And for some reason B. Hussein Urkel thinks the despot who controls the pit of Saudi Arabia deserves to be bowed to. But then again, for some reason I don’t think Islamic misogyny much bothers Urkel. Just ask Hillary, or Ferraro or Palin.
RIYADH (Reuters) – A Saudi man has divorced his wife by text message, a newspaper said Thursday.
The man was in Iraq when he sent the SMS informing her she was no longer his spouse. He followed up with a telephone call to two of his relatives, the daily Arab News reported.
A court in the Red Sea city of Jeddah finalized the split — the first known divorce in Saudi Arabia by text message — after summoning the two relatives to check they had received word of the husband’s intention, the paper said.
Saudi Arabia practices a strict form of Islamic Sharia law, and clerics preside over Sharia courts as judges. Under the law a man can divorce his wife by saying “I divorce you” three times.
The Saudi man was in Iraq to participate in “what he described as ‘jihad’,” according to the Arab News. Many Saudis have gone to fight with al Qaeda militants against the Iraqi government and U.S. forces.
Hey, maybe next time the American president meets up with Abdullah, he can just dispatch all the pretense and bring along a pair of kneepads.
Oh, here’s another little piece of news from Our Friends the Saudis and their continued efforts to subjugate and disappear women from public life.
I wonder what would happen if Michelle Obama visted Saudi Arabia with bare arms?
What’s really sad is these husbands can then “return” the wife and their children to her parents home, where they may or may not be accepted back. At least in some countries like Bahrain, where they have a fledgling parliament, women have begun protesting for Family Courts, separate from Sharia Courts. Wish them luck.