Malaysia permits text message divorce
Posted by cabletron2000 on 28 July 2003 - 19:29 · 3 comments & 590 views
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#1 Posted by WeeJames on 28 Jul 2003 - 20:17
- ... and yet some people see it as wrong if I try to dump a girlfriend by sms
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#2 Posted by Tom Servo on 28 Jul 2003 - 23:02
- Ooooooooooooooooookay...
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#3 Posted by XP-RTM on 28 Jul 2003 - 23:16
- are you sure you want to divorce your wife?
*=yes # no
*...
transaction done
you are free now, lol
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.