WTF
From the Straits Times online:
KABUL - A NEW Afghan law makes it legal for men to rape their wives, human rights groups and some Afghan lawmakers said on Thursday, accusing President Hamid Karzai of signing the legislation to bolster his re-election prospects.
Critics worry the legislation undermines hard-won rights for women enacted after the fall of the Taleban's strict Islamist regime.
The law - which some lawmakers say was never debated in parliament - is intended to regulate family life inside Afghanistan's Shiite community, which makes up about 20 per cent of this country of 30 million people. The law does not affect Afghan Sunnis.
One of the most controversial articles stipulates the wife 'is bound to preen for her husband as and when he desires.' 'As long as the husband is not travelling, he has the right to have sexual intercourse with his wife every fourth night,' Article 132 of the law says. 'Unless the wife is ill or has any kind of illness that intercourse could aggravate, the wife is bound to give a positive response to the sexual desires of her husband.' One provision also appears to protect the woman's right to sex inside marriage saying the 'man should not avoid having sexual relations with his wife longer than once every four months.'
WTF. Seriously. Afghanistan & the Taleban are just out of this world.
KABUL - A NEW Afghan law makes it legal for men to rape their wives, human rights groups and some Afghan lawmakers said on Thursday, accusing President Hamid Karzai of signing the legislation to bolster his re-election prospects.
Critics worry the legislation undermines hard-won rights for women enacted after the fall of the Taleban's strict Islamist regime.
The law - which some lawmakers say was never debated in parliament - is intended to regulate family life inside Afghanistan's Shiite community, which makes up about 20 per cent of this country of 30 million people. The law does not affect Afghan Sunnis.
One of the most controversial articles stipulates the wife 'is bound to preen for her husband as and when he desires.' 'As long as the husband is not travelling, he has the right to have sexual intercourse with his wife every fourth night,' Article 132 of the law says. 'Unless the wife is ill or has any kind of illness that intercourse could aggravate, the wife is bound to give a positive response to the sexual desires of her husband.' One provision also appears to protect the woman's right to sex inside marriage saying the 'man should not avoid having sexual relations with his wife longer than once every four months.'
WTF. Seriously. Afghanistan & the Taleban are just out of this world.