Regarding "dowry", Muslim men pay the families of Muslim females, which I believe is the exact opposite of Hindu interpretation of dowry. I'm no authority but that is what I had to do as per imam's instruction. So assuming that is the rule, I can't see how you can draw any comparison.
The concept sounds different but it is identical.
Among Hindus, the daughter is a chattel, and it is the highest of eight forms of marriage when a daughter is gifted by a father (physically, someone other than the father can do the gifting; the pious merit comes to the father). Those who are interested (like 0) might like to find out the other seven forms, and their real-life deconstructed meaning.
In this, the father gifts the daughter, and hands over a valuable sum to the groom's family (not to the groom) to maintain his daughter in the best affordable manner.
Among Muslims, the equivalent of a dower is mahr, and it is a payment, cash or as decided by the bride and groom, made to the bride, not to the bride's family. This effectively should make her financially independent of her husband, her husband's family, indeed, of her own family; if properly negotiated and paid, it is in effect her emancipation.
There is a superficial similarity, but the effect is radically different.
Yup garlic is great food to increase libido.
Those who have read the Thousand Nights and the One Night will remember the delicately nurtured princess who ordered her bridegroom thrown out of her presence because during their wedding feast, he consumed a dish made with garlic.
Musslims aren't safe in Yogi's UP or in Bihar. They need to move to Bengal or closer to Kashmir or the South towards Kerala and TN. And make alliances with local state Hindu leaders not from BJP like Mamta Banerjee or MK Stalin
They don't have to make 'alliances' with Mamata or with Stalin, or with Left leaders. They just have to behave like normal citizens, like everybody else. That is the point that neither the Sanghi nor the green chaddi gets.
