This is the government that our boys are over there fighting and dying for to give complete control to? Where are the women's rights activists? The ACLU? Afghan President Hamid Karzai signed legislation which among other things, allows Afghan men to starve their wives if they refuse to have sex with them. The measure was an amendment to a law that was ALREADY IN THE BOOKS in which husbands have the right to force themselves on their wives, if they do not consent.
From the Norfolk Crime Examiner via Stop the ACLU
Some NATO countries have threatened to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan as a result of the measure.
Speaking to British newspaper The Independent, women’s rights activist Wazhma Frough said that hard line clerics pressured the Justice Ministry to retain the most outrageous parts of the original legislation. She said: “There have been a few little changes, but they are not enough. For example, if the wife doesn’t accept her husband’s sexual requirements then he can deny her food.”
Afghanistan’s Muslim law now allows rapists to go free if they offer to marry their victims. The same practice actually exists in Mexico and is known as ‘Rapto.’
The new law has touched-off riots in the streets of Kabul, as hundreds of women protested the law which would be unthinkable in a civilized society. However, groups of men from Kabul’s largest Shia madrassa also took to the streets and attacked the women. The event has been completely ignored by the American press.
Oh but the Muslim religion is so misunderstood and misrepresented in the media... Really? It seems clear. Oh course, this law has its basis in Sharia Law, which, if many Middle Eastern Muslims had their way, would be the only law of land.
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