The father, Salim Ayyash, asked the would-be husband he must “like” all his tweets and contacts with friends on Facebook one million times over a period of one month.
The father however has assured the daunted young man, identified as Osama, that he might consider cutting that number before the end of the deadline.
Ayyash, a well-known Facebook personality in the western Yemeni province of Taizz, also told the suitor that he would be watching his Facebook and Twitter activity to check whether he was making progress.
“Ayyash said he was watching Osama’s online activities as he set off to accomplish that dowry task…he also told him that before the end of the month, he would evaluate his achievement and could reduce the dowry if he is satisfied with his progress,” the Saud Arabic language daily Sada said in a report from Yemen.
It said the rare request by Ayyash came amidst soaring wedding expenses and dowries (money paid by grooms to their brides under Islamic law) in Yemen.
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