text: why are muslim men allowed to marry non-muslims while muslimahs must marry muslims? myself, i could never marry a muslim or a very religious person. i could marry anyone from any belief, except islam, provided they arent religious.   anyone have an explaination for this islamic insanity. heres mine. muslim men view woman as property. they like their property to be covered so that no one else can view their property. they like to keep dominion over the sheep so they dont allow non-muslim male to marry woman because they cannot use physical intimidation as a means to subordinate that non-muslim to the dominion of islam. they can do this with non-muslim woman however, at least physically.  islamic explaination: http://www.islamway.com/sisters/modules.php?name=news&file=article&sid=230 as you have probably noticed, muslim males have quite a few more privileges than females. the muslim religion does not easily tolerate non-muslims, and to see their muslim women convert them to other religions would be a huge tragedy for them. so if the men are in control, then islam stays intact.  now muslim men aren't supposed to marry just anyone. preferably they are to marry muslim women, but they are also allowed to marry "people of the book", which refers to jews or christians.