OUTSPOKEN.....
hmm.... I understand that the purpose of marrying a virgin non muslim woman is to ensure the upbringing of a
DECENT home. As S. Khalid Yasin says, "WOMEN ARE THE HANDS THAT ROCK THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION." Thinking about that carefully, nowadays searching for a virgin is like "looking for a needle in a haystack" which makes such a situation almost impossible. This makes me think that the safest way is to marry a muslim woman.
However, those who do otherwise should be treated with honour because of several reasons:they don't know too much about Islam and are still in the learning process just like you and me,some crazy love swept them away(

u know), the surrounding society, ...etc, all of these reasons are open to some debate, anyway.
Pursuing the second reason further, when two people really fall in love and cannot get married just because everyone wants to keep his/her religion and both insist that the children be raised as whatever...does it mean that religion causes separation? A very innocent question is, "if we originate from the same Creator why can't we get married if we are one and the same people? Did he introduce religion into our lives to cause us pain?