Yippee, rape no longer under Sharia Law in Pakistan

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yippee... one small step for Pakistani women

Good news.

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This is really good news.

Four witnesses?

Yeah, like a guy who is going to rape a woman is going to do it with four other men in the room?!?!?!

How's that lovely squeek?

Oh oh oh... and what's his name?

'Bout bleeding time!

this is great newws but i am fearfull for the first few women who try and use the law to prosecute a rapist.

this is a country where a women can be stoned to death if she is found an adulterer....there was a case recently where she cried rape and so was stoned for having an affair

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I think Sharia law should be banned from every corner of the Earth. Well, parts of it are okay. But, nothing that treats a woman differently than a man.

Sharia law scares the crap out of me.

I don't think we're going to get much of a debate on this thread, it does seem inconceivable to us lucky Westereners that millions of women are treated like shit in a large chunk of the planet.
What worries me is the nutty islamists who want to set up Sharia, or a version of it, here.

my western brain cannot get my head around how mature males can believe they are not responsible for their own actions .. and it never will be able to

Yes, mumblechum, that scares me too. What is going to happen to relations between Christians, Jews, Muslims and any other religeon when muslims want to impose their ways in non-secular states?

Obviously it isn't likely to get imposed. But, it could bring about more tension that we certainly don't need.

In case anyone is interested, Sharia Law

interesting programme

...it discusses among other things the conflicts caused by Sharia law vs Civil law in Malaysia