Arab ambassador calls for divorce after discovering veiled wife has beard and crossed eyes

An Arab ambassador was 'absolutely horrified' when he learned on his wedding night that his wife had a beard and is crossed eyed. He was unable to discover this earlier because she was always covered in a burqa.

Probably a close relative of Joey Khattab's wife.
Daily Mail

An Arab ambassador called for an instant divorce after discovering his veil-wearing fiancée had a beard and was cross-eyed, it emerged today.

The would-be bride had hidden her face behind a Muslim niqab throughout their short courtship, meaning the diplomat had no idea what she looked like.

But as soon as the marriage was contract was signed in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, he tried to kiss her, before coming face-to-face with her hairy face and strange squint.

‘He was absolutely horrified,’ said a wedding guest.

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Saudi woman files for divorce for 'gitmo' nickname

A Saudi woman is filing for divorce after discovering that her husband named her Guantanamo in his cell phone. She was probably torture for the guy. AKI

Dubai, 19 October (AKI) - A Saudi woman wants to divorce her husband after the man stored the wife's name as 'Guantanamo' on his mobile phone. The 30 year-old woman, who had been married for 17 years called her husband on the mobile phone, which he had left at home, and saw the name Guantanamo, after the notorious US prison in Cuba, Saudi daily Al-Watan reported.

The wife, who lives in the Saudi port city of Jeddah, immediately filed for divorce and said her husband is a tyrannical person that she could no longer live with.

The Riyadh-based daily also suggested that the woman might settle for "substantial" financial compensation and stay married to her husband.

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SMS divorces on the rise among Indian muslims

The most barbaric ideology using modern technology to implement its rulings.

Do you have to send three text messages for the divorce to be valid? What if there is a typo or emoticon, would that void the divorce? What existential questions muslims face these days. AKI

New Delhi, 13 Feb. (AKI/Asian Age) - A rights organisation based in India said that divorces through e-mail, text message (SMS) and telephone are on the rise among India's Muslim population.

A study on "Marriage and divorce amongst Muslim women in India", undertaken by Sahiba Hussain, reader, Centre for Dalit and Minorities, Jamia Milia Islamia, highlights that more and more men are divorcing via SMS and e-mail.

Where women do not have access to mobile phones or computers, men use landline phones to pronounce the divorce declaration. "From 15 divorces that we looked at in 2008, eight were pronounced via SMS, e-mail and over the phone," said Husssain.[...]

"One woman was so confused after receiving the SMS that she sought clarification from the qazi, or Islamic judge who, on reading the pronouncement, said that it did amount to a divorce.

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Indonesia: Women prefer divorce to polygamy in Islamic courts

A lot of young girls in Afghanistan prefer to douse themselves with gas and burn themselves to death then to get married to someone who could be their grandfather. AKI

Jakarta, 2 Feb. (AKI) - A growing number of Muslim women are choosing to file for divorce rather than continue in a polygamous marriage, according to data from Islamic courts in Indonesia.

The number of women who cited polygamy as a reason for seeking divorce rose from 813 in 2004 to over 1,000 in 2006, according to Nasaruddin Umar, senior representative of Indonesia's religious affairs ministry.

“There has been a significant increase in divorce because women have been rejecting polygamy in recent years,” he said, quoted by the Indonesian daily, The Jakarta Post.

Umar said he believed the number of divorce cases linked to disputes over polygamous marriages increased again in 2008 and would continue to rise throughout 2009.

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