A Taste of Desi Weddings

Jabberwock: Attending a north Indian wedding (as a baraati).

You now have to find ways to pass the time until someone you know arrives. One way is to do the disgruntled-loner thing – sip tomato soup, brood and wish you had gone to a nice warm indoor restaurant instead. Another, more entertaining way is to pretend to talk into your cellphone within earshot of the bride’s relatives: speak sentences like “Yes, it looks like the dowry won’t be enough after all" and "Don’t worry, we’ll let the groom out of the warehouse after all the negotiations have taken place."

That's just mean.

Link via Desipundit.

Comments

[Cafe Alpha]

OT: Jesus Christ, read this PEW survey.

They weren't allowed (or didn't try) to poll in Egypt, Syria or the Palestinian territories, but they're probably similar to Jordan.

It's amazing the bubble of unreality Muslim countries live in:

Asked "Which religion do you think of as the most violent: Christianity Islam Judaism Hinduism none Don't-Know/no-answer"

Jordan: Christianity=1% Islam=1% Judaism=98% Hinduism=0% none=0% didn't-answer=0%

Pakistan: Christianity=4% Islam=6% Judaism=51% Hinduism=31% none=6% didn't-answer=3%

Lebanon: Christianity=15% Islam=18% Judaism=66% Hinduism=0% none=0% didn't-answer=1%

Morocco: Christianity=5% Islam=3% Judaism=83% Hinduism=5% none=1% didn't-answer=3%

Compare with:

India: Christianity=5% Islam=73% Judaism=2% Hinduism=17% none=1% didn't-answer=2%

France: Christianity=2% Islam=87% Judaism=2% Hinduism=2% none=4% didn't-answer=2%

United States: Christianity=9% Islam=67% Judaism=4% Hinduism=5% none=2% didn't-answer=13%

My conclusion, Muslims pay no attention to reality, they are completely unaware that jihadis always start their wars, and they actually believe the Koran - never what goes on in the news.

Fuck wow.

Interesting that Christians in Lebanon believe the same as Muslims about Jews though... On the question of do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus etc., some of the crazier Muslim countries had 100% negative view of Jews, and Lebanese Christians do too. 100%

But alone among Muslim nations, Lebanese Muslims have a favorable opinion of Christians.

Also support for suicide bombings is going down in most polled countries, but it's fucking high and going UP in Jordan (and remember they didn't poll Egypt, Syria, the Saudis or the Palestinians). More than twice as high in Jordan as in Pakistan.

[Isaac Schrödinger]

The best part is on page 7 of the report.

A slight majority of the people in my birth-country have "confidence in Osama bin Laden". That number is 60% for Jordan which is supposedly a moderate Islamic nation.

Muslims in the West whine about their religion and their co-religionists being "singled out" but such numbers don't leave much to the imagination.

The majority of Muslims in the world are lunatics. Their vile religion is the reason.

[Cafe Alpha]

I think I remember that an earlier poll (maybe not long after 9/11) had confidence in Osama at peak in Pakistan vs. other countries, something in the 90s.

[Isaac Schrödinger]

It's amazing how much street cred a Muslim can accrue in Islamic circles by having infidel blood (preferably American) on his hands.

[Cafe Alpha]

Of course at the same time that 90% of Pakistanis loved Osama for bringing down the WTC, most of the same people would have said that it was the Jews who did it. Some lack of sanity is involved.

[MikeT]

Judaism gets a bad rap because people cannot get over the fact that the genocides in the days of Exodus were orders, not doctrines, given by God. In fact, the Bible says that the peoples that suffered genocide at the Jews hands were, by even modern standards, peoples that would cause revulsion in even the average ardent relativist and multiculturalist. I mean really, who pities a nation that engages in firey child sacrifice when it becomes the target of genocide?

[Cafe Alpha]

In fact, the Bible says that the peoples that suffered genocide at the Jews hands were, by even modern standards, peoples that would cause revulsion in even the average ardent relativist and multiculturalist. I mean really, who pities a nation that engages in firey child sacrifice when it becomes the target of genocide?

Uhm the evidence is against you.

No culture offends "progressives", except Judaism and Christianity. None! That seems to be a matter of dogma.

[MikeT]

Touche!