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Stuff Muslims Don’t Like: #2 Due process for wives

By Michelle Malkin • May 8, 2008 03:15 PM

Time for another installment of Stuff Muslims Don’t Like.

#2: Due process for wives.

In Malaysia, Islamic Sharia law allows men to divorce their wives with a triple talaq text message.

Coming to the US?

Well, here’s a small dose of sanity–surprising, I know–from Maryland’s Supreme Court, which refused to recognize Islamic divorce. Yes, you can resist sharia creep:

Saying “I divorce thee” three times, as men in Muslim countries have been able to do for centuries when leaving their wives, is not enough if you’re a resident of Maryland, the state’s highest court ruled yesterday.

Yesterday, the Court of Appeals rejected a Pakistani man’s argument that his invocation of the Islamic talaq, under which a marriage is dissolved simply by the husband’s say-so, allowed him to part with his wife of more than 20 years and deny her a share of his $2 million estate.

The justices affirmed a lower court’s decision overturning a divorce decree obtained in Pakistan by Irfan Aleem, a World Bank economist who moved from London to Maryland with his wife, Farah Aleem, in 1985.

Both of their children were born in the United States.

In 2003, Aleem’s wife filed for divorce in Montgomery County Circuit Court.

When he filed a counterclaim, he did not object to the court’s jurisdiction over the case, according to the ruling. But before the legal process could be completed – and without telling his wife – Aleem went to the Pakistani Embassy in Washington and invoked the talaq, in effect attempting to turn jurisdiction of the case over to a Pakistani court that later granted him a divorce.

When they were married in Karachi in 1980, Farah Aleem was 18 and had just graduated from high school. Irfan Aleem was 29, a doctoral candidate at Oxford University in England. As is customary, the couple signed a marriage contract. It obligated Aleem to give his wife the equivalent of $2,500 in the event of their divorce. When they split, he did so, and claimed he owed her nothing more.

Maryland’s highest court disagreed.

“If we were to affirm the use of talaq, controlled as it is by the husband, a wife, a resident of this state, would never be able to consummate a divorce action filed by her in which she seeks a division of marital property,” the judges wrote in their decision.

They said the talaq “directly deprives the wife of the due process she is entitled to when she initiates divorce litigation.”

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#316075

On May 9th, 2008 at 4:42 am, scottthong said:

That triple talaq BBC link is five years old.

But sadly, this Malaysian (me) reports that sms divorce is still legally binding in Malaysia.

Man divorces two wives in three mins via sms (Malaysian papers, 2008)
#316084

On May 9th, 2008 at 5:38 am, Avi Green said:

Here’s something to add to the list of what Muslims don’t like – recognition of the Armenian Holocaust in 1915. And speaking of which, pay very careful attention to this article from the JTA website: As told here during last October:

Turkey blames Jews for genocide bill.

ISTANBUL (JTA) — When a U.S. congressional committee approved a resolution recognizing the World War I-era massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as genocide, Turkey’s reaction was swift and harsh: Blame the Jews.

So there you have it, another problem with Muslims, primarily Turkish ones, that you can add to the list of what Muslims don’t like.
#316163

On May 9th, 2008 at 8:59 am, Misscheryl said:

Send_Me said:
False analogy. Muslim doctrine supports these particular concepts of divorce, whereas Christian doctrine does not support polygamy, much less statutory rape.
A doctrine should be judged on its own merits, not on the merits of its followers.

That is exactly the point I made on the earlier thread re: what Muslims don’t like.
#316181

On May 9th, 2008 at 9:18 am, undrseige247 said:

jroberts said:

just that the history of conflicts between secularization and religion suggests that that approach won’t accomplish much if it’s too adversarial.

This is funny as hell.
#316192

On May 9th, 2008 at 9:24 am, Misscheryl said:

Aremenian here! No, Muslim Turks do not like Christian Armenians…
#316194

On May 9th, 2008 at 9:24 am, Misscheryl said:

Dang it! “Armenian” I hate it when I rush and emotion takes over…lol
#316214

On May 9th, 2008 at 9:42 am, sambo said:

muslims dont like…responsibility
#316251

On May 9th, 2008 at 10:06 am, ThatSamIAm said:

Another example of the joke that is the islamic religion, a.k.a. the religion of tyrants, murderers, child abusers, wife abusers and the religion of perpetual outrage. This guy will probably kill her now and claim it is god’s will.
#316487

On May 9th, 2008 at 12:40 pm, Mohawk said:

A muslim women getting her day in court!

What an outrage!

j/k

Good for her.

I think once the women of this so called religion wake up there will be no more islam!
#316497

On May 9th, 2008 at 12:47 pm, Connie said:

Michelle, you can add this to your list.

Deoband declares birthdays un-Islamic

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