Couple Defy Destruction with Symbolic Wedding at Ruwais Bomb Site
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
In a show of defiance, a young man and a young woman on Sunday held a symbolic wedding ceremony in the bomb-hit neighborhood of Ruwais, which witnessed Thursday a devastative bombing that left 27 people dead and around 300 wounded.
The couple's wedding had been previously scheduled for Sunday, but they refused to change it in the wake of the deadly blast.
“Our joyful and mournful ceremonies are held in commemoration of the martyrs,” the groom, Ali Alaeddine, told reporters during a live broadcast of the event.
“We offer our homes and souls to the resistance,” Alaeddine said, referring to Hizbullah, before he started chanting slogans in support of the group's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
For her part, the bride, Fatima Ajroush, said: “We tell the world that we do not fear anyone.”
The young couple – who arrived on the scene in a yellow convertible sports car -- then headed to the bomb site and laid a wreath of flowers.
The symbolic wedding soon turned into a popular demonstration, as residents of the area converged on the site and started chanting in support of Hizbullah and its leader.
The casualty toll is the highest in Lebanon since a massive car bomb attack on the Beirut seafront killed former prime minister Rafik Hariri and 22 others in February 2005.
Hizbullah is a key supporter of President Bashar Assad and has sent fighters across the border to Syria this year to bolster government forces, which have been battling a deadly anti-regime revolt since March 2011.
A defiant Nasrallah said on Friday he himself was ready to go and fight in Syria against radical Islamists, whom he accused of being responsible for the car bombing.
On Saturday, the Syrian opposition National Coalition warned against a "cycle of violence" in Lebanon if Hizbullah continues to send fighters to help the Damascus regime.
18 August 2013, 19:37
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D'aw, I was watching it on the telly. At the end, it seemed to me like the growing number of pedestrians needed to give the couple just a tiiiny bit of space to move lol.
19 August 2013, 02:29
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They did? Didn't see that part. I don't see anything inherently bad about it really.
19 August 2013, 04:06
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Oh right, the irony. Well, they've adopted one of many probable rationalizations so their actions don't contradict with what they've done, at least not when assessing things superficially -- or even profoundly. The car does, though, probably. And oh come now, the time their child would come of age, this whole nonsense of jeish this or that would have probably vanished, so, eh.
18 August 2013, 19:50
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Hizbullah is a key supporter of President Bashar Assad and has sent fighters across the border to Syria this year to bolster government forces, which have been battling a deadly anti-regime revolt since March 2011.
A defiant Nasrallah said on Friday he himself was ready to go and fight in Syria against radical Islamists, whom he accused of being responsible for the car bombing.
On Saturday, the Syrian opposition National Coalition warned against a "cycle of violence" in Lebanon if Hizbullah continues to send fighters to help the Damascus regime.
18 August 2013, 19:50
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its a wedding...and the article is about a wedding so why add the last part !!!!!
18 August 2013, 19:57
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“We offer our homes and souls to the resistance,” Alaeddine said, referring to Hizbullah, before he started chanting slogans in support of the group's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah...........
I wish they chanted slogans in support of the State and President Suleiman.
18 August 2013, 20:11
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Isn't it a lack of respect toward the deceased? Shouldn't they wait 40 days?
En tout cas, bonne chance dans votre nouvelle vie!
19 August 2013, 01:19
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benzodiazeplin, I looked it up as it's an interesting topic. 40 seems to be a magic number for moslem
here is wat i found:
Mourning customs vary and often have their roots in pre-Islamic rituals. The period of mourning can last from a month to a year and is often around 40 days. During that time close relatives wear plain clothes and avoid wearing jewelry or perfumes. Sometimes they refrain from doing their prayers in that time and sometimes they stop working for a week or so.
19 August 2013, 01:19
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The Muslim vision of the Last Judgement, Satan, angels, Heaven and Hell and its set of moral and ethical doctrines are similar to those of Christianity and Judaism. Some Muslims believe 40 days before a person dies a leaf falls from a great tree beneath the throne of God and that leaf has the name of person who is to die and an angel is summoned to begin making preparations for that person. At the moment of death that angel appears to the dying person and informs him that there is no escape. After death occurs, the soul is drawn from the body by four angels clothed in white and escorted to heaven.
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http://factsanddetails.com/world.php?itemid=1434&subcatid=359
19 August 2013, 02:31
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The 40 days thing doesnt exist in islam. Its a eastern custom. Primesuspect, the belief of a leaf falling 40 days before death, i have never heard a muslim believe that. Its contrary to the teachings of islam and if some muslim believes that, then he/she is ignorant of what islam is.
18 August 2013, 21:20
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She looks lie grandizer wahhhaaahh what an ugly wedding dress..
18 August 2013, 22:39
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definitely cheap nylon.... like the ones Saddam Hussein use to give away to any Iraqi citizen getting married.
18 August 2013, 23:47
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...11 christians were cut-throated this morning by al-nusra front.. pick sides or shut up, it's time for us the shi3a to fight the takfiris before they use their 7,000kilograms next.. and if they finish us they will come for YOU next. Choose sides.
19 August 2013, 11:30
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Fattoum gave me a hard-on when she started with the other salves the
" labbayka nasrallah sequence with the hand " .. she did it like if she was giving a hand job ...lucky boy alladin
19 August 2013, 12:56
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t'was like a horror movie to me ...
sad, cold and weird! tfeh!
