My view of the world

Here in the good ol’ USA, home to a truely amazing amount of freedom, in some of the Muslim communities, what was good enough for my great, great, great grandaddy is good enough for me.
They hold a Muslim conferences, with what we would call speed dating, they however avoid the word dating, instead the have a “matrimonial banquet.”
About 10 men and women sit around a table, with the men changing table every 7 minutes or so.
It sounds like speed dating with a group discount.
They also hold seminars with titles like this one: “Dating,” with advice for “Muslim families struggling to save their children from it.”

The problem I have, is that, it looks to me, like this only works in a totally male dominated society. If one person isn’t absolutely submissive, and they don’t even know each other, the lives of both would be miserable.
I’m certain it works once in a while, but this isn’t upcountry Pakistan, and the women have seen and heard enough so it would be hard for them to stay submissive, and the men have been exposed to western attitudes and western women.
One interview I read, told of a guy who was almost thirty, and still saving himself for marriage, while I commend his determination, I think he’s out of his friggin’ mind.
This is not an attack on the religion, it’s a commentary on what I see as an archaic, and doomed, tradition.
Can you imagine marrying someone you don’t really know?

A final thought.
Why don’t Baptists have sex standing up?….It could lead to dancing.