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Syria: The Djinns of Jupiter
By Renuka Narayanan , Hindustan Times
July 18, 2008
It’s a bit startling nevertheless to walk into an upmarket shop near Bab Touma (the ‘Gate of Thomas’, but earlier the ‘Gate of Venus’) in the Christian quarter to look closer at lovely walking socks and discover inside that buying lingerie is something of a feminine pastime in Syria. Moreover, Syrian girls, like Indian girls, have to be married, and a bride must be equipped with at least 25 to 30 kinds on her wedding night, according to one young lady, or her groom may think she is not trying enough to please him. Despite their apparent freedom in dress, right-to-work and education compared to women in other Muslim-majority countries that we’ve seen or heard about, I got the impression that many Syrian women like other women of the Sharq (East) were firmly under the patriarchal thumb in their personal lives. (One Muslim girl wept quietly that her family wouldn’t let her marry her Christian boyfriend – so like in India).
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Moderate Islamist here
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