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> Kashoggi's widows Plural?
by soheil 5y ago
> Kashoggi's widows
Plural?
- ithrow 5y agoIn some cultures muslims can have four wives.
- ignoramous 5y agoMuslims can marry four wives, but it is generally not recommended. Most muslim-majority countries place restrictions on polygny, and at least one (Turkey) has outlawed it entirely.
- dredmorbius 5y agoJamal Khashoggi was married three times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal_Khashoggi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal_Khashoggi
- soheil 5y agoIt’s unusual to call his ex-wives his widows?
- dredmorbius 5y agoIt is. That's not the aspect I was addressing. The number of former wives of Khashoggi is, however, trivial to research. The accepted definition of a widow is a woman who was married to person at the time of that person's death: https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/widow https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/widow (The definition specifies "husband", though I suspect with the rise in gay marriages, a female survivor of an intact legal union will be considered a widow regardless of the deceased spouse's gender.) There's also the peculiarity of Western (predominantly Christian) tradition to unquestioningly accept serial polygamy, but not simultaneous, despite at least the sexual elements the latter itself being a widespread practice. I can't speak for notafraudster's intent, though their usage isn't an accepted one.
- CRConrad 5y ago> I can't speak for notafraudster's intent, though their usage isn't an accepted one. Maybe they'd just picked up "He'd had three wives" or similar and assumed they were simultaneous.
- fmajid 5y agoHe had a religious marriage with Hatice, not a civil one, and in fact was reluctantly going to the Saudi consulate to finalize the divorce papers for his separated second wife, which they told him could only be done in person. Apparently MBS has assured him personally no harm would come to him.