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Old 01-06-2006, 12:40 PM   #9
Sundae
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The practice of vani is a tribal tradition, not strictly an Islamic one:

From here

[The father] added that his family had already paid blood-money to the aggrieved party. 'I have refused to give into the council's request as it is un-Islamic. I cannot hand over my girls like goats to marry these illiterate boys,' he said.
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