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        "msgid": "no-sms-divorces-for-malaysians-1447899208",
        "date": "2001-07-13 00:00:00",
        "title": "'No SMS divorces for Malaysians' ",
        "author": null,
        "source": "REUTERS",
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        "summary": "'No SMS divorces for Malaysians' KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters): Malaysia will not permit Muslim men to divorce their wives through text messages on mobile telephones, the Star newspaper quoted a religious adviser to the government as saying on Thursday. Hamid Othman, adviser to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, said that although sharia might permit divorce using SMS -- or short messaging service, by which mobile phone users send each other brief bursts of text -- the government would not accept it.",
        "content": "<p>'No SMS divorces for Malaysians'<\/p>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters): Malaysia will not permit Muslim men to <br>\ndivorce their wives through text messages on mobile telephones, <br>\nthe Star newspaper quoted a religious adviser to the government <br>\nas saying on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Hamid Othman, adviser to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, said <br>\nthat although sharia might permit divorce using SMS -- or short <br>\nmessaging service, by which mobile phone users send each other <br>\nbrief bursts of text -- the government would not accept it.<\/p>\n<p>\"We have adequate laws to curb rash moves by Muslim men to <br>\ndivorce their wives without justification,\" the Star newspaper <br>\nquoted Othman as saying on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Local women's groups have condemned the idea since a local <br>\nreligious leader said last week the practice was allowed under <br>\nsharia (Islamic) law.<\/p>",
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