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snakelegs
actually i think (not 100% sure) that jesus is supposed to have said stuff like people should choose him over their family.
i'm sure one of the christians on this board can correct me or elaborate.
I tend to think he did too,
Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have come not to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's foes will be those of his own household. He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Matthew 10.34-37
But as the Muslims around here keep pointing out, Christians don't take their religion very seriously any more. Besides which violence in Christianity is a state monopoly. However it was not supposed to be a comment specifically about conversion to Islam. She is, however, leaving a community where such things are irrelevant and have no consequences, to join one where they are not and do.
O believers, take not your fathers and brothers to be your friends, if they prefer unbelief to belief; whosoever of you takes them for friends, those--they are the evildoers.
Say, "If your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your wives, your clan, your possessions that you have gained, commerce you fear may slacken, dwellings you love--if these are dearer to you than God and His Messenger, and to struggle in His way, then wait till God brings His command: God guides not the people of the ungodly."
Qur'an 9.23-24
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