From YNET News:
Hamas is offering a $3000 reward for any man willing to marry the widow of a "shahid" (a martyr), several Arab websites reported this week.
Hamas initiated the move in an attempt to lower the number of widowed women in the Gaza Strip who lost the spouses who provided for them and their children, and in order to ease their emotional grief and financial difficulties.
The number of widows in Gaza has grown dramatically after Operation Cast Lead. The Palestinian society regards divorcées and widows in a negative way, and young men usually refrain from marrying them.
Hamas hopes that by encouraging men to wed these women, it will be providing them with stability and a better life.
But is there a reward for staying married?
Like most ham-handed approaches to social problems, this will not end well. Given how women are treated in the Arab world, this will probably lead to many marriages, followed by "honor" killings of remarried widows once the $3,000 runs out.
What a mess of a society.
Look what happens to humanity when you start by teaching "kill the infidel wherever you find him" instead of basic moral precepts like "thou shalt not kill."
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