Regulation of Muslim marriages needed to protect women
A court in India has called for the establishment of government agencies to “regulate, control and supervise Muslim marriages and divorces” in order that Muslim women may be protected.
The court observed that though polygamy was allowed in the strict sense by Islam, there was no system in India to supervise or control such indiscreet marriage and divorce.
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The court said there was no system in the country to ascertain and decide whether a person was eligible to contract more than one marriage during the subsistence of the first marriage. Men in the community enjoyed unrestricted freedom to marry women of their choice and pronounce talaq according to their whims and fancies. In fact, most of such marriages were illegal since they were against Koranic injunctions.
A secular Indian court says that most polygamous marriages by Muslims are not allowed by the Quran. Some imams might consider that rather presumptuous.
In related news, Britain’s highest court has labelled Islamic Sharia law “arbitrary and discriminatory” and incompatible with legislation guaranteeing equal rights for women.
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