Afghan No S*x No Food Law Passed

[dipy]

HI! Found this rather hilarious law passed in Afghanistan at mil photos. ........ now this has real potentional and shows progress

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/sh ... ost4342584

'No sex, no food' law passed in Afghanistan


Afghanistan has enacted a new legislation empowering men of Shia sect of Islam to deny their wives food and sustenance if they refuse to obey their husbands' sexual demands, a media report said on Saturday.

The new final draft of the legislation also grants guardianship of children exclusively to their fathers and grandfathers, and requires women to get permission from their husbands to work, The Guardian reported.

"It also effectively allows a rapist to avoid prosecution by paying 'blood money' to a girl who was injured when he raped her," the report said quoting US charity Human Rights Watch.

In early April, US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown joined an international chorus of condemnation when the earlier version of the law legalised rape within marriage.

Although Afghan President Hamid Karzai appeared to back down, activists said the revised law still contained repressive measures and contradicted Afghanistan's constitution and international treaties it is signed up to.

According to the report, the new law has been backed by the hardline Shia cleric Ayatollah Mohseni, who is thought to have influence over the voting intentions of some Shias, who make up around 20 per cent of the population.

Karzai has assiduously courted such minority leaders in the run up to next Thursday's election, which is likely to be close, a poll indicated on Saturday.

http://www.zillr.com/news/story/No-s...in-afghanistan

PS : Since I coudnt figure out which forum to post this to I thought this one is the most apt

[Corjack]

Just shows you what a screwed up world we live in. It is hard to help people that have no respect for themselves or anybody else for that matter. World organizations can pour money and aid by the billions into a place like this only to have insecure religous leaders with low self esteem pass laws to make them feel like big powerful men.

On a lighter note if that same religous leader tried that stuff with a woman from Booger county, there would be a high likelyhood that after withholding food from her he might awake to only to find he was wearing his testicles on a string around his neck.