Posted on 10/13/2017 2:42:25 AM PDT by Cronos
Tunisia has abolished a decades-old ban on Muslim women marrying non-Muslims as the president seeks to secure equal rights for the country's female population.
"Congratulations to the women of Tunisia for the enshrinement of the right to the freedom to choose one's spouse," presidency spokeswoman Saida Garrach wrote on Facebook on Thursday
...Until now a non-Muslim man who wished to marry a Muslim Tunisian woman had to convert to Islam and submit a certificate of his conversion as proof while a Muslim Tunisian man is allowed to marry a non-Muslim woman
..Tunisia is viewed as being ahead of most Arab countries on women's rights, but there is still discrimination, particularly in matters of inheritance.
Daughters are entitled to only half the inheritance given to sons.
Mainstream Muslim clerics almost universally see the inheritance rules as enshrined in the Quran, Islam's holy book, and consider the rules on marriage to be equally unquestionable in Islamic law.
The country's leading imams and theologians have issued a statement denouncing the president's proposals as a "flagrant violation of the precepts" of Islam.
...The first president of independent Tunisia, Habib Bourguiba, championed a landmark social code in 1956 that set a standard for the region by banning polygamy and granting new rights to women unheard of in the Arab world at the time. But even he didn't dare push for equal inheritance.
(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...
A previous case of a Muslim country flagrantly chalanging the rules of Mohammad got over thrown: Iran. Hope they have enough sexurity and political power to weather a backlash that will be coming from isis or a crazy imam.
Women of islam are deficient in both religion and intelligence. Why in blue blazes do they raise boys?!?!
I don’t care if a muslim woman looked exactly like a Vargas pinup girl from dec 1944 (my favorite) i would never marry a muslim.
However....i hear their is hope with hypnosis to remove any vestige of Islam.
Me thinks the non-muslim inlaws should be very afraid.
Dumb idea to marry one. The brother, father, uncle or cousins will kill you.
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