The couple were unaware the "Islamic blessing"3 ceremony was a fake, with the marriage celebrant Hussein Didi2 speaking insults in the native Dhivehi2 language while pretending to perform the ceremony. There were insults throughout the ceremony, including during Islamic prayer with hands raised1,2 and while speaking in Islamic chants tone1,2 as if reciting the Koran.1
Didi called the couple "swine"1,2 and told them their children will be "bastard swine".1,2 He said their marriage was not "valid"1,2 since one of them was an "infidel"1,2 and the other was likely an atheist that "does not even believe in an infidel religion."1,2 He told them to keep "fornicating"1,4 and spreading "hatred".1,4
Also included in the insults were; that homosexuals frequently fornicate,1,2 that Westerners "bugger"1 chicken and were "familiar with the taste of the ****holes of chicken",1 and complaints about employment conditions.1
Apart from Didi, there were 10-15 other employees2 of the Vilu Reef Beach and Spa Resort1,2 where the ceremony took place, who witnessed the events but non intervened. Instead some of them took to rudely2 discussing the woman's breasts and questioning whether she was wearing a bra.1,3 One of them joined in by denigrating kissing, calling it mouth sucking.1,2 It seems everyone thought it was funny since it only became public after one of them posted the video of the incident on Youtube as a “a joke”.1,2
The video with English subtitles can be viewed on Youtube at this link.
Source: 1. Minivan Daily (Maldives), 2. The Daily Mail (UK), 3. The Daily Telegraph (UK), 4. The Sun (UK)
