Egypt’s women urge MPs not to pass early marriage, sex-after-death laws: report
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/04/25/210198.html RRD:Previously I warned that there was a very real risk that Islamists could come to power in Egypt.(fn1).
Now the Egyptian Government is seriously considering legislation that would lower the age of marriage to 14,curtail a woman's right to divorce & her right to get a education and--bizarrely even for Islamists--permit a husband to perform sex acts upon his wife's corpse. Local Women's Rights groups are protesting and it remains to be seen whether this insanity will become law. Footnotes: fn1.
A brief comment on my stance on the January 25th revolution:Political Islam is not the answer. | Glory to man in the highest http://gloryofman.wordpress.com/a-brief-comment-on-my-stance-on-the-january-25th-revolutionpolitical-islam-is-not-the-answer/
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/04/25/210198.html RRD:Previously I warned that there was a very real risk that Islamists could come to power in Egypt.(fn1).
Now the Egyptian Government is seriously considering legislation that would lower the age of marriage to 14,curtail a woman's right to divorce & her right to get a education and--bizarrely even for Islamists--permit a husband to perform sex acts upon his wife's corpse. Local Women's Rights groups are protesting and it remains to be seen whether this insanity will become law. Footnotes: fn1.
A brief comment on my stance on the January 25th revolution:Political Islam is not the answer. | Glory to man in the highest http://gloryofman.wordpress.com/a-brief-comment-on-my-stance-on-the-january-25th-revolutionpolitical-islam-is-not-the-answer/
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