News & Op-Ed Commentary from The People's Republic of Moscow (Idaho)
Your Woman’s Expiration Date Passed? Get a New One
10/06/2017
A famous Saudi preacher caused a social-media stormwhen he declared a woman has an expiration date.
Medina Imam Majed el-Fahd urged young men to change wives once their “expiration date passes.” He tweeted his opinion:
The tweet says “#MarryASecondOneIfYouCan Praise the Lord I’m fulfilling my religion with four for the last 20 years and I’m thinking about upgrading,inshallah. A woman’s has an expiration date as opposed to a man.”
El-Fahd, a lecturer at the city’s Islamic University, has had four wives for 20 years but feels he needs to add a wife.
For the record, el-Fahd does not believe men carry such a date.