THE irate family of a Lebanese Druze woman who married a Sunni man
attacked her new husband, cutting off his penis and pulling out his teeth.
Mass circulation An Nahar said Rabih, 39, and Roudaina, 20, met on
Facebook and were married by a sheikh in July, over the wishes of the bride's
family.
Marriage between members
of the Druze community and non-Druze is extremely rare and officially banned by
the religious group, which is present in Lebanon, Syria, Israel and the West
Bank.
Roudaina's family, Druze
from the Bayssour area of the Aley region, were apoplectic over her marriage,
media reports said.
Her brothers, one of
them a soldier, managed to lure Roudaina's new husband to Bayssour under the
pretext of a reconciliation meeting.
But when the unfortunate
groom arrived, they beat him up, pulled out several teeth and cut off his
penis.
"He would have been
killed if residents of the area hadn't intervened," An Nahar said on Wednesday, citing security sources.
Rabih was taken to
hospital, but his attackers remain at large. His family has condemned the
attack as "an unpardonable and hideous crime".
Even beyond the Druze
community, intermarriage between Lebanon's 18 religious communities remains
uncommon.
The country was ravaged
by a civil war that pitted many of its religious communities against each other
between 1975 and 1990.
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