Woman divorced for kissing baby camel

When a newly-wed Saudi woman happily kissed a baby camel in front of her mother in law at her farm in the Gulf kingdom, she had apparently not realized the kiss would cost the wife her marriage. On the same day, her husband divorced her.

The husband said he was pressed by his mother to divorce his wife on the grounds what she did violated social and religious rules.

“He said he could not disobey his mother, who swore that she would disown him if he does not divorce his wife,” Sada newspaper said without mentioning where in Saudi Arabia the incident took place.

“On the next day, he went to his wife’s family and gave them her clothes…there, she apologized to him and said she did not mean anything wrong and only kissed the camel to express her delight at the camel’s birth…the husband was persuaded and decided to take her back home, where his mother pressed him again to kick her out.”

The paper said the son refused to divorce his wife again and went to live with her family. It quoted the wife as saying: “I love my husband and want to be with him forever…but I am not ready to live with his mother again.”

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