How Many Muslim Women Are Marrying Non-muslim Men?

Very, very few, I suspect, taking into account that THIS IS NOT ALLOWED! However, Muslim men may marry non-Muslim women, provided it is ensured that their children will grow up in an Islamic environment.

Well, just to ensure, we must marry from amongst our brothers or sisters, to protect our and our children's faith.

Only a  few Muslim women 'choose' to marry outside Islam. The question whether Muslim women 'can' or 'cannot' marry outside Islam is a contentious one amongst religious scholars. The fact is that ****Quran is silent over the issue****. Allah categorically allows men to marry from amongst the 'people of the book' (Jews, Christians) but does not mention anything about women. However, the male-led and centric Islamic exegesis of the 7th century took it as an opportunity to literally invalidate marriage between Muslim women and men outside Islam. The reasons that they have provided as a defense are seated in patriarchal considerations/fears. For example, a woman is afterall a woman and can be beaten up into submission. What if a Christian man forcibly restricts his wife from observing Islam? - is what worries the ulema.  In this case, a Muslim woman would not only become vulnerable of losing her faith - but will also fail to transfer her knowledge to her children. The fact of the matter is that if its a case of genuine love and respect between spouses - I don't think so that modern Muslim women of today can be suppressed in this manner. This was the religious reasoning. However now I would move on to a more personal reason that most Muslim women from  amongst the diaspora in Europe mention. Almost all Muslim men are circumcised and Muslim women grow up in a culture where its implicitly understood that sex is acceptable only and only with a circumcised man.  Male circumcision  is associated with 'purity' in Muslim cultures ( I won't open a whole chapter on circumcision here...as its a topic in itself,including FGM) Most Muslim women hesitate considering non-Muslim men because they assume that those men might not be circumcised and therefore not 'pure/clean' enough. Sounds uncomfortably racist -but this is their culture and they don't mean any offense. Therefore, they simply avoid non-Muslim men.

A muslim woman and I, an atheist, are considering a relationship together. We have come to respect each others liberal and progressive stances on philosophy and religion, and so we've become convinced that it would work. This is the U.S. After all, so I'm sure it will work. It may not be happening much, but it's happening.

They one who marry non muslims are the ones who are coo-coo
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