Sharia Says Text 3 Times “I Divorce You” Good Enough - Egypt Court To Rule
CAIRO A woman is seeking clarification from a court on whether her husband’s declaration of divorce by text message is legally valid.
After missing a call from her husband on her mobile phone Iqbal Abul Nasr received a text message from him which read: “I divorce you because you didn’t answer your husband,” it was reported in the state-run daily newspaper al-Akhbar.
In line with Sharia, men do not need to go to court to file for divorce. A unilateral declaration of divorce by a man, repeated three times, formally ends a marriage. It was the third time that Mrs Abul Nasr, an engineer from Cairo, had received such a text message.
If a family court declares the couple divorced, it would be the first reported case of divorce by SMS in Egypt. The practice has been much debated across the Muslim world and some Islamic countries have banned it. According to Egypt’s state-run statistics bureau, a couple files for divorce every six minutes.
Damn, a divorce rate higher than that of L.A.?
(AFP)
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January 5th, 2008 at 6:38 amThis war would be over already.
Egypt—
January 5th, 2008 at 7:07 amIntellectual hotbed of the civilized world.
How about flooding the middle east with exploding cell phones—then one could “reach out and touch someone”
cb10, im loving the exploding cell phone idea..text 3 times and explode
But this is some twisted shit for sure, sending a text message to divorce someone. crazy
January 5th, 2008 at 10:20 amBack in the mid-1970s when comic Steve Martin was hitting it big he put out a comedy album (a what?!?) …
On it he had a bit about breaking up with someone … It went something like you repeat ” ‘I break with you … I break with you … I break with you’ … and then you throw dog poop on her shoes …”
January 5th, 2008 at 3:18 pmThis is why the mental giants in Eqypt are leading the world in…..er…uh….What are they leading the world in again?
January 5th, 2008 at 8:45 pm