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: Dispatches from the Culture Wars

Maryland Court Rejects Muslim Divorce

By Ed Brayton

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Maryland's highest court has rejected a talaq divorce performed by a Muslim man in order to prevent his wife from getting anything in their divorce under state law (see full ruling here). Under Islamic law, a man can divorce his wife merely by saying "I divorce you" three times. In this case, the man, Irfan Aleem, a World Bank economist, went to the Pakistani embassy and signed a piece of paper saying that so they would immediately grant him an official divorce and he would not have to split up read more

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Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 08, 2008 (boomark / email).

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