Posted on 01/26/2014 10:39:47 AM PST by nickcarraway
Bride’s family protests dance by groom’s relatives during wedding
A wedding in Saudi Arabia quickly snowballed into a scuffle between the families of the groom and his bride after relatives and friends of the groom infuriated their opponents by performing the famous ‘penguin dance’, a newspaper said on Sunday.
Relatives and guests began to pour into the massive wedding hall in the eastern Saudi town of Dammam when a heated argument erupted before it led to a scuffle between the relatives of the groom and his bride.
Friends and other guests intervened and managed to end the fight that threatened to disrupt the wedding and prevent the marriage of the couple, Sabq daily said.
“The fight began when relatives of the groom started to perform the penguin dance.
“The bride’s family protested against the dance on the grounds it is alien to Saudi traditions and demanded them to stop,” it said.
The Penguin dance has swept into conservative Saudi Arabia since a YouTube film showing the dance at a wedding in Albania invaded many countries last year.
Some believe the dance had originated in Finland while others say it is a Romanian dance.
The Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV channel recently broadcast a programme showing that dance had become widespread among Saudi men. It ran a YouTube film showing a group of Saudi men performing the dance in their traditional dishdasha and head cover.
Just watched the video...
It’s the “Bunny Hop” with tablecloths on their heads instead of pancakes.
I was working in Asia once and saw several tourist ships cruise by.
But one was a muslims tour boat and there was this weird screeching music coming from it. There was about 20 women covered head to toe in black burkas sitting on one side, and about 20 men in bright silk clothing dancing what looked some bizzare country line dance only with a lot of twirling and waving of swords overhead... It felt to me like a movie of a dance scene from hell.
It was freaky as all heck, and everyone watching it go by was silent and it took a while for the normal restaurant conversation to continue (in very hushed tones)
There is some very freaky stuff going on...
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Thanks for that informative video. All muslims should watch it before commencing the bunny dance, so they will understand the importance of securing their urinal ring so it won’t fall off their head.
re your photo ... I think I’m beginning to understand the burka.
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