Christians read Islamic remarriage doctrine as legally compelled adultery

Evidence

No Christian was able to think of a divorced wife as no longer the wife of her original husband; a second marriage was therefore a legalised adultery, and the tahlil something a good deal worse than promiscuous prostitution because the husband became the procurer. Legalised adultery was worse than adultery forbidden though committed; but the taklil seemed to Christians legally to compel adultery, in that it imposed it upon the wife whom they supposed continuously subject to her first husband. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 764

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the vault’s construction-of-Islam claim: here the distortion arises not from political interest but from an incommensurable marriage ontology (indissoluble Christian marriage vs. contractual Islamic marriage).