Family axes wedding plans, Egyptian cuts off organ

By SARAH EL DEEB – 12 hours ago

CAIRO (AP) — 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's name is JustWaita bin Loogy.

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.

The man was rushed to the hospital but doctors were unable to reattach
the severed member, the official added citing the police report filed
after the incident.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not
authorized to speak with the press, added that the man was still
recovering in the hospital.

Traditionally, marriages in these conservative part of southern Egypt
are between similar social classes and often within the same extended
families — and are rarely for love.

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Wow...if you are part of the JustWaita bin Loogy, you have to search far
and wide to find a girl from a lower class family!