Sharia Law in modern Saudi Arabia pertaining to family:
"Laws relating to marriage, divorce, children and inheritance are not codified and fall within the general jurisdiction of the Sharia courts.
[99]
Polygamy is permitted for men but is limited to four wives at any one time.
[100] There is evidence that its practice has increased, particularly among the educated
Hejazi elite, as a result of oil wealth.
[101] The government has promoted polygamy as part of a return to "Islamic values" program.
[101] In 2001, the
Grand Mufti (the highest religious authority) issued a
fatwa, or opinion, calling upon Saudi women to accept polygamy as part of the
Islamic package and declaring that polygamy was necessary "to fight against...the growing epidemic of spinsterhood".
[101] There is no minimum age for marriage in Saudi Arabia and the Grand Mufti reportedly said in 2009 that girls of the age of 10 or 12 were marriageable.
[102]
Men have a unilateral right to divorce their wives (
talaq) without needing any legal justification.
[102] The divorce is effective immediately.
[102]The husband's obligation is then to provide financial support for the divorced wife for a period of four months and ten days.
[102] A woman can only obtain a divorce with the consent of her husband or judicially if her husband has harmed her.
[99] In practice, it is very difficult for a Saudi woman to obtain a judicial divorce.
[99] The divorce rate is high, with 50% of marriages being dissolved.
[102] In the event of divorce, fathers have automatic custody of sons from the age of 7 and daughters from the age of 9.
[103] The right for men to marry up to four wives, combined with their ability to divorce a wife at any time without cause, can translate to unlimited polygamy.
[104] King Abdul Aziz, the founder of the country, reportedly admitted to marrying over two hundred women.
[105] However, his polygamy was considered extraordinary even by Saudi Arabian standards.
[105]
With regard to the law of inheritance, the Quran specifies that fixed portions of the deceased's estate must be left to the so-called
Quranic heirs.
[101] Generally, female heirs receive half the portion of male heirs.
[101] A Sunni Muslim can bequeath a maximum of a third of his property to non-Quranic heirs. The
residue is divided between
agnatic heirs.
[101]"
Does that sound remotely like Christianity?
That is a thirty-second search. What about murder of family members that convert from Islam to another faith, I think they are called "Honor Killings" this is also if a woman is raped. In fact they are for any shame brought on the family.
An
honor killing or
shame killing[1] is the
murder of a member of a family, due to the perpetrators' belief that the victim has brought
shame or
dishonor upon the family, or has violated the principles of a community or a religion, usually for reasons such as
divorcing or separating from their spouse, refusing to enter an
arranged marriage, being in a relationship that is disapproved by their family, having
sex outside marriage, becoming the victim of
rape, dressing in ways which are deemed inappropriate, engaging in non-heterosexual relations or
renouncing a faith.
For a detailed scholarly study of this practice as it relates to Islam see:
Honor Killing and Islam