Sharia law has sneaked in through the back door of France’s High Court in a judgement that allowed a Muslim man to annul his marriage because his wife lacked certain “essential qualities” - namely that she was not “pure” (i.e. a virgin).
… his wife had previously affirmed to him that she was pure, an essential value for him, however the man discovered the evening of their wedding, on July 8, 2006, that she was not and had announced it to his close relations at 4 in the morning.
The father of the husband brought the young woman back to her his parents, considering his family “dishonoured”, according to the account published in a legal review and quoted by the daily newspaper, Libération.
The husband, an engineer of about thirty years, had decided the following day to separate from his wife …
This is the first time in living memory that French law has been used to annul a marriage on these grounds. The law itself was crafted in order to allow people to annul their marriages if their spouses had lied about their nationality, their criminal records, or if they had previously been divorced.
The French political class is in arms over this:
Jacques Myard member of UMP (right) expressed “his indignation to this shocking decision that validates an archaic integrism” the PS (socialist party) denounced an scandalous judgement which goes is undermines woman rights”
Women’s rights group, ‘No Whores, No Submission” said that this decision was a regression and they expressed sadness that in France virginity could be considered an “essential quality” of a woman.
There’s nothing on this in the English-speaking press, but you can read the rest here (in French)
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