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Sunday, July 27, 2003

Backward tradition, meet technology 

The BBC reports an entirely unlikely marriage between a very backward tradition, wherein a Muslim man can divorce his wife by saying "Talaq" thrice, and mobile messaging. The Malaysian authorities now allow a man to divorce his wife via SMS.

The government's adviser on religious affairs, the man who counsels Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, said as long as the message was clear and unambiguous it was valid under Islamic Sharia law.