Just When I thought Pakistan Was Entering The 18th Century…They Go Back To The Stone Age!
Pakistani Islamists protest against pro-women law ..and what is it that we are referring to? A right to vote? Nope! A right to not where a burka? Nope!
Thousands of Islamist protesters demonstrated in southern Pakistan on Sunday against a new law that reduces the burden of proof on rape victims by allowing them to seek justice without the need for four male witnesses.
The law takes the crime of rape out of the sphere of the religious laws, known as the Hudood Ordinances, and puts it under the penal code.
Under the Hudood Ordinances, which were introduced by a military ruler in 1979, a rape victim had to produce four male witnesses to prove the crime, or face the possibility of prosecution for adultery.
“We reject this law because it is unIslamic and also against women rights,” Fazal-ur-Rehman, a senior leader of the main Islamist alliance and opposition leader in the National Assembly, parliament’s lower house, told the rally.
Rehman said the law is a conspiracy to make Pakistan a “free sex zone”.
In other news, Saudi court sentences rape victim to 90 lashes
