Text messaging divorces soon to be illegal

[uppityperson]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2014741509_apastajikistansmsdivorce.html

Tajik Muslims to ban text message divorces


DUSHANBE, Tajikistan —
Tajik religious authorities say divorce by text message will soon be banned, as they seek to stamp out the practice in the mainly Muslim Central Asian nation.

State religious affairs committee head Abdurakhim Kholikov said Monday that sending SMSs with the "triple talaq," a Muslim ritual whereby a husband can end a marriage by reciting the term for divorce three times, breaches Islamic law.

Divorce by text message has become common in Tajikistan, particularly among migrant laborers living abroad.

Households in impoverished Tajikistan depend heavily on cash remittances and divorce usually dooms wives to deep penury.

[Drale]

1. I don't know if making illegal will do anything

but its defiantly a classless move, and pretty much screams to everyone that your a asshat.

[Shagbark Hickory]

2. Kinda makes you wondering what impoverished people are doing with mobile phones, dudnit? nt

[DJ13]

3. Phones and service is cheap everywhere but here in the US

Just like broadband is faster and less than half the price outside the US.

Aint under regulated capitalism great?

[yourout]

4. Tough break for Newt.