In an effort to beef-up his odds at re-election the Afghani President has passed a law making rape 100% legal for Shi’a Muslims, in accordance with the Qur’an which demands this behavior. If this sounds backward and incorrect to you be thankful you live in the Christian West and not out in Afghanistan with the “moderate Taliban.”
A new Afghan law makes it legal for men to rape their wives, human rights groups and several Afghan lawmakers said Thursday, accusing President Hamid Karzai of signing the legislation recently to bolster his re-election prospects. Those critics fear the legislation undermines hard-won rights for women enacted after the fall of the Taliban. The law is intended to regulate family life inside Afghanistan’s Shiite population, which makes up about 20 percent of the total Afghan population. It does not affect Sunni Muslims. “Unless the wife is ill,” the law says, “the wife is bound to give a positive response to the sexual desires of her husband.”