In Dubai, an Arab ambassador was given an annulment by a Sharia court from a woman who he claims used a niqab to hide her crossed eyes and facial hair. He claims to have only met the woman a few times before their marriage and she always wore a veil. He accused her mother of showing him a picture of her sister to induce the marriage. He also asked, as an alternative if the divorce was not granted, that the court to order her to undergo hormonal treatments for her “beard.”
The ambassador is left unidentified beyond his holding the title “minister plenipotentiary.”
After they signed their marriage contract, the ambassador went to kiss his new wife and saw her face for the first time. He has sued for the contract to be annulled and demanded the woman pay him 500,000 dirhams (£85,000) for clothes, jewelry and other gifts that he had bought for her.
The court annulled the contract but rejected the ambassador’s demand for compensation. During the course of the litigation, the Sharia court referred the bride to a specialist on hormonal problems. The specialist found that she did not have a hormonal problem. The woman is a physician who was allowed to keep the gifts.
For the story, click here.
And how are we this cold evening?
Et comment allons-nous ce soir, froid?
Et comment allons-nous ce soir, froid?
Bonjour AY
Evening Eccokie.
Evening EmpireCookie.
Four Lions is the fruit of three years’ research into Islamic extremism. In a rare interview given at the Sundance festival, where the film was first screened, Morris told me about that research.
Hmm, this could be interesting- a comedy/satire about Islamic extremism.
Four Lions is the fruit of three years’ research into Islamic extremism. In a rare interview given at the Sundance festival, where the film was first screened…
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Morris’s research yielded a massive arsenal of real-life stories. “The unfathomable world of extremism seemed to contain elements of farce. People go to training camps in the wrong clothes, forget how to make bombs, fight with each other and then fight again over who just won the fight. They volunteer for the mujahedeen and get told to go home and ‘do the knitting’. They talk about who’s cooler – Bin Laden or Johnny Depp.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatlife/7196487/Chris-Morris-in-the-lions-den.html
A Y
No, I was thinking of the ceremony described in the link of my comment.
However, having looked up the term get, I find that equally intriguing. Does a get have state sanction/authority?
http://www.kayama.org/get.htm
Sounds a lot cheaper than divorce court.
Jericho……
” Western females have fake hair, fake eyelashes, fake fingernails, fake tits and they’re not as tall as they seem. ”
Indeed many of us have used the above and many other products/services to make ourselves more attractive to the men in our lives, or simply to feel better about ourselves. The difference being, that no judge in the Western world would grant an annulment to a man based on his wives use of any of the above. I agree with Buddah….
” Like prizes on “Let’s Make a Deal!”. You shouldn’t be shocked that the prize behind veil number three is occasionally a gag gift”
How do we get a divorce from the MSM? They are not telling the story that the British Government released today under threat from the Obama Administration not to do so, about US TORTURE of British Citizens BEFORE 9/11.
BEFORE 9/11 …
Talk about cross-eyed and hairy mouthed …
http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2010/02/free-press-is-very-far-from-here.html
Well Roland if they could consent to a divorce you’d think that they had some right. Now don’t forget that in Arkansas a parent can consent to its child getting married at any age.
What is the legal age to marry in Arkansas with parental consent?
“In order for a person who is younger than eighteen (18) years of age and who is not pregnant to obtain a marriage license, the person must provide the county clerk with evidence of parental consent to the marriage.”
I suppose if you are younger than 18 and pregnant you cannot marry in Arkansas.
But they won’t grant a divorce for a 12 year old girl from some 82 year old geezer. What a religion.
“to hid [sic]”?
Buckeye,
Are you thinking of a get?
I always thought you just had to say “I divorce you” three time, but it seems I’m wrong.
http://qa.sunnipath.com/issue_view.asp?HD=12&ID=170&CATE=11
The court divorced the couple and rejected the groom’s request that the pre-marriage gifts be returned.
The above was out of the story. Sounds ok to me. The part of the story, who is the physician? The mother or the ex-wife and since the Divorce is granted what is her status as a divorcee is this country?
But then again, BIS, it’s not like the West so values truth in business either, right? Maybe even less than UAE? The only good businessmen I know are Buddhists 🙂
Western females have fake hair, fake eyelashes, fake fingernails, fake tits and they’re not as tall as they seem.
In the Mideast, they got fake virginal hymens. Action and reaction is all it is.
Sounds like the way the “Patriot” Act was passed.
No divorce yet, though.
That’s the price you pay for treating women like chattel. Like prizes on “Let’s Make a Deal!”. You shouldn’t be shocked that the prize behind veil number three is occasionally a gag gift – especially in a culture that so values truth in their business dealings as the UAE does.
Truth in packaging?