To bewildered - Orfi

Submitted by Isis (Australia), Jun 24, 2009 at 00:59

You wrote "and the orfi marriages are just licenses for sex in the tourist area's, they have no commitment whatsoever."

The Orfi marriage is also used by many Egyptian couples especially amongst students because it is a relatively quick marriage and inexpensivef or them especially in Cairo. There are reports that the Orfi marriage was invented for the benefit of the tourist industry and the influx of foreign women into these areas but this is not correct and the intial reasons for establishing it as a contract of marriage are a little blurred. In most cases it is accepted under Islam because it is a contract of marriage and there are moves afoot here to have rights of the woman/wife protected under the Orfi marriage.

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