There is always pain, suffering, and poverty in the war torn Afghanistan. Recently a new law is trying to be passed that would legalize rape of married women by their husbands. The law also restricts women from leaving their homes, working, going to school, or seeking medical care without their husbands' permission. It also includes a provision that women cannot refuse their husbands sex and child custody is only granted to the men. This is a huge violation of human rights and womens rights. The Afghan president announced that his government will revise this controversial law. I hope with every fiber of my being that this law does not pass the way it is. It's sick and saddening to treat women, or any human being, this way. I understand that there is a plethora of things wrong with Afghanistan and how they treat women. I'm not undermining the other issues by writing about this law specifically. But I could go on for eternity about the problems in Afghanistan. It's just that this law is one more step in the wrong direction. Please send Afghan women your good vibes and hope for the best for them.
It's not just Afghanstan,but in some countries in the Arabic world similair practices are common.Anyone can look up "Sharia Law" and how it applies to women.--The Palestinians are also known for their inhumane treatment of women and a host of other groups of people.----As far as Afghanistan goes,I think it is absurd that the US is actually sending military forces over,hey but the US loves to waste(throw away) money and resources on backwards countries ,while all the smart nations ie:Western Europe, Australia and so on spend money on their own citizens,but contemporary Americas stupidity is another topic.
Sharia law basically just means law that relies on Muslim religious texts. Its kind of funny, when Islam was founded it was revolutionary in its application of women's rights - women were allowed to own property and had more allowed them in the way of divorce rights than just about any other religion or code of law at the time. The Quran demanded more equality for women than pretty much any other major religion - certainly this wasn't complete equality but, again, for the time it was unheard of. But since religion-based law is always going to require somebody to interpret what the law should be, its easy for those laws to stray from the foundation on which they are supposed to rest. I'm not sure why It has become somewhat popular in the Muslim world to completely subjugate women, but the problem is not as widespread as the media would have us believe - don't forget that the same people who forced us into war for their own benefit have a lot of power over the media, and portraying all of Islam as some kind of woman-hating religion is a good way to gain support for wars in islamic countries. I am very surprised that the official government of Afghanistan actually had such a law though. Obviously the Taliban were pretty terrible to women in general - I figured with them gone such official laws would also fade out. Something to keep in mind though is that the Taliban may have actually provided better protection for women than the warlord system that existed before the Taliban. It was common for warlords to simply rape any woman they felt like. There was really nobody to stop them from doing it. I'm not saying the taliban are good by any means. But now that they're gone the warlord system has pretty much taken the country again. There is an "official" government, but its power doesn't really extend beyond the borders of Kabul. We may conceivably have actually made the situation for women worse by ousting the taliban.
you have given a nice inforamtion.. you are pretty informative.. i guess you must be living near the arab world
I read it was all down to a few words. Pretty much anyway. One which we use in our marriage vows. Obey. The law also contains articles which lawmakers say represent an improvement on existing civil laws, based on Sunni religious law. For instance, the civil law states only men can initiate divorce from their wives, but the Shi'ite Personal Status Law says the wife is allowed to complain to a court and seek divorce from her husband if he cannot feed her, or if he does not have sex with her for four months. :tongue: Good things in too: Banning of female genital mutilation, defining “honour killings” as severe crime and forbidding forced marriages.
Not if he is saying things like this: We may conceivably have actually made the situation for women worse by ousting the taliban.
