Women Protesting Rape Law in Afghanistan are Pelted with Rocks
Remind me again why we decided to hang around and help rebuild Afghanistan after we kicked their butts?
Afghans Throw Stones at Women Protesting Rape in Marriage Law
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - FoxNews (AP)
KABUL — A group of some 1,000 Afghans swarmed a demonstration of 300 women protesting against a new conservative marriage law on Wednesday. The women were pelted with small stones as police struggled to keep the two groups apart.
The law, passed last month, says a husband can demand sex with his wife every four days unless she is ill or would be harmed by intercourse — a clause that critics say legalizes marital rape. It also regulates when and for what reasons a wife may leave her home alone.
Women’s rights activists scheduled a protest Wednesday attended by mostly young women. But the group was swamped by counter-protesters — both men and women — who shouted down the women’s chants.
Some picked up gravel and stones and threw them at the women, while others shouted “Death to the slaves of the Christians!” Female police held hands around the group to create a protective barrier.
[They love us! Yaaaayyyy!]
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“You are a dog! You are not a Shiite woman!” one man shouted to a young woman in a headscarf holding aloft a banner that said “We don’t want Taliban law.” The woman did not shout back at the man, but told him: “This is my land and my people.”
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As the back-and-forth continued, another demonstration of Shiite women who said they support the law began.
“We don’t want foreigners interfering in our lives. They are the enemy of Afghanistan,” said 24-year-old Mariam Sajadi.
[Replace the word "Afghanistan" with "Allah" and you'll start to understand her muzzy logic...]
Sajadi is engaged, and said she plans to ask her husband’s permission to leave the house as put forth in the law. She said other controversial articles — such as one giving the husband the right to demand sex from his wife every fourth day — have been misinterpreted by Westerners who are anti-Islam.
[Yeah, r-i-i-i-ght... Forced sex is forced sex. End of story.]
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15 April, 2009 at 10:27 am
Such love “rights” in iz-lame
15 April, 2009 at 8:42 pm
you are not “shi*” thank God, they are. a great big pile of it.
15 April, 2009 at 9:58 pm
“You are a dog! You are not a Shiite woman!”
Attention all muslimas… If that is how your muzlim brothers view you.
Its time to convert to another religion!
19 April, 2009 at 7:35 am
“Women Protesting Rape Law in Afghanistan are Pelted with Rocks“
“Remind me again why we decided to hang around and help rebuild Afghanistan after we kicked their butts?”
“Women Protesting Rape Law in Afghanistan are Pelted with Rocks”
19 April, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Okay, I’ll play:
“Women Protesting Rape Law in Afghanistan are Pelted with Rocks”
It is al-Qaeda and the Taliban government, steeped in draconian laws, that we went after. It is the current government, which is fast reverting to draconian laws, that we helped install.
Seems to me that we just replaced one evil with another. The same thing would have occurred if we had just packed up and left after kicking their butts. If we really wanted to help Afghanistan, we would have prevented them from inserting into their new Constitution the clause which puts Islamic law above the Constitutional authority.
So, if we are just going to sit idly by and let them, as a nation, revert back to a draconian set of Islamic rules and laws, remind me again why we decided to hang around and help rebuild Afghanistan?
19 April, 2009 at 7:46 pm
This is hardly a surprise:
“Women Protesting Rape Law in Afghanistan are Pelted with Rocks”
However this very much is:
“Women Protesting Rape Law in Afghanistan are Pelted with Rocks”
If women of Afghanistan begun to fight for their rights this is huge progress. And no thanks to AQ.
And yes, when it comes to their laws we cannot interfere. They must change on their own and judging by what their women are doing process has already started.
19 April, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Yeah, they protested when the Taliban took over, too. And, they got stoned. So, what’s the difference?
Cheers
19 April, 2009 at 10:18 pm
If so, I suspect it was somewhat different.
It could during immediate post-Soviet era when there still were great many educated women who did not understand how brutal Taliban is.
Now, 15 year later, it is entirely new generation of women. Today they are fully aware of the consequences and yet …