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India: Muslim clerics sleep with divorced women so they can return to their husbands under Islamic law

Aug 17, 2017 10:21 am By Robert Spencer

“This is lust. It’s not permissible in Islam. This is a criminal offence committed in the name of religion,” said Maulana Maqsood-ul-Hasan Qasmi, the head of the Imam Council of India. “These people should be thrown out of the mosques. They should be booked.”

The problem with that is that this practice is Islamic. Allah’s regulations for divorce emphasize regarding women that “men have a degree over them” (Qur’an 2:228). This may be why men can divorce their wives simply by saying, “Talaq” — You are divorced — but women may not do this. Such an easy procedure leads to divorces in a fit of pique, followed by reconciliation — and the Qur’an anticipates this and attempts to head it off by stipulating that a husband who divorces his wife three times cannot reconcile with her until she marries another man and is in turn divorced by him: “And if he has divorced her [for the third time], then she is not lawful to him afterward until she marries a husband other than him” (Qur’an 2:230). This has given rise to the phenomenon of “temporary husbands,” who marry and divorce thrice-divorced women at the behest of Islamic clerics even in our own day, so that these poor women can then return to their original husbands.

“Exposed: How maulvis take money for one-night stand with divorced women trying to save marriage,” by Sushant Pathak and Jamshed Adil Khan, India Today, August 16, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

As awful as that may sound, a number of religious scholars are offering themselves up for one-night stands with divorced Muslim women trying to save their marriages under a disputable Islamic law, an India Today investigation has found.

They charge anywhere between Rs 20,000 and Rs 1.5 lakh to participate in nikah halala, a controversial practice that requires a woman to marry someone else, sleep with him and get a divorce again in order to be able to remarry her first husband under personal laws, the probe discovered.

India Today’s investigative team has blown the lid off the taboo tradition that has remained largely unnoticed amid intense debates over triple talaq on the media and in the country’s top court.

The probe found many Islamic scholars putting themselves up on sale for women desperate to restore their broken marriages.

At a restaurant in Ghaziabad, the undercover team first met Mohammed Nadeem, an imam at Madina Masjid in Moradabad’s Lal Bagh neighbourhood.

MARRIED CLERICS READY FOR ONE-NIGHT STAND

The cleric, the investigation found, was already married. Still, he negotiated his role-play as a husband for a night with India Today’s reporters posing as relatives of a divorced Muslim woman.

“Will your wife object to it?” asked India Today’s reporter.

“No, no. She won’t have any objection,” imam Nadeem replied.

“Have you spoken with her?” prodded the reporter.

“No, I haven’t spoken with her. I haven’t told her. What’s the need to tell her?” Nadeem shot back.

The Moradabad imam admitted he had officiated several nikah halala marriages before. This time, he proposed a package deal for the entire service, including sex.

“It’s Rs 1 lakh,” he demanded. Imam Nadeem guaranteed issuing divorce after spending a night with the bride for her to become eligible to go back to her first husband in accordance with the personal law.

The business of one-night grooms is widespread, the India Today investigation observed.

DELHI

At Delhi’s Jamia Nagar, the team met Zubair Qasmi, a qualified maulana married with two wives. He nominated himself up for a third at the prospect of nikah halala, in exchange for money.

“I spend many nights out. It’s much easier to manage this with two (wives). One would think I am with the second. And the second would think I am with the other. It’s not at all difficult with two (wives),” he bragged.

Zubair Qasim based his fee on mehr – money or gift the groom pledges to his bride during Islamic marriages.

“Don’t worry about anything. I’ll make every arrangement. If Rs 30,000 is set as mehr, it will be either 40,000 or 50,000 (in return for participation in nikah halala). No problem in it,” Qasim said.

The rot runs deep.

Next, India Today’s investigative journalists visited Mohammad Mustaquim of Delhi’s Darul Uloom Mahmoodia Madrasa.

Educated in Islamic studies, he was keen to do what he had done several times before — sleeping with divorced women to consummate nikah halala.

“There was a woman in the room. I went there and had sex. Before leaving at 2-3 am, I divorced her,” he confessed….

“This is lust. It’s not permissible in Islam. This is a criminal offence committed in the name of religion,” said Maulana Maqsood-ul-Hasan Qasmi, the head of the Imam Council of India. “These people should be thrown out of the mosques. They should be booked.”

Zafar Sareshwala, chancellor of the Maulana Azad National Urdu university, blamed personal laws for certain regressive practices in Islam.

“These people should be put in jail and charged with rape,” he said, demanding strong action against men participating in nikah halala for one-night stands. “I think the genesis of the problem lies in the Shariat Act of 1937,” he insisted. Authors of the personal laws, he added, had been “millions of miles away” from the teachings of Islam.

Maulana Ansar Raza of the Gharib Nawaz Foundation called for immediate ex-communication of religious scholars offering themselves for nikah halala. “They should be beaten with shoes and thrown out of mosques. They should be charged with rape. Nikah halala is a regressive un-Islamic practice,” he said. “I salute India Today for this story.”

In his comments, BJP spokesman Gaurav Bhatia, himself a lawyer, underscored the need for abolishing nikah halala like the sati practice in Hinduism. “Nikah halala and polygamy, as triple talaq are regressive. Sati is abolished. So should be these practices,” he said. “India Today’s expose will help the civilised society to come forward for human rights and dignity.”

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  1. mortimer says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 10:27 am

    The stench of this sort of chicanery will not be lost on Muslim women. This sort of NORMATIVE ISLAMIC practice will cause many decent Muslim women (and men) to reconsider their commitment to Islam.

    I understand that some Muslims have left Islam as soon as they understood this procedure. When Muslim couples have separated and wish to reconcile without seriously hurting their spouse in this way, they have no choice but to ignore the Koranic law on reconciliation (to commit adultery before reconciliation) or to out and out abandon Islam altogether.

    • t. says

      Aug 17, 2017 at 3:22 pm

      It’s very ignorant that this article depicts the problem as if it is limited to India’s Muslims!

      It’s a well known Islamic sharia law and practiced in all Muslim countries, wherever Muslims are honestly following their religion’s teachings. For example over 35 years ago, a film and later, by few years, a theater play, were performed by a famous Egyptian star actor about this Islamic practice, mainly having a “muhallil” to help return the wife to her original husband, after this later threw the word “talaq”, i.e. divorced, on his wife three times.

      In other words having another man to fuck your wife when you want to reconcile with her after you said “talaq”, three times!

    • Andy says

      Aug 18, 2017 at 9:28 am

      India Has the Most People Living in Modern Slavery
      More than 18 million people, or 1.4% of India’s population, live in slavery”Incredible India” Home to Modern Slavery

      https://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2016/06/02/india-has-the-most-people-living-in-modern-slavery/

  2. James says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 10:28 am

    There seems to be some difference as to whether this practice is Islamic or not. One must hope it does not spread.

    • Victoria says

      Aug 17, 2017 at 2:31 pm

      It is a fact that divorced Muslim spouses may not remarry each other under Islamic law unless the woman first marries another man and has sexual intercourse with him — a non-consummated marriage doesn’t count–and the new husband then divorces her. After a three-month waiting period following the divorce, she is allowed to remarry another man. The only dispute is whether it is lawful for a Muslim woman to purposely undertake an interim marriage as a step toward remarrying her prior spouse. (The kicker, of course, is that she has to trust her new spouse to divorce her; under Islamic law, women cannot divorce their husbands so if the “interim” husband decides the sex is too good to give up, her interim step becomes permanent.)

  3. mariam rove says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 10:34 am

    Looks like Tinder is not going to be doing good business there! M

  4. Jaladhi says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 10:36 am

    Muslims device ways to satisfy their lust and rape women under the garb of religion. Do they have even a iota of brain/intelligence to understand that allah is a fake god invented by Mohammad to justify all his criminal actions and Muslims just follow like rats following pied piper!

    • afrostreetwise says

      Aug 18, 2017 at 8:52 am

      I am absolutely certain most of them do but the perks that come with being a muslim man are to good to give up.

  5. Laura Young says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 10:45 am

    For more on the subject, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sblIrvB7qQ, and read https://www.pfander.uk/2017/04/halala-marriage/

  6. RichardL says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 11:33 am

    I must say I like this! The only victims are observant, i.e. brain dead, mohammedans.

    The reason why people get so upset is probably because chimpanzees like the chap in the photo have sex with a human being.

  7. stan lee says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 11:34 am

    Islam is incorporated with “lust.”, and Muslim women are the trade-bait among Muslim men, imams included.
    “Lust” will also justify rape too. Case in point; Muslim migrants obviously have “lust” on their minds, thus
    even as migrants traveling throughout Europe, rape is justified in their minds as rape perpetrators, their targets not necessarily females. Reports of children, including male children in Europe, as rape victims is frequent. When such Muslim rapists of young children are arrested, their reason for raping usually is they had not been able to engage in any sex act regularly,felt deprived, and had to avail themselves of the opportunity using a child of tender years. I think they depend upon the charge of “mental illness” by EU authorities, which apparently requires ineffective counseling..

  8. jewdog says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 12:37 pm

    This would make a great reality show or sitcom. Let me see, you get paid for having sex with talaq’ed wives. Nice work if you can get it.

  9. marina says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 1:00 pm

    Islam is the religion of Lust

  10. Dan says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 1:05 pm

    Just when you freaking think this cult can’t get any more cultier…

  11. moeped says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 1:05 pm

    Does it get much more evil than that? Reminds me of a song: “one of these things, is not like the other, one of these things just doesn’t belong…”

  12. Japetto Donatelli says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 1:29 pm

    Muslim clerics sleep with divorced women…

    What else seems to be true about so many muslims?

    …they kill the “infidel” because allah commands it.
    …they rape our kids and women because their religion condones it.
    …they murder free speech because their bigoted ignorance compels it
    …they abuse women because their culture and koran teaches it.
    …they murder for homosexuality because the koran condemns it.
    …they destroy free thought & creativity because their narrow mindedness fears it.
    …they virulently hate the Jews because muhammad started it.
    …they perpetuate islam’s hateful ignorance because they can’t rise above it.
    …they wage war because the new caliphate requires it.

    It’s painfully obvious to most of us that islam is retarded and devoid of moral good sense. It’s not surprising the left has allied their selves with this paradigm of evil. It contains all the brutal oppression and violence they could ever want or need. It saddens me to see our nation divided over an issue that is so blatantly clear in all its moral details. No, it is not nice to force women to take an inferior and “beatable” role in society and cover themselves. And no, it is not nice to hurt, kill, or discriminate others for a 7th century religious barbarity called islam. You’d think this would be a no-brainer. But amazingly we got important and allegedly smart people defending this demonic cult in the name of religious equality! even though doing so will eventually result in the end of religious equality! and ultimately the destruction of our nation’s freedoms.

    If you’re like me you can spot these f*cking traitors in about 3 seconds. We hear them all over the place, on tv, the bus, at work, yapping about how Trump is a racist and muslims are our friends. But every time I hear that sh*t it’s like someone telling me 1+1=3. We need only consider the multitudes that have been raped and murdered and oppressed for islamic bigotry to have our sense of moral decency aroused. I believe it is permissible and necessary for all of us to employ every non-violent and legal means at our disposal to confront islam’s inherent, genetic disposition for violence and hatred. And anyone that does not agree with me on that point could never truly be a friend of mine. They simply don’t appeal to me as someone I’d want as a friend, they’re simply too dumb and dangerous.

  13. Esperanza Barco Alonso says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 2:49 pm

    Islam is DISGUSTING!!!!!!

  14. RodSerling says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 6:36 pm

    This strange divorce rule in Islam now starts to make perverse sense, given the base motives, corruption, and evil intentions of its authors. The authors of Islam (those who wrote the Qur’an and the tales of “Muhammad” etc.) were making up rules for their own interests. So these Islamic authorities could basically rape divorced females by means of the deception afforded by their preposterous legal ruse. Islam is essentially the dressing up of criminality as piety.

    • somehistory says

      Aug 18, 2017 at 12:26 am

      Get paid to rape.

  15. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 6:56 pm

    How much does this nikah halala (remarriage-sex-divorce) detalaqing service cost a couple who got talaqed in the heat of the moment? It costs “anywhere between Rs 20,000 and Rs 1.5 lakh”, says this article. The word “lakh” means 100,000 (another Indian number, “crore”, means 100 lakh, which is equal to 10 million). Thus the price ranges from 20,000 to 150,000 rupees.
    https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/USDINR:CUR says that 1 US dollar = 64.1525 Indian rupees, so 1 rupee = 1/64.1525 dollar = 0.0155878 dollar, about a cent and a half. Thus the cost of this service is
    20,000 to 150,000 rupees = $311.76 to $2,338.17. That’s quite a range; the highest cost is seven and a half times the lowest cost. This is a business opportunity for discount detalaqers. Maybe an India-wide brand-name franchise detalaqing business can be set up. All we need is a cool brand name and an attention-getting advertising campaign.

  16. sidney penny says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 7:49 pm

    “Maulana Ansar Raza of the Gharib Nawaz Foundation called for immediate ex-communication of religious scholars offering themselves for nikah halala. “They should be beaten with shoes and thrown out of mosques. They should be charged with rape. Nikah halala is a regressive un-Islamic practice,” he said. “I salute India Today for this story.””

    “Nikah halala is a regressive un-Islamic practice,” he said”

    If it is un-Islamic why does not agree to a law banning it?

    Instead of beating them with shoes, throwing them out of mosques or charging them with rape.

  17. Guy Macher says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 9:32 pm

    Muslimas are no smarter than pencil shavings.

  18. somehistory says

    Aug 18, 2017 at 12:24 am

    This news has been circulated among the maggots and they are, one and all, gagging.

    I gag along with them. Puke. Demonic and disgusting.

  19. Peter W says

    Aug 18, 2017 at 3:56 am

    What sort of thinking dreams this stuff up AND writes it down as if it is normal behavior?
    And the politicians think these guys are an asset as immigrants to first world countries.
    Crazy!

  20. Chand says

    Aug 18, 2017 at 5:09 am

    Clerics and Maulvis spend their time spreading mumbo-jumbo and religious nonsense to the vulnerable, ignorant Muslim masses, keeping them trapped in the darkness. They should all be made to do productive labor and physical work to clear their medieval brains.
    Most of these useless human parasites are clothed and fed by grants from rich Muslims, especially the evil Saudi Wahhabis with their huge wealth and inflated egos, believing that their Allah has rewarded them with riches when it was just a geographic lottery that there was oil in the sand, which us greedy humans desperately desired.

    • Pete says

      Aug 18, 2017 at 11:43 am

      Agreed.
      As for oil or gas riches these muslim arabs would not recognize its uses or worth even if they fell into it.
      They’d rather believe it’s from shaitaan or blame the jews for creating the gooey stuff so muslim will fall in and drown themselves.
      Afterall it’s not mentioned in fooking scientific quran or its supportive books.
      It was allahs worst creatures (infidels) who explored, pumped and processed oil for it’s many products

  21. Joe says

    Aug 18, 2017 at 7:59 am

    Some Muslims apparently think that Islam can be reformed. Has Islam ever been reformed? If yes, how did it happen?

    As near as I can tell, reform hasn’t occurred since about 900. So the chance of reform at this point is slim to none.

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