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.
That seems so harsh to divorce through a text.
A little sad really…
This is just promoting divorce, marriage will soon become so meaningless that either nobody will do it, or everyone will!
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Oh great, that’s what we needed!
Can women do the same or is it just for men?
The world we live in, hey.
Doesn’t really seem to matter if it can be done with a text message or not. Note that all he has to say is “kthxbai!” anyway.
That’s ludicrous.
MALAYSIA PERMITS DIVORCE BY TEXT MESSAGE
Why stop there? They could allow marriage by e-mail. That way its so quick, that if things didn’t work out you haven’t wasted a whole day.