Saudi Woman Divorces Husband For Looking St Her Face
TO the pages of Saudi Arabia’s Al-Riyadh organ, and news of the man who wants to see the face of his wife of 30 years standing.
He waits. And when she’s asleep he lifts her veil. What terrors lurk beneath, we cannot say. Some say she has an eye in the centre of her tongue and when the moon is high looks like a young Anthea Turner with her face trapped between a pair of lift doors.
The wife awakens. She is outraged. “After all these years, he tries to commit such a big mistake,” she tells the paper. She is now suing the peeping Tom for divorce.
To the Mail this is an insight into Islam, the 50-year-old wife following in the arcane traditions of her native village near the south-western city of Khamis Mushayt. The paper says that her features are kept veiled “at all times”.
And readers may wonder if she knows what she looks like, and might have reacted to her husband’s inappropriate behaviour by inquiring: “Is it true?”
It might well be that no woman in the locale knows what they look like, and neither do their men.
But we have seen and can say that the women of Khamis Mushayt are all uniformly blonde with a rose-bud lips and smouldering eyes…
May 19th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Anorak - Do you mean “at” her face???
May 19th, 2008 at 10:03 am
if he’s not allowed to look at her face, what is he allowed to look at…?? I thought the idea of these veils, burkhas whatever was that only the husband got a look at what was underneath…? weird….
May 19th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Yes, only the husband can see the wife’s face, so what has gone wrong here is unbelievable to say the least. They could come from a far away tribe though!
May 19th, 2008 at 10:56 am
For goodness sake she could have been having an overnight beauty treatment to try to repair the ravages of 30 years of marriage, oh what am I saying , overnight after 30 years?????
May 19th, 2008 at 11:46 am
..what’s the cream called, June….?
May 19th, 2008 at 11:58 am
eternity
May 19th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
She just wanted any old excuse to get rid of him!!!!!!!!
May 19th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
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lyn Says:
May 19th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Yes, only the husband can see the wife’s face, so what has gone wrong here is unbelievable to say the least. They could come from a far away tribe though!
ha ha, so far away he can’t see what she looks like!! the wedding must have been a hoot…