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Re:hamidm#87

[.........thanks for your support ........ unfortunately, grandpa gopinathe`s genes have played a cruel trick on me.......]

Hamidm unkil, where is Mrs. Hamidm from - gopinath or non-gopinath stock? Looks like you let your abbajan down. At least he improved the gene pool. You should have gone for a gori blonde or at least iranian/turkish types to build up on the good job that your abbajan did.

``........ unfortunately, grandpa gopinathe`s genes have played a cruel trick on me i will have start saving for dowry of a car, a bang olufsen music system and the like, in addition to the bajaj scooter ........
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that is rather unfortunate..especially if you come from the right side of the border. Oh well, u can always marry her off to a Malabari Muslim...fairness is always relative..

``You need only to look at the great civilizations of Egypt, Mali, Songhai and Timbuktu to know that African women were valued in their cultures as the zenith of beauty, regardless of European conceptions of beauty. ``

Actually, they were prized for the zenith of their booty rather than beauty..

``Mohar, if there is ever an option for desis to change their race to white, how many desis will sign up? How many will sign up in the other direction? I rest my case (and hamidm`s case)...
``

HAHAHA...true.

Case in point, how many desis consider it a compliment if they are mistaken for Italian..how many desis consider it a compliement if they are mistaken for Nigerian?

Airport battles some Muslim cabbies

Thu Jan 4, 12:20 PM ET

Officials at Minneapolis-St. Paul International airport are proposing stiffer penalties — including suspension of an airport taxi license — to Muslim cab drivers who refuse service to passengers toting alcohol or service dogs.

But Hassan Mohamud, imam at Al-Taqwa Mosque of St. Paul and director of the Islamic Law Institute at the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, one of the largest Islamic organizations in the state, said asking Muslims to transport alcohol ``is a violation of their faith. Muslims do not consume, carry, sell or buy alcohol, and Islam also considers the saliva of dogs to be unclean, he said.

#99 Stuka {``Actually, they were prized for the zenith of their booty rather than beauty..``}

Stuka,
No doubt. The sistas have the best booty.

Tahmed Chacha likes his women the way he likes his coffee - black and strong.

#84 {``Are pathans men stupid that they let go of their superior genes and blue eyes and white skins to marry plain brown eyed, dark skinned panjabi women?``}


No one has even accused Pathans of being brilliant. Even much wiser men, e.g. Sardarjis, have been duped in Hira Mandi.

{``Ads promote and shape certain values. Fair&Lovely has been forever promoting the concept that only fair skin women have the best in life. ``}

Farheen,
Good article and you have made your point well. Despite what we Muslims, especially those from India and Pakistan, there is definitely a bias, even in Muslim rags, about the preference for fair skin. Just consider the matrimonials, where it is often stated:

``Proud Punjabi parents, settled in US since Civil War, seeking suitable match for tall, beautiful, and very fair 43 year old innocently divorced girl, no issue, looking for tall, handsome, and very fair Punjabi male doctor, never married, practising in the US, with own practice and solid Muslim values.``

``Then why are pakis attracted to goats?``

arjun,

for the same reason you`re attracted to pakis, you want to tie us to a tree, slice our necks, and savor our biryani, you just cant cuz it`s illegal, so let us have our goats and you can fantasize.

i never knew till i read these posts how many complexes desi men have about their skin colour. sad.

Re:sobia#107

[..i never knew till i read these posts how many complexes desi men have about their skin colour. sad...]

Really? So prior to reading this article on chowk, you had no idea about desi obsessions with the fair skin? Heck not just desis, even ABCDs know this and practice it to the fullest in terms of their dating habits. So give me a break!!

tahmed
all i can say on on this subject of skin colour is; beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

stuka/hamidm: you are arguing on the right side of the decimal when you measure beauty with skin color. i am trying to direct your attention to the left side of the decimal by saying that good health, hygiene, character, personality, manners, intellect, physique and even mystique (i.e. where advertizing comes in) are far more important factors.

Thus: to take stuka`s example, the fact is that europe has been way ahead of africa and asia the past few centuries, and this is reflected in the overall character, health, intellect and so on. europeans have the reflected glory of a highly successful civilization, while nigerians do not. italians have the image of living la dolce vita (the sweet life), while nigerians are infamous across africa (and now around the world thanks to their sending emails claiming to have millions of dollars they wish to put in your bank account) as being crooks. is thisaccurate? of course not. italians had the mafia, while nigerians had the nobel prize winner wole soyinka.

the makers of lux beauty soap dont want you to know this. i am liberating you from the tyranny of the advertisers by inviting you to focus on the left side of the decimal.

aslam #109: true. that is why in #110 i am inviting the hamidm and stuka to behold on the left side of the decimal, not on the right. :-)

#107 sobia: please dont generalize about desi men. all of us are not as stupid as we look. :-)