I think this is the happy couple.
Posted on 06/25/2006 8:50:57 AM PDT by Alouette
June 25, 2006 -- A Brooklyn anesthesiologist callously ditched his wife and three kids, leaving them homeless after he secretly sold their house and fled the country with all their money, the wife alleges. Dr. Raihan Chowdhury was deemed a fugitive Wednesday for ignoring repeated court orders to provide for his hapless family.
His wife, Sharmin Sultana, who gave up her career as a gynecologist to become a full-time mom, is now broke and staying at a women's shelter with the couple's two daughters and toddler son.
All while her husband lives in luxury in his native Bangladesh, possibly having remarried without getting a divorce here, according to her divorce documents and her lawyer's statements in Brooklyn Family Court.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Major problem areas that need to be addressed include the following:
* Family laws pertaining to marriage and divorce that reinforce the image of relationships based on a hierarchy with the rights of the husband superceding those of the wife and that prevent women from being in control of their lives.
* Violence against women which occurs in the home, community, and as a consequence of warfare which is claimed by some to be allowed by Islam when it is not.
* Abuse of certain Islamic practices that affect women negatively, such as polygamy and temporary marriage, when applied out of context and without abiding by Islamic restrictions.
* Excluding women from religious activities such as attendance in the mosque which has clearly been established as the Muslim woman's right.
* Failure to promote the importance of a woman's contribution to society beyond child-bearing.
* Failure to enable women to take advantage of rights of property ownership and inheritance outlined by Islam.
* Focusing on the behavior of women as a marker for morality in society and subjecting them to harassment, intimidation or discrimination.
Yeah, in the same sense that a 'negro' had the right to eat in any restaurant he wanted to in 1950.
You posted specifically about Sharia. You have yet to show where Sharia says women cannot own property.
Halleluja and praise the Lord!
I think this is the happy couple.
We have received this open appeal for support from like-minded Muslim organizations and individuals around the globe to protest the recent passing of the Islamic Family Law (Federal Territories) (Amendment) Bill 2005 by the Malaysian Senate.
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The five clauses of the Bill that were objected to were:
1. Making polygamy easier by amending the existing condition of “just and necessary” to “just or necessary”.
2. Increasing the husband’s power to divorce by extending fasakh - judicial order for dissolution of marriage - to the husband as well. The provision for fasakh previously granted women 12 grounds for divorce. The amendment to this is discriminatory because the husband still retains his unilateral right to divorce (talak) anywhere, anytime without reason, and even through sms.
3. Enabling husbands to prevent the disposition of property by a wife or former wife, in order to protect the husband or former husband’s financial claims on the woman’s property. This amendment, already adopted in Johor state, has led to our first case of a husband obtaining a court order to freeze the bank accounts of his wife in order to claim matrimonial property.
4. Removing the husband’s responsibility of maintenance in cases of polygamy or divorce. A new section forces the wife of her polygamous husband to choose, as alternatives, either to apply for order of maintenance or to apply for order of division on joint matrimonial property (harta sepencarian).
5. Enabling the husband to claim harta sepencarian from his wife or existing wives, in cases of polygamy or divorce.
Despite this, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Abdullah Md Zin, has declared the Bill “perfect” and “without comparison among all countries in the world”. (Berita Harian, Wednesday, 28 December 2005.)
Perfect, without comparison (ie the best) among all countries in the world
"Scumbag" is right. As my mother says, it takes two to make a marriage, but one can break it. This man has broken their marriage.
Worse, he could have taken her home to one of the Muslim countries where she had no rights as a person at all because she is a woman.
While I believe in one marriage for life, she's better off rid of him in the long run and her daughters should never marry a man who believes he has the right to marry more than one woman.
It makes sense for the State to treat husband and wife as one person in community property, but I believe that most of these laws were written to avoid this exact abuse.
That has been a matter of considerable debate for years.
Is that Sharia you are quoting from? I think not.
She ought to update her license, and get to work and forget about the well, whatever he is.
Comment:
She will not be able to work as a doctor until she is licensed which would take her at least 4 to 7 years.
Read my post at 139.
In America, if he remarried before getting a legal divorce, he'd end up in jail and she sure would get the house (with the mortgage) and the kids (and the costs of raising them). But he couldn't earn that much for alimony while in jail.
(BTW, there's no alimony in Texas. But there is community property, which can include assets such as the benefits of education earned while married.)
Months, see post 139 years.
In order to disposition property, you have to own it. This directly opposes your statement that women cannot own property under Sharia.
"Good Grief! Wasn't the home in both their names? "
Maybe it's a cultural thing.
Ah. OK, Leme google for you.
Oh come on, he went with well over a million dollars.
You're right. I was just being foolish.
Likely realized an American (Feminist) divorce would have destroyed him, so he took his money and bolted.
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