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MUSLIM HALALA MARRIAGES!

On April 5th, an article entitled: "The Women who sleep with a stranger to save their Marriage" appeared on the front page of the BBC web site, and was listed as the top story in the 'Most Popular' section (see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/u...)

By Thursday morning, 5 hours later, it had been taken off of the front page of the web site, and de-listed from the 'Most Popular' section, for good reason. It was an expose on the Halala Marriages which are practiced only in the Muslim community here in the UK.

It seems that some Muslims must have threatened BBC, or someone else in authority realized just how damaging this article would be to the Muslim community, so they buried it quickly. One has to type in the full title to find it now.

A Halala marriage takes place when a Muslim husband says 'I divorce you' three times to his wife (Popularly known as a 'Triple Talaq'). But in order to get her back, he cannot do so, until she first goes and marries another man, has sex with that man, who then divorces her, whereupon she can then return to her first husband.

Because many Muslim men accidentally divorce their wives when they didn't really intend to, a system has been worked out here in the UK, where women (for a price, usually between £1000 and £2,500), can go to their local mosque, where often the Imam (or another designated male) will go into a side room reserved for that purpose, and have sex with the woman, and then divorce the woman, so that she can then return to her previous husband immediately. These 'temporary' marriages are known as 'Halala Marriages'.

What is not known by many Muslims here in the UK is that this practice is found in the Qur'an itself, in Sura 2:230! That is where this practice originated.

Beth Grove, who has done her Master's Degree in Women in Islam, and Jay Smith, who has a PhD on Islam, take this article on Halala Marriages, and unpack it for the crowd at Speaker's Corner.

Watch as the Muslims in the crowd are aghast that such a practice even exists today within Muslim communities. One man (Yahya), standing at the foot of the ladder, immediately says that these marriages are now illegal in Islam (though he was not aware that he was reflecting a very late, 20th century belief, taken from Ibn Mawdudi, who doesn't agree with the earliest exegesis of this verse found in al Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, and others).

A young Westernized Muslim girl who heard what was going on was so incensed by what Beth and Jay were saying that she considered their talk 'hateful' and 'divisive', though she was not aware that this practice was in the Qur'an itself.

Too often odd practices like these which are found in Muslim communities can be traced to the Qur'an itself, and this is why Jay and Beth are introducing them here at Speaker's Corner (one of the only places on earth where they have the freedom to do so); yet, choosing not to simply give their opinions on them, but to find where they can be sourced in "The Book and the Man" (i.e. the Qur'an and Muhammad's example).

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