Barbaric Law In Afghanistan Passed Reducing Women's Rights

Women-in-islamic-dressAnother abhorrent law has passed in Afghanistan, showing the barbarism of islam.

  • It is now legal for shia men to deny food and sustenance to their wives if they refuse to obey their husband's sexual demands.

  • Fathers and grandfathers have full guardianship over the children

  • Women must ask permission from their husbands to work.

  • A rapist can avoid prosecution by paying 'blood money' to a girl who was injured when he raped her.

  • "Tamkeen is the readiness of the wife to submit to her husband's reasonable sexual enjoyment, and her prohibition from going out of the house, except in extreme circumstances, without her husband's permission. If any of the above provisions are not followed by the wife she is considered disobedient."


Apparently in a bid for votes in the upcoming election, Hamid Karzai has basically sold the rights of women to gain power. The election is Thursday, August 20. But from what I can see, women will lose as long as the country is islamic.

14 comments:

  1. This reminds me of the old cartoons where the caveman pulls his wife by the hair.

    What's next, cut her legs off if she runs away?

    Religious-based misogyny. It's not an Islamic thing, though.
    American women just won the right to vote 100 years ago.
    American women just won reproductive rights 36 years ago.

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  2. Excellent points, Mark. It's still heinous though.

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  3. And this one is supposed to be a revised and improve version of the now infamous 'rape law'. The Karzai administration has quietly signed this legislation in to law to appease the religious conservatives who are in charge of the affairs in the community including who the people vote for in the presidential elections
    Democracy - Afghanistan style

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  4. The sooner USA, Australia and other western countries get out of Afghanistan the better for all............and not be thrown out like in Vietnam

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  5. We should not be surprised or shocked at the number of times women get thrown under the bus in the name of [insert inane stupid reason here].

    And, women would have had the right to vote sooner, but of course the African American men in the suffrage movement...threw them under the bus to get their rights first.

    And, let me mention that these inequalities, especially in relation to reproductive rights for women, have always been on the backs of the poor.

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  6. Yet another crazy barbaric religious law. Here in the US, I sometimes thing our country is doing a terrible job at separating church from state, but when I see things like this happening it reminds me of how much better we're doing it than some other nations. Our government isn't completely free of religious zealots attempting to pass absurd laws, but at least we don't have enough of them to actually get bills passed into laws like this. The day we start sliding back into that pit, is the day I find a new country to live in.

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  7. Well, I don't see that America or anyone else is doing any good there. We certainly couldn't stop this awful law from being passed.

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  8. It all stems from the (seemingly) religious concept that women are lesser than men.

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  9. Yes, I agree. I hate that we are doing things so poorly here in America regarding separation of church and state, but you're right. We're leagues ahead of some other countries. Not that it means we can sit back on our laurels. Hell no. We need to keep fighting against a theocracy. So do all the countries who are under the jackboot of one.

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  10. Not being able to vote and not being able to so much as leave the house without permission are NOT the same thing, or even close to he equal on the scale of human rights.

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  11. its not just a religious concept, women really are the lesser of the sexes. now, back to the kitchen and make me a sandwich, chop chop.

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  12. Please ask Afgans they want hijab and these laws or western laws first.

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  13. Make sure the sandwich has a double dose
    of arsenic.

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