India’s supreme court may declare unconstitutional a practice that allows men to finish marriages with the triple utterance of the word talaqTalaq,talaq, talaq: for more than a decade Arshiya feared the words like some dark incantation.
When she caught her husband talking online to other women, and he would snarl at her: “If you interfere too much in my life,I’ll give you talaq.” Related: Blue-eyed tea-seller becomes social media sensation in India and Pakistan Related: India's comedian-book superheroine trains her powers on acid attacks The Qur’an nowhere has any mention of triple talaq.
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Source: theguardian.com