Quote: (01-18-2014 05:56 PM)tomtud Wrote:
There are those who only marry from the same tribe, culture and religion what have you. But when they say can only marry, well many don't use the want to marry so and so. There are many debates on ths topic on youtube and Jews, Christians, Greeks, Italians etc etc etc etc take your pick all have men and women who want to be with one of their own. But Muslims take the cake when it comes to this sentence from a woman.
Islam has the distinction of the 3 religions mentioned as having its ok for a male to marry outside of the faith but its women can only marry a Muslim. Somehow I don't think GOD dictated that to Prophet Mohammed. The tradition stems from the fact that it wants to grow the religion and reign supreme from what I have concluded. It goes even further, certain Muslims don't marry others even if they are from the same branch. A Sunni Muslim from Saudi Arabia probably won't marry a Muslim from egyot who also is Sunni. It's more strict for the women from certain countries........I have lived in the Middle East for 2 years and have seen this played out.
Actually, a lot of Saudi and Gulf men go to places like Syria and Lebanon to marry local light-skinned arab moslem women. Egyptian moslems are a bit darker and have more African features, and coptic (orthodox) christians even more so. There used to be a mixed catholic/expat community in places like Alexandria going all the way back to the days of Marc Anthony and Alexander the Great that is not there anymore.
For the OP, I would avoid going after a moslem woman for ST purposes as they're not likely to put out, the investment/reward ratio is not worth it. I'd go after a buddhist from Bali instead, less of a slut factor than say the Philippines, but much more open to gringos than the average moslem indonesian woman.