Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Single Women Cannot Travel More than 48 Miles: Mehram

A friend of mine loves long trips and is forever planning on long trips. Her husband is like me, a rather meek kind of person. She just has to whistle and beckon, he would come come running to do her bidding. 

You can imagine how much this would have pissed me off. The one good news is that he doesn't like taking his wife on trips. So when I read this article,
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/48-mile-cap-for-women-travelling-sans-escort/articleshow/7659776.cms I was dancing with joy. Apparently muslim women cannot travel without a mehram (escort). Yooohooo.

If I were a maulwi, I would have issued enough fatwas to make my counterparts in Saudi and Iran feel unemployed.

The fatwa that immediately comes to my mind is related to the definition of mehram. I would have redefined it. For an ugly woman, a mehram would still be a husband, brother, son, father etc. But for a cute woman, I would have redefined it. (Related reading: http://vbala99.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-does-child-recognize-his-mom.html)

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