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**johobuo** · 08-26-2010, 11:55 PM

How about the Mufti advocate or initiate a massive campaign decrying the practice of asking for huge dowries as well as highlighting the dangers of marrying a non-Muslim spouse?

Even so though I can still see it not solving the problem completely. It is 100% true that many men from Dubai do prefer to marry "light-skinned" women, Muslim or not. This is why you see, as one poster mentioned, a lot of them prefering to marry Lebanese and Syrian women (if they marry a Muslim at all). The sisters in Dubai will continue to suffer so long as this obsession with light skin, which is present in much of the Muslim world, continues to exist.

08-26-2010, 11:55 PM	#9
johobuo Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 517 Senior Member	How about the Mufti advocate or initiate a massive campaign decrying the practice of asking for huge dowries as well as highlighting the dangers of marrying a non-Muslim spouse? Even so though I can still see it not solving the problem completely. It is 100% true that many men from Dubai do prefer to marry "light-skinned" women, Muslim or not. This is why you see, as one poster mentioned, a lot of them prefering to marry Lebanese and Syrian women (if they marry a Muslim at all). The sisters in Dubai will continue to suffer so long as this obsession with light skin, which is present in much of the Muslim world, continues to exist.
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