RAPE AND SHARIA LAW

RAPE AND SHARIA LAW IN AFGHANISTAN AND EURABIA

“I had thought it was simple.” Thus said the 20 year old brother of a 14 year old Afghani rape victim after being arrested for using a razor blade to abort his sister’s baby: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=41777.

The young girl had been raped by a construction worker and had the misfortune of residing in an orthodox Islamic community where an illegitimate birth meant that she and her family would be treated like pariahs. So her brother, Ali, took her to a cowshed and, as her mother helped restrain her, used the razor blade to slice open her womb. He removed the baby, buried it, then stitched up the wound with coarse string used to tie potato sacks.

Ten days later, she was taken on a 30 mile donkey ride to a provincial hospital suffering from infection and later, to protect her from family and community members, was evacuated to Bagram Air Base where she remained in critical condition.

Although such lurid and grotesque tales are not unheard of in Western, generally Christian, societies, they rarely if ever result from religious motivations. More likely it is a jealous rival or a psychotic, wannabe mother who would perpetrate such acts. Sharia Law, however, if strictly interpreted, condones measures to atone for the shame visited upon a family by the sin of being a rape victim.

The other side of the Koranic coin, the rapist’s side, ...

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