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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP (8:21) again -

after reading the above posts, I forgot that I would be concerned if DD was in a serious relationship with a muslim.  That would really bother me.  [/quote]

Let me know her name so I make sure my son never asks her out. I don't care about race, but being stuck with bigoted in laws would really suck.[/quote]

I so love the default argument - if you don't agree with me, you're a bigot/racist.

PP said that she would "be concerned," not that she would end it.  She also referred to a "serious relationship," which I took to mean marriage is conceivable.  Things I would be concerned about - would my DD be asked to convert?  Would their kids be raised in the muslim faith?  Are the prospective in laws supportive?[/quote]

Default argument?  No, you nitwit - this is not some discussion of the national debt, and the PP just broke out "bigoted" as an irrelevant charge.  The PP said she would be "really bothered" if her daughter was in a serious relationship with a muslim.  She doesn't know ANYTHING about the other person other than he is a muslim, and that in and of itself would bother her.  That's the definition of bigoted.  [/quote]

I am appalled by people who state a strong preference against a particular race or SES, but I have to admit that if my daughter dated a Muslim, I would be concerned, at least until I got to know the person a lot better. Like PPs, religious fundamentalism of any kind is scary to me, and the fact that, in the modern world, rightly or not, Islam is frequently associated with both misogyny and terrorism is a concern as well.

True story: my best friend and I both grew up in Jewish families in Eastern Europe, where Jewish is ethnicity, not a religion, and the majority of Jews are not "observant" in the traditional sense. My parents did not care if I dated Jewish, non-Jewish, Black, White or Purple. Her mother expressed a preference that she marry a Jew. But, as she put it, better a goy than an Orthodox.

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And that's the thing. Why would you automatically assume a Muslim is a fundamentalist? Most aren't, and trust me, if he's "dating" he's definitely not a fundy.[/quote]

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