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 Romance / Man, '112', Weds 17-year-old Girl by EdwardFree: 11:36am On Dec 30, 2009 |
[b] Hundreds of people have attended a wedding in central Somalia between a man who says he is 112-year-old, and his teenage wife. Ahmed Muhamed Dore - who already has 18 children by five wives - said he would like to have more with his new wife, Safia Abdulleh, who is 17-year-old. "Today God helped me realise my dream," Dore said, after the wedding in the region of Galguduud. The bride's family said she was "happy with her new husband". Dore said he and his bride - who is young enough to be his great-great-grand-daughter - were from the same village in Somalia and that he had waited for her to grow up to propose. "I didn't force her, but used my experience to convince her of my love; and then we agreed to marry," the groom said. Goat-skin documents The BBC's Mohammed Olad Hassan in Mogadishu says the marriage in the town of Guriceel is being described by Somali historians as the first of its kind in the Horn of Africa nation for more than a century. Dore told the BBC he was born in Dhusamareeb in central Somalia in 1897 - and has a traditional birth certificate, written on goat skin by his father. Our correspondent says he has an interesting history - in 1941 he joined the British colonial forces as a soldier for 10 years and then served as a police officer after Somalia won independence in 1960. Dore's oldest son is 80 years old and three of his wives have died. He says he hopes his new bride will give him more children. "It is a blessing to have someone you love to take care of you," he said. [/b] |
| Romance / Man Weds Corpse by EdwardFree: 11:30am On Dec 30, 2009 |
[b] Strange happenings are very common in Nigeria from time immemorial. The most recent one is the wedding between a man and a corpse. It all happened in the troubled Niger Delta region early August when a man whose only name we got as John was forced to wed his dead concubine by the family of the latter. Following the shocking story narrated to journalists recently by one Kunle Gbenro, an ambulance driver residing in the populous Nigerian city of Lagos, some unidentified people contacted him as he was dozing off near a hospital building, requesting him to convey a corpse for them to the Delta State region. Gbenro is always hired by such people to transport corpses from one part of the country to another, although he does not pray that people should die, of a truth, the more people died, the better business it was for him. That is why he saw this approach as brisk business as usual. After all, this is what makes his industry peculiar, at least for the ten years he has been in the trade. Gbenro told the pressmen that in his corpse transportation business, he has encountered several strange happenings, some of which has brought some cold sweat on him. The trip to the Delta region was just a repeat of them in many ways. He said as he lingered around the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital mortuary as usual to trap customers, his long wait sent him into a brief doze when some serious looking men approached and shook him out of sleep for what he saw as his time of luck, especially when they told him that they had the corpse of their dear and loved one to take to the Delta State. Having settled on the fee to pay him, the corpse was neatly arranged in a bag and placed inside his hearse ready for conveyance. As he further recounted, a man then sat down near the corpse and the journey with the deceased young lady began. No trouble signaled until they arrived at their destination and he drove into one compound as directed by the man who sat near the corpse. He said he had suspected this man to be either the brother or husband of the deceased woman since there was no introduction made. And so he did not panic although their role as hearse service drivers was never to convey a corpse without a relative of the deceased in company. Kunle Gbenro stated that a crowd of about 20 people swelled in front of the compound soon after his hearse pulled up there. Then the man who had traveled with the corpse, whose name he later found out to be John, came down from the hearse and moved towards the crowd. As they spoke in a language strange to him, he could not decipher what they said. But his anxiety to return to Lagos that evening was being dashed as the people in the compound made no effort to remove the corpse from his hearse. Yet, he was restrained from asking John to do so when he noticed that anger hung on the faces of the village elders after they listened to John mumble certain things to them. Just then some very hefty men tipped John to the ground, and another group menacing to inflict more blows on him were only stopped by an elderly man. The hearse service provider recounted that, fear ran down his spine when the strange scene unfolded, forcing him into his car for safety. Then a million thoughts flashed across his mind pricking him to take off with the corpse to save his life. But what would he do with a strange corpse? This second thought held him back. Just then, John was ordered up and asked to lead the men to the hearse. But to Gbenro's utter dismay, they went sobbing away again as soon as they saw the corpse of their daughter, leaving behind a stern-looking young man to watch over the corpse and ensure the driver did not escape with it. Confused, Gbenro sought to know from the guard the whereabouts of John. "They are preparing him for his wedding," the young man informed him. "Which wedding?" Gbenro asked. "The wedding with Elizabeth," the young man replied. "Who is Elizabeth?" Gbenro enquired further, and the angry man thundered back, "The woman in your car." The hearse driver was in a fix for some minutes, not believing his ears. "A dead woman being prepared for wedding! These must be strange, crazy people," he concluded, until the young man explained to him that Elizabeth and John had been living together for a long time as husband and wife without John performing the necessary traditional marriage and custom rites until death snatched her away. "Now that Elizabeth is dead, John must perform all the traditional wedding rites before she is given a befitting burial," the young man explained, adding, "In this regard, John will have to wed Elizabeth even in death." He then told Gbenro that he could not be allowed to go because he had to be John's best-man in the wedding. He seized the car key from Gbenro and vanished into the compound. Preparations took place all night and the next day, the corpse had been well-dressed in an immaculate white wedding gown and kept in the wedding room, given a befitting decoration. John and his best-man Gbenro were asked to stand by the corpse, dovetailing their fingers. After conducting the wedding all in a language strange to Gbenro, the elder of the village put wedding rings on the fingers of the couple. Only then was Kunle Gbenro asked to leave. He told journalists that after the strange happening, he was still feeling as having a bad dream from which he would wake up later. [/b] |
| Religion / Muslim Murders Wife For Reading Bible by EdwardFree: 11:23am On Dec 30, 2009 |
[b]A Muslim man in Egypt killed his wife because she was reading the Bible and then buried her with their infant baby and an 8-year-old daughter. The girls were buried alive! He then reported to the police that an uncle killed the kids. 15 days later, another family member died. When they went to bury him, they found the two little girls under the sand - alive! The country is outraged over the incident, and the man was executed at the end of July. The older girl was asked how she had survived and she said: - 'A man wearing shiny white clothes, with bleeding wounds in his hands, came every day to feed us. He woke up my mom so she could nurse my sister'. She was interviewed on Egyptian national TV, by a veiled Muslim woman news anchor. She said on public TV, 'This was none other than Jesus, because nobody else does things like this!' Muslims believe Isa (Jesus) would do this, but the wounds mean He really was crucified, and it's clear also that He is alive! But, it's also clear that the child could not make up a story like this, and there is no way these children could have survived without a true miracle. Muslim leaders are going to have a hard time to figure out what to do with this, and the popularity of the Passion movie doesn't help! With Egypt at the centre of the media and education in the Middle East, you can be sure this story will spread. [/b] |
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