What is it about Princesses and Pakistanis? First Jemima Khan converted to Islam to marry Imran Khan. Then there was a whole drama between Princess Diana and her one true love, “Mr. Wonderful”, Dr. Hasnat Khan. Diana was reportedly considering conversion and possibly even a life in Pakistan. And now, the ever reliable Sun reports that Britney Spears is also considering converting to Islam and moving to Pakistan to be with her current boyfriend, paparazzi Adnan Ghalib.
But let’s back up to the Diana story first, because it’s the most interesting. According to her butler, Diana begged Khan to marry her:
“This was her soul mate,” he said. “This was the man she loved more than any other. It was a very deep and spiritual relationship.” Khan would often visit Diana and her boys at Kensington Palace, Burrell added, because the Princess was “adamant” that William and Harry get to know and grow to like Khan.Burrell revealed that he and Diana discussed giving Khan his own quarters at the Palace and that the Princess was so serious about marrying Khan she asked Burrell to find out if it was possible for them to have a private wedding.[Link]
She even met his family in Pakistan and kept in touch with his mother:
[Said Khan’s mother] “She was so nice, so friendly and down to earth. She met my mother, Hasnat’s grandmother, my nephews and nieces, all the family.” [Link]
Meanwhile she stopped speaking to her own mother because of her mother’s opposition to the relationship:
“She called the Princess a whore and said she was messing around with eff-ing Muslims and she was disgraceful and said some very nasty things.” It was after that conversation, he said, that Diana decided she didn’t want to speak to her mother ever again. [Link]
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p>Dodi then, was just a rebound, a way to get Hasnat jealous after he said that cultural differences would make it impossible to marry. This explains why the relationship was so public, and why she courted the paparazzi whose attention would spiral out of control:
She started dating Dodi in part, said Burrell, to make Khan jealous. …”She knew very well what she was doing.” All those tabloid photos of Dodi and Di cavorting on his yacht? The Princess counted on the cameras watching them… [Link]
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p>Britney Spears seems intent on proving the adage that history repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce:
Meanwhile the fallen singer has been telling pals how much she’s in love with Ghalib, 35 and that she plans to marry him and convert to his faith, Islam. In her crazier moments she’s even been threatening to fake her own death to start a new life with him in Pakistan.The News Of The World also revealed that Ghalib’s respectable Sunni Muslim family in Birmingham are so horrified by his antics they have disowned him. One family member told the paper: “His parents … are devastated. This week his dad gave him an ultimatum, ‘Give up Britney, or you are dead to me,’ which Adnan ignored…” [Link]
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Meanwhile Pakistani women are wondering what they need to do to get a bit of attention:
“Look at the way they treat our women. I think they are so chauvinistic and full of themselves. I wonder what these women find attractive in them? May be they should launch their charm offensive on Pakistani women. That’s something we women will never complaint against,” Haq chuckled. [Link]
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p>And Rasika is warning other desi men not to get too (ahem) cocky:
Move along guys, there’s no coat-tails for non-Pakistani desi men to ride here …
Come on, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 馃檪
“What is it about Princesses and Pakistanis?” Well it has all the tragedy and pathos and mystery of the kashish of the parwana for the shamma. Would be an interesting social experiment if Britney does fulfil her promise.Don’t know who would recieve the greater cultural shock..She or the good people of Pakistan?
Others prefer Direct Action.
People don’t want to talk about it because 1.) those claims have never been substantiated and there’s never been any proof given that such things actually occur and 2.) the “articles” and “forwards” making such claims have been the same ones being circulated for years. The exact same story comes out once or twice a year forwarded over e-mail or brought up in conversation by some random person who hasn’t heard it before and they think they’re circulating some shocking breaking news. It’s not new and it’s not news – because there is no major conspiracy. If these guys are engaging in scandalous activities with this Sikh girls, they are not going to be embraced by their congregations for engaged in those same activities. They won’t get points (or blessings) for converting someone by fornicating or drinking or doing drugs. I’m not saying there are no girls who convert out for reasons other than purely spiritual, but are Muslims as a community sitting there plotting how to convert Sikh girls? No.
It should read: “for having engaged in those same activies”
Sorry.
In the 1950s, Rita Hayworth married Prince Aly Khan. In 2008, adjusting for inflation, Britney marrying Adnan Ghalib is what you land up getting…
56 脗路 Vikram said
Pamela harriman, Churchill’s former daughter in law, tried to get him to marry her. he refused so she made her way to America where she played kingmaker, essentially choosing Clinton as the next president. so aly love life really effected history.
Feminism has neutered western men. Western women are attracted to the brutes raised in the culture of Pakistani feudalism.
oh, i mentioned harriman/churchil b/c of princess di…adding some credence to the argument that the british aristocracy is going pak.
58 脗路 Mel said
or little rock, AK
1 脗路 Nina P said
once you go malayalee, no need for muhammad ali
once you go malayalee, you forget the pakistani
62 脗路 Manju said
That’s what HE said. 馃榾
I keed.
39 脗路 coach diesel said
once you go coachie, no need for a hoochie
dark’ish skin, full lips, eyelashes to die for & bit of macho? sometimes you just have to give credit, where credit is due
What happens when you go Gujarati? …you go home with a hottie?
65 脗路 guilty dilettante said
guilty d, is that that up and boxer, welterweight i think?
65 脗路 guilty dilettante said
Yeah, but you can get all that and a bag of plantain chips in India. Or at Basement Bhangra (plaintain chips not available with this offer).
(i.e. He looks Punjabi, to me)
yep he packs a real punch in my book 馃槈
66 脗路 kck said
you run faster than a maserati
…better learn karate
69 脗路 dilettante said
he’s in the right division if he want greatness: cotto, williams, and of course pretty boy floyd, but he better get moving.
69 脗路 dilettante said
but can he recite malcolm x’s autobio backwards?
Don’t count Bengalis out – Lisa Ray, Rhona Mitra, and Norah Jones each have a Bengali dad and white mom.
Any good follow ups for “Once you go Telegu (insert whatever)…? You can really go to town with that expression.
75 脗路 gm said
you will become very blue.
75 脗路 gm said
once u go telegu, no one else will appeal to you
if you ever go telegu, hope you had a few
if you ever go telegu, may need a little pill blue
If you go telEgu, you will incur the wrath of budugu.
once u go telegu, no one you’d rather poke into
once u go telegu, you’re stuck like crazy glue
once you go Tamizh you’ll be unable to LOZh
if you ever go telegu, rahul might look good to you
Anyway, Diana was just going with Hasnat to make this guy jealous.
Each, and Papaya too.
yeah, telegu’s too easy
Once you go telUgu, bid sanity adieu. (Sincere apologies to Budugu.)
76 Bytewords said:
Wow. I can’t believe I got meta-referenced.
Once you go Telugu, you’ll scream yahoo. (No offense to Google.)
Once you go Telugu*, you’ll eat lots of Tirupati laddus.
Once you go Bengali, you’ll be unable to shut up about being quite jolly.
Once you go Malayalee, you’ll be living in a joint family.
*Manju, please fix your spelling for future references man
Once you go Bong, going back would be just WRONG…
haha… 馃檪
If you go Punjabi, be prepared for his mom to come at you with a lathi.
91 脗路 nala said
once you go nala, she’ll be correcting your gramma
Once you go Telugu, no need to go far for a buf*. (If you ever witnessed a ATA – American Telegu Association or TANA – Telugu Assoc. of North America ,etc meetings, you might understand this.)
It’s NA-la like Simba’s love interest from The Lion King, not gramma like gamma ray. And I wasn’t correcting your grammar, but your spelling…
I knew you were a neocon ‘Uncle Tom,’ but I didn’t know that once you go to the dark side, apparently you lose sight of what’s really important in a desi person’s life.
I’ve been to those things, but I don’t understand this…
Sorry about my last crass comment. I really meant go to town w/the expression and not take it to the gutter, like I just did. (I am a Telugu, actually.) Didn’t mean to offend anyone.
96 脗路 nala said
if you ever go nala, be prepared for some zsa zsa
I might be offended (but most likely not) if I understood what you were getting at, haha. I don’t think SM is the place to be shy. What does ‘buf*’ mean? This Telugu demands to know!