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When love has no limits

February 8, 2012   Filed Under: Boys, Friends, Love   351 words

One 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.