Posted on 06/02/2007 3:52:24 PM PDT by ASC2006
Iran's interior minister has faced criticism from women activists after advocating the practice of temporary marriage as a way to meet the needs of young people in the Islamic state, which bans extramarital sex.
"Is it possible that Islam is indifferent to a 15-year-old youth into whom God has put lust?" newspapers quoted Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi, who is also a cleric, as telling a religious seminar this week.
Temporary marriage, or sigha, is an agreement between a man and a women to get married for a specified time, even for just a few days. It has long been practised by Shi'ite Muslims, who are dominant in Iran, even though it is unclear how common it is.
The Ham Mihan daily quoted a receptionist at a hotel in Tehran as saying it accepted couples with documents showing they were temporarily married and that it had about 100 such guests per week. "Our clients are young men with older women," he said.
Both Sunni and Shi'ite scholars agree that the Prophet Mohammad did at certain times allow it. But Sunni scholars say the Prophet later banned it. Most Shi'ites say he didn't.
"In this kind of marriage there is no force, therefore we can not say it is violating women's rights," one Iranian cleric, Hojjatoleslam Ahmad Ghabel, told Sharq.
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Does this qualify for Moral Absolutes?
We already have that here in America.....or did you notice....
It is very common in the holy city Qom where all the young men go to mullah school...Islamic seminary
In the West that is known as "Spring Break".
Liberalism on parade in a different culture. It is a mental illness there too.
Musta been “true love” (snicker).
Everything in Islam is a con job. Get married for a few days til the itch subsides since you can't have sex outside of marriage. Charge interest, but call it rent, since you can't charge interest.
Con jobs. Period.
The prophet made up a lot of stuff so he could justify his own sin. It was written down and declared as 'holy''. His lackeys also said that anything that emanated from the prophet was pure. So it was okay to drink his urine.
The blindness that it takes to believe this abomination is unfathomable.
Younger men with older woman in a hotel? In America we call that something else. Is "sigha" Arabic for "John"?
When your Muslim husband divorces you to get a younger wife, and there are very limited opportunities to earn a living in a conventional manner, being a temporary wife to a string of guys is likely to be your only choice
Grade school teachers
“Prophet Mohammad did at certain times allow it.”
I wonder if he also ‘allowed’ pedophilia , since he practiced it himself ?
of all the ‘beliefs’ that humanity has come up with , this one has to be the most whacked...
How long are we going to let in expand on the planet ?
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