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The Sad Reality of Arranged Marriages in South Asia

Aqdas Afzal November 2, 2002

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#149 Posted by rsaxena on November 7, 2002 4:23:21 pm
re: 12-head

...shut your hemorrhoidal trap and answer the question you were asked...are the 4 pigs your cousins?...
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#148 Posted by harimau on November 7, 2002 3:44:30 pm
Ref Sangilikkaruppan #127

[You came very close to identifying a sinister aspect of arranged marriages when you said that they impeded social mobility. Without arranged marriages there will be no caste system. Man & woman fall for each other, don`t care about caste, subcaste, etc., get hitched, make babies who are virtually casteless.]

So, tell us that you fell in love with and married a girl a couple of steps lower than you in the caste hierarchy.

I don`t think so.

Now that you have ensured that your own bloodlines are uncontaminated, you are talking about the virtue of a marriage across social boundaries.

You just drip hypocrisy across the pages of Chowk.

PS. Please talk about how in a love marriage, there is no dowry either. You still haven`t had the guts to make the bald-faced claim that you didn`t get any dowry.

PPS. Wait till Love Queen brings home an African-American boyfriend. I hope you have a defibrillator on hand at home.
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#147 Posted by soysauce on November 7, 2002 9:31:05 am
Re: divorce & arranged marriages

The fact that it`s the families coming together in a traditional marriage as Jai said, and strong social pressures against it, have kept divorce rates low. The relative rarity of divorces has nothing to do with the arrangedness per se and the situation is changing as women are getting good jobs and can support themselves should the marriage not work out. They aren`t willing to put up with the extraordinary demands of traditional families any more.
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#146 Posted by AAmir on November 7, 2002 9:31:05 am
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#145 Posted by rsaxena on November 7, 2002 6:47:17 am
re: 12-head

{ASK YOUR FATHER .HE DIDNT GIVE ANY TO ME.MY LOSS IS YOUR GAIN BANIYA! }


...you must`ve got your pig from your mullah....or is it 4 pigs as you are allowed?...and are those 4 pigs cousins for yours?...how do you enjoy inbreeding with 4 pigs?...do tell...
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#144 Posted by AAmir on November 7, 2002 5:16:37 am
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#143 Posted by AAmir on November 7, 2002 5:16:36 am
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#142 Posted by AAmir on November 7, 2002 5:16:36 am
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#141 Posted by AAmir on November 7, 2002 5:16:36 am
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#140 Posted by Urstruly on November 7, 2002 5:16:36 am

Jay # 138

So now you are saying that Modi, Advani, and Bajpayee are not Europeans but actually they are haraami alongwith half of India? Seeing the people having names like haramiou, gawardhan, Jay and Arjun among you I find it very tempting to agree with you this time.
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#139 Posted by Ralph on November 6, 2002 11:39:49 pm
#137 was in reply to Hydra #135. Sorry.
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#138 Posted by Ralph on November 6, 2002 11:22:08 pm
Hydra #130

What happens is in middle clas muslim the father is happy to sell his daughters and four wives to the nearest Heeramandi where they are raped by all Christians and Hindus.Its all question of economy more so in Pakistan than in India, where if he saves a few bucks by selling even his mother into prostitution what does a mullah care? . Muslim women are treated like animals so why bother whether they are raped in heeramandis or in the streets ????
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#137 Posted by jay on November 6, 2002 11:22:08 pm
urstruly 125

Modi, Advani etc have remnants of jihadic gene transmitted from the rape and pillage by the pakistani role models like Gaznavi Lodhi etc. and the imapct of the tradition of arrange marriage have been ecclipsed. In most of norther india one can decern the jihadic strain. Actions of the sikh during khalistan movement was identicla to that of jihadists and the slaughter of 10,000 sikhs in response to killing of indira gandhi is another example. In delhi one cannot see any femal on the scooters, the men chase them while in south india where the jihadic strain has failed to reach women ride freely. Bride brning, mureders and other social eveil statistic of north is far to closer to that of pakistan than that of south india.

In essence, my hypothesis of the arranged marriage impact is only reinforced by the examples of modi and advani. In the case of pakistan, again the arranged marriage system only reinforces the jihadic values, a prime example is the idea of oncountables, accepted by the illiterate and the educated. You are always realing out statsitic of kasmiris killed, but the uncountables abviously by definition cannot enter statsitics. I pressume you are an educated or at least an schooled pakistani.
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#136 Posted by rsaxena on November 6, 2002 10:46:09 pm
re: 12-head ashok aka shah

...who gave you their pig to marry, and how much did they save?...
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#135 Posted by Ashok on November 6, 2002 10:05:55 pm
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#134 Posted by Ralph on November 6, 2002 9:10:15 pm
# 131

{But how `bout if when one party is genuinely interested in the religion of the other, and wants to convert?}

When a Muslim man marries a non Muslim woman, how many times have you seen the man become genuinely interested in the religion of the other and convert unless his eyes had opened before the marriage?

Marriage between a Muslim man and a non Muslim man is just a way for the Muslim man to convert the woman to his religion. Exceptions are rare. I don`t know if Drumz is one. In most cases, sooner of later the woman takes a muslim name, prays five times a day, and dutifully produces a litter of fanatics who grow up to badmouth her own religion.



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