TAIF, 9 August 2006 — A young couple about to be married had their plans ruined when the brothers of the groom ganged up on the brother of the bride, the Al Watan daily reported yesterday.
The brothers didn’t like that the would-be brother-in-law dared to stand near women at the wedding reception. The young man protested when the brothers tried to impose their rigid views, insisting that it was immoral to stand near and interact with unrelated women.
When the young man refused to heed their ranting, the brothers decided to beat up the young man.
As one would expect from young men who disrespect their own brother’s wishes by ruining his wedding with their sanctimonious attitudes, none of the brothers were actually brave enough to challenge the young man to a fair one-on-one duel. Instead they ganged up on the sole brother in numbers like a pack of street thugs.
Furious at what had happened to his only son, and concerned that his daughter was about to marry into a physically abusive family, the father canceled the wedding right there and then.
The father relented to neither the pressure by the groom’s father nor inter-family mediators.
As far as this Saudi father was concerned, the would-have-been brothers-in-law, and perhaps including the groom himself, were a pack of Taif baboons.
Forgetful Mom Loses Five-Year-Old
BAHA, 9 August 2006 — Consider an acute case of “Oops, I Forgot I had a Child!” A woman forgot to take her five-year-old son after she departed a wedding celebration in Mikhwat, the daily Okaz reported yesterday. She didn’t realize the error of her way until she returned home, whereupon she began to freak out. The wedding hall was already closed by the time the woman and her relatives arrived. It wasn’t until the following morning that the mother found her child in police custody. Workers at the wedding hall had reported finding a sleeping child in the wedding hall.
Ladies Relax, It’s Just a Song!
BALJURSHI, 9 August 2006 — A wedding function disintegrated into a brawl between the womenfolk on both sides of the aisle after a song troupe busted out with a little ditty that included an off-color remark about one of the families of the couple. According to yesterday’s Al-Riyadh daily, the harmless folk song apparently turned out to be more harmful than expected. The womenfolk of both families went nuts and began beating each other up until the men broke up the battle and the song troupe quietly exited the stage.
