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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you feel about the Muslim husband's ability to divorce his wife by saying "I divorce thee" three times. He also gets the kids.

Also, a woman's word is worth 1/2 a man's in court, and she inherits 1/2 as much as her brothers. This is definitely an improvement over pre-Islamic Arabia, however.

These are in the Koran, I believe, and not cultural.[/quote]

Not OP but Another Muslim poster: A man is supposed to take time between saying I divorce three times in order to get a divorce not all at once as many people mistakenly practice and/or suggest it. A woman can initiate divorce proceedings also. A man gets the kids at the age of 7 for boys and at the age of puberty for girls. For boys the man gets them because sons need their fathers to help shape them into being men (not saying women can't do it but just presenting a general idea that typically in the teenage years fathers tend to have a better understanding and control over boys) They get custody of the girls so as to prevent the girls from living in a situation where there can be inappropriate physical contact between the girls and other men either because of molestation or because of attraction (like between step-siblings). Men also technically get custody because it is their obligation to financially provide for the children however this does not mean that a mother is denied custody. There can be joint custody and many other situations that are mutually worked out. I am a product of divorce and lived with my mother until I went to college.

A woman's word is worth 1/2 because the nature of a woman is thought to be compassionate and reasonable then men and so their heart can be more easily appealed to and that is why it takes two women to 1 man so that they can be more rational. In modern and more progressive instances, these days even the word of 1 woman is accepted. Women inherit half as her brothers because no one other than she has a right to her inheritance... not her kids or her husband whereas a man's inheritance his children and wife have a right to share in it. The same goes for income.

DOesn't mean that things are practiced this way or that these hold true for all instances but these are the reasons behind these rulings. 
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Not OP but Another Muslim poster: Also just wanted to add that all these rules regarding testimony and divorce etc are all applicable only in places where true sharia law is practiced. And by that I don't mean the Sharia law that is espoused by political candidates to invoke fear- it means the Islamic way of life as the Prophet achieved with the Muslims in his time. There is no country in the world that currently truly practices Sharia law. Therefore in modern times many of these things seem alien but in a truly Islamic society they would not be. For instance the law of cutting of the hand for a their can't be applied when the ruling government (secular or otherwise) is starving their people and not taking care of them because it's not an Islamic society. 
One of the requirements on a Muslim living in a non-muslim or any country is to abide by the laws of the country. So Muslims in America have to, by Islamic rules and law, follow the rules of America unless there is a law that directly contradicts with an Islamic ruling (which I can't think of) in which case the Sheikh's or the Mufti's would rule on how to handle that situation. [/quote]

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