Maryland Supreme Court Rejects Saying “I divorce thee” three times As A Legal Muslim Divorce
I bet this warms your heart Bon Bon! MM has more
Saying “I divorce thee” three times, as men in Muslim countries have been able to do for centuries when leaving their wives, is not enough if you’re a resident of Maryland, the state’s highest court ruled yesterday.
Yesterday, the Court of Appeals rejected a Pakistani man’s argument that his invocation of the Islamic talaq, under which a marriage is dissolved simply by the husband’s say-so, allowed him to part with his wife of more than 20 years and deny her a share of his $2 million estate.
The justices affirmed a lower court’s decision overturning a divorce decree obtained in Pakistan by Irfan Aleem, a World Bank economist who moved from London to Maryland with his wife, Farah Aleem, in 1985.Both of their children were born in the United States.
In 2003, Aleem’s wife filed for divorce in Montgomery County Circuit Court.
When he filed a counterclaim, he did not object to the court’s jurisdiction over the case, according to the ruling. But before the legal process could be completed – and without telling his wife – Aleem went to the Pakistani Embassy in Washington and invoked the talaq, in effect attempting to turn jurisdiction of the case over to a Pakistani court that later granted him a divorce.
When they were married in Karachi in 1980, Farah Aleem was 18 and had just graduated from high school. Irfan Aleem was 29, a doctoral candidate at Oxford University in England. As is customary, the couple signed a marriage contract. It obligated Aleem to give his wife the equivalent of $2,500 in the event of their divorce. When they split, he did so, and claimed he owed her nothing more.
$2500 on a $2 million estate? She will get closer to half of his net worth plus he will pay her court costs. Welcome to America!
May 8, 2008 - 05:24 PM on May 8th, 2008
Oh Lord! This shouldn’t have even gone to the court. Imagine if an activist judge had gotten the case. Sharia law folks, it’s coming to a state near you.
What got me was one particular blogger who commented. He was from India and wrote that nothing but being a muslim matters. Not american law and not God. Yup, I don’t need to be told twice.
May 8, 2008 - 11:07 PM on May 8th, 2008
There are places where they are pushing Sharia law for “their community”. If someone had told 20 years ago this would even be talked about I would have called them crazy.
We live in a time of craziness.
May 9, 2008 - 03:05 AM on May 9th, 2008
What Muslims don’t like – new feature by Michelle
Michelle Malkin presents a new feature on her blog – listing things that Muslims don’t like. For example, we have the subject of bikinis, one of the things they dislike, and look at what’s happened recently in Birmingham in England:
May 9, 2008 - 07:01 AM on May 9th, 2008
I think what most americans don’t understand, or take the time to educate themselves on, is that majority rules. This one fundamental fact is what the muslim world is going to exploit within our borders in the coming years.
We already have small enclaves of muslim majorities and a U.S. Senator who refused to swear on the Bible.
Now, a few years ago everyone was pointing fingers and shouting ‘why didn’t they connect the dots.’ Well here are the dots being connected and no one wants to listen.
What has happened to our great country?
May 9, 2008 - 07:02 AM on May 9th, 2008
All the wacko’s have to do is wait until Jan, if Osama Ben Obama wins(God forbid) then the Demonic-crats win control both houses and the White House. Off the rational minded Supreme Court justices, replace with anti-Christian Islamic judges, try the new divorce law again, while banning Christians from any sort of protest. Grave stone for USA can read, Born: July 4 1776 Died: Jan 2009
May 9, 2008 - 08:52 AM on May 9th, 2008
That means they will have to go through hiring a lawyer for it all
May 11, 2008 - 07:06 PM on May 11th, 2008
Yes libbie basher is dead on the money, sad to say the USA Is already in the Grave no matter who become the next so called President with mass amnesty we will see 300,000 million inside the USA Within 20 years all from third world counties who have no history in freedom or duty to each other and want only money from the government each day will become a hell for any non third world person.
Obama is evil and hillary wants red china rule here and McCain loves his people the third world people i mean.
Buy Guns, you may call me a fool or a low life but its your world that will end soon. my world end on 5-21-08 and it will be fun after that, you are next.