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Release Date 2012.06.23
Air Date 2012.06.21
Genre Documentary / Reality
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With a third of marriages in Australia ending in divorce, the
process of finishing a relationship is well established but how do
couples with different social and religious customs go about
formally breaking up? They take their case to the Australian Islamic
Judicial Council, an unofficial group of sheikhs based in Lakemba,
Sydney.
This revealing and fascinating film takes us into the world of
Islamic divorce, as viewed by the couples involved, their families
and the sheikhs - religious leaders - who hear petitions for divorce.
In his narrow bookshop crammed with Islamic texts, Sheikh Khalil
Chami - one of the Australian Islamic Judicial Council advises
frustrated suburban Australian women on how they can get divorced.
All the women are Muslim and the discussion is not about getting an
Australian civil law divorce from the Family Court, which some
already have, but about getting a divorce under sharia law, an
Islamic religious law based on the Koran.
Women who don't have the consent of their husbands, can have
considerable difficulty getting a sharia divorce. Until they do the
community regards them as married and no sheikh will agree to marry
them again. We follow three women and two men as they embark on the
journey to end their marriages, the Aussie Islamic way.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/abc1/201206/programs/DO0967H001D2012-0
21T213330.htm
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