Kuwaiti religious leader rejects the marriage of a Muslim woman with a Jewish man as “null and void” and says it amounts to adultery
A Kuwaiti religious leader has rejected the marriage of a Muslim woman with a Jewish man as “null and void” and amounted to adultery.
“The Islamic text about such marriages is very clear: A Muslim woman cannot marry a non-Muslim even if he is Christian or Jewish,” Dr Anwar Shuaib, the head of Islamic jurisprudence at the University of Kuwait, said.
On Saturday, US former president Bill Clinton officiated at the wedding of US Representative Anthony D. Weiner, a 45-year-old Jew, and his bride, Huma Abedin, a 34-year-old Muslim.
Huma, a longtime aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, had been dating the congressman who represents Brooklyn and Queens for about two years. They announced their engagement last summer.
However, the Muslim scholar said that the union should never happen.
“This marriage is null and void and amounts to adultery. People who claim that this marriage can take place and is acceptable in Islam are wrong. Their edicts or fatwas should be dismissed,” Anwar Shuaib said, quoted by Kuwaiti daily Al Watan.
