Muslim savages have no problem at all using our other technology: vehicles,
aircraft, weapons, explosives.

B

The juxtaposition fascinates and disturbs.

--S.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110411/ap_on_re_as/as_tajikistan_sms_divorce_1

Tajik Muslims to ban text message divorces


DUSHANBE, Tajikistan - Tajik religious authorities say divorce by text
message will soon be banned, as they seek to stamp out the practice in
the mainly Muslim Central Asian nation.

State religious affairs committee head Abdurakhim Kholikov said Monday
that sending SMSs with the "triple talaq," a Muslim ritual whereby a
husband can end a marriage by reciting the term for divorce three
times, breaches Islamic law.

Divorce by text message has become common in Tajikistan, particularly
among migrant laborers living abroad.

Households in impoverished Tajikistan depend heavily on cash
remittances and divorce usually dooms wives to deep penury.

With many marriages in Tajikistan not documented, performing "talaq"
is usually a mere formality, although Islamic legal scholars have
condemned the practice.




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