When love has no limits
February 8, 2012 Filed Under: Boys, Friends, Love 351 words
> Boys > When love has no limitsOne of my close school friends is Muslim. He is from Pakistan and his faith is very important to him. He is not allowed to date and he must follow all of his Islamic traditions. He goes to a mosque every week and is very active in it. He knows that his parents disapprove whenever he hangs out with girls or if he liked someone of a different religion. I knew him since 7th grade, and he has always been like this. Whenever we would hang out, we would hang out in a public place, so his parents would not suspect anything.
Then there is this girl, she is Jewish. She goes to temple each week and youth group. She goes to all her youth group events and her best friends all go to her temple. She even went to Israel as a foreign exchange student and completed her spring semester of junior year there. Her ex boyfriend was Jewish and he went on the trip with her. She is very religious and is not allowed to marry or date someone who isn’t Jewish. He or she must convert.
These two high school seniors are dating in my school. It’s very hard for them to be together because both of their parents would disapprove. Muslims and Jewish people both have a lot of tension with each other because of the Palestine and Israel conflict that is going on. I admire both of them for dating, even though their religions make them not together. Religion is important to some people (I am a Christian), but I am not going to let it define who I am going to like and who I am not. I am happy that in the 21st century, we are not letting religion dictate our lives. We respect each others religions, but still do what our hearts want us too. My two friends are perfect together, they get along great and are adorable. Although religion is important and influential in both of their lives, they realized that if you really like someone, religion can’t get in the way.
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Tiffany, whenever I read one of your blog entries, it just makes me think on a different perspective on life.
I agree with you completely, yes religion and the practice of religion is super important to many families and many cultures. But we are no longer in the time of our parents, or our grandparents. We are in a new era called the 21st century, yes we still practice religion and everything but the feelings we have for someone are different and the feeling of love is more dominant than anything.
I’m glad to hear that your friends are happy together, and I hope they stay that way. I hope one day religion won’t have to interfere on who people pick and choose to fall in love with.
I hope to hear from you soon lovely!:D
When people put aside their beliefs for one another, that’s love there… Or so it says in high school. It’s nice to see the two high school seniors are risking their parent’s trust for each other :O! Back in the days, people were tensioned against each other fighting for religious rights (I think, but it probably did happen) and moved on to racial rights. Now, we’re just fighting for LGBT rights -__-.
Religion is really important for those who practice it- especially if it’s weekly! At least there’s something to respect
! For me, religion won’t be the case, most of the time. It’s just race. I probably know I’m going to end up marrying someone who’s not my race.. And my parents will probably freak out- but it doesn’t matter. As long as we have high paying jobs, that wouldn’t be an issue.. Much. :O
When I’m thinking about it, oh god. We’re seniors and we’re in the last stretch of the game :O! At least the transcript requests wasn’t all that bad. Your music department is lucky for going to Disney! I want to go there again :/. But we’re too poor and we have a shitty treasurer. Haha.
I guess we’re at the same plate o;. I know I don’t want to date anymore- (even though I do like someone XD). Whatever I tell the freshmen now won’t work. It’s far too late. But whatever.
. I’m going to be gone in a few months and it’s not going to be my problem anymore. 
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Take care ;D
That’s lovely. I think it’s great that they see each other as whole beings and not JUST a Muslim/Jew, and they are brave enough to be with someone whom they care about, even if their parents do not approve–particularly at their young ages. Faith and religion are obviously very important in many people’s lives, but I think it’s sad when they turn from things to be used for morals and comfort (or other positive things) to “reasons” to judge or discriminate against others. People are much more than their religion (or more than any ONE attribute), and I think it’s such a shame when parents or others try to stop people from being together because of it.
That’s amazing. I love stories like this-they’re like real life fairytales! It makes me sad that they have to keep it hidden from the outside though, I wish them the best and I hope college easies the strain. I think if you love someone enough and their okay with living the other’s religion it’s not a huge deal-clearly not everyone sees it that way. I’m a devote Christian, but I don’t think marrying someone outside my religion is a problem. We all believe different things, and as long as you’re not shoving your beliefs down my throat we’re okay.
Ahaha I actually have experienced good gossip among teachers. My english teacher last year was concerned about my lack of class participation so she and my 10th English teacher had a mini-gossip feast and she managed to figure out why I wasn’t participating. Maybe that’s good gossip because she had good motives? Maybe.
I know what I want to major in, but I’m trying to figure it out because I’ve always wanted to minor in dance or us history and I don’t want to give either up. I’ll probably end up minoring in us history and just dancing with dance groups on campus. We’ll see. I’m excited though because they have a few great acapella groups and I really want to join. Do you know what you want to major in or get involved in?
Aw, that really is inspiring. I understand that certain religions require their followers to adhere to strict rules and such, but I think some things shouldn’t matter too much. I am a Christian, and while I would like to date/marry someone that is a Christian, if they’re not, and I really love them, oh well. It shouldn’t matter that we are different religions, as long as one respects the other, I think that’s fine.
So that’s great that they are together. It’s sad that their parents can’t know about it, but good for them. I hope it works out for them.
I personally know a lot of couples who have separated/divorced/broken up due to religious differences. Depending on the religions, some values, beliefs and practices simply can’t coexist together. And without communication, deciding what religion their kids would follow would be really tricky.
I use to be a very religious Catholic, and was close to dating a guy who was Eastern Orthodox. We clicked very well, but both of us knew we couldn’t be together because neither of us wouldn’t convert for each other. So in other words, our religion was more important. It sucks how religion can pull people away from each other.
But yeah,, Jewish and Muslim? Oy, it must be really tough for them. Good luck to them!
i live in a multicultural community, and i don’t see anything “wrong” about your friends dating just because they come from different families believing in different religions. you can’t control love, neither who you want to fall in love with. so i agree with you: love has no limits!!
i think it’s really sad some people in the world are fighting each other because of their different beliefs. i believe they together could have found a much better solution. we’re all the same on the inside, and we’re not so different that we may seem.
religion is powerful i the world, and i’m always scared to insult anyone and their religion when i’m travelling; not on purpose of course!! but i understand at some points people think totally different.
i don’t really believe in anything or anyone, and i don’t belong to any religion though norway is mainly christan. right now i’m only learning to believe in myself
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what’s your plans for your upcoming holiday? 
It’s so sweet that they’re together even though they have different beliefs. It’s kind of like Romeo and Juliet, except without the whole suicide ending.
I don’t care about religion when it comes to making friends or having romantic relationships, but then again I’m not even religious. I tend to avoid conversations about religion because I know I’ll say something that’ll offend someone.
I think some parents are still pretty adamant… some parents are really strict and want their children to marry people of the same religion or race. There’s this stupid show on television called “Please Marry My Boy” and these mums pick out girls for their sons to date. One mum just wanted a Serbian girl, while the boy was in love with another Caucasian girl. I thought it was ridiculous. As you said, in this day and age, we look past such differences, but sadly some people are still in old times.
While there are differences you certainly can’t deny the presence of love. When it comes to love, these kinds of differences should be the least of your worries. It is good to hear that that young couple are doing well.
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