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Muslim Dating -- Or Not! - Blog Entry

21 Apr 2009 10:27 AM

"...divorce rates in Muslim countries are drastically lower than in the West. " There is more to it than it looks like. For my mother who had to deal her physically and mentally in laws and my uncaring father, divorce simply wasn't an option. A woman in a traditional Muslim country has to fight many social and economic roadblocks to walk out of a bad marriage. First of all, divorce, especially divorce initiated by women are highly stigmatised and biased in the Islamic society. Moreover, the lack of employment or subsistence would have meant my mother having to be dependant on her parents, pushing us into a life of poverty and humiliation. Hence she had to suffer a lot more than the average western woman would have, given the same situation. To put it simply, one can't judge marital bliss by comparing divorce rates.   In any case, which part of the world you consider 'western' to compare with the divorce of Islamic countries? America is not known to be the bastion of family stability, Islamic or not. If you take Italy and Spain for example, where western forms of dating are allowed, divorce rates are among the lowest in the world (even lower than Muslim nations).