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Man Accidentally Divorces Wife in Sleep
By Associated Press


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NEW DELHI - Village elders ordered a Muslim man in eastern India to leave his wife after he accidentally divorced her in his sleep, a news report said Tuesday.


Aftab Ansari uttered the Urdu word for divorce, "talaq," three times in his sleep, prompting his worried wife to discuss the matter with her friends, according to the Press Trust of India news agency.


Under Islamic law, a husband need only say "I divorce you" three times to secure a permanent end to his marriage.


Muslim leaders in the couple's village in West Bengal state found out and decreed that Ansari's unconscious utterances constituted a divorce, PTI reported.


But 30-year-old Ansari said he had no intention of leaving his wife of 11 years.


"I have not given talaq. When I uttered talaq three times I had taken medicines to help me sleep," he was quoted as saying in the report.


The religious leaders said that before remarrying, the couple would have to be apart for at least 100 days and that the wife, Sohela, would also have to spend a night with another man and then be divorced by him.


PTI reported that the couple has been ostracized because of their refusal to abide by the decision of the village leaders.



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Wow...that is totally insane!  Especially the part about 'requiring' the wife to sleep with another man????  Where's the sense in that?

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WTH?? 

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It bothers me that a man can legally end his marriage simply by saying "I divorce you" three times.  It's sickening.  As is the "remedy" of having to spend the night with another man and then be divorced from him. 

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Ha, I thought it was going to be another Ambien story . 

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I heard this on the news the other day. It is crazy. I don't understand if they both don't want to get a divorce then why should they.

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theotherjess wrote:

Ha, I thought it was going to be another Ambien story . 

I did too!!!


detroit, where do you find all these crazy news stories?



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It's just insane because it's not the rules of our group. But I'll bet some common practices here could look pretty funny if you think about it - like, I don't know, not to rile feathers, but um, we all know OJ did it, right? And then he cheated on cable, and beat up somebody's mazda with a golf club (or something like that), and he can still play in celebrity golf tournaments....

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Dizzy wrote:

It's just insane because it's not the rules of our group. But I'll bet some common practices here could look pretty funny if you think about it - like, I don't know, not to rile feathers, but um, we all know OJ did it, right? And then he cheated on cable, and beat up somebody's mazda with a golf club (or something like that), and he can still play in celebrity golf tournaments....
i agree, i actually don't think this story sounds too ridiculous.  It is hard to question other culture's laws- there is never a fair basis of comparison.  I feel bad for that couple for being ostracized, though.

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