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country. The second point has to do with raising the children. A true Muslim will insist that the children be raised as Muslims and be given Muslim names. Again, this can cause terrible conflict in a family. This is why the Bible teaches that in marriage, we should not be "unequally yoked together with unbelievers" (2 Corinthians 6:14). Christian women who marry spiritual unbelievers take on a challenge that is often spiritually overwhelming. The same is true when two individuals with opposing spiritual views attempt to live under the same roof. I know of several cases where men from the Middle East who were already married began to swoon over young women from America. Eventually they talked the women into marriage in order to receive a permanent visa to America. A few years later, they were gone, looking for their second and third wives, and leaving the women in confusion. In the mid-1980's, I would often use Arab guides on my Holy Land tours. I became upset to discover, on returning home, that one of the guides had "dated" one of the young ladies on the trip and asked her to marry him and get him to America. The problem was that he was married with five children and did not inform her! There are rare cases when a Muslim man loves his wife and family and gives her freedom to raise the children as Christians. But from a purely Biblical perspective, a Christian should marry only a Christian (2 Corinthians 6:14). T HE G OAL : O NE R ELIGION , I SLAM