If Salah had a kid, Chantal would have accidentally told us so 100 times by now.
Ppl keep confusing him having a kid, because they came across his Facebook profile, and next to his legal name was written in parentheses ABU OMAR in Arabic, which in Google Translate means FATHER OF OMAR, while the literal meaning is correct, most non-Arabic speakers are unaware of the cultural and contextual reason behind it, In this context, and yes this is very common in the MENA region, Abu (whatever), does not mean the person is an actual father of an actual child.
People can refer to each other as Abu Omar, Abu SALAH, Abu Ahmed, whatever when the person they are referring to is in fact: 1-unmarried, 2-childless, 3-is not engaged, 4-has no plans to have kids anytime soon. These are just terms of endearment people use among friends and each other all the time.
I know it might sound confusing, but it is highly unlikely that Salah has a secret child. Also, notice how his father's name is OMAR, so he is called ABU OMAR, that is actually very common, because it is also customary but not OBLIGATORY that a son will name his first male born after his father, It is also quite frankly, what his own circle of knee jerking friends used to refer to him, so he added it in his FB profile.
There is no way Salah is married, with a kid, with a wife, and is out and about filming YT videos with an obese Canadian Muckbanger with health issues. He might be desperate, but he is not that desperate as to jeopardize his reputation. Once a man is in a fully committed marriage, because let us just be honest, on paper no ARABIC MUSLIM marriage is allowed to be anything but, even if it was actually otherwise, it is taboo for him to be seen fiddling with the likes of Chantal and Kaibella. The only reason Salah does not care, is because he is unmarried & Arabic Islamic culture tends to treat unmarried men as holier than thou, so nothing will happen to him.
mean Farmers joke about Salah knocking up a fertile cousin
Salah will definitely marry a cousin, he comes from a rural village in Syria, his family is on the traditional side. These ppl do not marry outside of family members, because they want to continue their customs/traditions/culture, etc. and because they are simply uninterested in learning about genetics and inbreeding and the risk it entails, which I know already sounds bad enough, but I believe Sasa is a product of such flawed mentality.
The other reason Salah will for sure marry a cousin is because marriages in tribal families of the Middle East, especially in contested areas like Syria, are almost always done for political reasons and alliances, so he might not always marry a first cousin, although that is also permissible by Islam and too normal, but he might still marry a distant cousin which belongs to his tribe. His own parents might even be cousins.
Some traditions exist, because it is safer to stick to what is
"familiar". Such systems always operate on trying to create the least friction possible. Marrying someone outside his clan, means brining an outsider in, someone who might not assimilate well with their family, someone with higher expectations, someone who might cause conflict, etc. So these marriages are almost always minimized or avoided.
This is why he was so adamant on cutie wearing the HEEJAB, it is not because he actually wants her to become his long time partner, it is because he wants to protect his reputation and shield himself from criticism when ppl point out the fact that he shagged up with a 40-year-old obese Canadian, who speaks no ARABIC, and does not care about ISLAM because she's agnostic. Her cosplaying Muslim can, at least, be justified as "I helped her REVERT TO ISLAM and find ALLAH".
But as far as actual marriage, Chantal is incapable of bearing him children, even if he didn't care because he wants to go to CANADA, his family will certainly care, and they cannot be dismissed with fake "I love her" crap, cause that is not what marriage in these circles mean anyway. Although, a part of me thinks that if Cutie was capable of having kids, Salah would have probably impregnated her just cause the child gives him legitimacy over immigrating to Canada, but ALAS.
ETA, Salah is not the smartest shed in the tool and is not the most charismatic, rich, or
HANDZZOMEST man out there, so no one and I mean no one, other than Beauty ofc, will marry him out of anything but sheer obligation,
consideration about being his second wife to his first wife cousin, but if that's what Allah wants —who's Chantal to complain.
