text: islamic/christian marriage, what are the biggest obstacles these marriages face? my girlfriend is egyptian muslim and i am american presbvyterian.  hopefully there are some people out there in my same situation.  can you tell me some of your experiences and how you worked them out? i have seen several of these marriages, and have studied rulings in islam,according to my knowledge in islam,   you cannot marry her being a christian (you have to covert and become a muslim)even if you marry her out of religous consense islam does not recognise such a marriage and it views your relationship as adultry.   if you are convinced she is the one and you have studied islam and view islam as the right guidance and religion convert and marry her else read below you got only one choice   i know it is upseting to you, so let me try and explain some points i know about islam and why it so.   islam views/gives prominance to the balance of the islamic society, anything which can spoil the balance is eliminated for example (you cannot have bars in your city and tell people not to drink so in islamic surounding no bars)  likewise in the system men are responsible to provide for the family and the wife should be obedient to the husband by listening to him and caring for the family so if a non muslim is the husband it is illegal for her to listen to him because he does not beleive in the rules of islam.  religous guidance in islam is given mostly by the father so if the father is a non muslim these children will become non muslim too islam will not tolarate anyone going out of its fold.  there are other reasons but this is just to give you the message that you have to become a muslim to marry her   allah says in the quran "there is no compulsion in religion" you can foget about all these and go your own ways but you know you are going against rules of god and he waiting to catch you after death.   i would like to invite you to learn about islam like me it has answered a lot of questions that i had its a very logical religion not like christianity where answers are not logical most of the time