Tunisia lifts ban on Muslim women marrying non-Muslims

[Singularity]

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/0...154657961.html


NEWSTUNISIA14 HOURS AGO
Tunisia lifts ban on Muslim women marrying non-Muslims
President's initiative secures Tunisian women's right to choose spouse despite opposition from mainstream Muslim clerics
Tunisia is viewed as being ahead of most Arab countries on women's rights [Fethi Belaid/AFP]
Tunisia has abolished a decades-old ban on Muslim women marrying non-Muslims as the president seeks to secure equal rights for the country's female population.


"Congratulations to the women of Tunisia for the enshrinement of the right to the freedom to choose one's spouse," presidency spokeswoman Saida Garrach wrote on Facebook on Thursday.


The announcement came a month after President Beji Caid Essebsi called for the government to lift the ban dating back to 1973, arguing that existing practice violates Tunisia's constitution, adopted in 2014 in the wake of the Arab Spring revolution.




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He created a commission, led by a female lawyer and rights activists, aimed at drafting revised rules.


Until now a non-Muslim man who wished to marry a Muslim Tunisian woman had to convert to Islam and submit a certificate of his conversion as proof while a Muslim Tunisian man is allowed to marry a non-Muslim woman.


Human rights groups in the North African country had campaigned for the ban's abolition, saying it undermined the fundamental human right to choose a spouse.


Inheritance inequality


Tunisia is viewed as being ahead of most Arab countries on women's rights, but there is still discrimination, particularly in matters of inheritance.


Daughters are entitled to only half the inheritance given to sons.


Mainstream Muslim clerics almost universally see the inheritance rules as enshrined in the Quran, Islam's holy book, and consider the rules on marriage to be equally unquestionable in Islamic law.


The country's leading imams and theologians have issued a statement denouncing the president's proposals as a "flagrant violation of the precepts" of Islam.


Some worry that such changes could stir up anger in a country that has already suffered deadly attacks.


The first president of independent Tunisia, Habib Bourguiba, championed a landmark social code in 1956 that set a standard for the region by banning polygamy and granting new rights to women unheard of in the Arab world at the time. But even he didn't dare push for equal inheritance.

[AabiruSabeel]

What can be said of people who choose misguidance and falsehood over the truth, fire over paradise, and sell their hereafter for this world?

And do not marry Al-Mushrikat (idolatresses, etc.) till they believe (worship Allah Alone). And indeed a slave woman who believes is better than a (free) Mushrikah (idolatress, etc.), even though she pleases you. And give not (your daughters) in marriage to Al-Mushrikun till they believe (in Allah Alone) and verily, a believing slave is better than a (free) Mushrik (idolater, etc.), even though he pleases you. Those (Al-Mushrikun) invite you to the Fire, but Allah invites (you) to Paradise and Forgiveness by His Leave, and makes His Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) clear to mankind that they may remember. [2:221]

[talibilm]

Such so called Muslim countries betraying islam in various levels . sorrowful plight for the Muslim ummah.

[Serinity]

May Allah enlighten the Muslims, men and women, as to not listen to leaders that go against Islam.

No Muslim woman would marry a non muslim just because a man allowed it. When Allah, our Lord, disallowed it. Who is your Lord, The man, or Allah??

I question these leaders Imaan, do they not know or what? I doubt it.

Even then, the marriage would be void, and it'd be an illegal relationship. This calls for education in deen, you can not trust any leader on your Deen when they do stuff like this.
se..
I wonder why none has established Shariah 100%, gradually, of course. And no, we are NOT out to kill every kafir. >_<

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[happymuslim]

The men are required to spend on the women while the women are not obliged to spend on them, that's how it's suppose to be islamically, so it makes sense that women get half the inheritance since the men are suppose to spend on the women anyways.

" girl: pushes for men and women equality

Guy: splits the bill

Girl: [emoji15][emoji34] "

They call for the equal treatment of men and women but then they give special rights for women then all of a sudden the men are like "how is this equal"?

For example if a guy fights a girl, he's a women beater, but how is this equality if it's not an equal fight.

This is a paradox, this " gender equality", the right thing would be gender equity where each gender is treated to there means, characteristics and what's required of there gender.

[Insaanah]

Tunisia has abolished a decades-old ban on Muslim women marrying non-Muslims as the president seeks to secure equal rights for the country's female population.

"Congratulations to the women of Tunisia for the enshrinement of the right to the freedom to choose one's spouse," presidency spokeswoman Saida Garrach wrote on Facebook on Thursday.

There are boundaries between genders in many countries, believe it or not. But most non-Muslim countries have now relegated these intergender restrictions so that they only apply in situations that involve interactions between healthcare professionals and patients, teachers and pupils, police officers and victims of crime, social workers and the people they care for etc. They apply to only what is viewed as positions of responsibility. In Islam, every person has responsibility, as an individual. We can view these aforementioned regulations as mentioned in the second sentence as being very downstream of a river. Islam's regulations are upstream, so that they are more preventative of personal and social and spiritual harm. They act at an earlier stage, and have a wider umbrella, and thus are more robust.

Should a doctor say it's my right to express attraction to my patient? Or a teacher? These would be viewed as unacceptable and would end up with the professional hauled up in front of a disciplinary committee, and maybe even struck off, and such cases have happened with such consequences. When viewed in that context (and even without), Islam's forbiddance of certain relations (eg Muslim women marrying non-Muslim men, Muslim men marrying polytheists and atheists, etc), is not odd at all, nor are they a restriction, but a protection. This is not a thing to celebrate, nor have any "rights" been won. It is just another cog in the sad degradation of society, by those who follow their desires, and it is their desires, rather than Allah, that dictates everything they do, in the name of "freedom". "Have you seen the one who takes as his god his own desire? Then would you be responsible for him?" (Qur'an 25:43)

[سيف الله]

Salaam

Globalists strike again, their trying to destroy the Islamic fabric of the society, and what better way to do it by polluting the society with feminism.

[happymuslim]

I fear liberalism, feminism and immorality poisoning whatever left we have of proper Islamic code. These ideologies have infected some of the minds of our ummah [emoji17].

[happymuslim]

There are boundaries between genders in many countries, believe it or not. But most non-Muslim countries have now relegated these intergender restrictions so that they only apply in situations that involve interactions between healthcare professionals and patients, teachers and pupils, police officers and victims of crime, social workers and the people they care for etc. They apply to only what is viewed as positions of responsibility. In Islam, every person has responsibility, as an individual. We can view these aforementioned regulations as mentioned in the second sentence as being very downstream of a river. Islam's regulations are upstream, so that they are more preventative of personal and social and spiritual harm. They act at an earlier stage, and have a wider umbrella, and thus are more robust.

Should a doctor say it's my right to express attraction to my patient? Or a teacher? These would be viewed as unacceptable and would end up with the professional hauled up in front of a disciplinary committee, and maybe even struck off, and such cases have happened with such consequences. When viewed in that context (and even without), Islam's forbiddance of certain relations (eg Muslim women marrying non-Muslim men, Muslim men marrying polytheists and atheists, relationships without or extra to marriage, same gender relationships etc), is not odd at all, nor are they a restriction, but a protection. This is not a thing to celebrate, nor have any "rights" been won. It is just another cog in the sad degradation of society, by those who follow their desires, and it is their desires, rather than Allah, that dictates everything they do, in the name of "freedom". "Have you seen the one who takes as his god his own desire? Then would you be responsible for him?" (Qur'an 25:43)

[emoji1430][emoji1490][emoji1430][emoji1490] well said

[M.I.A.]

Ironically.. the religion did not come to a people who were perfect.

They were mostly pagan's

Even the israelites were pagans during the time of moses pbuh.

All praise is due to allah swt.

You could say that the quran is more relevant than ever..

Lol unfortunately most of us are probably not very convincing in conveying it.

..although i met a guy today that used to live in tenerife..

He told me about the "lifestyle" and how he has for the past several years done dawah with jamat..

With the intention of purifying his heart.

I work unreasonable hours so i hope i have time in the future.. to get back on track.