Re: Unlawful to marry a mushrik
Muslim men are allowed to marry chaste women from amongst the People of the Scripture (Jews or Christians), probably because their own religions can act as a stepping stone towards Islam, but the children must be brought up as Muslims regardless of whether the woman choses to embrace Islam or not.
Muslim women are only allowed to marry Muslim men probably because men have a dominant nature and women a passive nature and can be persuaded easier than a male. A Muslim woman who marries a Jewish or Christian man is commiting fornication because her marriage is null and void and if anyone thinks this is allowed then he or she has become an apostate from Islam.
Mushriks (Polythiests such as the Hindus) who do not believe in any of the mentioned Scriptures are not allowed to Muslim men or to Muslim women, anyone who marries them his marriage is not valid and he is a fornicator and if he justifies this and says it is allowed then he has become a Disbeliever.
It is true that even Christians are polythiests in a way because they believe in the trinity but they are a seperate category, I think both Jews and Christians are polythiests of a sort becuase they reject God's True Word (Koran) yet they hold sacred the man wrote modified parts of their own scripture.