Posted on 08/22/2017 11:12:33 AM PDT by nickcarraway
India’s top court on Tuesday banned a controversial Islamic practice that allows men to divorce their wives instantly, ending a long tradition that many Muslim women had fiercely opposed.
The Supreme Court ruled that the practice of "triple talaq", whereby Muslim men can divorce their wives by reciting the word talaq (divorce) three times, was both unconstitutional and un-Islamic.
Victims including Shayara Bano, whose husband used triple talaq to divorce her by letter in 2015, had approached India’s highest court to ask for a ruling. A panel of five judges from India’s major faiths -- Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism and Zoroastrianism -- said triple talaq was "not integral to religious practice and violates constitutional morality".
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It’s like the old Steve Martin joke.
I bet it will be declared legal in the UK and Germany before too long
Yes, but without the dog poop on their shoes
*slam is unconstitutional, because it mandates the death of non-believers.
Although there are many millions of Muslims in India, that country has over a billion people, and Muslims are outnumbered by 6-1 by the Kafirs, so this type of a legal decision can be made against Islam. -Tom
If you needed any more proof that islam is a reprehensible curse of Satan on this earth (that was rhetorical, I’m sure you don’t, but anyway):
“The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), a grouping of Islamic organizations, had opposed any efforts to ban triple talaq.”
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