The group is advocating the position that giving women the right to initiate unconditional divorce violates Shariah.
I think it’s easy to come in from a Western perspective informed by feminism and mock the men as upended tyrants, but I’m more interested in taking the pressures on the men seriously in forming this group and highlighting that.
In the conservative, male-oriented, Egyptian society divorced men are considered weak as they are ridiculed for not living up to the stereotypical concept of manhood being about control of women.
“Divorced men also face a lot of difficulties upon trying to start a new life. Most of them are rejected when they propose to women as if they are infected with some contagious disease.”
rina 11:13 am on December 9, 2009 Permalink |
wow, thats interesting
especially in egypt
no offence but iv always assumed
especially in such a muslim (masha’Allah) country
that men has their ‘final’ say in everything
so i wouldnt expect women to divorce them. (on any grounds)
this is somewhat interesting because it does corespond with the divorce figures from the west, divorce rates are high, marrige rates low
johnpi 11:18 am on December 9, 2009 Permalink |
Do you have a link for the divorce figures?
Hicham Maged 4:43 am on December 10, 2009 Permalink |
This cited part from the article seems weird for me and wrong. The Khlua (unconditional divorce) cannot occur unless the two sides are aware about due to the legal procedures to be adopt before the wife have khula.
Anyway as much as we have men who treat their wifes bad, the opposite occurs too but as an Egyptian myself, I have not heared about tyrant women a lot; it is probably the men.
johnpi 7:09 am on December 10, 2009 Permalink |
It’s good to get the facts straight. Shukran. The reporter should have checked that.