"Rights activists have been pushing for the law for the past 20 years with no hope despite government’s support because of the objections of religious leaders who fear adverse judgments in Shariah courts."
But let Muslim communities establish Sharia law in the West, and, no, really, this time it will be different.
"Activists step up efforts to penalise ‘spousal rape’," from the Khaleej Times, July 20:
MANAMA — Rights activists in Bahrain have accelerated their efforts to penalise ‘spousal rape’ by launching a new campaign to promote the implementation of a family law to regulate judgments at Shariah Courts.
Presidents of the Women’s Union Mariam Al Ruwai told Khaleej Times yesterday that the law was the ultimate solution to protect women from many types of abuses and discriminations they faced at courts.
She said the penal code did not criminalise spousal rape for many religious and social misconceptions. “Out of shame and social criticism, many wives do not seek legal help and suffer in silence the humiliation because of their husbands' psychological problems, while others who wanted to fight for their dignity and physical safety were shattered when they come to know that the legal system cannot help them,” she explained.
Women’s rights activist Afaf Al Jamri highlighted the need for the implementation of a family law to bring justice to such women. She said many women had to tolerate physical violence at the hand of their husbands because of the wrong interpretation of Islamic regulations, mainly Hadith (sayings of the Holy Prophet peace be upon him). She stressed the need to focus on the Holy Quran as its verses could not be misinterpreted.
Hmm. "Your wives are as a tilth unto you; so approach your tilth when or how ye will..." - Qur'an 2:223
Scholar and judge at the Shariah Courts Shaikh Mohsin Al Asfoor told Khaleej Times that men had a right to establish physical contact with their wives as the word ‘rape’ doesn't apply in relations between married couples. He said Shariah courts did not penalise men for forced sex, however they press abuse charges and not rape when one suffers physical injuries.
“Shariah courts have dismissed many cases filed by women against their husbands for forced or unwilling sex, especially by females who had signed the marriage contracts but were waiting for the formal marriage ceremony, because the religion allows a man to establish physical contact with his wife as per his wish,” Shaikh Al Asfoor explained.
Rights activists have been pushing for the law for the past 20 years with no hope despite government’s support because of the objections of religious leaders who fear adverse judgments in Shariah courts.
~ wrong interpretation ~
Again.
As believers, shouldn't it be clear?
focus on the Holy Quran as its verses could not be misinterpreted.
She, as a tilth, is in for a rude surprise.
ban Mulim laws and Muslim courts from all western lands, nothing good do they offer.
In Barain, Muslim men are rapists, in Yemen they are pedophiles, in Iran they murder adulterers with rocks.
What an ugly ugly ugly religion Islam is.
What about the hadiths that say: a woman that refuses sex is cursed by the angels until the moring while her husband is angry? Or the one that says: a woman can't refuse her husband, even if when riding on a camel?
From an article about a nine year old girl in Yemen who - by a miracle - managed to divorce the much older man to whom her father had married her off.
"According to research on early marriage in Yemen from Oxfam and the United Nations Population Fund, many girls like Nojoud develop irreparable psychological scarrings from early marriage and the forced sexual encounters that accompany it.
'I hated nights because they usually meant that my husband would come to my bed. I used to run from him and he would chase me and beat me and do his thing. I pray that my younger sisters do not face the same fate,' said Nojoud."
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020775.php#comments
In my book, any adult man who chases a little girl - of seven or eight or nine or ten or twelve or thirteen - and then hits her, and then forces himself upon her immature body, presumably ignoring (or worse, aroused by) her screams and tears of fright and pain - is beneath contempt. He is a rapist. I don't care whether he and the girl's father signed a contract, and money changed hands: he's a rapist.
And if the 'clerics' and judges of Muslim lands are so morally blind, and so devoid of any human compassion, as to be unable to imagine - or else, simply not to care - how much it must hurt when a little girl is violated by an adult man who hasn't even bothered (like some western pedophiles) to 'seduce' her, then I must conclude that their souls are dead. They are empty shells, possessed by demons.
By permitting what we call marital rape [which is bad enough], Islam ALSO, since it permits marriage to prepubescent girls, permits the rape of children.
Two things, one in our culture where love is considered the base of marriage there have been instances where the husband has forced his wife to consummate the marital contract. But when such things happen it is not love that is being expressed.
The other thing is that when all society is based on the adversarial relations, and pecking orders are clearly delineated, then because the man is higher than the woman, she has no recourse.
Our culture as it has strayed from its traditional moorings now sees more of the adversarial relationship modes. In this Islam fits more easily than where the rule of law applies to all, and all are subject to it.
In the ancient pagan culture of Rome the majority of the people were slaves, and if a slave improperly dressed the hair of her mistress, she could be killed for her laxity.
It is part of human nature to have seperate standards for people depending upon their percieved importance.