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Divorce Made Simple - In Malaysia
« on: Jul 28^th, 2003, 10:20am »

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Beep beep: You've got a message ... and a divorce
Sat Jul 26, 4:15 AM ET

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian Muslim men can divorce their wives through text messages on mobile telephones, the New Straits Times daily reports, quoting a religious adviser to the government.

Hamid Othman, adviser to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, said divorce via SMS or short messaging service was in accordance with sharia law if it was clear and unambiguous.

"SMS is just another form of writing," the daily on Saturday quoted Hamid as saying, following an Islamic court decision on Thursday that ruled in favour of a man who served divorce on his wife using SMS.

Islamic law permits a man to divorce his wife by declaring "I divorce you" three times.

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« Reply #1 on: Jul 28^th, 2003, 8:35pm »

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Eh?! I thought this wasn't permitted. The women groups here will throw a fit!!

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« Reply #2 on: Jul 29^th, 2003, 11:39am »

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well that's good to hear SKR.

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« Reply #3 on: Jul 30^th, 2003, 4:18am »

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The local papers did a poll on this and everybody disagreed.

From what i understand, this was a one off case, the guy did this because his wife was holed up in her parents house and wouldn't come out. He couldn't say it to her personally. He sent her via SMS an ultimatum to see him or he would divorce her and she didn't come out.

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yeah that makes sense...this is why I don't watch the news...they just love making everything more than it actually is. Now meanwhile Malaysia just got branded as a country where the men can just divorce their wives this way... geesh...

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CYBERJAYA, Malaysia (AFP) - A row over a Malaysian court ruling that Muslim men can divorce their wives via SMS through their mobile phones has outraged women's groups and puzzled the prime minister.

Mahathir Mohamad, who has positioned his country to take advantage of the hi-tech information revolution, said Tuesday he did not like the idea of divorce by the popular short messaging system (SMS).

"Nowadays we can even divorce our wife by sending messages," he said when launching Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson (news - web sites)'s 21 million dollar regional expertise hub in Malaysia's special Multimedia Super Corridor development zone here.

"I am not so keen on that but they say it is perfectly legal, perfectly Islamic. I think that if people want to divorce their wife, they should resort to a much more personal approach than that," he said.

"We hope of course that instead of sending messages, you should look at the beautiful wife that you're going to divorce... maybe she would cry a bit and you would change your mind."

Women's groups have had stronger words for the decision last week by an Islamic Sharia court that a man's pronouncement of divorce via SMS to his wife was valid.

Women's Aid Organisation director Ivy Josiah said the method was "distant, cowardly, undignified and rude".

A Muslim man can end his marriage by telling his wife "I divorce you" three times.

Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi later Tuesday directed the Islamic advancement department to verify the method of SMS divorce.

"I can understand why the women are very worried. There's possibility of being duped through SMS," he was quoted as saying by Bernama news agency.

"There may be fraud because a short service message can be sent by anyone. (We) don't face (them) so we don't know, so the doubt arises. It's alright with a letter because there's a signature."

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