KUALA LUMPUR: The foreign media is using the issue of the man who divorced his wife via the short messaging service (SMS) to paint Islam in a negative way, Minister in the Prime Ministers department, Datuk Seri Abdul Hamid Zainal Abidin said.
They are giving the impression that Islam offers an easy way to a divorce, he said here yesterday, referring to the recent case in Gombak, where a Syariah Court accepted the declaration of an intention to divorce made by a man to his wife via SMS.