Love Yemeni Style

And who says old fashioned courtship is dead?

From the Khaleej Times:

SANAA — A Yemeni groom was killed and his bride kidnapped after a shooting spree during their wedding in a village in western Yemen, news reports said yesterday.


Five gunmen stormed the wedding ceremony in the Dar Saad district of Al Mahwit province on Thursday and opened fire randomly, leaving the groom dead and five guests seriously injured.

They then forced the bride into their car at gunpoint, the official Saba news agency reported.

The attackers were led by a man whom the bride had previously refused to marry, the report said. Police launched a search for the kidnappers and rescued the woman unharmed.

Two of the five assailants have been arrested, and police were hunting for the others.

I doubt the ceremony was being held at a Presbyterian church.

Islam totally missed that reformation thing, didn't they?