Aunt Ida!!
Posted on 05/18/2008 11:26:27 AM PDT by george76
A 50-year-old Saudi woman asked for divorce after her husband lifted her face veil while she was sleeping, local press reported.
For 30 years, the wife said she never showed her face to her husband in conformity with the tradition of her native village near the south western Saudi city of Khamis Mushayt.
"After all these years, he tries to commit such a big mistake," the wife told Saudi newspaper Al-Riyadh, after she left the house in total disbelief.
She said the husband apologized and promised never to do it again.
This is not the first case of husbands who have not seen their wives' faces in decades.
When asked how she could have kids without her husband ever seeing her face, she replied: "Marriage is about love, not faces."
(Excerpt) Read more at alarabiya.net ...
“Marriage is about love, not faces.”
Aunt Ida!!
Just D-mn.
Islam is about institutionalized Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
This is hysterical. Come on, this had to be a joke, right?
Who asked that?
Monica Lewinsky?
One of the comments on Alarabiya’s web site is from an Arab wondering how the husband is supposed to make sure his wife is not one of those who go to the mall without her veil if he doesn’t even know what she looks like.
I call BS. Saudi women are not allowed to leave their homes unless accompanied by their husbands or male relatives.
For once I agree with the cat!
The comments at the Alarabiya site are funnier than the article. LOL - great find, george76.
Discussion of this topic and others here:
http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=35
"I'll tell you what I was constantly telling him. Get off my back!"
Anti-human death cult.
There goes my lunch.
Thanks! The world is filled with beauty... and then there’s Helen Thomas.
It sounds like a great custom for marrying off homely women.
Every blessing of God is hated by Islam.
What a bitch!
And very small penises.
These beings are so screwed up.......
They are going to be sooooooo shocked when they die and find out they’ve been lied to about the 23 virgins!
I'm familiar with a similar but much cruder expression.
But if this is Saudi Arabia, she can’t leave the house without his permission!
Or did he give permission after seeing her face?
She truly needs to have her face covered at all times! LOL!
LOL! You just can't make this stuff up.
Thanks for the ping.
Must you?
That is one scary religion.
So he knows what she looks like under her pants, but not under her veil? Something is wrong, here. (er — there)
Don't confuse culture with religion. The culture of this village is bizarre beyond belief, but there's nothing in the Islamic religion that says that wives cannot show their faces to their husbands.
Oh wow! What a great way for a man to get a newer model. What do you bet women had no role in establishing such rule either?
Sounds like a thinly veiled reason for divorce.
Well, then culture.
Most Saudi women are certainly allowed to show their faces to their husbands. Also to close male relatives & milk siblings. Some are so extreme that they refuse even that. I had someone tell me that in their village, some children only saw their mothers’ faces after their deaths. That was in Yemen.
Muhammed disagrees with you.
Narrated Anas ibn Malik: I know (about) the Hijab (the order of veiling of women) more than anybody else. Ubay ibn Ka’b used to ask me about it. Allah’s Apostle became the bridegroom of Zaynab bint Jahsh whom he married at Medina. After the sun had risen high in the sky, the Prophet invited the people to a meal. Allah’s Apostle remained sitting and some people remained sitting with him after the other guests had left. Then Allah’s Apostle got up and went away, and I too, followed him till he reached the door of ‘Aisha’s room. Then he thought that the people must have left the place by then, so he returned and I also returned with him. Behold, the people were still sitting at their places. So he went back again for the second time, and I went along with him too. When we reached the door of ‘Aisha’s room, he returned and I also returned with him to see that the people had left. Thereupon the Prophet hung a curtain between me and him and the Verse regarding the order for (veiling of women) Hijab was revealed. [Sahih Bukhari 7:65:375, Sahih Muslim 8:3334]
Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu’minin: The Prophet said: Allah does not accept the prayer of a woman who has reached puberty unless she wears a veil.[3] Sunnan Abu Dawud 2:641
Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu’minin: Asma bint Abu Bakr, entered upon the Apostle of Allah while she was wearing thin clothes. The Apostle of Allah turned his attention from her. He said: O Asma’, when a woman reaches the age of menstruation, it does not suit her that she displays her parts of body except this and this, and he pointed to her face and hands.[Sunnan Abu Dawud 32:4092]
Narrated Umm Salama Hind bint Abi Umayya, Ummul Mu’minin: When the verse “That they should cast their outer garments over their persons” was revealed, the women of Ansar came out as if they had crows over their heads by wearing outer garments.[5] Sunnan Abu Dawud 32:4090
Narrated Safiya bint Shaiba: ‘Aisha used to say: “When (the Verse): “They should draw their veils over their necks and bosoms,” was revealed, (the ladies) cut their waist sheets at the edges and covered their faces with the cut pieces.”[Sahih Bukhari 6:60:282, Sunnan Abu Dawud 32:4091]
[http://askmuslims.com/women.html]
sounds like the Saudis know of the concept “butterface”
No wonder there are so many homosexuals in Muslim countries.
If you don’t know what a woman looks like, not even your mother, how can you have a healthy sexual identity?
Maybe this is the problem with muslims, They are sexually confused and it’s affecting their minds.
SHE wants the divorce... damn, i thought it was gonna be a he lifted the veil and found helen thomas double or something then HE wanted it. tooo funny.
islam, faked from previously existing material.
the woman gave the politest reply possible.
I thought I had some idea just how ugly Helen Thomas is.
Helen Thomas’s face is proof that God is Just.
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