Re: Muslim women marrying non-muslim Men
^ Same goes for men.
How religious do you really consider "muslim" men who marry women from another faith? What gets me is those guys who even go so far as to allow their kids to not be raised muslim. In which case, how the hell is that sanctioned by Islam? I don't see the Pakistani community giving those guys a hard time.
I am sorry before I answer you, I have to ask: Why are you consistently defensive about these matters? Just reading your responses on this thread indicates some type of anger towards men. I have a mother who taught me to respect women but you are off topic and out of line, to bring up this ridiculous non-sequitur.
Let me address the off-topic part: The title and the early discussions are related to Muslim women marrying outside of the faith. By bringing in Muslim men as comparison point does not make sense. It's like me mentioning that Reform Jewish marriages are facing challenges in Israel..so what?
Returning to the out of line part, the fact that Muslim men are not raising theirs kids as Muslims does not nullify their marriage as Islamic. A "Muslim" (my quotes more appropriate than yours) woman marrying outside of the faith does not have an Islamic marriage to begin with. Her kids are raised Muslim or not becomes a moot point. While it is not say that the kids don't have a chance of seeing the light of Al-Islam and becoming more pious than all of us, we are examining the parents (their Muslim mother marrying outside the faith).
Part of why this dichotomy exists in Islam is linked to the responsibility of the father to ensure the Muslim upbringing of his children. While the father (in most instances) is not directly teaching the kids about Islam, the responsibility lies with him nonetheless. If the does not make effort towards raising Muslim children, then it is his punishment in the afterlife. If the good faith effort (no pun, intended) is made and the children still stray from Islam as adults, then they will have to answer to Allah.
To bring everything together, your comparison is logically flawed because a Muslim woman marrying outside the faith does not have an Islamically binding marriage to begin with, whereas the Muslim man (under the Quranic parameters) does. How religious he is/is not does not change the fact that he can walk into a masjid with his Christian/Jewish wife and openly declare his Islamically binding marriage. What happens after the kids are born, becomes irrelevant within the scope of this discussion.