Islam has specific laws on marriage:
It is forbidden for a Muslim woman to marry a non-Muslim man, but a Muslim man can indeed marry a non-Muslim woman from the “People of the Book” — a Christian or a Jew.
Sunni and Shia marital law allows Muslim men (in accord with Qur’an 4:3) to be married to up to four women. Again, this doesn’t apply the other way around. A Muslim woman can be part of a harem, but may not have more than one husband.
Laws governing interfaith marriage protect Islam and allow for the proliferation of Islam via child-bearing, especially in an era of immigration and of people of diverse cultures and religions living side by side in non-Islamic countries. This is because the children must be raised Muslim.
One must also remember that the male in Islam is superior over all — women and disbelievers.
Forced conversion and marriage (rape) of girls is also common in many Islamic regions which perpetrate the idea of the superiority of the Muslim male and the necessity to expand the Islamic religion.
Given these facts, the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia (DUM) still opted to “ban Muslim men in Russia from marrying non-Muslim women” because the intention to preserve Islamic tradition and law wasn’t quite working as planned. The ulema’s deputy chairman Ildar Alyautdinov stated that “there are many interfaith marriages in Russia,” but “practice shows that children don’t know what faith they belong to when growing up.”
The resulting ban led to a backlash from “senior Muslim clerics across the country,” who preferred to stick with traditional Islamic law, despite the risk of the children abandoning Islam or taking it lightly. The backlash pressured the DUM to alter its ruling. It decided instead to impose conditions on interfaith marriage. Non-Muslim women may now marry Muslim men in Russia after all, according to the amended ruling, as long as they “respect Islamic canon and don’t prevent husbands from raising children in Islamic traditions.”
The DUM has now sent the message that it is watching, and is willing to impose a fatwa to ban interfaith marriage in order to make sure that non-Muslim women submit to the rule that they can only marry Muslim men if they adhere to Islamic law.
“Mixed-Marriage Ban for Russian Muslims Sparks Backlash,” Moscow Times, November 12, 2020:
A religious ruling that bans Muslim men in Russia from marrying non-Muslim women sparked backlash from senior Muslim clerics across the country this week.
The ruling by the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia (DUM)’s advisory council of scholars says that interfaith marriages between Muslim men and non-Muslim women are allowed “in isolated cases” that only local muftis can approve.
“Most interfaith marriages result in a number of problems,” the council of scholars known as the ulema said in the ruling, pointing to possible disagreements over raising children and “absolutely different worldviews, cultures and education.”
A number of high-level Russian Muslim figures disagreed with the legally nonbinding ruling when it was made public this week.
The regional DUM’s ulema in the republic of Tatarstan said it disagreed with the scholars’ “direct interpretation of the verses in the Holy Quran,” the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported Tuesday.
The Spiritual Assembly of Muslims of Russia, an association of regional Muslim organizations, said it “respects” the ruling but referred to the Quran’s express permission for Muslim men to marry Christian and Jewish women.
The DUM’s deputy chairman Damir Mukhetdinov admitted that “in this particular matter, the opinions differ and part of our clergy does not support or only partially supports the fatwa in question.”
The DUM scholars later clarified that non-Muslim women could marry Muslim men as long as they “respect Islamic canon and don’t prevent husbands from raising children in Islamic traditions.”
The ulema’s deputy chairman Ildar Alyautdinov, however, maintained that the controversial ruling was prompted by “increasing divorce rates, society’s weakening religious foundations and lack of spiritual education in families.”
“There are many interfaith marriages in Russia,” he said. “Practice shows that children don’t know what faith they belong to when growing up.”
“In most cases, interfaith marriages are dissolved due to frequent misunderstandings between the spouses and their relatives.”…
E T says
Islamic scholars tell the world children born to Muslim men are Muslim. Barack Hussain Obama’s father was a Muslim, is he the exception?
ELI says
No he was a secret Muslim whose goal was to impose shariah law on Americans.
gravenimage says
Note that the appalling “ELI” is sneering at Anti-Jihadists here–as he does at all people wo oppose the horrors of Islam.
European pagan says
Muslim men are allowed to marry Christian and Jewish women – but the child of a Jewish woman is automatically Jewish.
gravenimage says
Not as Muslims see it…
Paul F says
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Michael Copeland says
“In most cases, interfaith marriages are dissolved due to frequent misunderstandings between the spouses and their relatives.”
That is a statement worth publicising.
Keith O says
Mudslimes should only marry into their own species and be castrated prior to marriage to prevent the proliferation of this invasive pest species.
gravenimage says
Russia: Ulema bans Muslim men from marrying non-Muslim women unless children are raised Muslim
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This is orthodox Islam.
Note that Muslim women are not allowed to marry Infidel men.
Infidel says
Actually, no. In orthodox Islam, non-Muslim women who marry Muslim men are expected to automatically convert to Islam. This Russian ulema is assuming that they don’t (I had no idea that Russian women are that much better off than, say, Turkish, Uzbek or Tajik women in terms of having a post marital identity independent of their spouse). And then they’re putting a caveat that those non-Muslim wives can continue to be non-Muslim, but their kids have to be raised as Muslim
So what were these Muslim clerics protesting? That Russian Muslims can’t do any love jihad?
gravenimage says
Not all Infidel women married to Muslim men are forced to convert (although many are). But in such cases it is basically considered irrelevant, as the children are raised Muslim.
Diana says
Non Muslims who marry Muslim men are crazy. There is a good way to end up in a suitcase under a bridge.
ELI says
Israeli law also forbids interfaith marriages but NOBODY on jihadwatch has any problem with that, least of all Robert Spencer
janwoG says
So would you advocate Muslim man marry a Jewish women whose children become automatically Jewish?
Andy Testrino says
Muslim men can marry out of the faith, but Muslim women can’t. Utter unfairness yet you’re silent.
SJ says
Yup, that’s because they want to convert as many people as possible. But it’s not as simple as what you said. You should also mention that Islam allows killing women who marry a non-Muslim without converting him to Islam.
gravenimage says
Yes–because Muslims believer that women can always be controlled.
Infidel says
That makes perfect sense in Israel. Love jihad aside, imagine if a Muslim man marries a Jewish woman. Under Islamic law, their kid would be mohammedan b’cos of daddy, but under Jewish law, it would be Jewish b’cos of mommy. So one of them would have to convert, and if the Muslim is made to, people will scream ‘islamophobia’, and if the Jewess is allowed to, it would be enabling the demographic jihad. A simple ban on inter-faith marriages in Israel neatly sidesteps this problem!
gravenimage says
Of course, this is not strictly true, since Israel does regognize such marriages. Moreover, Jews are not slaughtering those in such marriages–would that we could say the same about pious Muslims if the husband is an Infidel:
“The violence and brutal reality of interfaith relationships: 20 instances were Muslim families were not as ‘accepting’ as ‘seculars’ want you to believe”
https://www.opindia.com/2020/10/interfaith-relationship-hindu-man-murdered-by-muslim-family-religious-bigotry/
More:
https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-man-killed-by-muslim-in-laws-after-wife-gives-her-life-to-jesus.html
There are many more.
OLD GUY says
There you go ladies male domination at its best with Islam.
gravenimage says
Yep.
SJ says
If a Muslim man converts a woman to Islam, he’s said to gain entry into heaven. That’s why Muslims only marry non-Muslim women who are willing to convert to Islam. Doesn’t it sound like MLM?