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Wife needs one-day marriage after drunken divorce
Reuters ^
| 8/21/06
| Staff
Posted on 08/22/2006 8:43:49 AM PDT by Millee
Islamic clerics in eastern India have ruled that a woman divorced by her husband in a fit of drunkenness can remarry him only after she takes another husband for one day, police said Monday.
Ershad, a rickshaw puller, uttered the word "talaq," or divorce, three times earlier this month while he was drunk, and when news leaked out in their village in eastern Orissa state, the clerics said they must separate.
"The couple had kept it under wraps and continued to stay together but the clerics ruled that since Ershad uttered the word talaq three times, it constituted a divorce," district police chief Shatrughan Parida said over the telephone.
Under the rules, the woman, who is a mother of three, must marry another man and obtain a divorce from him before she can be reunited with Ershad, the clerics in the local mosque said.
The clerics have said the man the woman marries temporarily must be 70 years of age, Parida said.
Muslims, who constitute more than 13 percent of India's mainly Hindu population, are governed by special personal laws including marriage laws. But in many remote rural areas, it is the local clerics who pass diktats on social issues before they reach the courts.
Earlier this year, another Muslim couple in neighboring West Bengal state was told by local religious leaders they must separate after the man uttered "talaq" three times in his sleep. They refused the order and continue to live together.
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Seems logical. /s
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:43:50 AM PDT
by
Millee
To: Millee
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:44:49 AM PDT
by
Toby06
(True conservatives vote based on their values, not for parties.)
To: Millee
"We say I break with thee, I break with thee, I break with thee. Then we throw dog poop on their shoes." SNL, me and my brother Yortuk.
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:45:36 AM PDT
by
Froufrou
To: Millee
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:46:01 AM PDT
by
RubyCosmos
(I once frightened Tony Almeida by dressing as a Hogwarts student.)
To: Millee
Earlier this year, another Muslim couple in neighboring West Bengal state was told by local religious leaders they must separate after the man uttered "talaq" three times in his sleep. They refused the order and continue to live together. LOL!
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:47:43 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: Millee
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:53:22 AM PDT
by
strange1
("Show the enemy harm so he shall not advance" Sun Tzu The Art of War)
To: Millee
What was Britney Spears doing in India?
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:53:42 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(Visit www.greenhelmetguy.com! We'll put a corpse on the rubble for you.)
To: Millee
... the clerics ruled that since Ershad uttered the word talaq three times, it constituted a divorce." Maybe he was talking to their sheep.
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:54:03 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: Froufrou
SNL, me and my brother Yortuk. And your other brother Darrel?
sorry couldn't help it.
To: Millee
LOL--He has Talaq's Syndrome...
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:59:55 AM PDT
by
Mamzelle
To: Millee
They refused the order and continue to live together.
Stone them to death. Once talaq has been uttered three times, that's it.
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posted on
08/22/2006 9:00:24 AM PDT
by
SittinYonder
(Ic þæt gehate, þæt ic heonon nelle fleon fotes trym, ac wille furðor gan,)
To: Millee
You know RULES ARE RULES...unless you call time out, or dead fish on dry land.
Reuters: Friggin-ever dutifully reporting islamic sharia with added historical backdrop and precedent.
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posted on
08/22/2006 9:01:57 AM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: Millee
"...uttered the word "talaq," or divorce, three times..."That's it?! Cool..... Can you mutter it under your breath?
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posted on
08/22/2006 9:03:23 AM PDT
by
Hatteras
To: Millee
Ershad, a rickshaw puller, uttered the word "talaq," or divorce, three times earlier this month while he was drunk, and when news leaked out in their village in eastern Orissa state, the clerics said they must separate.And you thought your job sucked...
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posted on
08/22/2006 9:06:51 AM PDT
by
lesser_satan
(EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
To: Millee
Straight out of the 9th Century.
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posted on
08/22/2006 9:08:10 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
("An empty limousine pulled up and Hillary Clinton got out")
To: Millee
What does she look like without the burqa? There might be a few FReepers who would agree to be her husband for one day (and presumably one night).
To: sully777
Under the rules, the woman, who is a mother of three, must marry another man and obtain a divorce from him before she can be reunited with Ershad, the clerics in the local mosque said.And then Ershad can probably then legally "honor-kill" her for straying. Aaahhhh the religion of pieces.
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posted on
08/22/2006 9:15:00 AM PDT
by
Millee
(A joke then, a joke N.O.W.)
To: Millee
and what if the other man doesn't yell talaq, or what if no one hears him...then she's bound to the new guy.
Still good times /s
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posted on
08/22/2006 9:26:44 AM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: Millee
Let's see...
Talaq, talaq, talaq...
Rickshaw puller...
70-year-old man...
This SMACKS of Danielle Steele! I don't care what anyone says!!!
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posted on
08/22/2006 9:38:58 AM PDT
by
baltodog
(R.I.P. Balto: 2001(?) - 2005)
To: Millee
The clerics have said the man the woman marries temporarily must be 70 years of age, Parida said.So let me guess how old the clerics are.
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posted on
08/22/2006 9:49:39 AM PDT
by
ukie55
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