(ANSA) The Union of Italy’s Islamic Communities (UCOII) on Wednesday issued a fatwah (ban) on arranged marriages after the case of an 18-year-old Pakistani girl who is missing and believed killed by her family after refusing to marry a man her parents had picked out for her in Pakistan.
UCOII issued the ban, along with one on infibulation, together with the Islamic Association of Imams and Religious Guides.
The fatwah is against “conduct that cannot find any religious justification and are therefore absolutely to be condemned, and still more to be prevented.”
UCOII said the case of Saman Abbas, who went missing near Reggio Emilia at the end of April, “has shocked and concerned us [from] the start.”
