Posted on 11/30/2010 11:37:17 AM PST by nickcarraway
A Saudi wife who got fed up with her husband and wanted to get divorced from him simply picked his mobile phone without his knowledge, typed the words “you are divorced” and texted them to her phone.
She then went straight to court to get an official endorsement of the divorce, producing the text as evidence that her husband has divorced her.
But the judge in the western port of Jeddah appeared clever enough to suspect the woman when the thought why the husband should send a divorce to his wife by mobile when he can simply throw the words in her face.
So he summoned the husband and asked him if he had texted the divorce words to his wife’s mobile after showing him the message on her phone.
“The husband denied sending such a message so the judge was convinced that the woman used her husband’s phone to send that text,” the Saudi online Arabic language daily Kabar reported on Tuesday.
“The judge then refused to approve her request for a divorce after he was told by the husband that the couple was still living together…he ordered the woman to return home and did not sentence her in a bid to maintain family stability.”
Kabar described the judge as a “clever person who succeeded in outwitting the woman and avoided taking a hasty verdict.”
Under Islam, a man can divorce his wife by just saying the words “you are divorced.” A wife is forbidden to do so.
Is there any marital property rights?
/johnny
Yep. The wife is the husbands property.
I thought that there was a pretty strong motivation for husbands to avoid those words. Maybe someone here knows.
Is this really the mark of great genius, calling the husband in before granting a divorce based solely on the wife's phone texts?
You're right, but shame on us. We say it is illegal and immoral for one human being to own another if you call it slavery. If you call it a marriage, it's ok. If you sell your daughter to another Muslim, that's ok too.
Our country should put the Muslim world on notice that we consider this another form of slavery, and do whatever we have to do to try to bring them into the twenty-first century.
A Saudi wife who got fed up with her husband and wanted to get divorced from him simply picked his mobile phone without his knowledge, typed the words “you are divorced” and texted them to her phone.She then went straight to court to get an official endorsement of the divorce, producing the text as evidence that her husband has divorced her.
But the judge in the western port of Jeddah appeared clever enough to suspect the woman when the thought why the husband should send a divorce to his wife by mobile when he can simply throw the words in her face.
So he summoned the husband and asked him if he had texted the divorce words to his wife’s mobile after showing him the message on her phone.
“The husband denied sending such a message so the judge was convinced that the woman used her husband’s phone to send that text,” the Saudi online Arabic language daily Kabar reported on Tuesday.
And if he'd said this to her, and later denied it, the judge would've given the woman's story more credence???
If there's no dog poop on the woman's shoes, this lawsuit's gonna be a snooze.
Some system of jurisprudence they have there. Many says it —judge believes it.
If that’s all it takes to obtain a legally binding divorce under Islam, then Islamic marriages should not be recognized by the US government (unless we are also going to permit legally binding Islamic divorces).
The US should not recognize Islamic marriages to child brides either nor polygamous relationships.
According to the tenets of that odious political philosophy they call a religion it's not possible to do any such thing.
All we can do is try to protect ourselves from their poison infecting our society. I'm afraid it's too late for that though.
Gosh, I have no idea why anyone would want to profile these people...
Good thing the judge didn’t get the wife’s phone, which had a message from Brett Favre on it.
I doubt that applies to places like Afghanistan or Pakistan. But I bet it would in Dubai.
Islam is Lord of the Flies.
Baby steps. The ninth would be a step in the right direction.
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