Law in Morocco that allows rapists to marry their victims

Stories along this line seem to come up a lot.

So I guess that Nyac's explanation as to why (property crime) is correct. Otherwise you would never have so many different countries coming up with the same outrageous idea.

To state that it is better than Iran and Afghanistan is hardly a ringing endorsement, is it?

What a surprise that on a thread about a country where women are being forced to marry their rapists, there's some guy telling us what a great country it is.

Good grief.

Well you'll never be in that position asbsentdad, so stop trying to speak as if you're some kind of an authority.

It's a great country for men as are all countries.

I seem to recall that such a thing is also mentioned in the Bible......Leviticus? I will go browse......

It probably is a great country so long as you are not a woman.

Morocco is a great country. They value the family and have a rich Islamic culture.

Slowly they are recognising the rights of women and have possibly made more advances than most other north African and middle eastern states. That needs to be encouraged more

I would rather be a woman in Morocco than, Algeria, Egypt, Sudan, Saudi, Iran or Afghanistan.

"Extreme example" - those are women's lives you're dismissing absentdad.

If you want to defend Morocco, take it somewhere else. There's probably the whole of the patriarchy to do it in.

I hate all that misogynistic 'honour' bullshit. So much violence against women is perpetuated in the name of 'honour'. A very manipulative tool of the patriarchy.

This is an extreme example in a country that is otherwise moving more and more towards European/western values.

I have spent much time in Morocco. In the cities I can freely associate with unmarried women in public.

Hell they even come and choose to sit with me in train carriages when I am alone and want to talk to me about life for women in Europe as well as music that they see on tv from the UK.

The villages though can still be in the middle ages. I was invited by a woman into her home in a small village about 1 hour out of Marrakech and refused knowing that the people in the village would look upon it badly.

The most striking thing is that you see women sleeping rough on the streets in the big cities. If they are thrown out by their families, they have nothing. There is no support system for them and certainly no housing.

That said the situation for women is far better in Morocco than in Pakistan or Iran.

This is pretty common and was common in this society not so long ago in the scheme of things.

If women are property then rape is a property crime. What better way to put things right than give the thief the property he has stolen already, he owns it, therefore no crime has been committed.

It was permitted in this country for men to rape their wives 20 years ago absentdad. I don't remember many men protesting that right - it was feminists who got the law changed. No need to single out Muslims - this is a male crime against women, not a religious crime.

Why speechless? This is probably the law in dozens of other countries.

Talk to devout muslim males in the UK and most of them will tell you that it is permitted by the Qu'ran to rape someone that you are married to.

Heard this earlier on R4. Still can't even begin to get my head around it.

Speechless.