Amman - A budding romance between a Jordanian man and woman turned into an ugly public divorce when the couple found out that they were in fact man and wife, state media reported on Sunday.Separated for several months, boredom and chance briefly re-united Bakr Melhem and his wife Sanaa in an Internet chat room, the official Petra news agency said.
Bakr, who passed himself off as Adnan, fell head over heels for Sanaa, who signed off as Jamila (beautiful) and described herself as a cultured, unmarried woman - a devout Muslim whose hobby was reading, Petra said.
Cyber love blossomed between the pair for three months and soon they were making wedding plans. To pledge their troth in person, they agreed to meet in the flesh near a bus depot in the town of Zarqa, northeast of Amman.
The shock of finding out their true identities was too much for the pair.Upon seeing Sanaa-alias-Jamila, Bakr-alias-Adnan turned white and screamed at the top of his lungs: "You are divorced, divorced, divorced" - the traditional manner of officially ending a marriage in Islam.
"You are a liar," Sanaa retorted before fainting, the agency said.
Via The Inquirer
Comments (2)
DATE: 02/15/2005 09:14:13 PM
I almost believed it... until I read that it came from the Inquirer ;-)
Posted by EarlW | May 14, 2009 11:29 AM
Posted on May 14, 2009 11:29
DATE: 02/17/2005 12:01:27 AM
No, the original link was to a British online journal, not the National Enquirer. I had my suspicions about it, but the Inquirer linked the story to IOL, an apparently legitimate South African newsservice.
So I took it in good faith. It's not like I'm Reuters or CBS News, who would never print anything without hordes of researchers and fact-checkers making sure that every word was the rock-solid truth.
Hey, I do my best with my limited budget. :-)
Posted by gnotalex | May 14, 2009 11:31 AM
Posted on May 14, 2009 11:31