JEDDAH, 28 June 2004 — A father and his son are rivals for the heart of an Indonesian maid, Al-Watan reported. Maher, 33, had told his father, a 67-year-old retiree, he wanted to marry the maid, and the father went to see the woman to “bless the marriage,” the paper said. But when the father saw the woman he decided to marry her himself and told Maher he opposed the match. The ensuing standoff between father and son escalated to the point where relatives had to intervene, and they proposed letting the woman choose. “Surprisingly, she chose to marry the father,” the paper said.
