Hey Gals, Check This Out - Pakistani Clerics Get to Keep Creepy Grip on Rape Laws
Keep in mind that the consensus on the Right during the 9/11 anniversary - which we share - was that the West is more or less unprepared to win a war against these people:
Pakistan's ruling party has given in to the demands of religious conservatives opposed to the amendment of Islamic laws that would have taken rape out of the sphere of religious law. A bill to amend the Islamic laws, including the one that requires rape victims to produce four male witnesses or risk an adultery charge, has been fiercely opposed by the conservatives... But in the face of the objections from religious parties, the government said on Monday rape would remain in the Islamic law, although it would also become a crime under the penal code. "If there are four witnesses it will be tried under (Islamic law), if there are not, it will be tried under the penal code," said Law Minister Mohammad Wasi Zafar. "In the case of both adultery and rape, the judge will decide how to try the case," he told reporters... The laws, which laid down punishments for such crimes as rape, theft and adultery were introduced in 1979 by military ruler Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq and have drawn widespread criticism both at home and broad.
We're not going to abuse your patience, but if you're an academic and are so inclined we suggest that you visit the pages of uber-feminist journal Hypatia and see if they're more concerned about the damage done to women by (a) the Enlightenment or (b) political Islam. Then again, if you're an academic, you know in advance what you're going to find. Hegemonic logocentrism apparently colonizes identity and needs to be resisted. Who knew?
Pakistan's ruling party has given in to the demands of religious conservatives opposed to the amendment of Islamic laws that would have taken rape out of the sphere of religious law. A bill to amend the Islamic laws, including the one that requires rape victims to produce four male witnesses or risk an adultery charge, has been fiercely opposed by the conservatives... But in the face of the objections from religious parties, the government said on Monday rape would remain in the Islamic law, although it would also become a crime under the penal code. "If there are four witnesses it will be tried under (Islamic law), if there are not, it will be tried under the penal code," said Law Minister Mohammad Wasi Zafar. "In the case of both adultery and rape, the judge will decide how to try the case," he told reporters... The laws, which laid down punishments for such crimes as rape, theft and adultery were introduced in 1979 by military ruler Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq and have drawn widespread criticism both at home and broad.
We're not going to abuse your patience, but if you're an academic and are so inclined we suggest that you visit the pages of uber-feminist journal Hypatia and see if they're more concerned about the damage done to women by (a) the Enlightenment or (b) political Islam. Then again, if you're an academic, you know in advance what you're going to find. Hegemonic logocentrism apparently colonizes identity and needs to be resisted. Who knew?
