We have often heard the lament
that Muslim boys elope with Hindu girls. This obnoxiously implies that the
Hindu girls are ever so ready to elope with Muslim boys.
Although we can cite hundreds of
examples of Muslim girls marrying Hindu boys, we can explain why more Hindu
girls are likely to marry Muslim boys than Hindu boys marrying Muslim girls.
It can be assumed that typically
about 90% of the city is occupied by Hindus while only about 10% of its
geography is under Muslim habitation.
This means that more Muslim boys
are likely to travel through Hindu areas than vice versa. Also consider that
fewer Muslim girls are likely to be going to college or working than are Hindu
girls. Moreover Muslim girls are likely to be more conservative and less
liberal than their Hindu counterparts in connecting with the opposite gender.
Statistically this means that
Muslim boys are likely to connect proportionately with more Hindu girls than
are Hindu boys likely to connect with Muslim girls.
Thus even if both communities
have similar sex appeal the chances of "Hindu girl - Muslim boy"
pairs are statistically much higher.
The
situation would likely be so in, say, Egypt between Muslim majority and
Christian minority etc.
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