A disc jockey hired to spin tunes at a Bedouin wedding in Israel was beaten up for playing Western music.
The DJ initially put on Arabic tunes for the hundreds of guests attending the event in Aroer village in Israel’s Negev desert region.
At one point, he decided to stir things up and put on a song by the British electronic music duo Pet Shop Boys, causing some women to “dance exuberantly to the foreign music”, angering some of the men present.
The DJ was asked to stop and continue playing traditional Arabic music but he refused.
A guest at the wedding said the women dancing, “goes against tradition and is a dishonor to their husbands.”
Several angry young men gave the DJ a “severe beating” after he refused to go back to playing Arabic music. Police later arrested two men over the incident.
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