May 08 2008
Divorce chant
I hadn’t heard about this curiosity in Islamic law until I browsed Michelle Malkin’s blog today.
Apparently, back in 2003, Malaysia’s courts decided that a divorce was valid if the husband text messaged his wife three simple sentences:
I divorce you.
I divorce you.
I divorce you.
Thank goodness our courts didn’t go the same route.
Saying “I divorce thee” three times, as men in Muslim countries have been able to do for centuries when leaving their wives, is not enough if you’re a resident of Maryland, the state’s highest court ruled yesterday.
Yesterday, the Court of Appeals rejected a Pakistani man’s argument that his invocation of the Islamic talaq, under which a marriage is dissolved simply by the husband’s say-so, allowed him to part with his wife of more than 20 years and deny her a share of his $2 million estate.
It would be an understatement to call that the process of divorce in Muslim countries childish. It’s like some four year old closing his eyes and saying, “Abracadabra” three times and a magical bike would appear.
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Michelle Malkin presents a new feature on her blog - listing things that Muslims don’t like. For example, we have the subject of bikinis, one of the things they dislike, and look at what’s happened recently in Birmingham in England:…
What Muslims don’t like - new feature by Michelle…
Michelle Malkin presents a new feature on her blog - listing things that Muslims don’t like. For example, we have the subject of bikinis, one of the things they dislike, and look at what’s happened recently in Birmingham in England:…