February 07, 2006
SHARIAH 1, SCIENCE 0
A paternity suit that rocked Egypt
ended with the court ruling against the mother,
despite the fact a DNA test confirmed the man was the father.
That's right: the court (Egyptian jurisprudence is based in Islamic law) ruled that since the woman couldn't
provide documentation that the two
had a secret 'urfi' marriage, paternity could not be established, DNA be
damned.
The case pitted Ahmed al-Fishawy, a pious soap opera actor who hosted an advice show for Muslim youth, against Hind el Hinneway, who was both praised & vilified for breaking Egypt's code of silence & refusing to have an abortion.
Hinneway said that she & Fishawy had an urfi marriage, often made with no witnesses & used 1) by people too poor to afford the cost of marriage, & 2) as a cover for affairs. According to Hinneway, Fishawy tore up the paper contract (men usually keep the contract, & can destroy it when convenient). So women in Egypt are stuck between Islam & a hard place. This is not just a matter of semantics:
Under Egyptian law, a birth certificate is needed to get an identity card, which then allows access to services such as school enrollment & children's health services. However, a birth certificate cannot be issued without the father's name.
Serves the tramp right!
Posted by Jeff at February 7, 2006 12:52 AM
Comments
DNA SchmeeNA!
Posted by: Bram at February 7, 2006 04:33 AM
The bitch is obviously a whore, using satanic jewish (is that redundant?) technology to entrap a "pious" Muslim. Anyway, the kid won't need a birth certificate because he isn't going to school. He will be killed and his blood drained away to be used by Jews in Passover observances.
Posted by: Mystery Meat at February 7, 2006 07:36 AM
Sounds like they sat the same members of the OJ and recent Michael Jackson trials as jury members.
Posted by: ken at February 7, 2006 09:55 AM
Sounds like they sat the same members of the OJ and recent Michael Jackson trials as jury members.
Great. At long last, a common cultural thread between Islam and the West.
What really amazes me is that such a viciously misogynistic, woman-hating culture can still reproduce like a bowlful of guppies. Considering their attempts to quarantine the menstruating she-creatures in their midst, you'd expect Islam to have a demographic profile more like P-town or the East Village.
Posted by: utron at February 7, 2006 10:20 AM
Talk about the he-man woman-hating club over there. No doubt there is a link between such a violent society and one that doesn't revere and honor its women.
Posted by: Martin at Blogbat at February 7, 2006 03:58 PM
Why'd you change "bitch" to "tramp?"
Posted by: Josh at February 7, 2006 07:28 PM
That is just wrong to try and use science to slanderize the name of a pious soap star.
Let me repeat that. A pious soap star. Nuff said.
Do men only get to hold the paper contracts on the double secret urfi marriages?
Posted by: KJ at February 7, 2006 08:03 PM