Posted on 10/29/2010 2:56:56 PM PDT by Enchante
"The Swiss couple who recently renewed their marriage vows in a Maldives beach ceremony can scarcely have expected the shaky handheld video of the ceremony to turn them into temporary celebrities, but thanks to YouTube, and the addition of subtitles, this is exactly what has happened.... Despite the grovelling apology issued by the Maldivian authorities, the victims in this story are not the Swiss couple but the "celebrants" who have now been arrested, and the thousands of other Maldivians who will doubtless be under harsher pressure to bite their tongues and keep smiling over the cocktails."
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Then he has to ruin the piece with the usual al-Guardian diatribe about poor exploited victims.....
Mr. Sutcliffe, whatever one thinks of the wages of hotel employees in the Maldives, they probably hold the best jobs they could get or ever will get. The idea that they are so exploited that they are the true victims in making a mockery of this couple is silly propaganda, just what we can expect from the infantile left at al-Guardian.
The story is trivial except that it is so emblematic of much that is wrong with both millions of foolish westerners who think as this couple does (did?) and millions more who think like the writer of this piece in al-Guardian.
Swiss couple: Go to an all-Muslim land to have a “sacred” ???? renewal of marriage vows, and be surprised that the locals so despise you that they are happy to make a total sham out of your little ceremony?
author: write that the “real” victims are the poor exploited locals who were just forced to be this way by the evils of capitalism? Maybe you should have thought to blame George W. Bush for this!
There are no “victims” here at all. The Swiss couple are just EuroTrash. The Maldivian’s are just disingenuous versions of trailer trash.
There’s a lot of trash to be seen in that video. I feel sorry for none of them.
Nonsense.
Western affluence, freedom, and superior level of development deeply offend Islam's embedded sense of superiority. If you believe that Allah has given the world to you and your faith, resentment is inevitable when vastly better off Western tourists arrive and your poverty requires you to serve them.
Well, that thing about a chicken’s ass was still good advice.
Well, that thing about a chicken’s ass was still good advice.
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hahaha Most excellent!
The Maldives are a cluster of remote dots on the Indian ocean and if you're a native and chose to remain there, for whatever reason, you've basically guaranteed that you probably won't ever be affluent. The foreigners that travel to these places in search of some kind of 'mystic' aura are just ridiculous. That Maldive natives not only view them that way but have such contempt for foreigners that are supplying the money that provides their jobs in the hotel industry that they would risk getting caught cursing and mocking them while pretending to conduct some kind of re-marriage ceremony is despicable.
So, the Swiss couple are humiliated (worldwide, now) and the local will no doubt receive a lashing and suffer job loss. I'm not a fan of lashing people but I can hardly get too sympathetic for that guy, either.
Is there a link to the video?
Foreign couple mocked as “infidels” and “swine” throughout resort’s ‘wedding
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpGWrDPSIVw&feature=related
They asked for it.
You’re right, mostly.
But New-Agish weirdness or not, this couple paid their money in good faith and should not be disrespected by the wait staff. Silly as the couple is, they chose that place among all others to use as a place of honor, according to their perception. If the staff and locals want to laugh at them among themselves in private, more power to them.
Perhaps they won’t mind a little less butter on their bread if they decide to do it on YouTube.
Look at what happened to Aruba, lol: one of the natural laws of economics is the directive to not bite the hand that feeds you. Another of the natural laws of economics is that he who pays the piper calls the tune.
I’ve been to my share of ‘destination weddings’ in the Caribbean and Mexico and the cheap gazebos and white cotton bunting aren’t enough to distract me from the dirty looks and smartass comments of the locals. It’s a shame because the scenery IS nice but diving straight into the Third World will only get you resentment (or worse) for your time, money and trouble.
American weddings stateside are chock full of tacky traditions but the beach wedding is quickly catching up on the annoyance charts from the peasant-style bridal dress to all the rolled-up cuffs and bare feet. The expense and showiness of it all belie the ‘simplicity’ couples claim to want.
It’s nice to know douchebaggery is universal.
I was going to comment, but then I read yours and thought, hmm, nothing much to add. You nailed it!
The parts where they sprinkle your food with their feces, mix urine in your drinks and spit in your soup (ala Jesse Jackson) never seem to make it into the videos.
If you let a muslim touch your food or drink you are placing your health and your life at risk.
Any westerner or Christian who places themselves at the mercy of muslims is just asking to be poisoned, ridiculed, ripped off or much worse.
Why would anyone even expose themselves to that culture? It must have cost a ton to fly there...
I’m sorry, but I think it is entertaining; here in the NYC area, our cabbies were routinely ripping off tourists. I guess they just have a low-tech version of the game in the middle of some dung-heap in the Indian Ocean.
“They asked for it.”
I completely agree with you; let them flame away...
Brings new meaning to the maxim, there’s no place like home.
Interesting ...
"My hovercraft is full of eels" is probably the cleanest phrase repeatable here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6D1YI-41ao
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