Malaysia permits text message divorce

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Forwarded from: Stany Vardomskiy <stany () NotBSD org>

Comment: There are plenty of web based SMS gateways that ask one for
the originating and the receiving phone number (Check your local GSM
provider's web page), or e-mail to SMS gateways (and we all know how
to spoof e-mail From: header, right?).  Sadly, as the SMS message is
unauthenticated (and likely more complex things then a web based
gateway can be done by a disgruntled technican of a wireless service
provider) it can cause confusion at the very least.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3100143.stm

Getting a quickie divorce has taken on a whole new meaning in Malaysia
after it was decided that a man can divorce his wife with a text
message.

The government's adviser on religious affairs, the man who counsels
Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, said as long as the
message was clear and unambiguous it was valid under Islamic Sharia
law.

"SMS is just another form of writing," Dr Abdul Hamid Othman was
quoted by the New Straits Times daily newspaper as saying.

The decision follows a Malaysian court's ruling on Thursday in favour
of a man who served divorce on his wife via a text message.

Sharia judge Mohamad Fauzi Ismail declared that the divorce
declaration was valid and that as such the marriage between the
plaintiff Azida Fazlina Abdul Latif and defendant Shamsudin Latif was
annulled, the Utusan Malaysia newspaper reported.

Mr Shamsudin was said to have sent Ms Azida a text message saying: "If
you do not leave your parents' house, you'll be divorced".

Although such a notification of divorce may seem astonishingly brief
to some, under Islamic law men are allowed to divorce their wives
simply be saying the word 'talaq' - I divorce you - three times.


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//Stany
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