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From Reuters:

(India): Sohela Ansari told friends that her husband Aftab had uttered the word "talaq," or divorce, three times in his sleep, according to the report published in newspapers on Monday.

When local Islamic leaders got to hear, they said Aftab's words constituted a divorce under an Islamic procedure known as "triple talaq." The couple, married for 11 years with three children, were told they had to split.

The religious leaders ruled that if the couple wanted to remarry they would have to wait at least 100 days. Sohela would also have to spend a night with another man and be divorced by him in turn.

And we thought America's $300 no-fault divorces were easy? Also: Is the best new beginning for a couple that actually didn't want to get divorced to send the woman to "spend a night with another man and be divorced by him in turn"?

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Religion, Islam