Tunisia has overturned a law that banned women from marrying non-Muslims.
A spokeswoman for President Beji Caid Essebsi made the announcement and congratulated women on gaining “the freedom to choose one’s spouse…”
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It sets apart Tunisia as the first country in the Middle East and North Africa to remove the legal hurdles to marrying outside the official state religion.
. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41278610
Since I have offered harsh criticism of Tunisia recently…
…it’s only fair that I now offer congratulations on this splendid news coming out of the North African country.
Not only is this a major step out of the Dark Ages for women, but also for men, who hitherto could legally be coerced into apostasy to wed the girl they love!
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Until now, a non-Muslim man who wished to marry a Tunisian Muslim woman had to convert to Islam and submit a certificate of his conversion as proof.
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Any religion should of course be free to excommunicate congregants who defy its rules.
But at the same time, no religion should be exalted to a position of secular power, outrageously enabled to call in the state to enforce sectarian dogma.
We have seen that problem here in Indonesia.
That’s why it’s important to distinguish, when we oppose absurd ideas about allowing men to ‘marry’ men, we do so not on the basis of somebody’s theology, but on the simple, glaringly obvious, fact that ‘gay’ marriage flies in the face of nature.
Tunisia has got a clearer understanding of the concept. Real ‘marriage equality’ means that any female adult not already married should be free to marry any male adult not already married…
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.The country banned polygamy as far back as 1956, setting it apart from other Muslim-majority nations.
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…excluding incestuous relationships, of course, since, like homosexual relationships, they are aberrant.
But Tunisia has a long way to go.
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…women in Tunisia still face discrimination, particularly in matters of inheritance which still prioritises sons over daughters.
Funny, though, that the UN Human Rights Council has not been seen or heard making moves against the many backward nations that maintain such grotesque sexist discriminatory laws.
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I haven’t read that book, but its title makes a lot of sense!
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