Jihadi Du Jour: Pakistan Rape Law Angers Islamist

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's lower house of Parliament passed amendments to the country's rape laws Wednesday, ditching the death penalty for extramarital sex and revising a clause on making victims produce four witnesses to prove rape cases.

Consensual sex outside marriage remains a crime punishable by five years in prison or a $165 fine, said a parliamentary official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

International and local calls for change intensified after the 2002 gang-rape of a woman, Mukhtar Mai, who was assaulted after a tribal council in her eastern Punjab village ordered the rape as punishment for her 13-year-old brother's alleged affair with a woman of a higher caste.

The amendments — which still must be approved by the Senate — enraged Islamic fundamentalists, but won cautious support from human rights activists, who wanted the controversial laws scrapped altogether.

"We reject it," Maulana Fazlur Rahman, a top Islamist opposition leader, told reporters after the vote, which he described as a "dark day" in Pakistan's parliamentary history.

Rahman and other Islamists vowed to devise a strategy to block Senate passage of the bill. Islamic political groups have previously staged mass rallies to denounce moves by the military-led government deemed contrary to Islam.

This story just shows that not all but that many muslims do not want to be secularized. They think the only correct way to live is to live under Islamic Law that is commanded in the Qur'an. They believe the laws of the country should be the laws of the Qu'ran and apply to all. You may ask what makes these Muslims believe that 4 witness are needed to prove rape? It is in the Quran.

Muhammads wife Aisha was suspected of adultrey and a revelation came from God to Muhammad and cleared Aisha of the charges. God ask the accusers, "Why did they not produce four witnesses? If they could not produce any witnesses, then they were surely lying in the sight of God" (Sura 24:13)

This is where they get the idea that there needs to be 4 witnesses.

Bottom line those that say that this law of having 4 witnesses to a rape is based on the Quran is correct! Muslims that say that this does not exist are in denial or are not aware of this. I have just showed you where it is in the Quran and the Quran is not to be questioned. Also the Quran states that the witness of one woman is only worth half of a man. It takes 2 womens testimony to equal one mans testimony. So therefore A womans word is not equal to a mans. Dont believe me? Just see Quran 2:282 "and call in to witness from among your men two witnesses; but if there are not two men, then one man and two women from among those whom you choose to be witnesses".

So the sad thing is in alot of Islamic countries it is very hard to prove rape. How many Rapes have 4 witnesses? So because of this many women in these countries that go and say they were raped and can not produce witnesses are accused of cheating on there husband! Which this is against Islamic law and punishable. This is even stated in the story above. "Consensual sex outside marriage remains a crime punishable by five years in prison or a $165 fine, said a parliamentary official" So if a woman can not prove the rape with witnesses then she is put in jail for adultery! how sad my prayers are with you women.

Labels: Islam, Pakistan, Quran, Sharia Law