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Posted by: Fedquip 1 year, 9 months agoThe Islamic laws, known as the Hudood Ordinances, were introduced by a military ruler, President Zia-ul-Haq, in 1979. They made a rape victim liable to prosecution for adultery if she could not produce four male witnesses to the assault. The main amendment approved on Wednesday takes rape out of the sphere of religious law...
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koranagirl
Nov. 20, 2006, 12:40 a.m.The laws clearly do not go far enough. All marriage should be banned with girls under age 18 unless they have completed their 4 year college degree. Forced marriages should be made illegal under the testimony of either bride or groom. Currently young girls are often forced to marry wealthier men many years their senior upon payment of a dowry to the parents of an indigent girls. Such marriages are abhorrent. Moreover, there should be no punsihment whatsoever for either adultery or fornication. These laws are typically enfoced against women and not men. The final law to go is multiple marriages for men and not for women. Either women should be allowed 4 husbands, or laws against polygyny should be enacted.
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IncaQueen
Nov. 28, 2006, 10:07 p.m.That certainly does not go far enough. You think one male witness would testify that a woman was raped, let alone four? It is basically a mockery but at least starts a dialog. If she only has two witnesses, male or female, the trial of the male should begin. Obviously the male bullys still rule in Pakistan and women are not even second class citizens or even worse...
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IncaQueen
Nov. 30, 2006, 5:43 p.m.Maybe they ought to change the law, that the male has to find 4 witnesses that claim he wasn't even there?
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idyll
Dec. 11, 2006, 10:55 p.m.Pakistani Islamists protest against pro-women law
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061210/india_nm/india
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