The Wo! Front

Thought i’d share this hilarious article on Arranged marriages in the muslim community by Neil MacFarquhar of the New York Times.

It describes a “matrimonial function” held by an Islamic organisation aimed at hooking up young muslim singles and prevent the devilish enticements of pre-marital dating and other unmentionables.

Organised by the likes of the “Mothers Against Dating” it is an attempt to maintain traditional values in a Wild world.

One of the mothers Ameena Jandali describes dating “as  traps of the Devil to pull us in and we have no idea we are even going that way”.

I must admit the way these older mothers or “aunts” as we would call them, continue to pursue their dastardly matrimonial plans in a world of Sarah Jessica Parker and Sex and the City has its admirable points. They’re truly unstoppable. 

I for one have always lamented the waste of these female talents expiring in the limited world of this domestic sphere.

How waylaid these nefarious skills were! (the ominous picture in the front of the article of the desi mother leaning in before her hapless son is truly scary.)

If only these skills could be tapped into! The machiavellian machinations and double dealings would not be out of place in politics or the corporate world.

Alas.

Reminds me of an article i wrote a while back which caused a scandal for the subcontinental paper i was working for “Arranged or Deranged?”

You be the judge.