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**SerycegeBunny** · 08-20-2011, 07:47 AM

In Brazil (and Argentina and Latin America in general) this problem with marrying Middle Easterners didn't happen. Even Muslim Middle Easterners didn't have problems with nonbelievers marrying their daughters.

From this very interesting news piece (read it if you understand Portuguese: http://www.publico.pt/Mundo/reportag..._1464002?all=1), the story of a Brazilian-Lebanese woman called Leila Mohammed Youssef Kuczynski, who eventually married a Polish-Jewish Brazilian:

"My father, who was a devout Muslim, had an open spirit. In the communities of the rural areas religion was never a problem. Men played cards, women cooked and I never knew who was Christian or Muslim. What united us is that we were all Arabs, traders, speaking the same language in a different country." This even led to Leila being baptized, due to a request of a Christian friend of her father. "He asked my father: 'Can I baptize your daughter?'. Therefore, ever since I was young I had connections everywhere". Leila also studied in a nun school. "My father was never opposed. He always said: 'God is only one, there are several paths'".

She also says that she has a male cousin married to a Japanese Brazilian woman and a female cousin married to a Korean Brazilian man.

Further down the text, there's the story of CecÃ*lia Ben David, a Jewish Brazilian (her family is from Lithuania, but she has several relatives in Israel). She says that one of her daughters is married to a Japanese Brazilian man that refused to convert to Judaism, and that she has two mixed race granddaughters.

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SerycegeBunny Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 590 Senior Member	In Brazil (and Argentina and Latin America in general) this problem with marrying Middle Easterners didn't happen. Even Muslim Middle Easterners didn't have problems with nonbelievers marrying their daughters. From this very interesting news piece (read it if you understand Portuguese: http://www.publico.pt/Mundo/reportag..._1464002?all=1), the story of a Brazilian-Lebanese woman called Leila Mohammed Youssef Kuczynski, who eventually married a Polish-Jewish Brazilian: "My father, who was a devout Muslim, had an open spirit. In the communities of the rural areas religion was never a problem. Men played cards, women cooked and I never knew who was Christian or Muslim. What united us is that we were all Arabs, traders, speaking the same language in a different country." This even led to Leila being baptized, due to a request of a Christian friend of her father. "He asked my father: 'Can I baptize your daughter?'. Therefore, ever since I was young I had connections everywhere". Leila also studied in a nun school. "My father was never opposed. He always said: 'God is only one, there are several paths'". She also says that she has a male cousin married to a Japanese Brazilian woman and a female cousin married to a Korean Brazilian man. Further down the text, there's the story of CecÃ*lia Ben David, a Jewish Brazilian (her family is from Lithuania, but she has several relatives in Israel). She says that one of her daughters is married to a Japanese Brazilian man that refused to convert to Judaism, and that she has two mixed race granddaughters.
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