Monday, May 15, 2017

This is their defence

Was reading the legal discussion on the issue of triple talaq - the defense put out by the All India Muslim Personal Law Board is amazing
"Granting a husband the right to divorce indirectly provides security to the wife. Marriage is a contract in which both parties are not physically equal. Male is stronger and female weaker sex. Man is not dependent on woman for his protection. On the contrary, she needs him for her defence," said the affidavit, adding that triple talaq wards off the possibility of a rise in murders of women whose husbands want to divorce them.
So the act of treating women unequally is valid because Muslim men will resort to even worse things? Seriously? I mean come on!

Full article here