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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband is Saudi so we know lots of Saudis who marry American girls and take them back to KSA.  From what I've seen, conversions in this crowd are driven by the fact that life in KSA is 100% less troublesome for a Muslim.

This reminds me a goodbye party we had for friends of ours who were leaving.  The woman is a social animal who loves good red wine, so we gave her a good rubbing about her conversion.  She said, laughingly, "everyone assumes if you convert, you become some kind of zealot. I'll convert and be a bad Muslim, like at least 50% of them!"

I always thought that was a neat approach. [/quote]

Yes, life is less troublesome.  But more to the point is that if a non-Muslim wife does not convert to Islam cannot inherit from her husband if he dies.  Financial security requires conversion unless she is independently wealthy.

The prohibition against drinking in Islam is not absolute like the prohibition against pork.  The Koran says something along the lines of (and I refuse to look it up for this discussion):  "In both drinking and gambling there is some that is good and much that is bad so it is better to refrain." Many Muslims I know drink, but will not do so around Muslims they don't know well (who could be flaming fundamentalists).[/quote]
We actually have a couple of friends, both doctors, he Saudi, she Indian. They had to do a stint of a few years in Jeddah. The way they worked around that is keep all assets and money outside of KSA and have a power of attorney for custody of children executed for a cousin in Canada who was ready to fly in on a moment's notice if something happened to the husband and the wife lost custody of kids. [/quote]

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