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Saudi sets sights on 60th bride (64-yr-old Weds Teenager)
BBC ^
| Mar. 17, 2004
Posted on 03/18/2004 3:58:41 PM PST by Alouette
A Saudi businessman aged 64 has just made a young girl his 58th bride and says he intends to have two more weddings to bring his total to 60. Saleh al-Saiari, who has fathered 36 children, took a 13-year-old to be his latest bride a month ago and told a newspaper he was in "very good health".
He said he would draw lots to decide which of his current wives he would divorce to make room for two more.
Under Saudi law, Muslim men may have four wives at any one time.
Mr Saiari told Asharq Al-Awsat that he had first married at the age of 14 and planned to "round off [his married life] with a 60th wedding".
He said his spouses included both "university graduates and illiterate women" but he preferred educated wives.
The businessman, who was once a shepherd, said he would "resort to the usual draw" to choose which of his current four wives to drop.
It was not immediately clear what happened to those of Mr Saiari's wives he divorced.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: harem; mohammed; saudi
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posted on
03/18/2004 3:58:42 PM PST
by
Alouette
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posted on
03/18/2004 3:59:21 PM PST
by
Alouette
(Proudly overpopulating the planet since 1972)
To: Alouette
Some Cultures Die.
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posted on
03/18/2004 4:01:42 PM PST
by
Dead Dog
To: Alouette
How charming. . ..
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posted on
03/18/2004 4:01:52 PM PST
by
Tempest
(Don't blame me, I'm voting for Bush.)
To: Alouette
Lovely culture, isn't it?
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posted on
03/18/2004 4:03:05 PM PST
by
scarface367
(This tagline will work for food, money, or large weapons)
To: Alouette
Religion of Piece bump
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posted on
03/18/2004 4:04:31 PM PST
by
DannyTN
To: Alouette
If this wasn't real, it would be funny.
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posted on
03/18/2004 4:05:40 PM PST
by
dinok
To: Alouette
Saudi sets sights on 60th bride (64-yr-old Weds Teenager) What a despicable culture.
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posted on
03/18/2004 4:07:41 PM PST
by
montag813
To: mhking
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posted on
03/18/2004 4:09:00 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
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To: Alouette
In Christianity a wife is a soul-mate. In Islam a wife is a sperm-recepticle/slave.
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posted on
03/18/2004 4:09:19 PM PST
by
Spruce
To: Dead Dog
It's really a shame we seem to keep needing more and more of their oil.
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posted on
03/18/2004 4:10:06 PM PST
by
M. Dodge Thomas
(More of the same, only with more zeros on the end.)
To: Alouette
If it weren't for the oil, these savages would be looking up to the so-called palis.
To: Alouette
Coming soon to America.
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posted on
03/18/2004 4:13:40 PM PST
by
King Black Robe
(With freedom of religion and speech now abridged, it is time to go after the press.)
To: King Black Robe
Already in France and Spain.
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posted on
03/18/2004 4:15:15 PM PST
by
Alouette
(Proudly overpopulating the planet since 1972)
To: King Black Robe
"Coming soon to America"
I dunno. I doubt it. I think the Saudis would have an awful time trying to speak Spanish.
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posted on
03/18/2004 4:16:14 PM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(So you're a feminist - isn't that cute!)
To: Alouette
"The businessman, who was once a shepherd..." ...which accounts for wives 3-54.
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posted on
03/18/2004 4:16:28 PM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
("We deal in hard calibers and hot lead." - Roland Deschaines)
To: Alouette
"but he preferred educated wives"
Standards must be a little different in Saudi Arabia.....How 'edumacated' can a 13 year old girl be???? :o
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posted on
03/18/2004 4:17:33 PM PST
by
BossLady
To: Alouette
One country's sheik is another country's pedophile.
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posted on
03/18/2004 4:18:32 PM PST
by
tomball
To: Alouette
Sounds like he prefers children more than anything.
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posted on
03/18/2004 4:21:14 PM PST
by
PsyOp
("Everybody lives; not everybody deserves to." – Prudentius)
To: Joe 6-pack
Sheppard must be "can't afford a camal" in Arabic.
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posted on
03/18/2004 4:25:03 PM PST
by
Dead Dog
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