is that the number of Christian converts to Islam is growing rapidly. Sookhdeo says that when her husband recently spoke at a major Christian conference, he asked the audience how many of them knew someone who had converted to Islam. Fifty percent of the audience raised a hand-astonishing!

Sookhdeo believes that some 30,000 Westerners have converted to Islam in the last decade-the majority of them women. Clearly, our churches need to do something about this. In Sunday school classes and youth groups, we need to teach our kids, especially our daughters, about the difference between Islam and Christianity. And we cannot forget the role that Christian education plays here. We must remind them of the Apostle Paul's admonition in Second Corinthians that we not be yoked with unbelievers.

As more and more Muslims immigrate to Western countries, Christians will likely find themselves mixing with them at work, in the college classroom, and in their neighborhoods. While we should welcome opportunities to develop friendships and share our life and faith, marriage is altogether different.

If you know young Christians tempted to marry outside the faith, talk to them. Pray for them. And ask your church family for support. We must do all we can to help our children remain faithful to the one true God and His only Son, who alone died for our sins: Jesus the Christ.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: christians; dhimmitude; enemywithin; infiltration; islam; markearley; muslims
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1 posted on 11/05/2007 2:08:38 PM PST by Finally Awake
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To: Finally Awake

Because they’re F’n stupid ?


2 posted on 11/05/2007 2:10:03 PM PST by clamper1797 (Democrat-one who panders to the crude, imbecilic, and mindless whims of the masses)
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Because they’re F’n stupid ?

Any Western woman who converts to islam and marries a muslim is out of her freakin' mind!

3 posted on 11/05/2007 2:12:22 PM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: clamper1797
Pray for them.

I will, because they're f'n stupid!!

You beat me to it, all beating puns intended.

4 posted on 11/05/2007 2:12:25 PM PST by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: clamper1797

Because they are the products of divorce, yearning for the love of a strong man, love they never recieved as a child?


5 posted on 11/05/2007 2:13:27 PM PST by -=SoylentSquirrel=-
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To: Finally Awake

30,000 converts over ten years (according to the article) is 3,000 converts a year on average. The author believes that is a significant problem? Women in love do silly things. It is not somebody else’s responsibility to “save them from themselves.” And if women (as this article focuses on) are easily taken in by Islam’s “beauty and calls to prayer” then these women are not watching every thing else that is going on.


6 posted on 11/05/2007 2:15:01 PM PST by bajabaja
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To: Finally Awake
She was mesmerized by the beauty of the mosques and spellbound as she heard the daily calls to prayer.

Oh, that's brilliant. She converted because the buildings were pretty and she liked hearing some guy yell five times a day.
7 posted on 11/05/2007 2:15:39 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Finally Awake

Thank God he left the child too. This woman is one of the lucky ones. Many times, the father takes the children away from the mother. Afterwards, the woman is left to fend for herself, evicted from the Muslim country, or forced to remain as a virtual slave.


8 posted on 11/05/2007 2:15:52 PM PST by Nachum
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To: -=SoylentSquirrel=-

Uh, and because they are F’ing stupid!


9 posted on 11/05/2007 2:16:51 PM PST by a real Sheila (stop hillary NOW!)
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To: Finally Awake

because Victoria’s Secret Burkhas are too sexy


10 posted on 11/05/2007 2:17:44 PM PST by ari-freedom (I am for traditional moral values, a strong national defense, and free markets.)
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To: Finally Awake

She turned against God, so she became a Muslim. Kinda makes sense in a way.


11 posted on 11/05/2007 2:18:11 PM PST by DejaJude
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To: Finally Awake
Isn't she lucky he didn't kill her?
12 posted on 11/05/2007 2:18:20 PM PST by b4its2late (GITMO is way too nice of a place to house low life terrorists.)
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To: clamper1797

Actually for all the talk of men thinking with their (well nevermind, you get it), women are quite often worse. Women will marry some of the worst men thinking after the marriage issues will resolve themselves. Actually, after marriage issues are generally magnified, not the other way around.

Some of the Middle-Easterners are dark complected, verile looking and babe magnets. Young women having just left home for college, aren’t always that savy about what Islam and Middle-Eastern practices are related to wives and their rights or better lack thereof.

If these women are attracted to Middle-Easterners, they should limit their searches to Christians. There are some Christians in the Middle-East. I have known some of them and they were great people.


13 posted on 11/05/2007 2:18:27 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Mrs Crinton have Pay Feava. There she go now. "Ah Hsu Ahhh Hsu Ah Hsu!" Crintons worth every penny.)
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To: Finally Awake

Sort of like the old joke about the Texas Aggie that moved to Oklahoma and raised the IQ of both states.

Silly women.


14 posted on 11/05/2007 2:18:57 PM PST by Greg F (Duncan Hunter is a good man.)
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To: Finally Awake

Because they find them more appealling then feminist-based nonMuslim men?


15 posted on 11/05/2007 2:21:30 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Finally Awake
We got a ton of Muslim men going to school in and around Boston. While they are here they partake in all of the forbidden (haram) stuff - - booze, women and everything they can’t have in their Sharia-controlled countries.

American women they meet see them in that context. Should these women marry one of these guys, they are faced with the shock of their lives.

16 posted on 11/05/2007 2:22:18 PM PST by Beckwith (dhimmicrats and the liberal media have .chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
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To: Finally Awake

If’n they do, they ain’t.


17 posted on 11/05/2007 2:22:35 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth (Of course we need the death penalty - Soylent Green needs inputs.)
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To: clamper1797
Yep!
18 posted on 11/05/2007 2:22:43 PM PST by Ukiapah Heep (Shoes for Industry!)
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To: DoughtyOne

“After the marriage issues will resolve themselves” I have heard before:

Men marry women thinking they will not change, but they do.
Women marry men thinking they will change, but they do not.


19 posted on 11/05/2007 2:23:31 PM PST by SF Republican
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To: Finally Awake
"...but had turned against God when her mother died."

Everybody dies sooner or later, for one reason or another. If she used the death of her mother as an excuse to convert to the Religion of Death (they have those pretty minarets!), then she was never a true Christian to begin with.

Just my opinion.

20 posted on 11/05/2007 2:26:43 PM PST by pigsmith (Viewing life as a gift from God, I tend to regard self-defense more as an obligation.)
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