Talk about an age of the impersonal. You might have heard of persons being dumped by their boyfriend or girlfriend via email or text but a Saudi man has divorced his wife by text message, a newspaper said earlier this month.
The man was in Iraq when he sent the message 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. Could you imagine if this was allowed in the US? The courts would be swamped with divorce decrees and the wireless cell providers would probably crash on the first day of the laws inception. What do you think?
Oh you sure know it! I can just see the texts right now. "It's OVER!", "Loved yah but not anymore", "You've been dumped", "NEXT!" just to many to think of... LOL
ReplyDeleteWOW! By text what has the world come to?
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