This is an extremely important case, for it involves whether Sharia or any aspect of it will be accepted into the American legal system, as it has already been accepted into the American economic system via Sharia finance. The Texas Supreme Court ruled wisely here. More challenges will be forthcoming, and the stakes are much, much larger than just this one divorce case.
“Texas Supreme Court rejects ‘secret’ Sharia divorce in $100M case,” by Macy Meinhardt, Houston Chronicle, September 30, 2026:
The Texas Supreme Court has rejected a Houston businessman’s attempt to have his “secret” Sharia Law divorce recognized in Texas, ruling that his wife did not receive adequate notice or an opportunity to be heard before the divorce was finalized.
The Friday ruling is the latest chapter in a nearly decade-long divorce saga between Houston real-estate magnate Mohammad Ali Choudhri and his estranged wife Hira Azhar. Per court records, Choudhri obtained a divorce in Pakistan without Azhar’s knowledge; she learned of it two years later.
At the heart of the debate are $100 million in shared marital assets and whether the merits of a Pakistani divorce under Sharia law—which does not require wives to be directly notified of divorce—should be recognized in the state of Texas.
Choudhri, a Houston real estate businessman who has built several businesses and amassed more than $100 million in community assets during his marriage, has been involved in multiple legal disputes, including bankruptcy litigation and a federal lawsuit brought by the National Bank of Kuwait.
While the ruling rests on the wife’s lack of notice, it comes at a time when Texas Republican leaders are actively railing against the execution of Sharia Law in the Lone Star State, leading to 95 percent of voters in the March GOP primary supporting a statewide prohibition.
“International judgments should not be recognized in Texas courts when they are issued without due process or when they run contrary to Texas public policy,” the ruling stated, referencing a previous ruling….
England Invaded says
Texas has better means to sort out muslims. I wish we had.
rubiconcrest says
A win for the wife, that could send shock waves in Muslim community if it was widely publisized. Muslim women in the US are natural allies in the fight against Islamization.
I believe an enterprising woman could head a movement to organize them in opposition to sharia in Texas and the nation.
Greytigertx says
Sharia in general and Muslims in particular are a real and present danger to our way of life. They are here to conquer not assimilate. They will never consent to our laws and culture. Remove them before they start an internal crisis and WAR.
Tony says
The key is to cut off Public Funding to Islam and its Muslim Organizations including Mosques and Schools because they are against the US Constitution and Western Constitutions with Muslim discrimination, segregation, violence, and terrorism. Money is what makes Muslim Organizations grow.
Billy says
Remember, Islam is fundamentally a CRIMINAL-TERRORIST-GANG Enterprise against Non-Muslims. Think about that. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 teaches, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.”
Billy says
Stop the Public Funding of Islam and its Muslim Organizations! Islam is the daily practice of Islamic Law, Sharia, which is created from the Qur’an, the Sira, the Hadith, the Tafsir, the Tarikh, past Islamic Legal Rulings, etc., a collective demonic system, to solidify power and control. Furthermore, Muslim Islamization includes Muslim Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Organizations using Governments, Bureaucracies, Mosques, Muslim Homes, Muslim Schools, Halal Organizations, Islamic Centers, Sharia Courts, Muslim Non-Profits, etc. to fund, to educate, and to support Islamic Law and Muslim Propaganda against all Non-Muslims(Qur’an 1:5; 3:51, 101, 118; 5:3, 48; 8:60, 45:18; 48:29, etc.).
Public Funding is a privilege that should NOT BE granted to organizations that are against the US Constitution or Western Constitutions. Totalitarian Islam and its Muslim Organizations including Muslim Schools and Mosques are against the US Constitution due to Muslim funding, teaching, and promoting discrimination, segregation, hatred, rape, violence, totalitarianism, and terrorism against Non-Muslims WITH NO EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW to make Islamic Law supreme. Islam’s Muslims are murderous, Totalitarian Terrorists of Allah operating as a Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Enterprise under Islamic Law to ultimately conquer the enemies of Allah, the Non-Muslims, with Islamic Law DBA Islam(Qur’an 8:60; 9:5, 29, 111; 49:15, etc.). Genocidal Allah in Qur’an 8:39 commands, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” Ultimately, Allah desires to fill hell with Non-Muslims(Qur’an 7:18; 11:119; 32:13; 98:6, etc.).
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Wait until such a case hits a Blue state w/ a very Leftist Supreme Court, such as Minnesota or Michiagan. Then such a sharia divorce would be upheld, and then SCOTUS would be forced to adjudicate it
Although I can imagine John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett ruling in favor of the sharia divorce
Taffy says
SCOTUS would not get involved. Marriage is traditionally 100% state law (until SCOTUS unconstitutionally got involved with gay marriage. And the overruling of Roe V. Wade paves the way for the overruling of Obergefell v. Hodges (the gay marriage case).
With that said, the Texas Supreme Court ruling has precedent, For example, New York’s highest court held that a couple that got a religious divorce was still married civilly, and subject to the equitable distribution laws governing a civil divorce,
somehistory says
Equal protection applies to divorce cases. Evidence can be produced, records opened, and attorneys representing the two sides.
Good for this Court making the right decision.