US MUSLIMS DATING?

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

“It is called the ‘matrimonial banquet.’

“’If we called it speed dating, it will end up with real dating,’ said Shamshad Hussain, one of the organizers, grimacing.

“Both the banquet earlier this month and various related seminars underscored the difficulty that some American Muslim families face in grappling with an issue on which many prefer not to assimilate.”

Dating American-fashion equals hellfire for Muslims. Yet they are surrounded in the United States with the custom of dating. What to do?

Now at a continent-wide conclave of Muslims, “dating” is changed to “matrimonial banquet.” Will that ease Muslim parents’ minds about their youth meeting one another?

One seminar was labeled “Dating,” per The New York Times’ Neil MacFarquhar. .
“The dating seminar burst out laughing when Imam Muhamed Magid of the Adams Center, a collective of seven mosques in Virginia, summed up the basic instructions that Muslim American parents give their adolescent children, particularly males: ‘Don’t talk to the Muslim girls, ever, but you are going to marry them. As for the non-Muslim girls, talk to them, but don’t ever bring one home.’

Entire article here.


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