Rape victims 'must have abortions' (Islamic Research Council in Cairo)

Special Broadcasting Service (Australia) ^ | December 31, 2007

[Stoat]

Rape victims 'must have abortions'

Monday, 31 December, 2007

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Sunni Islam's highest seat of learning has ruled that any woman who becomes pregnant as a result of rape must undergo an abortion.

The Islamic Research Council of Cairo-based Al-Azhar has declared immediate terminations are essential to maintain "social stability".

Egyptian law bans abortion except on the grounds of "necessity", which includes instances when a woman's life or health is in danger, or in cases of fetal abnormality.

But Al-Azhar has called for changes to such regulations .

Doctor's permission

"A raped woman must terminate the pregnancy immediately upon learning of the pregnancy if a trusted doctor gives her clearance for the abortion," the institution said.

The independent Egyptian Centre for Women's Rights says an average of two women are raped every hour in Egypt.

Experts say many factors contribute to high levels of rape and sexual harassment, including rising unemployment, the huge cost of marriage and the fact that sex outside marriage is forbidden.
 

[Stoat]

Islam's highest seat of learning

If this was not in the context of life, death, rape and murder, one could say that the joke is writing itself.....

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

Who decides if she was raped? Evil Islam.

[2banana]

Experts say many factors contribute to high levels of rape and sexual harassment, including rising unemployment, the huge cost of marriage and the fact that sex outside marriage is forbidden.

And that rape is sanctioned in the koran in many situations...

[Stoat]

Ping

[agere_contra]

I didn’t know it was even possible to commit rape in Islam. But I guess it’s just that it’s practically impossible to prove it under the Hadood laws.

[Xenalyte]

So sex outside marriage is forbidden, but rape (presumably also outside marriage) is okay? Last time I checked, most sexual assaults involve sex.

[willgolfforfood]

I thought they stoned them to death for being raped. Something about inticing the poor, helpless man, or some theory.

Who knew Egypt was so progressive!!!

[chesley]

Is this before or after the mandatory flogging for being raped?

[Cicero]

Ugh.

About the only admirable thing the Muslim nations have done in recent years was to join a coalition put together by the Vatican to fight against the abortionists and family planners who run the UN, who want to impose abortion on all the third world nations.

Catholic nations and Muslim nations could work together and agree on at least one thing: abortion is evil, and should be opposed.

But now even that seems to have come to an end, as the Muslims change their teachings.

I suppose it makes a certain kind of sense in Muslim eyes. After all, if you stone women for the crime of being raped, then why not murder the babies as well for the crime of being conceived?

What a religion. Some secularists support abortion because they are so screwed up they don’t know any better. This Muslim position is much worse, IMHO—killing babies in the name of religion.

[Lurker]

So let me get this straight..

Given the fact that most rape victims, at least according to sharia law, can't testify in court to the fact that they were raped without 2 male witnesses, run a huge chance of being stoned to death for adultery, or in 'enlightened' Saudi can be beaten nearly to death for being a victim, now these savages want to force an abortion?

The sooner we exterminate this vile 'religion' from the face of the earth the better off we'll all be.

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[katnip]

I presume the abortion will be performed before they stone the woman to death for being raped.

[pandoraou812]

Hmmm... Since a woman is guilty & lashed etc when she is raped why the need for the abortion? Chances are she is going to die or lose the baby anyway. Shaking my head at the Muslims again.

[unspun]

Keeelll the unborn infeee-delll!!!!

[R. Scott]

She must have an abortion - if she survives the santioned beating?

[Mojohemi]

Liberals in the USA are supporting an alleged Christian, who is a muslim apostate to be the president of the USA, maybe they see something special in the guy, who knows, the liberals are always such wise folks.

I am sure the liberal female would love the policy of abortion in Egypt.

[Fiji Hill]

Where’s NOW?

[Kirkwood]

I had a muslim co-worker tell me that she had undergone 11 abortions.

[kidd]

There goes my last shread of respect for Islam.

So if a woman is raped, not only will she be subject to whipping, she will then have to endure the nightmares associated with an abortion.

And, needless to say, the child will die.

[MHGinTN]

Sound like good modern Democrats!... Notice there is little or no means to stop the rapists, by for instance by removing their little head or executing them for the woman must have three male witnesses to the rape to have even a distant chance of provign she was raped in an Islamic court.

[mtbopfuyn]

A raped woman must terminate the pregnancy immediately

That eases the men's minds as they won't be stoning an innocent baby to death.