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Filipinos who have married under civil law cannot get a divorce after converting to Islam, contrary to false posts circulating on Facebook in the Catholic-majority Philippines, where divorce remains illegal. Divorce under Islamic law is only possible if a couple was married under those terms, multiple lawyers in the archipelago nation told AFP.
Imam Abdullah El-Amin co-founded the Muslim Center in Detroit on Davison near the Lodge, which opened in 1983.
Philippine courts cannot annul a marriage on the basis of five years of separation, multiple lawyers said, contrary to false posts shared thousands of times on Facebook. These posts also misleadingly claim spouses who have separated for five years can have their marriage annulled "without a court hearing". In the ma...
This is another case of bigamy involving a married person who converted to Islam and married again.
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