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Converted to Islam two weeks after Jewish marriage
Yemeni Jewish bride elopes with Muslim love
Controversy raged in Yemen after a Jewish bride deserted her Jewish groom and eloped with a Muslim she married after converting to Islam to the shock of her relatives and clan.
Taking her clan by surprise Leah Said al-Naeti, 20, dumped her Jewish groom Haroun Salem from the northern governorate of Sadah a week after their marriage on June 30 and married instead Abdel-Rahman al-Huthaifi, a Muslim who had proposed to her family but was rejected.
Naeti married Huthaifi last Wednesday after she converted to Islam in Sanaa in the presence of a group of Muslim preachers.
Immediately after her Muslim marriage Naeti annulled her Jewish one.
Unprecedented wedding celebrations with fireworks and a procession of dozens of cars led the newly-weds to the groom's house where neighbors gave them a very warm welcome.
Angry Jews
The Muslim wedding celebrations were met with censure as Yemeni Jews criticized the Naeti's elopement and subsequent conversion as a violation of all personal and religious rights.
"She did not convert out of conviction," Yehia Yusuf, Yemeni rabbi, told Al Arabiya. "Her conversion for marriage is not real," Yusuf added suggesting Naeti was abducted and her marriage forced.
Upon Naeti's elopement and prior to her marriage, the Jewish community filed a report that she was kidnapped from her husband's home. Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Mujur ordered the interior minister to prepare a report about Naeti's disappearance.
"We were waiting for the report and suddenly we heard the news of her marriage."
Naeti's Jewish wedding was high profile, attended by many state officials and held in in Sanaa's tourist area where the government gave Jews a residential complex after they received threats in Sadah and Amran.
Social interactions between Yemen's Jews and Muslims are limited and although in Islam, men can marry Jewish women, inter-religious marriage is a sin in Judaism.
Muslim women cannot marry non-Muslim men.
There are around 338 Jews in Yemen with 45 families in northern Amran and a total of 67 people in Sanaa who immigrated from Sadah two years.
Source:http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/19/79196.html
Converted to Islam two weeks after Jewish marriage
Yemeni Jewish bride elopes with Muslim love
Controversy raged in Yemen after a Jewish bride deserted her Jewish groom and eloped with a Muslim she married after converting to Islam to the shock of her relatives and clan.
Taking her clan by surprise Leah Said al-Naeti, 20, dumped her Jewish groom Haroun Salem from the northern governorate of Sadah a week after their marriage on June 30 and married instead Abdel-Rahman al-Huthaifi, a Muslim who had proposed to her family but was rejected.
Naeti married Huthaifi last Wednesday after she converted to Islam in Sanaa in the presence of a group of Muslim preachers.
Immediately after her Muslim marriage Naeti annulled her Jewish one.
Unprecedented wedding celebrations with fireworks and a procession of dozens of cars led the newly-weds to the groom's house where neighbors gave them a very warm welcome.
Angry Jews
The Muslim wedding celebrations were met with censure as Yemeni Jews criticized the Naeti's elopement and subsequent conversion as a violation of all personal and religious rights.
"She did not convert out of conviction," Yehia Yusuf, Yemeni rabbi, told Al Arabiya. "Her conversion for marriage is not real," Yusuf added suggesting Naeti was abducted and her marriage forced.
Upon Naeti's elopement and prior to her marriage, the Jewish community filed a report that she was kidnapped from her husband's home. Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Mujur ordered the interior minister to prepare a report about Naeti's disappearance.
"We were waiting for the report and suddenly we heard the news of her marriage."
Naeti's Jewish wedding was high profile, attended by many state officials and held in in Sanaa's tourist area where the government gave Jews a residential complex after they received threats in Sadah and Amran.
Social interactions between Yemen's Jews and Muslims are limited and although in Islam, men can marry Jewish women, inter-religious marriage is a sin in Judaism.
Muslim women cannot marry non-Muslim men.
There are around 338 Jews in Yemen with 45 families in northern Amran and a total of 67 people in Sanaa who immigrated from Sadah two years.
Source:http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/19/79196.html
