You must have read that in Arab countries, Muslim women were not allowed to marry non-Muslims. Even today, in most Arab countries, Muslim women are not allowed to marry non-Muslims. But today we are going to tell you about a Muslim country where Muslim women are allowed to marry non-Muslim boys. Know which country and where it is.
Tunisia
Let us tell you that Tunisia is a Muslim country. This country has set aside the centuries old tradition and has given its approval to the Muslim women of the country. This decision of Tunisia was praised by human rights groups and activists from all over the world. 99 percent of the population of the Islamic country Tunisia believes in Islam. Tunisia is on the northern end of Africa, whose area is 1.63 lakh square km.
Today, women of this country have the most freedom in the entire Islamic world. For this, a new law has been made in Tunisia by removing the old law. Under the new law, Muslim women have been given the right that they can marry a non-Islamic boy without converting. In most Islamic countries of the world, a Muslim girl can marry a boy of another religion only after converting. Let us tell you that a law was implemented in Tunisia in 1973. Under this, a Muslim woman could marry a non-Muslim only if the boy leaves his religion and accepts Islam. Even today, such laws are applicable in most of the Islamic countries including Arab.
what the world said
According to Monica Marks, a researcher at Oxford University with extensive experience in Tunisia, the law on freedom of marriage for Muslim women received three times the coverage in the foreign press as compared to the reconciliation law. The then government of Tunisia had said that we want to strengthen the center. We are in a period of change and we need this change to fill this political center, so that stability can be brought to the country. Christopher Lamont, an expert on transitional justice in North Africa at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, said that this is a reversal of the approach to human rights and transitional justice. They make the debate of justice and accountability seem like going back to the past. Apart from this, people around the world welcomed this decision of the Tunisian government.
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