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November 13, 2006
Indonesia: Law Student Claims Divorce Possible Via Email
I don't think this is what our naive politicians meant by the "modernization of the Islamic world": Divorce Under Sharia Via Email is Okay
Jakarta, 13 Nov. (AKI) - Divorcing by email is possible under Islamic law or Sharia, according to an Indonesian researcher. Said Fierza Luthfyana, a law student at the Ubaya University in the country's second-largest city Surabaya, was quoted by Indoneisan news agency Antara as saying that a man can send an email to an attorney or a friend stating he wants to divorce his wife and simply ask the person he has chosen to read it to his spouse in front of a Sharia tribunal for the deed to be done.Under Sharia, a man has to tell his wife he wants to divorce her in person, Luthfyana noted.
For this reason, according to the researcher, "the husband needs to send the email to someone else and not directly to his wife. He can send it to a friend, a family member or anyone he trusts."[...]
Note: Yes, I understand that this is just a "law researcher" stating his opinion. But the original injustice of Islamic Law, in which a man may divorce a woman just by saying "Talaq" (I divorce thee), is bad enough as it is.
Posted by Ruy Diaz at November 13, 2006 1:52 PM
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