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Change comes slowly to Pakistan's rural areas. From the Daily Times, with thanks to LH.
ISLAMABAD: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has drafted a law abolishing the un-Islamic and inhuman custom of so-called marriage of a girl to the Holy Quran and recommended life imprisonment for persons involved in this practice. This practice, commonly known as ‘Haq Bakhshwan,’ is rampant in rural areas of Pakistan where feudal lords and other rich people deny the right of marriage to a woman just to preserve their property. (...)According to the amendment whoever wilfully defiles, desecrates or damages a copy of the Holy Quran or allows the Holy Quran to be used for purpose of its marriage to a female or induces any person to swear on the Holy Quran never to marry anyone in her lifetime, shall be punishable with imprisonment for life.
Posted by Rebecca at June 19, 2005 10:58 AM
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Good help is hard to find...How long has this been going on?...The Council of Islamic Ideology??? Whats that? They did good in this case, but it took a thousand years to get around to it...I got a suspicion the Council is more concerned about the Quran than the girl, but, applause non the less...
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at June 19, 2005 2:31 PM
Well knock me over with a feather. These atrocities against women friggin' kill me. Only now in 2005 they have seen the error of their ways? What an utter sham.
Posted by: Johnny Cash at June 19, 2005 5:17 PM
Women's liberation, muslim style.
Posted by: Voltaire at June 19, 2005 7:45 PM
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