Afghan government will change marital rape law.
By on Apr 17th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Afghan government will change marital rape law.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai told CNN yesterday that his government will change a law legalizing marital rape, after hundreds of Afghans took to the streets to protest the law:
Karzai told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that he and others were unaware of the provision in the legislation, which he said “has so many articles.” Karzai signed the measure into law last month.
“Now I have instructed, in consultation with clergy of the country, that the law be revised and any article that is not in keeping with the Afghan constitution and Islamic Sharia must be removed from this law,” Karzai said.
(HT: Jezebel)
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Pollyanna says: “Karzai has seen the light!”
My inner self asks: “With what did we have to threaten him to get this done?”
April 17th, 2009 at 2:43 pmthank you.
and know we will be watching.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:43 pmWow. Even Afghanistan has more respect for law and public opinion than the US.
How pathetic are we?
April 17th, 2009 at 2:45 pmSo…
April 17th, 2009 at 2:45 pmThis is what a real grassroots movement looks like.
Didn’t this law apply on to Shi’ites, at the request of their imams? How is this change going to fly with them?
April 17th, 2009 at 2:45 pmKarzai had a nightmare….regime change a la Saddam.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:50 pmAnd sadly, thousands came out to protest the hundreds who came out to protest.
These are brave women.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:56 pmhellinabucket Says:
These are brave women.
And how about the thousand brave men who threw stones at the three hundred women who dared to protest against that law?
April 17th, 2009 at 3:00 pmI guess I am at a loss for why “the burden is on us (the public) to demand that something be done.”
Your answer. How about a million man march for Bush administration prosecutions during the July 4th ? What better day for us, and there are millions of us, to pressure the President Obama/Congress to uphold their constitutional duties?
April 17th, 2009 at 3:05 pmHmmm… the government does something viewed as obscene by the population, and the people take to the streets in protest. And the government changes it’s position.
Immunity for torturers and the people who authorized it and provided legal cover for it? Time to take to the streets here.
PEACE
April 17th, 2009 at 3:15 pmI guess I am at a loss for why “the burden is on us (the public) to demand that something be done.”
Seriously?
April 17th, 2009 at 3:15 pmafter hundreds of Afghans took to the streets to protest the law
I should have included this in #9.
April 17th, 2009 at 3:17 pmthat the law be revised and any article that is not in keeping with… Islamic Sharia must be removed…
Oh YAY. More theocracy in action. He’d better go over those “so many articles” again.
April 17th, 2009 at 3:19 pmJoe sixpack. Those men are cowards.
April 17th, 2009 at 3:24 pmJoe Sixpack Says: And how about the thousand brave men who threw stones at the three hundred women who dared to protest against that law?
hellinabucket Says:Joe sixpack. Those men are cowards
I wouldn’t even regard them as men, just the boys who never got over their fear of girls.
April 17th, 2009 at 3:31 pmI’m thinking it had more to do with President Obama taking him to the wood shed.
April 17th, 2009 at 3:53 pmDru Odontomachus hastatus Says:
How about a million man march for Bush administration prosecutions during the July 4th ?
There are plans for a Million Marijuana March on DC for July 4th 2009.
Just so you know.
April 17th, 2009 at 3:54 pmI guess I will have to sew a mj leaf on my orange jumpsuit.
April 17th, 2009 at 4:03 pmDru Phlea Says:
I read that Cheech and Chong will be there amongst others. Can’t you just hear it now?
“Chill out man! Come over here to our side of the march, it’ll help take the edge off, man.”
April 17th, 2009 at 4:31 pmThe wording is vague. It seems to leave the option that as long as the marital rape is ‘in keeping with the Afghan constitution and Islamic Sharia’ it could remain law.
April 17th, 2009 at 5:19 pmI doubt one rape will be prevented by this law change. Sad, but true. Gender violence only seems to have gotten far worse since we’ve been there.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:08 pmI have no idea what that statement is trying to say.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:37 pmOK Pat obviously senile dementia has set in. Time to see the nice young men that will need to take care of you soon.burun estetigi rent a car arac kiralama
April 18th, 2009 at 5:09 amsac ekimi
OK….but will O’Reilly take credit for this, as well?
April 18th, 2009 at 5:48 amDo you realize that if America had a similar law, we could have prevented women from ever being able to vote in America?
One contributing factor to women gaining the right to vote in America was a medical condition called testicular cyanopathy.
(Refer to your word power text under Latin origins)
April 18th, 2009 at 9:52 am