Sharia and a law banning "group licentiousness" harsh some Asian mellows.
A Malaysian politician is in hot water after taking a second wife. While it wasn't against the law for him to engage in polygamy, he just had to run it by his first wife first. Her consent was required to inform the Sharia court that the second was OK. And a college professor in China is facing three and a half years in jail on grounds of "group licentiousness." Essentially, the educator was having orgies and group sex is bad for business in the People's Republic of China. It doesn't seem like privacy is much of a concern there, but how would you feel if your next-door neighbor was getting into those kind of shenanigans?
The Dubai sex on the beach and the Nigeria 86 wives cases have been held.
A couple of high profile cases in largely Islamic nations are proceeding. Not very quickly, but proceeding. The Dubai beach sex case has taken a break. As has the Nigerian 86 wives case. Maybe everyone is just trying to figure out how to win these cases without looking a little crazy.
A Nigerian polygamist is in violation of Sharia and has to makes some cuts.
A man in Nigeria has 86 wives, and this isn't the run up to an incredibly crass joke, and is being ordered to cut 82 of them to get back in line with Islamic Law. Hmm, we've never know Muslim clerics to be such a buzz kill.
A marriage was annulled and now it's up to the king to say if that was right.
A couple in Saudi Arabia have been forcibly separated and had their marriage annulled because the woman's family felt that the groom was not good enough for her. The couple has gotten their case to the King to decide.
In Egypt, a woman's husband declared her divorced three times via text message. And now they're going to family court to see if this holds up. Traditionally, a man could divorce his wife by declaring her divorced three times. We'll see what the court does.
