Tunisia repeals ban on interfaith marriage for Muslim women
Many Muslim nations prohibit certain interfaith marriages. It's not suprising that Tunisia changed that.
A few months ago, Amina El Mahdhi was forced to go abroad to marry the man she loved.
He is a Christian, and it was illegal in Tunisia for a Muslim woman to have an interfaith marriage.
“I refused to force my future husband to convert to another faith to be able to marry me,” said El Mahdhi, 30, of Sousse, a coastal town about 90 miles south of Tunis. She said the issue of his faith had never even been raised in her family, “so why should it be an issue for the state?”
