Sexual slur leads to family fight

Emirati brothers say argument started because the sisters had 'bewitched' their ill mother into allowing a 'strange' man into her home to read Quran.

DUBAI // Two women were beaten up after they accused their two brothers of being homosexual, Dubai Court of Misdemeanours has heard.

Prosecutors charged Emiratis A S, 35, and L S, 38, with insulting their brothers, E S, 41, and A A S, 39, in the presence of other people by telling them they were homosexuals.

The brothers then beat up the two women and were subsequently charged with assault.

A A S said he was angry at his sisters for arranging for a man to come to the house to treat his ill mother without the presence of any of the family men.

“They had called this man to come and read Quran with my mother and do other things to help heal her from being bewitched,” he said.

A A S confessed that he had assaulted A S but only after she had said that he was not a man.

E S said that he received a call from his brother telling him about a man at the house so he headed there and then the argument began. He denied assaulting his sisters.

The sisters said in records that their ill mother had asked them to bring a religious man to read the Quran and help to heal her.

The women denied all charges while the brothers confessed and said they were trying to discipline their sisters. The next hearing is on October 28.