Emirates Today: "Superdaad!"

I get it: his name is Daad. Emirates Today is a strangely coded site. I can't even figure out how to come up with a URL that points to this article alone.

A one-legged father-of-78 is preparing for his next two marriages as he closes in on his target of having 100 children by 2015.

UAE national Daad Mohammed Murad Abdul Rahman, 60, has already had 15 brides, though he divorces wives to make way for new ones in order to stay within the legal limit of four. His youngest child, Tariq, is 20 days old and his oldest, Ayoob, is 36. And he has more babies on the way from two of his three current wives.

Daad Mohammed lost a leg in a road accident and plans to have an artificial limb fitted in Jaipur in India – and while there he hopes to find one of his new brides. One more has already been lined up in Baluchistan, Pakistan.

“In 2015 I will be 68 years old and will have 100 children,” he said. “After that I will stop marrying. I have to have at least three more marriages to hit the century.[...]

It's good to uphold family values . . .

Tags: UAE, fatherhood