Interfaith marriage in Arab Countries (people of the book)

[JerusalemBull]

I am interested in documentation of this issue which also include many unethical behaviors or traditions.The purpose of this Research or post here is to document the different cases (odd ones) under the name of interfaith marriage ,such as Muslim men marry a Christian wife , or muslim men marry a Christian daughter them her mother. In Arab world there are many fetishes that are in fact or in substance Not an Interfaith marriage but they Look and keep this trend to hide many other social and taboo fetishes.Therefore, please do not hesitate to talk about ur own experience?

 

[VoidCat]

I dont know anything about interfaith marriages but I was on a forum for asexuals and a few asexual folk in muslim majority countries were worried about being forced to marry.

 

[pearl]

The only thing I would relate to is from a movie, initially a true story,
'Not Without My Daughter'. It's about a woman who marries an Iranian and everything is fine until they decide to visit Iran.

Despite her deep fears about visiting Iran, particularly due to the Iranian Hostage Crisis of several years earlier, Betty reluctantly agrees after her husband promises they will safely return to America. Upon their arrival, Mahtob is embraced, while Betty's unfamiliarity with Iranian culture inadvertently offends some members of Moody's family. The night before their flight back to the United States, Moody's brother Mammal tells Moody and Betty that in order for them to go back home, their passports would have to have been taken to the airport for approval three days prior. Betty questions this, but Moody brushes this off, suggesting that they will take a later flight.

Not Without My Daughter (film) - Wikipedia

 

[Sirona]

I know that there is a Christian book in German entitled "Mir blieben nur Gebet und Tränen" (I was left only with prayer and tears) by a German author named Daniel Gerber. It's about Christian girls in Pakistan being abducted and forced to make a "conversion" to Islam. When the parents try to get their daughters back, they are allegedly told that "the girls are Muslim now" so that Christian (law?) had nothing to do with them anymore. Maybe you can find similar material in your own language.

I doubt that you will find many Muslims in RF, as they have a particularly hard time here because their religion, often perceived as archaic, seems to be particularly bad at getting along with RF's most sacred values, "logic" and "reason".

 

[pearl]

I doubt that you will find many Muslims in RF, as they have a particularly hard time here because their religion, often perceived as archaic, seems to be particularly bad at getting along with RF's most sacred values, "logic" and "reason".

But is this not a bias? Maybe it's just me as I continue to believe there is so much more to Islam.
Between the ninth and the fourteenth centuries, Islamic science outpaced that of any other culture. Scientist-philosophers had wide ranging interests, most of them working in many disciplines we consider quite distinct today—medicine, mathematics, astronomy, geography, philosophy, optics. Islamic learning is celebrated for having preserved many of the texts of ancient Greece, passing along a classical tradition that might otherwise have been lost. But Islamic scholars did not simply accept these ancient “authorities,” in the way that, say, scholastic philosophers did in medieval Europe. Stressing experiment and observation, they questioned and tested those authorities, laying the foundation on which modern science is based.
Islamic Art and Culture: a resource for teachers (nga.gov)

 

[Left Coast]

I am interested in documentation of this issue which also include many unethical behaviors or traditions.The purpose of this Research or post here is to document the different cases (odd ones) under the name of interfaith marriage ,such as Muslim men marry a Christian wife , or muslim men marry a Christian daughter them her mother. In Arab world there are many fetishes that are in fact or in substance Not an Interfaith marriage but they Look and keep this trend to hide many other social and taboo fetishes.Therefore, please do not hesitate to talk about ur own experience?

Step 1 in your 'research' should be to disaggregate being Muslim from being an Arab. Many Arabs are not Muslim. Many Muslims are not Arabs.

What are the "social and taboo fetishes" you think interfaith couples hide? Aside from unsubstantiated anecdote, is there any research demonstrating this?

 

[Sirona]

But is this not a bias? Maybe it's just me as I continue to believe there is so much more to Islam.
Between the ninth and the fourteenth centuries, Islamic science outpaced that of any other culture. Scientist-philosophers had wide ranging interests, most of them working in many disciplines we consider quite distinct today—medicine, mathematics, astronomy, geography, philosophy, optics. Islamic learning is celebrated for having preserved many of the texts of ancient Greece, passing along a classical tradition that might otherwise have been lost. But Islamic scholars did not simply accept these ancient “authorities,” in the way that, say, scholastic philosophers did in medieval Europe. Stressing experiment and observation, they questioned and tested those authorities, laying the foundation on which modern science is based.
Islamic Art and Culture: a resource for teachers (nga.gov)

I think I made it quite clear that I was talking about living Muslims taking part in current internet discussions, and about (mostly) atheists giving them a hard time.

 

[pearl]

I think I made it quite clear that I was talking about living Muslims taking part in current internet discussions, and about (mostly) atheists giving them a hard time.

OK, understood, in that case.

 

[Harel13]

Yad L'Achim occasionally make public cases of Jewish women marrying Muslim Arab men in Israel where the the relationship quickly becomes abusive. The organization attempts to help these women and, in many cases, their children from this marriage.

From what I've read and heard over the years, in quite a few Arab villages in Israel (PA included), "ensnaring" (their words, not mine) a Jewish woman is considered heroic. Typically the woman is subsequently abused by her husband and shunned by the community, and it doesn't matter how Muslim she tries to act. She is often known as "Hayehudiyah" (the Jew (fem.)). The stories are not pretty.

 

[JerusalemBull]

Step 1 in your 'research' should be to disaggregate being Muslim from being an Arab. Many Arabs are not Muslim. Many Muslims are not Arabs.

What are the "social and taboo fetishes" you think interfaith couples hide? Aside from unsubstantiated anecdote, is there any research demonstrating this?

Sure.There are many articles and even movements/resources in arabic about the interfaith(non ethical side) issue for example to understand my solid points pleas read about recurring phenomenon of Egypt’s disappearing Coptic women and girls - World Watch Monitor

 

[JerusalemBull]

Yad L'Achim occasionally make public cases of Jewish women marrying Muslim Arab men in Israel where the the relationship quickly becomes abusive. The organization attempts to help these women and, in many cases, their children from this marriage.

From what I've read and heard over the years, in quite a few Arab villages in Israel (PA included), "ensnaring" (their words, not mine) a Jewish woman is considered heroic. Typically the woman is subsequently abused by her husband and shunned by the community, and it doesn't matter how Muslim she tries to act. She is often known as "Hayehudiyah" (the Jew (fem.)). The stories are not pretty.

Regards from Jerusalem..I am documenting many acts toward Jewish/Christian and non muslim females ..things are worst even with the so called liberal mulsims!!No time to translate everything since most of resources in arabic.Regards Shbou Tov and early Shbat Shloum

 

[Left Coast]

Sure.There are many articles and even movements/resources in arabic about the interfaith(non ethical side) issue for example to understand my solid points pleas read about recurring phenomenon of Egypt’s disappearing Coptic women and girls - World Watch Monitor

The examples in the article were not of interfaith marriages, or about fetishes. They were single girls who were kidnapped or murdered. Nor do we have any reason to believe that what happened to them is at all common in interfaith marriages.