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.
AMEN
Ha! I married an Iranian woman, whose family were secular Shias. She has converted to Christianity (Baptism) and is since three decades a praciticing and BELIEVING Christian.
You see, it also works the other way round.
Many Turks often don’t look like Arabs. The Turkish Prime Minister is an example, just from seeing him you’d never guess he was Middle Eastern. About half of Turkey is more Westernized (the side closer to Europe) and don’t particularly care for the Arabs. The other side is more diehard Islam-oriented.
Not sure why you thought I would know the answer about Hindus having prayer rooms, but this site confirms such:
http://www.mohyals.com/HinduRituals/
I’d still seek a thorough pre-purchase (no rooms barred) inspection, both for myself and my contractor. I say this because I am not an expert, but just play one on FR.
Because they propose marriage?
Another illustration that marriage in our Western society is an endangered institution.
How many *never-married* men and women between the ages of 25 and 35 do you know? How many divorced or single parents?
The women make a declaration of dependency. Once they do this they have no other choices or decisions to make. Islam does it all for them.
They trade uncertainty for certainty even though the certainty is they give up a great part of their individuality.
Actually, he must have actually loved her, because the koran does not require him to leave her and her daughter, it requires him to kill her and to take her daughter...
It’s because the church has abandoned teaching sound doctrine and settled for the fluffy feel good doublespeak.
No sane and intelligent woman would ever give up their faith in Christ for a life of literal bondage and abuse.
Sorry - it was meant to be a ping to “All” but I didn’t type “All” in there.
Thanks for the info. I wasn’t looking for me, I was just networking, but thanks!
No need for any more posts, this one is perfection. ;-)
Of course, they could get the same thing out of Christianity if so many Christians didn’t roll their eyes every time these women said grace in public or refused to wear painted on clothing.
We don’t do a lot to recognize and support women who need the milk of custom and ritual before they tackle the meat of study and faith. In fact, we do everything we can to make our religion look just like our culture: a social justice wasteland.
No wonder some women are drawn to a belief system that is unashamedly religious. It’s the wrong religion, to be sure, but it admits to being a religion which is more than you’ll get out of the average Episcopal church these days.
My niece, a very bright college girl with a near 4.0 average is fascinated with Moslem men and has dated several, one for a year. I suspect she will marry one eventually, if only to give the finger to her parents(who have forgone much to see her through University of Virginia). I have met some of her beaux. They are all perfect gentlemen of a sort a southern grandma might speak of as being the norm in her youth. I also know a woman who married one such. I went to her non clerical wedding and did not see her again until three years later. Her gentleman turned into a stereotypical Moslem man on the honeymoon trip they made back to Egypt to meet the in-laws. She finally escaped through the consulate but was unable to bring out her 2 daughters.
If more Christian men would step up and dare to be the spiritual head of the household and be strong in their convictions, many of the women wouldn’t feel the need to seek out a seemingly strong man of another faith. Too many Christian men fall into the PC trap and forget that the Bible puts them in a role of leadership and responsibility. Feminism and the “modern” society be damned, God intended for men to be strong and women to be loved and taken care of by the men. Many may try to say it ain’t so, but our instincts tell us what He intends for them to tell us.
“WHY CHRISTIAN WOMEN MARRY MUSLIM MEN”
I’ve know of four cases myself.
Honestly, in those cases (and I know this sounds callous), the “why” can
be explained in two terms:
1. Morbid obesity
and/or
2. A disconnected brain
I’m not blaming the ladies.
The Muslim guys lasered in on these gals.
They knew who to go after in order to get the papers to stay in the USA.
I have long believed that the main reason there are so many abusive relationships, is that many women choose to have relationships with abusers.
For the same reason female guards and female lawyers fall in love with and marry male inmates in prisons.
I could go into great detail,but really you said it all “F*Kng stupid” to marry into a stoneage culture, they are unashamed idiots of towering stupidity.
I know a couple and they were never practicing faithful Christians to begin with and second, they have unbelievably dependent personalities.
Good enough place to bump this thread — because your tagline is an eye catcher.
The WORD of GOD specifically tells us NOT to marry outside of our Faith and that was enough for me.
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