Growing up in a western culture it is hard for me to really comprehend the class/caste systems of others. This story talks about a man who pleaded to marry a woman from a different class for two years... The family wouldn't allow it so he took matters into his own hands.
Original story is
here.
Family axes wedding plans, Egyptian cuts off penis
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.
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Posted June 7th, 2009, 12:37 PM
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