A court in Muweih has postponed a case brought by a man against his son for disobedience and making violent threats. The court set Dec. 23 as the new date after the judge heard Sunday the testimonies of two witnesses for the father, who said that the son had threatened to kill him and called him a “Jew” during a dispute over the marriage of the man's other son. The son objected to the witnesses as one of them reportedly formed a part of the “Shighar” marriage that was the original basis of the lawsuit. The son claims that his father brought the case to put pressure on his divorced mother because she is suing her ex-husband for marrying off their young daughter to an older man in exchange for the older man's daughter. One of the young daughters has since been treated in hospital for an attempted suicide. Shighar marriage is the practice dating back to pre-Islamic times of marrying off a sister or daughter in return for the hand in marriage of the sister or daughter of the other party.
