Well, that should keep everybody happy, no? Sounds like  the result of some ‘outreach-program’- because after all it was the women who said  “We do not want total freedom. We wanted it to be limited and to be within Islam.”
“If you speak of human rights or women rights in Afghanistan you get accused of having converted to Christianity.”
She said it.
An update on this story. “Afghan women want West to back off ‘rape law,'” by Matthew Fisher for Canwest News Service,Â
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Afghan cleric Ayatollah Mohammed Asef Mohseni claimed the law he devised did not condone marital rape (Note the ‘zebibah’ on his forehead, the mark of a serious headbanger…/ed)
A new Afghan law that has drawn Western condemnation for restricting women’s rights does not allow marital rape as its critics claim, but lets men refuse to feed wives who deny them sex, the cleric behind it says.
Ayatollah Mohammed Asef Mohseni’s Shi’ite personal status law sparked controversy abroad because of a provision that ‘a wife is obliged to fulfil the sexual desires of her husband’.
This was read by some as an open door to marital rape, and together with clauses restricting women’s freedom of movement denounced as reminiscent of harsh Taliban-era rules.
The law has been criticised by Western leaders with troops fighting in Afghanistan, including U.S. President Barack Obama, who called it ‘abhorrent’. Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, who signed the law last month, has since put it under review. Â
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