WTF? "Go to bed married, wake up divorced" A must read

[johnnie]

"NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A Muslim couple in India has been told by local Islamic leaders they must separate after the husband "divorced" his wife in his sleep, the Press Trust of India reported.

Sohela Ansari told friends that her husband Aftab had uttered the word "talaq," or divorce, three times in his sleep, according to the report published in newspapers Monday.

When local Islamic leaders got to hear, they said Aftab's words constituted a divorce under an Islamic procedure known as "triple talaq." The couple, married for 11 years with three children, were told they had to split.

The religious leaders ruled that if the couple wanted to remarry they would have to wait at least 100 days. Sohela would also have to spend a night with another man and be divorced by him in turn."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060327/od_nm/india_religion_dc


That must really suck.

[LostinVA]

1. Per Muslim scholars, this is against Muslim law

They are still legally married.

[liontamer]

2. that's crap

muslim law doesn't really count that as a divorce. I'm willing to bet that Sohela Ansari is an attractive, but uneducated woman and at least one of the "religious leaders" has the hots for her.