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.
Not really. I would expect that more women would end with dangerous men than men would end up with dangerous men. ;>)
Its because they are the children of White Huns, Christian Byzantines,Christian Bulgars, Christian Huns,Christian Slavs,Christian Greeks,Christian Macedonians, Circassians,Khazars,Cypriots,..All others European and et al, captured, crushed and converted.
No argument here. Lots of anguish and unhappiness down that road.
obviously it’s bush’s fault...
or maybe china’s...lead paint an all...
Nah.
I'm going with "because their f'in stupid".
Well said. Thank you for that.
I know a Christian woman who married (legally, anyway...) a Moslem. I think she did it just to help him get a green card, I really don’t know. Very soon after the wedding he wasn’t living with her, and she seemed unconcerned.
This woman is heavy-set, tall and not very attractive, though she did seem to have a nice disposition. Maybe she was desparate, I just don’t know. Very sad though.
Clearly she got used—but maybe she was asking for it.
At the beginning he claims that many of the women who supposedly converted to Islam had accepted Christ.
Obviously these women are born again and there is no way they would exit their Christian faith to join Islam.
Why did you even post this?
Greg, your story is all mixed up. When the west was settled, there was a sign at a juncture on the trail showing the way to Californis and to Mexico. Those that could read followed the sign to the the west coast. The illiterates settled Tejas.
Years ago, a friend of mine who is now 71 yrs. old was engaged to marry her brother’s college roommate (a Muslim man from a Middle Eastern country). One day they were just talking and he said, “You do know that when our children are born they will be sent to my country to my mother for her to raise don’t you?” . . Being a rather idenpendent thinker, my friend answered, “Uh . . . Nooooooo..oooo. .”, and much to the chagrin of her brother, they did not marry and she later married an American and her children were raised in the good old U.S.A. by none other than HERSELF.
The Truth shall set you free.
Islam is not Truth, it is everything of Death.
My dad once stopped attending a parish because the priest (who had been friends with him for years) said that maybe my dad's first wife died because of some sin one of them had committed.
I do find that there are women who somehow are attracted to "differences". They have sometimes had a disappointment with one of their own. The female mind is a mystery in many instances. My liberal spouse (bless her) went to see Betty Mahmoody (sp). Betty lectured at the local Marconi club here. Her Muslim man inveigled her to Iran. She wrote the book, "Not Without My Daughter".
She was trapped in Iran. Wife says Betty told the audience, the kindness of Iranians was overwhelming. The lady an daughter "crossed the frontier" in highest drama.
One just cannot fathom it out. After all, a poor Italian immigrant, lonely and desperate waited tables etc, for two years. One wonders how many lovely flappers scarce glanced at him. How many woman rejected his company. He got into movies. He played his part in "The Sheik".His early death had females commit suicide.
Rudolph Valentino.
That's if you get anything out of the Episcopal Church these days. Why else do you think we voted to leave?
I, for one, hope that she does not meet such a fate...that would be a terrible end for a Virginia girl.
It’s a guilt thing. Western women have it down to an art.
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