Muwieh Court adjourned the disobedience case of a father suing his son for calling him a “Jew” Tuesday after the father failed to show up in court. The session was scheduled to deliver the verdict on the case. The plaintiff's lawyer presented what appeared to be “convincing” excuse for the father not to show up in court on Tuesday. The court had the right to flatly dismiss the case on grounds of no-show had the excuses not been convincing enough, according to article 53 of the court system. The court rescheduled the hearing for Jan. 7. Last month, the court heard 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 young daughter. 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 claimed 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.
