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| Foreign Wives Only Bring Woe, Men Are Told | |
| 2003-07-09 | |
| Saudi Arabia is trying to dissuade its men from taking foreign wives through a media campaign highlighting the problems of mixed marriages, a Saudi newspaper reported. Al Riyadh daily said the interior and information ministries had teamed up to create a television program called "The Drawbacks and Problems of Marrying Foreigners" which aired Tuesday. "It’s not true that marriages to foreigners are less costly or happier than marriages to our girls," the newspaper quoted an interior ministry official as saying. "Foreign women bring with them a lot of problems to the home and society." "They have the idea that they have rights, and stuff!" Non-Saudi women often find it difficult to adapt to the restrictive social environment of the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom where women are not allowed to drive and must be veiled from head to foot in public. But steep dowries and restrictive social mores discourage many Saudi men from marrying their compatriots. We need to require that women who want to marry Saudi men watch a video on "The Drawbacks and Problems of Marrying Ultra-Conservative Turban-Wearing Wife Beaters".
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| Posted by:Steve |