Daily Archives: 28/09/2008

Coming to one of the MOST discussed topics and the most popular one that I have ever hosted shows about one the local radio in Norway as well as Wakas Mir LIVE.

I felt a sudden rush of activity of my braincells trying to relocate where all the mindsets are being formed, as so many people would come on air to discuss this touchy topic. Some would share amazing experiences of being married to their cousins , while the others would just reject any theory that shows that marriage in a family does work.

In one show we had a female caller from Norway, the moment she was on air she goes “Wakas beta how can we allow our one and only daughter who is a chaudhry to be married into a to a totally different family” I was amazed, shocked and sad and all those emotions I had to portray to her as well saying “I don’t know where in our Quran it says anything like that, and I am so amazed over this since you are trying to bring the whole topic to a standstill by just nailing it right on the head. As if this is written in stone, that if one is chaudhry or gujjar they can’t marry someone else from another caste just because they think they are superior. Well are you more superior than the others tuned in now? Or aunty ji is it this that when you ever had the chance to see your blood it comes out as a different color than someone else’s”

It’s amazing how some people can go to the extreme of taking such thoughts and go public with them as if it is something they should be proud of.

What are your views on this. Yes, I am not against marriages in a family. BUT what I am against is mindsets that make living hell for girls and guys to be FORCED to believe that it is NOT right to go out of the family just because “The parents feel they are better” and so on…

Do share your views.. thx