Posted on 08/16/2009 9:57:46 PM PDT by Steelfish
Row over Afghan wife-starving law
By Sarah Rainsford BBC News
Critics accuse President Hamid Karzai of betraying Afghan women
An Afghan bill allowing a husband to starve his wife if she refuses to have sex has been published in the official gazette and become law.
The original bill caused outrage earlier this year, forcing Afghan President Hamid Karzai to withdraw it.
But critics say the amended version of the law remains highly repressive. They accuse Mr Karzai of selling out Afghan women for the sake of conservative Shia support at next week's presidential election.
The law governs family life for Afghanistan's Shia minority.
Sexual demands The original version obliged Shia women to have sex with their husbands every four days at a minimum, and it effectively condoned rape by removing the need for consent to sex within marriage
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Husbands making claims under this law should have to go before a panel of women, to be evaluated on looks, odor, etc. The panel would either deny or uphold the wife’s right to refuse connubial whatchamacallits.
This law is just a follow up to the popular “goat-starving law.”
Islam: The Religion of Pieces.
Don’t we still have troops there? Leave that country to their pathetic rulers......
well the good news is...at least we now know that islamofascists aren’t just interested in goats and camels and little boys.
Hopefully none of the husbands of the starving women ask for a Lewinsky. There might be a momentary forgetfulness on the part of the lightheaded wife resulting in a chomping action that would probably put a damper on the rest of the evening (to say the least).
“Just lie back and think of Saudi Arabia.”
Good take!
this world will never know true peace until the cult of Mohammedanism is fully and completely expunged from the fabric of humanity . It’s the devils hook in this world .
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