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Article: Sex, lies and secularism; Muslims in France.(A row about an annulment)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 7, 2008
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Dati in a dilemma
How a lie about virginity embarrassed the justice minister
RARELY has a judicial verdict in a civil court set off so much argument. But the annulment of the marriage of two French Muslims in Lille, granted because the bride falsely claimed to be a virgin, has prompted an outcry, culminating in a riotous parliamentary debate on June 3rd. The verdict touched a raw nerve in France, mixing complex questions of sexual equality, secularism and Islam.
On paper, the case has nothing to do with religion. The groom, an engineer, applied for an annulment because his bride, a student nurse, had lied to him about her virginity. Under the French civil code, an ...
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