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Jenny
I`ve heard Muslim people saying,that a Muslim woman can`t marry a Christian man,because he can forbid her to pray Muslim prayers.I`m Christian (Protestant) and I want to correct it:this is obviously NOT true,he can`t forbid her to do her own prayers.For two reasons:1.Christian husband has not such a power over his wife,2.a religious discrimination is prohibited in most Christian countries by a law.
There are many reasons why a Muslim woman can't marry a non-Muslim man.
Part of it, is that a Christian man may not agree with all practices of Islam and obviously will have to change his own life a lot in order to comply 100% with the religion of Islam. For instance, if the man drinks, he can't drink at home. When she meets his male friends she's not going to shake their hands (or give them a hug or any other close contact western custom), and for the most part when you socialize with friends things will have to be segregated. You can't have any pictures, statues or crosses with Jesus on them. She's not going to accompany him to church. She's also not going to cook pork and will have to buy only halal meat (although most non-Muslims don't have a problem with this).
Furthermore, a husband is the stronger member of the family, as he is the head of the household. If the wife is neglecting any of her Islamic duties towards Allah or is lax in enforcing Islamic rules and principles with the children or upon herself, then the non-Muslim husband surely isn't going to be reminding her.
I mean, if a man is willingly going to make that many changes to his life and is able to make sure his wife is correctly practicing her religion, then he might as well be a Muslim.