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'There's no such thing as rape within marriage', says Muslim leader of sharia law courts in Britain
Daily Mail ^ | 15th October 2010

Posted on 10/16/2010 3:37:55 PM PDT by george76

A senior Muslim cleric has been condemned by police and other Muslim leaders for claiming that there is no such thing as rape within marriage.

Sheikh Maulana Abu Sayeed, president of the Islamic Sharia Council in Britain, sparked outrage when he said he believed that men who rape their wives should not be prosecuted because 'sex is part of marriage'.

He further claimed, during an interview with the blog The Samosa, that many married women who made accusations of rape were lying.

His comments have caused fury among senior police officers, who already face great difficulties in getting women to report rape - a crime that all too often goes under-reported.

In the interview, Sheikh Sayeed said: 'Clearly there cannot be any rape within the marriage.

'Maybe aggression, maybe indecent activity... Because when they got married, the understanding was that sexual intercourse was part of the marriage, so there cannot be anything against sex in marriage.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: britain; islam; maulanaabusayeed; moralabsolutes; muslim; muslims; now; rop; sharia; sharialaw; sheikh
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1 posted on 10/16/2010 3:38:03 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

Coming to a Shari’a-influenced SCOTUS near you.


2 posted on 10/16/2010 3:40:32 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: george76

Joy & Whoppi needn’t worry.


3 posted on 10/16/2010 3:45:14 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Homosexuals oppose diversity.)
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And? I don’t like Islam, but this is a common sense view. Allowing the concept of “rape” in marriage will end with almost every man being charged with “rape” during divorce proceeding. If something unprovable and financially very rewarding can be done by a woman in a divorce, many will do it.


4 posted on 10/16/2010 3:47:05 PM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: SERKIT

I heard this at the Tea Party event in Houston today.

To be fair, this has been the case in the USA too.

Probably doesn’t fly now-a-days but in some places it was impossible to rape your wife. Conjugal rights or something.

Look it up and you may find that it wasn’t until the 1990’s that states were starting to remove the exception of a spouse in the case of rape.

Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t like the living devils we call islamists at all, just saying we had some wacky rules ourselves.


5 posted on 10/16/2010 3:47:10 PM PDT by BookaT (My cat's breath smells like cat food!)
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To: george76

I wonder if he’d say the same thing if Muhammad took a 9-year old as his wife?


6 posted on 10/16/2010 3:52:05 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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To: StolarStorm

Ask around, it’s already being done.


7 posted on 10/16/2010 3:52:29 PM PDT by tired1 (Federalize the Fed)
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To: george76

Coming to France, ca. 2030


8 posted on 10/16/2010 3:52:29 PM PDT by therightliveswithus
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To: BookaT; trussell
To be fair, this has been the case in the USA too.

That's what I thought too.

Guess I better watch my P's and Q's with the Missus, and reevaluate. /s

9 posted on 10/16/2010 3:52:29 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: george76
And if I beat an imam to death, it's animal cruelty.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

10 posted on 10/16/2010 3:52:40 PM PDT by The Comedian (They Live. We Sleep.)
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To: BookaT; StolarStorm
Have to disagree with both of you. A wedding ring should not take away a woman's right to just say no.
11 posted on 10/16/2010 3:53:49 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Nobody reads tag lines.)
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To: StolarStorm

“And? I don’t like Islam, but this is a common sense view. Allowing the concept of “rape” in marriage will end with almost every man being charged with “rape” during divorce proceeding. If something unprovable and financially very rewarding can be done by a woman in a divorce, many will do it.”

This is an old issue in family law. Typically in the Anglo-American system, the court looks towards forensic or witness proof of violence to support a charge of rape within a marriage. Accordingly, in an ugly divorce with an unscrupulous, perjuring spouse, the charge now is more often sexual abuse of a child of the marriage, if there is one. The evidentiary standards are more relaxed.


12 posted on 10/16/2010 3:58:19 PM PDT by Psalm 144
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It doesn't matter if you don't do anything wrong. If they get mad and vindictive, and have a particularly nasty lawyer.... you can get charged with "rape". No way to defend yourself from it. Have sex with your "secretly planning to divorce you wife", she goes to get a workup showing activity... and bammo... you are screwed.

If in fact this becomes a commonplace view... that rape can occur in marriage. Yes, a few men have been charged with such, but it hasn't gone mainstream yet. Just wait. It will just be one more dirty trick that will be used against men to extract more from them.

In the best interests of society it is insane to allow the concept of rape in marriage to be considered. Assault, yes.... specifically rape NO. And before someone says that charges of rape only occur with assault... not true at all. Rape can be claimed even with no assault at all. "But I said I didn't feel like it...." Good luck with that....
13 posted on 10/16/2010 3:59:48 PM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: Graybeard58

The position stated in the source, which is that the marriage contract involved a permanent agreement to have sexual relations, was US law until about thirty years ago. I remember the first case in US history of a conviction for marital rape, sometime in the 70’s, I think.

That is no longer socially or legally the case in the West, but it is certainly the case in the Muslim world.


14 posted on 10/16/2010 4:00:09 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ('“Our own government has become our enemy' - Sheriff Paul Babeu)
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To: Graybeard58

The right to say no isn’t the problem or in question. Its a practical matter of proving what really occurred. Its just too easy for a wife to claim rape and demonstrate sexual activity. She could easily engage in “rough” sex to make sure the evidence was even more on her side.


15 posted on 10/16/2010 4:01:55 PM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: Graybeard58

Works. Wouldn’t want an unwilling wife.

That said, does that mean I can say no to making her car payment?


16 posted on 10/16/2010 4:06:04 PM PDT by benewton
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To: The Comedian

lol they do act like animals


17 posted on 10/16/2010 4:07:15 PM PDT by FromLori (FromLori)
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To: NoLibZone

Wasn’t it Whoppi that gave us that wonderful “...well, it wasn’t, you know, rape-rape...” So I guess if I take my wife against her will, that’s not “rape-rape” either, or in Muslim’s eyes? What BS.


18 posted on 10/16/2010 4:08:35 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (obama out now! I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom - you can keep the change.)
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To: george76

Further proof this is a religion of gangsters. This is something I would expect from Tony Soprano. Even a wife has
the right to say “No” to her husband. No means no.


19 posted on 10/16/2010 4:12:02 PM PDT by RichardW
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To: Graybeard58; BookaT; StolarStorm
Have to disagree with both of you. A wedding ring should not take away a woman's right to just say no.’

I have to disagree. Yes, it should remove the legal threat of criminal charges of rape. Now, being assaulted with malice is one thing, but a marriage is entered into at arms length and with eyes wide open.

I also don't agree that once a woman engages in sexual activity that she has the right to say no in the middle of the act.
It is also entered into at arms length and with eyes wide open.
In some, perhaps many, states, that also would be rape.

Talk about the gelding of the American male!

20 posted on 10/16/2010 4:13:33 PM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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