Curiosity killed the cat...and teh==he marriage

[Whickerman]

http://messageboards.sky.com/ThreadView.aspx?T hreadId=16236

A woman is divorcing her husband of 30 years, not for looking at another woman, but for looking at her...

Seems after 30 years he wanted to know what she looked like, lifted her veil whilst she slept, and she caught him. They have kids by the way...

So - what's the rights and wrongs here? She obviously has a right to her modesty, but should a spouse be expected to never know what the other even looks like?


Just by the way - this guy seems to share my opinion.
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/i an-odoherty/get-your-face-out-for-the-lads-138 0581.html

[naomi24]

That's incredible! I don't know about the rights and wrongs of modesty in such relationships, but how can that possibly be? Does she tie the veil in a knot around her neck to stop it moving during the night just in case he wakes up while she's sleeping? And since it seems they have children, one wonders how he's managed to avoid seeing other bits and pieces - or perhaps it's only the face that counts.

[Octavius]

This is an old story from last year. It seems to be a tradition in certain Gulf states, but not Islam itself.

I suppose you could blame the fool for agreeing to marry a woman he has never/nor never wil set eyes on in his life and then breaking that rule.

Its a funny old world.