In this day and age, no Muslim needs the advice of the nearby mosque's imam, the internet is enough to answer any question he may have. But in Pakistan we have the Council of Islamic Ideology that is composed of men who have mindsets of people who lived in the Stone Age. I have written elsewhere that clerics like them should migrate to an island where there are no women.
The latest blow to women's rights by these bigots is astounding. They have never accepted the fact that Muslim men should take permission from their existing wives before taking other wives. After all, the only thing most Pakistani Muslim men know about Islam is that they can have four wives and they can divorce by simply pronouncing "talak" three times. The 1961 Family Law bequeathed to us by Ayub Khan stipulates that a man cannot take another wife unless his first wife agrees. But this is anathema to most moulvis. So, when the apex court ruled that a woman has the right to divorce if her husband takes another wife without her permission, these bigots (Council of Islamic Ideology) were incensed. They say that the Supreme Court's decision is against Islam and Sharia. This is just the kind of thing that gives Islam a bad name. Next thing you know, they will say that a woman who asks for a divorce should immediately be killed.
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