Yemen Today:A Jewish bride, Lia Saeed Hamdi who ran away from her husband’s home at the Tourism City in Sana’a last Tuesday a week after her wedding has embraced Islam and is going to marry a Muslim from Kharif, said relatives of Lia.
Sources at the Tourism City where Jewish community lives said that her family knows nothing of her state of mind, pointing out they were told that she embraced Islam and will marry one of Kharif citizens in Amran Governorate.
The girl’s father Saeed Hamdi told News Yemen that he married his daughter and delivered her to her husband’s house in the Tourist city and that it is his responsibility that he should return her.
The Tourist city’s Rabie, Yahia Yousif, demanded the girl’s family return all they that they took from her husband’s house.
The Rabie criticized the way in which she embraced Islam, saying that the true Islam is embraced for the sake of the religion itself and not for love.
Lia Saeed Hamdi a Jewish girl from Raida town was married to Haroun Salem and their wedding was held and attended by the deputy Prime Minister, Minister of local administration Rashad al-Alimi and a number of officials in the Tourism City in Sana’a on Tuesday, July 30, 2009.
However News Yemen website attributes to a source from the Jewish community resident in the Tourism City that the bride was kidnapped by a Muslim young man from Kharif district near Raida town where the girl used to live with her family.
According to the same source the young man had proposed to get married to the girl but her family refused his proposal. The source said that the girl received threats through telephone messages following her wedding. Her husband says that she received messages threatening her with kidnapping on her wedding day.
They said that Lia disappeared from her husband’s home taking with her all her jewelries and her husband’s money. The Jewish community has reported the incident to the Ministry of Interior accusing the guy of kidnapping the girl and accusing the tourism city guards of facilitating the kidnapping.
A source at the guards of the tourism city denied that any guy had entered to the compound. “The girl possibly was in love with another guy so she ran away to him,” said the source on condition of anonymity. “I believe she ran away because she took her jewelries with her,” added the source. He further said that the guards usually ban any person entering into the city unless he or she is resident in the compound but they do not ban residents from going out.
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