Inter-Religious Marriages

i was reading one of my friends blog which leads me to a forum regarding Inter-Religious Marriages.

In my personal opinion I believe that love has no boundaries, be it race, heritage, culture or in this case religion. but marriage, is a totally different thing. as love is recommended but not necessary in marriage. Though in casses inter-religious marriages cannot occur due to religious restriction. I believe inter-religious love can exist.

I am not familiar with Christianity, so I will not go there. However I am a Muslim and as so I will go deeper here.

In Islam Inter-Religious Marriages does exist. But there are conditions for doing such. A muslim man may marry a non-muslim, in this case, each professes to each own faith and the husband cannot force his wife to convert. For a muslim woman however, she is not allowed to marry a non-muslim, this can be explained that Islam teaches that the husband/father is the head of a family. so the only way for a muslim woman to marry a non-muslim is that the husband converts to Islam or she converts to the religion of her husband to be. However, in the later solutuion for a muslim woman to marry a non-muslim she will be conducting apostasy.

another thing, which is regarding the quote below from the forum.

“Quit your church and go Bugis Kuan Yin temple and pray to him…
Then go tell the girl you like her and you have quit your religion for her…”

now the question is if this person is so easily swayed to leave God(religion) for a girl. how easily will this person be swayed to leave this girl another girl or something else. Taking God so lightly of a matter. This definitely shows ones level of faith and how much you can trust such a person. so i advice the girl don’t go for him.

all truth be from God,
and mistakes be from me…

salam