BARTERNG WIVES: THE UNWRITTEN ISLAMIC LAW
This should be read as part of the earlier abstract an eye for an eye: everyone is blind.This report says that a Turkish villager, Mehmet Yaksi, who ran away with his friend's wife, has offered his
wife in exchange.
Farm labourer Cengiz Esme aged 36 years, said Gulhan, his wife aged 18 years, disappeared a month ago after leaving their village to go shopping in the southern Turkish town of Tarsus; and his
friend telephoned him the next day and said, I have
run off with your wife, you take my wife. It is one
thing to run off with a friend's wife.
It is quite another thing to offer one's own wife in exchange. The issue highlights the
status of
women in Islamic societies, as a chattel. Where is the right of women to decide about their own status?
The good Samaritan Esme has pleaded for his wife to return, saying that he is ready to forgive and make a fresh start elsewhere.Yaksi's wife, mother of three children has reportedly not commented on the grand
exchange programme.
Readers have to wait and watch what will happen Gulhan if she returns. Strange are the ways of the human world.
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