Oh, dear! That was a bit silly then wasn't it?

**chaggle** · 29th October 2010, 04:11 PM

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...ke-stands.html

Jokingly typed 'talak, talak, talak' (I divorce thee, I divorce thee, I divorce thee) to my wife on Skype chat. I don't understand Islam very much and did not know about how talaq works. We love each other very much and want to be together but right now [we are] caught in this thing. Want to know a way out," he wrote.
His hopes of a "way out" were dashed when the seminary issued a fatwa confirming his wife must first remarry another man, consummate the marriage, and then divorce him before she could be allowed to remarry her first husband.

The ruling means it the couple will have to wait at least six months to remarry and bear the strain of the wife remarrying, having sex with another man, and divorcing again.

**DrS** · 29th October 2010, 05:52 PM

what I don't understand, given that they claim to love each other and want to be together, is how it got beyond a private Skype conversation in the first place!