Afghanistan: “Worse than the Taliban” New law rolls back women’s rights

by Infidelesto on March 30, 2009 · Comments

Hamid Karzai selling out Afghan women to win votes? This article says it’s true…

All the tears, sweat and blood we’ve given to liberate Afghanistan from the terrible rule of the Taliban, now this: 

A burqa-clad Afghan woman walks in an old bazaar in Kabul. Photograph: Ahmad Masood/REUTERS

A burqa-clad Afghan woman walks in an old bazaar in Kabul. Photograph: Ahmad Masood/REUTERS

‘Worse than the Taliban’ – new law rolls back rights for Afghan women

Hamid Karzai has been accused of trying to win votes in Afghanistan’s presidential election by backing a law the UN says legalises rape within marriage and bans wives from stepping outside their homes without their husbands’ permission.

The Afghan president signed the law earlier this month, despite condemnation by human rights activists and some MPs that it flouts the constitution’s equal rights provisions.

The final document has not been published, but the law is believed to contain articles that rule women cannot leave the house without their husbands’ permission, that they can only seek work, education or visit the doctor with their husbands’ permission, and that they cannot refuse their husband sex.

A briefing document prepared by the United Nations Development Fund for Women also warns that the law grants custody of children to fathers and grandfathers only.

Senator Humaira Namati, a member of the upper house of the Afghan parliament, said the law was “worse than during the Taliban”. “Anyone who spoke out was accused of being against Islam,” she said.

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  • spootnik2000
    ISLAM=PISS,COWDUNK,CANCER, AM TIRED OF U MOTHER FUCKERS
  • john
    i say i hate it
  • JEWHAWK
    Should the American taxpayers be happy and proud about how
    their hard earned money went to the muslim gutter?

    DON'T GIVE MONEY TO MUSLIMS!!

    They're damn prone to:
    A) Steal it;
    B) Finance terrorism;
    C) Bribe U.N. officials (Such as Koffi Annan's son in Iraq)
    D)Buy nine or ten year old girls to rape;
    E)All of above plus other things I didn't mention.
  • jdamn
    Hamid Karzai has been accused of trying to win votes in Afghanistan’s presidential election by backing a law the UN says legalises rape within marriage and bans wives from stepping outside their homes without their husbands’ permission.

    I can't believe that wasn't the law. There is not a single Islamic paradise where this isn't the law, with the exception of some parts of Indonesia, and not for long. Rape within the family is also halal, so long as it's a sister or daughter being raped (K 2:223: it says 'women,' not 'wives'). There is really no concept of rape in Islam. It's viewed more as theft, since women are slaves. Muhrim can always rape their slaves. That's Sharia.
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