[UUPoly-L] url/week: Temp Marriage

["Fehd, Ronald J. \(CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI\)" <rjf2@cdc.gov>]

Temporary 'Enjoyment Marriages' In Vogue Again With Some Iraqis
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/19/AR200701
1901850.html
 
> The Shiite practice began 1,400 years ago, in what is now 
> Iraq and other parts of the region, as a way to provide for 
> war widows. Banned by President Saddam Hussein's Sunni-led 
> government, it has regained popularity since the 2003 
> U.S.-led invasion of Iraq brought the majority Shiites to 
> power, said clerics, women's rights activists and mutaa spouses.

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