Posted on 07/19/2005 6:38:13 AM PDT by Kokojmudd
BOMBAY -- Hard-line Islamic clerics in a northern Indian village have declared that a woman's 10-year-old marriage was nullified when her father-in-law raped her -- and ordered the mother of five to marry the rapist. The fatwa, or religious edict, was issued by Darool Uloom Deoband, South Asia's most powerful Islamic theological school known for promoting a radical brand of Islam that is said to have inspired the Taliban in Afghanistan. The decision has outraged both Muslim and Hindu leaders and prompted a fierce debate that has dominated the front pages of national newspapers across India. The fatwa ordered Imrana Ilahi, 28, to separate from her husband and treat him as her son because she had sex with his father. "She had a physical relationship with her father-in-law, and it nullifies her marriage," said Mohammad Masood Madani, a cleric at the theological school. He said it made no difference whether the sex was consensual or forced. The village council then decreed that Mrs. Ilahi would have to marry her father-in-law. Feminists and liberal Muslims reacted with fury, staging nationwide street protests. But Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh on June 29 supported the fatwa, saying: "The decision of the Muslim religious leaders in the Imrana case must have been taken after a lot of thought. ... The religious leaders are all very learned and they understand the Muslim community and its sentiments."........
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Thank God I am an American
WOW! Could you imagine if the United States enforced this this type of law? Juanita Brodderick would have been First Lady of the United States.
Hillary must be loving this part.
"WOW! Could you imagine if the United States enforced this this type of law?..."
I can imagine this type of law being enforced vigorously in some US blue states in about 10 years.
In a recent article about "honor killings," one poster was adamant that such things as these pre-date Islam and, therefore, we cannot blame Islam for any of this.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
That was my first thought. She was lucky she wans't ordered stoned for adultery.
The woman must have done something to provoke this ruling by the noble (Jeffersonian in their wisdom) Muslim Clerics. She must have fueled the rage on the arab street and, thus, deserves what she is getting. There is no other possible explanation.
The more I read about Muslims the more I believe that they are genetically retarded.
Its Bush's fault.
"In a recent article about "honor killings," one poster was adamant that such things as these pre-date Islam and, therefore, we cannot blame Islam for any of this."
I think barbarism does pre-date Islam and is rooted in paganism, although perpectually muddled Islam certainly seems to condone some vestiges of barbarism.
No, then they'd stone her to death for incest because she slept with her "son." And maybe they'd, I don't know, whack his pee-pee for it or something.
So where are those wacky, wacky feminists in all this?
}:-)4
So now her children are her step-granchildren, too and her former husband is her step-son.
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