You Don'talaq Me, You Don'talaq Me, You Really Don'talaq Me

Thank God this wife of a drunken rickshaw puller lives under Sharia law, because life just isn't hard enough for a poverty-stricken woman in India:

Islamic clerics in eastern India have ruled that a woman divorced by her husband in a fit of drunkenness can remarry him only after she takes another husband for one day, police said Monday.

Ershad, a rickshaw puller, uttered the word "talaq," or divorce, three times earlier this month while he was drunk, and when news leaked out in their village in eastern Orissa state, the clerics said they must separate.

"The couple had kept it under wraps and continued to stay together but the clerics ruled that since Ershad uttered the word talaq three times, it constituted a divorce," district police chief Shatrughan Parida said over the telephone.

Under the rules, the woman, who is a mother of three, must marry another man and obtain a divorce from him before she can be reunited with Ershad, the clerics in the local mosque said.

The clerics have said the man the woman marries temporarily must be 70 years of age, Parida said.

As your resident Sharia scholar, I can tell you that Ershad, the tempermental human taxi, has uttered these words twice before:

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If he divorces her (for the third time), it is unlawful for him to remarry her, unless she marries another man, then he divorces her. The first husband can then remarry her, so long as they observe GOD's laws. These are GOD's laws; He explains them for people who know.

Now you are in the know. No word if Ershad got a flogging for drinking.
If you're still as thirsty for triple-Talaq info as Ershad was for liquor, here's a good place to get your fill.

UPDATE:
I ran across this video while I was searching, and I imagine it will be making the rounds. It's a Czech undercover documentary called "I, A Muslim." While there are some good points made, there are also quite a few cheap shots, and cheap shots made with the intent to persuade make my brain shut down. Put a few well-placed cheap shots in the middle of an otherwise sound argument and I can't even understand English any more. Watch it for yourself, if you're so inclined, and decide for yourself.

No hat tip for this one as the site has "anti" in its title and I don't do anti. Don't define yourself by a negative: be for something.