India's Parliament Votes to Outlaw Muslim Instant Divorce

[TomSea]

India's Parliament Votes to Outlaw Muslim Instant Divorce
Reuters

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's parliament approved a bill on Tuesday outlawing the centuries-old right of a Muslim man to instantly divorce his wife, drawing accusations of government interference in a community matter.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist administration has been pushing to criminalize "triple talaq", under which a man can divorce by uttering the word "talaq", meaning divorce in Arabic, three times in his wife's presence.

Following Tuesday's upper house vote it now only requires the signature of the president - considered a formality - to become law.

Read more at: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2019-07-30/indias-parliament-votes-to-outlaw-muslim-instant-divorce

A quirk of the religion, no more in India.

Deepti Sachdeva दीप्ति सचदेवा
@DeeptiSachdeva_
NDA has delivered a BIG victory for crores of Muslim Women

#TripleTalaqBill passed in #RajyaSabha with 99 votes in its favour!

#BREAKING

https://twitter.com/DeeptiSachdeva_/status/1156193675149549569

Must mean "for scores of ...."

[Sanguine]

Interesting.

[sneakypete]

And the actual underground war to install Islam as Master of the Univers begins in India.

[Smokin Joe]

A quirk of the religion, no more in India.

Must mean "for scores of ...."

Actually, a "Crore" is ten million.