Saudi Dies in Court
As an ironic tie-in to an earlier blog article today about Kuwaiti women seeking legislations on Women’s Rights, here is a related article from today’s Kuwait Times 23 April 2007:
JEDDAH: An elderly Saudi man dropped dead in court after it banned him from stopping his three daughters from getting married, newspapers reported yesterday. The man apparently had a heart attack once the cassation court judge in Makkah told the three women, aged 36, 39 and 40, that they could marry over their father’s objections, Okaz reported.
The women, whose father had on several occasions turned down their requests to marry, can now marry “honest men” who follow their religious duties, the Islamic court ruled, according to Al-Madina newspapers.
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I atually feel sorry for the daughters rather than for the old man. i wonder why they waited so long before going to court, it is their God given wright to pick whom ever suites them as husbands not the fathers!
It occurs to me that their biological clocks are nearing midnight, too. I hope they find honest men and marry quickly and have happy children and happy lives.
jeeez! its about time the father died! poor girls!
OMG, THANK GOD !
BASTARD !
But on the other hand, when i think of what he’ll face when he’s in that grave .. i just feel sorry for him.
nQ + bbuz – There is some humor in his keeling over in court, isn’t there? How controlling and mad to you have to be to have a heart attack when you don’t get your own way?
Why would a loving father not want his daughters to marry???
he is an ass. im just worried about him
bbuz – No need to worry any more . . . they guy keeled over DEAD!
He sure couldn’t get a better punishment for his retarded mind.