The Ismaili bride: "If we traveled to France or America, the Saidi would prefer the Saidi."

An Ismaili bride revealed the truth about what happened on their wedding day after their story stirred public opinion in Egypt, where a videotape showed the husband's assault on his wife in the street after she left the beauty center on the day of the wedding.

And the Seventh Day website quoted the groom, Abdullah Ahmed, 26, as saying that he was "shocked by the people's reaction on social media," and continued: "We have this issue as normal, and she is also my cousin before my wife is."

While the bride, Maha Muhammad, 24, replied: "I love Abdullah and I am not forced into a passport...I was intolerant of the make-up artist and all people before the problem, which caused a quarrel with my groom to develop."

The groom repeatedly defended Al-Saeedi's qualities, saying: "If we traveled to France or America, the Saidi would prefer the Saidi."

The groom said that they have been living a love story for 13 years, pointing out that they are cousins ​​and "were brought up together, and any Egyptian or Upper Egyptian house has the issue of tension and attraction, all of Egypt knows the situation of the Sa'idah."

The story began with the circulation of a video clip showing a groom from the city of Ismailia beating his bride in front of a women’s beauty center, on Sultan Hussein Street in front of passers-by and taking punches and slaps at her without regard to any moral or family considerations, and the video became a trend circulated by the pioneers of social networking sites, amid condemnation the groom.

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