An Arab groom received a shock when he removed his bride’s veil on their wedding day – to find she had a beard. The diplomat had his marriage instantly annulled after he discovered she had a beard and was cross-eyed. The unnamed groom had never seen the woman’s face because she wore a niqab throughout their entire courtship, according to reports.
He freaked out after they signed the marriage contract in Dubai, canceled the reception and went right to an Islamic Sharia court.
He demanded the union be annulled, that $137,000 he’d spent on wedding gifts and expenses be returned, and the bride be examined for “hormonal deficiencies.”
“He was absolutely horrified,” said a wedding guest, according to London’s Daily Mail.
“The bride had a nice personality, but there was a good reason why she was hiding her looks behind a veil.
“A divorce was inevitable, and the groom went straight to court, leaving his new bride in floods of tears.”
The ambassador alleged that that his would-be mother-in-law had shown him pictures of his intended’s sister to trick him into marrying the woman.
“Every time the couple met, the bride would do her best not to reveal her entire face,” a source close to the case told the local Gulf News this week.
The court granted the annulment but did not approve compensation.
A doctor who examined the jilted bride, who is also a doctor, did not find any medical reason for her facial hair.
The report did not identify the ambassador nor give any further details.
{NY Daily News/Noam Amdurski-Matzav.com Newscenter}
Pereh Adam
asur l’adam sheyekadesh es ha’eesha ad she’yirena
why couldn’t she shave?
Why are pictures of women on a kosher website?
that’s so sad. I feel bad for the girl
To bc: thank you for sharing that very informative
Why is this on here ?
why are there pix of women?
bec. they’re tznius?
This souonds like an urban legend.
Who says these are women ? Have you independently verified it ? Who says this is a kosher website ? Who said any website is kosher ? Who said your being online is kosher ? Before being a hypocrite and sounding like a fool, do a reality check.
couldnt have said it better myself!!!!!
To all you phonies asking why this news story is reported here and why is a picture of a women on this site. I have a question for you, why are you on the internet?
I don’t know about u guys but I didn’t notice any pictures of women….just a couple of beadie eyes floating.
do electrolysis! How much of a beard would a lady have already that it’s undoable? There is something VERY, VERY strange about this story. either way, I don’t have such rachmanus for Arabs, sorry.
This not news for us at the fisrt place
Chag Purim Samech – be happy it’s almost Adar
To all you………….
This is a great story. It’s very funny. I was laughing. Thank you Matzav for posting this story.
oh my gosh i almost looked at a woman. boy was that a close shave!
are you sure this isnt a super bowl commertial for gillette?
it was a mosad agent pulling a good prank
MOre funny than anything are the comments. I get great entertainment from the responses!
According to Wikipedia.com :
A bearded lady or bearded woman is a woman who has a visible beard. These women have long been a phenomenon of legend, curiosity, ridicule, and more recently, political statement and fashion statement.
A small number of women are able to grow enough facial hair to have a beard, usually if they use anabolic steroids. Cultural pressure leads most to remove it, as it may be viewed as a social stigma. Notable exceptions were the famous (and usually fake) bearded women of the circus sideshows of the 19th and early 20th centuries, before so-called freak shows became unpopular.
Mujer Barbuda copy of Ribera (1631)The current Guinness World Record holder is Vivian Wheeler; in 2000, her beard was 11 inches (28 cm) long.
Some contemporary feminist women, wishing to question the boundaries of social norms, have not removed visible facial hair as a political statement.
In some cases, female beard growth is the result of a hormonal imbalance (usually androgen excess), or a rare genetic disorder known as hypertrichosis.
16 (Rich) apparently this is real, it was on the NY Daily News site. And if you look at the picture, you may see something that looks like a small horn, too.
to #8,10,12 . . . #4 really yanked your chain pretty nicely, eh?