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While sharia law allows Muslims to marry non-Muslim women who convert to Islam, the law forbids a Muslim woman from marrying a non-Muslim man unless he converts to Islam.Huh?
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posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 8:21 AM
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I am a retired professor. I last taught at Ewha Womans University, mostly composition, research writing, and cultural issues, but also the occasional graduate seminar on Gnosticism and Johannine theology and the occasional undergraduate course on European history. My doctorate is in history (U.C. Berkeley), with emphasis on religion and science. My thesis is on John's gospel and Gnosticism. I'm also an award-winning writer, and I recommend my novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, to anyone interested. I'm originally from the Arkansas Ozarks, but my academic career -- funded through doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships (e.g., Fulbright, Naumann, Lady Davis) -- has taken me through Texas, California, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and Israel and has landed me in Seoul, South Korea. I've also traveled to Mexico, visited much of Europe, including Moscow, and touched down briefly in a few East Asian countries. Hence: "Gypsy Scholar."
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Sounds sexist to me :)
It could be, however, that the man can marry before the conversion of the spouse, but the woman can't marry until after her fiance converts?
That would be a logical resolution, but I can explain the actual one:
A Muslim man can marry a Jewish or Christian woman, and she need not convert to Islam, but a Muslim woman cannot marry any non-Muslim man.
Of course, any Muslim can marry any other Muslim, including converts to Islam from any background.
Jeffery Hodges
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Those lucky Judeo-Christian girls!
And this isn't sexist because Allah is greater than any other god you can think of, and Allah's power is not only omnipotent, it is limited by nothing, not even by ethics, and who are we to judge?
Jeffery Hodges
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