The announcement has drawn criticism from the region’s religious scholars. In a public statement, Abbas Shuman, deputy of grand imam Ahmad Al-Tayyib of the Egyptian religious authority Al-Azhar, the highest religious authorities in Sunni Islam, wrote that the potential reform to inheritance was, “unjust for women and is not in line with Islamic Sharia”.Inter-faith unions are already legal, as long as the man is a Muslim. The new laws would permit Muslim women to marry non-Muslims as well.
In regard to inter-faith unions, he said: “Such a marriage would obstruct the stability of marriage.”
Tunisian Marriage
There's a push to liberalize the Islamic laws on marriage and inheritance in Tunisia.
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Islam, still treating women like property.
Some cultures really are better than others. One thing I treasure about my homeland is that there was a fruitful, decades-long conversation about what had been wrong about the monarchy that colonized our country, and how to set up a better government.
This effort had its cultural aspects. For example, the Founding Fathers abolished orders of nobility and chose multiple routes to protect a cultural phenomenon, namely the Committees of Correspondence.
They made the individual citizens the ultimate arbiters of the type of government, giving full support to our Declaration's assertion that the citizens have the right to alter or abolish a government. They made provision for frequent decisions by the citizenry on the identity of the people with a myriad of slivers of governmental power.
Valerie
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