Tuesday, July 01, 2003
Found while reading the WSJ's " Best of the Web " :
A Saudi Romance
"A young Saudi man is suing the father of a girl he had proposed to numerous times over the past eight years," the Arab News reports. It seems the girl wants to marry the boy, but her father refuses to bless the wedding. "Based on Islamic teachings that a girl should not be forced into a marriage and that a father does not have the right to prevent his daughter's marriage, the court ruled that the father should give his approval, since both his daughter and the young man wanted to marry each other." The father is appealing, so the case drags on.
"In 30 years, Saudi Arabia has changed from a desert kingdom into a modern nation," boasts a Saudi TV ad. We shudder to think what it was like before it was a modern nation.
A Saudi Romance
"A young Saudi man is suing the father of a girl he had proposed to numerous times over the past eight years," the Arab News reports. It seems the girl wants to marry the boy, but her father refuses to bless the wedding. "Based on Islamic teachings that a girl should not be forced into a marriage and that a father does not have the right to prevent his daughter's marriage, the court ruled that the father should give his approval, since both his daughter and the young man wanted to marry each other." The father is appealing, so the case drags on.
"In 30 years, Saudi Arabia has changed from a desert kingdom into a modern nation," boasts a Saudi TV ad. We shudder to think what it was like before it was a modern nation.
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