CAIRO -
The Senate of the Egyptian Parliament has initially approved articles in the new unified insurance bill, including an article for divorced women to allocate an insurance policy for them issued by the Financial Supervisory Authority, after Parliament finally approved the law and ratified it by the legislator.
The article includes the establishment of a compulsory insurance group for divorce, with the aim of providing insurance protection for every divorced woman, and the group pays compensation to each divorced woman of 25 thousand pounds (about 1,600 dollars) after an irrevocable divorce, provided that the divorced woman becomes entitled to her and that 3 years have passed since her marriage.
This article sparked controversy in Egypt about the extent of its negative impact on the stability of families, in terms of encouraging married women to divorce, as Egypt ranked at the top of the countries in the world in divorce rates, according to official statistics.
Parliamentarians said that the goal of this article is to grant the divorced woman a sum of money as temporary compensation to help her continue her career, especially with the breadwinner's spending being stopped after the divorce.
Secretary of the Senate Financial and Economic Affairs Committee, Akmal Najati, said that the article on the insurance policy for women in the event of her divorce, which bears No. 39 of the draft law submitted to the government, aims to protect women from any financial problems resulting from divorce, to cover her monthly expenses in the event she obtains a divorce until she obtains a divorce. obtaining alimony.
He explained, during a telephone interview to one of the satellite channels, that the required fees amount to about 75 pounds, "about 5 dollars" for each marriage document.
Opposition to religion and society
Tweeters expressed their rejection of the document because it will encourage wives to divorce because of the gains that they will obtain after the divorce, above their legal rights, especially if the marital life is tenuous.
A proposal for an insurance policy for the divorced woman!!!!!
All suggestions for encouraging divorce.
All suggestions to strengthen women's demand for divorce...
All laws make a man fall short after a divorce.. >>>>
Either men turn into a perverted life without marriage or a society in which women dominate..
It is a malicious scheme carried out by perverted intellectuals
- Dr. Ahmed Farag (@ahmed49193) March 17, 2022
The Islamic preacher and former Undersecretary of the Ministry of Awqaf Sheikh Salama Abdel Qawi said that this article is inseparable from a deliberate systematic campaign to destroy and destroy homes, not to rebuild and stabilize them, pointing to the decisions, laws and calls that Egypt witnessed recently, all of which are aimed at the goal of this campaign.
#Egypt A Azhari scholar attacks the law of obligating a man before marriage to make a divorce insurance document for a woman who wants to marry her: “It is not from Sharia, and it adds burdens to young people. Give infallibility to the wife and ease your mind.” https://t.co/vFOZ10ec5D pic.twitter.com/yl1lXuqUO2
— Dr.fareselmasry (@dr_fareselmasry) March 17, 2022
Egypt has recently witnessed controversy over calls that their divorcees said adjust the balance in favor of the oppressed woman, while opponents saw them as upsetting social balances, and among these calls is the demand to grant the wife a monthly salary in exchange for household chores.
Salama went on to talk to Al Jazeera Net, explaining that the principle in Islamic law is that it protects women with dowry, temporary maintenance, maintenance, and the back or dowry, the right of custody, and the right to spend on her until she gives birth and until she finishes breastfeeding the newborn, according to the Almighty's saying: His sustenance has been decreed for him, so let him spend from what God has given him.
Concern about encouraging the new insurance policy for wives to file for divorce (Al-Jazeera)
Abdul Qawi added, "Then what is the value of such legislation that dares women and thus is a reason for hastening the destruction of homes, and women feel that they are protected by laws and constitutions, so they are empowered by the husband, so these legislations do not actually serve Muslim women, even if they serve women in Western countries that lack to religious laws regulating social relations, so they resort to laws.”
He adds, "As for here, Islamic Sharia is sufficient, and what is above it is excessive strengthening of the wife's position on the husband, which leads to the destruction of homes, by making money the only guarantee. Media support for destructive feminist trends.
No one will get married.. I go to make an insurance policy to spend on it after I release it, on the grounds that there are no people or you will get married again, for example!
+ People say you are looking for divorce before marriage, why!
Do you write a list of why and lately something so and why?
Manto, insure yourself, respond to the contradiction!
— 𓂀 (@hasn7878) March 17, 2022
Sheikh Salama Abdel-Qawi criticized the complete exclusion of the Al-Azhar institution and its men from discussing these issues, while it is capable of drafting legislation that is consistent with Sharia and protects women.
This exclusion - in his opinion - means that "the sweeping secular trend in Egypt is the one who exercises control over society, claiming to preserve women's rights while they are quick to destroy her home," as he put it, indicating that this is the prevailing and dominant trend since the intervention of the wife of former President Hosni Mubarak, Suzanne. In public and social life, by imposing destructive laws on the family, the family court has become a witness to divorce cases without limitation.
From the absolute insurance policy to the hatred of toil and striving, our society, do not be sad,, These new laws will not benefit the community, but will destroy and threaten the entity of Egyptian families,, This rot and discrimination must stop. Egypt#family
- We are in the time of law (in Kef) (@OmarDelatif) March 17, 2022
Justifications and numbers
The proposal of the document came as a solution to bridge the time gap between the divorce of the wife and her obtaining her dues resulting from the divorce, by justifying the defenders of the document, and through which the divorced woman obtains a lump sum to be spent from until she obtains her rights through a court ruling, to be disbursed from the insurance company directly without resorting to courts .
Studies prepared by the Financial Supervisory Authority on divorce cases in Egypt revealed that the time interval between the issuance of the divorce decision until the divorced woman obtains her rights to legal alimony and the delay, which she obtains by court ruling, ranges from 9 months to a year often, while most divorced women during that period. The period does not have a source of income.
Marriage contracts, according to the annual bulletin of marriage and divorce statistics for 2020, amounted to about 876,015 contracts, compared to 927,844 contracts in 2019, a decrease of 5.6%, while the number of divorce notifications reached 213,950 cases in 2020 compared to 225,929 cases in 2019, a decrease of 5.3%.
After the proposal of the Financial Supervisory Authority to impose an insurance policy for divorced women of about 25 thousand pounds.. The head of the Ma’zoun Syndicate, Islam Amer, says that the matter will not affect the increase or decrease of marriages and separation cases pic.twitter.com/YSwWEU71No
— Al Jazeera Egypt (@AJA_Egypt) March 17, 2022
The head of the Ma’zoun Syndicate, Islam Amer, reduced the impact of the financial burden on the value of the insurance policy premiums, so “50 pounds in the marriage contract and 25 pounds in the divorce contract, a small amount, and equal to less than the price of two packs of cigarettes,” as he put it, a “reasonable and acceptable” fee that does not affect negatively. In his opinion, young people will get married, yet he revealed his hope that amendments would be made to the current law relating to the Family Insurance Fund, instead of making a new law.
In a telephone interview with one of the satellite channels, he confirmed that the divorce law has increased the number of divorce cases, noting that the amount of 25 thousand pounds in the divorced women insurance policy may be a reason for the high divorce rates, because there are those who divorce themselves to obtain it, and "there are women who can To destroy her home for money,” he said, pointing out that divorce rates in cities and Cairo are very high, but in villages and the countryside they are very few due to the interventions of parents.