photo by Emmy Taylor
I guess not many mothers in Saudi Arabia (or Dubai for that matter) saying to their kids, “If they dared you to jump off a bridge, would you do that too?”
Splash!
How can you win a human being let alone a 10 year old girl? What the hell kind of place is this?
Don’t travel there, don’t work with or for their companies. Not one cent from me.
A 60-year old Saudi man who was set to marry a 10-year old girl—he ‘won’ in a bet with her father—has postponed his marriage after protests from human rights groups, press reports revealed.
The fate of the little girl was decided after her father dared the elderly man to marry a second wife and teased him about being afraid of his current wife. The elderly man accepted the challenge and asked for his daughter’s hand in marriage, Saudi newspaper Al-Madina reported.
The father couldn’t retract the challenge and accepted the proposal, asking for a 100,000 riyal dowry, the paper said, adding the two men finalized the marriage procedures and the couple even underwent pre-marital tests, which shocked staff at the lab.
via AlArabiya
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