were a girl.
Local culture is especially wanky about how daughters are raised.
I used to date a local for many years, and he told me (for what's it worth) that if he could guarantee that we would only ever have male children, he would have married me in a heartbeat. But being American, I wouldn't be able to raise a daughter Islamically the way that Qatari culture mandates.
(For him, raising a daughter Islamically meant sending her to girls-only schools, wearing hijab/abaya, marrying her first cousin before she turned 18...and he's right. I would never have forced my daughter to do all of that, because for me that is local culture, not Islam...but here culture trumps Islam in many situations.)
"Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution?" -- Groucho Marx
were a girl.
Local culture is especially wanky about how daughters are raised.
I used to date a local for many years, and he told me (for what's it worth) that if he could guarantee that we would only ever have male children, he would have married me in a heartbeat. But being American, I wouldn't be able to raise a daughter Islamically the way that Qatari culture mandates.
(For him, raising a daughter Islamically meant sending her to girls-only schools, wearing hijab/abaya, marrying her first cousin before she turned 18...and he's right. I would never have forced my daughter to do all of that, because for me that is local culture, not Islam...but here culture trumps Islam in many situations.)
"Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution?" -- Groucho Marx