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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I adopted my children from a predominantly Muslim country and would like to expose them to it.
Is there a "liberal" or "progressive" Muslim church around Montgomery Co. that anyone can recommend we try?
I know of the one on Mass. Ave., but it's a bit further than I'd like to travel.
Also, if we go to one, do I need to cover my head?  What would I need to know ahead of time to attend?
Do they have "Sunday school" for children or do the kids stay with parents?
I personally come from a liberal protestant denomination, and am having trouble finding 
a church with much diversity (i.e. UCC, episcopal, unitarian, etc.), though we're comfortable with their approaches.   
Would we be better off just sticking to unitarian, which teaches a bit about all the major religions, or just reading about it?  
Would I be accepted as an outsider? [/quote]

Why?  Being born in a predominantly X country doesn't automatically make you X. Do you know definitively that they were born to muslim parents?  How old were they when you adopted them?  You're their mother, you should rear them in your religion.  I don't think this makes any sense.  It's a religion, not a cultural tour.

You can expose them to the language and culture of their country, but dabbling in a religion that has no meaning to you, a faith that isn't yours or theirs isn't quite right.  [/quote]

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+2  Strong possibility the children are NOT Muslim as countries with Muslim majorities almost never allow adoption by a nonMuslim unless they go through a conversion process.  Even then you are really just a guardian as technically there is no adoption in Islam[/quote]

What would be a shamenis if those children ended up internationally adopted because their family was killed or persecuted for being Christian or some other non muslim sect or religion, and their non muslim adopted mother (who is well intended but knows so little about that faith as to refer to mosques as churches) decides she is doing a good thing by raising these non muslim kids in the faith that is not partof their heritage and actually resulted in them being eligible for international adoption in the first place.

OP, you never said their birth parents were muslim, just that their country of origin is primarily muslim. May I ask if it is a country known for persecuting non muslims or ethnic cleansing of those they see as non believers?

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