Temporary ‘enjoyment marriages’ back in Iraq

Washington Post Via MSNBC ^ | 20 Jan 2007 | Nancy Trejos

[expatpat]

Uhmmm.......interesting......

[MidlandDesperado]

They use to call them cowboy weddings.


Till dawn do us part.

[mbennett203]

"Hyello, my name-a Borat! I come here for what local peoples call "temporary marriage!" Is-a very nice! For only four American dollar, you can by quality woman for sexy time fun in Iraq country! Wawaweewa! I visit at least 67 time a year, even stop eating for week or two to afford! I like!"

Heh.

[caseinpoint]

Actually, this was one of the things that pushed Bin Ladin to his extremism. His dad believed in rent-a-wives. Osama was among 51 kids or so. No one knew how many "wives" senior Bin Ladin had as he had the habit of "marrying" someone in the morning and divorcing her that night.

Of course, he could afford several wives and lots of kids and they were often well cared for but Senior also had a habit of marrying off his ex-wives to workers of his, sometimes high-level execs, sometimes the former limo driver. Osama and his mama were foisted off on a senior executive but most of the kids weren't treated so well. Although Osama believed in polygamy, he never initiated a divorce, apparently.

All this is according to the book, The Looming Towers. What might have been if Bin Ladin Senior had honored the marriage covenant?

[sageb1]

"I have a single co-worker that spends a lot of time in Brazil. He told me that he doesn't pay women for sex...he pays them to leave after sex."

I'll bet there are a lot of mirrors in his house.

[CodeMasterPhilzar]

Doesn't sound too different from the way a lot of marriages are handled today, here. Oh wait, we're forgetting the part where about 1/3 of the couple's savings are spent an lawyers, and then the rest is divided up between the two.

Cast in that light, doesn't sound like a bad arrangement.

[The_Reader_David]

The ease of divorce in Islam is actually the corrupt and corrupting thing here. A mutaa is at least honest to the woman: she knows it's not going to last.

It is a Shi'ite institution, and, despite the lunatics currently running Iran, Shia has usually been the more civil and civilized branch of the false creed. Doubtless some imam or mullah way back when noted that women were getting screwed in the metaphorical sense (the literal sense being obvious) by men who married them with the intent of divorcing them after a short time, and decided to make the whole thing more honest.

[gobucks]

"What might have been if Bin Ladin Senior had honored the marriage covenant?"

Ahhh....sweet music, so rarely heard.

[The Old Hoosier]

We've brought back this sort of traditional Iraqi activity and we've also helped all the Christians in Iraq find new homelands in other places.

I'm so glad we liberated Iraq.

[Kitten Festival]

Another doggone fatherless household, basically. Just like south central LA. Makes sense to me.

[NRA1995]

This is news??? Haven't Britney Spears and Madonna been doing this for years?