Family axes wedding plans, Egyptian cuts off organ

Post by **Hurghada Lady** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:43 pm

Family axes wedding plans, Egyptian cuts off organ
By SARAH EL DEEB – 21 hours ago

CAIRO (AP) — A 25-year-old Egyptian man cut off his own penis to spite his family after he was refused permission to marry a girl from a lower class family, police reported Sunday.

After unsuccessfully petitioning his father for two years to marry the girl, the man heated up a knife and sliced off his reproductive organ, said a police official.

The young man came from a prominent family in the southern Egyptian province of Qena, one of Egypt's poorest and most conservative areas that is also home to the famed ancient Egyptian ruins of Luxor.

The man was rushed to the hospital but doctors were unable to reattach the severed member, the official added citing the police report filed after the incident.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the press, added that the man was still recovering in the hospital.

Traditionally, marriages in these conservative part of southern Egypt are between similar social classes and often within the same extended families — and are rarely for love

Post by **Hurghadapat** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:43 pm

Well as they say "ONLY IN EGYPT"

Post by **Hurghada Lady** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 8:21 am

Bit like "cutting your nose to spite your face"

Post by **Nilegoddess** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 8:17 pm

aww poor man he must have been so desperate to carry out such an act, it is so sad to see how some young people in Egypt from the lower class families are pressurised and forced to abide by the family wishes. I feel so lucky to have been born in the western world, with free speech and free will.

I hope the head of his family feel really guilty - poor man.