Posted on 07/11/2006 7:59:10 PM PDT by Pikamax
Couple's wedding clashes with Muslim fun day By Nigel Bunyan
(Filed: 12/07/2006)
A couple's plans for a £5,000 wedding at Alton Towers were thrown into confusion yesterday after it emerged that the theme park had double booked them with a fun day for 20,000 Muslims.
Amanda Morris, 30, and her fiance, Scott Lee, 31, have been told that if they go ahead with the ceremony they will not be allowed to go on celebratory rides together.
Furthermore, Miss Morris and her female guests will have to cover up to be in line with guests of Islamic Leisure wearing hijabs. "I've been looking forward to this day for 18 months, and suddenly it's in ruins," she said yesterday.
"Everything was booked - the photographer, the hotel rooms, everything. Then some of our guests started getting letters saying they would have to cover up because it was a Muslim event.
"Alton Towers haven't even had the decency to let us know they had hired it out. It's not the Muslim event - it's not their fault that Alton Towers have double booked.
"The people with Islamic Leisure want their day as much as we do. I don't blame them at all. But Alton Towers shouldn't have done this. They should at least have rung us to discuss it."
Miss Morris, a recruitment sales advisor, and her fiance, a market trader, booked their wedding in the Emperor's Suite last year.
The bride-to-be said: "It's a nightmare. We have been planning this for so long and now this happens nine weeks before the ceremony.
"People are ringing us saying it must be a joke. I don't know what we are going to do now. I would still like the wedding to go ahead, but I just don't know how it will all work out. I'll be gutted if I have to cancel it now."
The couple, who live in Leeds, chose Alton Towers as the venue for their wedding because they have previously enjoyed staying in the complex's hotel.
At the time they made the booking the only date available was Saturday, Sept 16. They were happy to accept it, believing that they and the 60 guests for whom they had booked 20 rooms would be able to enjoy the following day on the rides.
Since then, however, Alton Towers have hired out the complex for its first Muslim fun day.
Believing that they and their own guests had the complex almost to themselves, Islamic Leisure drew up a list of requirements.
These included the provision of prayer areas and bans on music, alcohol and gambling. In the Muslim tradition, women would also need to cover their bodies, as well as going on rides separately to their menfolk.
The couple have since contacted Islamic Leisure, whose staff confirmed that the wedding party would be asked to adhere to their conditions.
Yaseen Patel, the organisation's director, confirmed: "The body will have to be covered, (though) they do not have to wear the hijab."
An Alton Towers spokesman said staff would be discussing "the options available" with the couple.
She claimed it was a condition of the Islamic Leisure booking that wedding and hotel guests would be exempt from the Muslim dress code.
ROTFLMAO!
Of course. That is why I am NOT a wedding planner. ESPECIALLY for weddings in close proximity to Muslims who are issuing demands on the compliance of others to their specifications.
But...if or when they start dictating to ME how I have to act and what I have to do...forget it. >"
What about when their children start dictating submission to your children? Slime whoreship has to be stopped sometime!
Hitler's birthday?
Blowing up a Bar Mitzvah?
Lets all play Pin The Pigtail On The Koran.
"Muslim Fun Day" has the same ring to me as "Orthodox Pork Day".
Nevertheless, if my preferred choice of retaliation was to play Western music during the wedding ceremony, I'd include "Ahab the Arab" on the playlist.
Fawlty Towers should have done the right thing long ago and informed the two groups of the situation and generously compensated one or the other to defer. I suppose that a festive herd of even 20,000 zebras, baboons, or hyenas would generate more revenue than a wedding party, so the obvious thing to do would have been to offer the smaller group a lavish wedding free somewhere else and avoid the PR problem they are now faced with.
Will this be a gay marriage? That would be perfect!
Add about 50 soccer thugs to the wedding guest list. Should be good entertainment.
Dirka, Dirka, Mohammed, Jihad
I've been to Leeds, there are whole sections that look like Pakistan.
Islam is evil.
There are quite a few songs I would put on there that are insensitive to muslims.
Superjoint Ritual's "Personal Insult" and "Stealing a Page or Two From Well Armed and Radical Pagans." On the latter Anselmo screams "No more of that coward Mohammed!"
POS people. Drop a 2,000 pound JDAM on their fun day. They've said they love death, right?
and the pork rinds and beer...
For once, I am glad we have civil rights laws in this country. I for one would be suing the chit out of the themepark about now.
They're coming here, too. There's a Pakistani woman in our lab who was in Chicago recently and spoke of the huge population there. Someone in our lab mentioned that President Bush was there at the same time, and that she should have said hello.
Her response? That she'd rather spit on him.
And she isn't even a citizen, yet.
I have zero tolerance for Islam. None. They're disrespectful, self-centered pigs.
That's the idea, friend!
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