The Thomas Chronicles

This happened in my hometown of Houston, Texas. Apparently, some Islamic group called the Book of Signs Foundation is distributing Islamic Korans on the doormats and doorknobs of people’s homes.

So far, the group claims to have disseminated 30,000 Korans throughout Houston and some Houstonians are none to happy about it.

One resident said, “If we went into a Muslim country and left a Bible, we would be in prison and then decapitated a few years later.”

The Foxnews reported that these Korans were “targeting neighborhoods believed to be most receptive of the Quran or in need of a better understanding of Islam.”

“In need of better understanding“?

Perhaps the Muslim group, Book of Signs Foundation, has a somewhat limited understanding of Texans.

I know many Houstonians take an indifferent or a dim view of Mormons riding around their bikes with black slacks and black ties while distributing their Book of Mormons.

With this in mind, I don’t think they would take well to the distribution of a book that calls on every Muslim to kill infidels, Jews or else make them submit to Islam.

Maybe I’m off here but I think that was a tremendous waste of paper.

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.